All Time Favorite Games

Supplies

Tag board cut into 3" x 4" rectangles (one per child)
Stamp pads (orange and/or black)
Markers
Wet towel wipes

Directions

1. Children make imprints of their thumbs using a stamp pad and placing their thumb-print on pre-cut tag board. Have the kids use a wet towel or wipes to clean their thumb.

2. Parent helpers or the kids themselves can turn their thumb prints into black cats, witches, spiders or pumpkins.

3. Using markers personalize the art with the child's name. A parent helper can add scenery such as a witch's broom before the party starts. At party time the child would only need to put their thumb imprint in the appropriate place.

Monster Freeze (K-6)

Supplies

Halloween Music

Directions

1. Play the music from any of your favorite Halloween songs.

2. The kids dance, but when you stop the music they must freeze.

3. Players are eliminated from the game if they move while they should be in a monster freeze pose.

Trick or Treat (K-6)

Supplies

Two plastic pumpkins
Plastic baggies/ties
Vegetables such as: Broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini
Halloween candy and trinkets
Paper

Directions

1. Fill a plastic pumpkin with typical Halloween goodies and some no so favorite "treats" such as baggies filled with small servings of raw broccoli, cauliflower, and zucchini.

2. Fill another pumpkin with tricks that the kids can choose, such as "Spell you name backwards"; "Do ten push-ups"; "crawl on the floor like an alligator."

3. A player picks a trick out of the pumpkin. If the player refuses to do the trick, he must choose a treat (or what he thinks is a treat).

4. The next player takes a turn.

5. Once the kids catch on to what some of the treats are they might all op to do the tricks.

6. To really surprise the kids, wrap the treats and tell everyone to wait to open them after all the players have taken turns. Explain that some of the treats might be "trick" treats and some will be goodies.

Tombstone Musical Chairs (K-6)
Supplies Cardboard Music Paint or markers Chairs		Directions 1. Play this game like the elimination game of musical chairs, but place tombstone shapes cut from cardboard on the back of the chairs. You can use some of the examples below for your epitaphs.
Soon ripe, soon rotten, soon gone, but not forgotten	I told you I was sick.	Here lies Al, because he messed with a gal.	What I spent I had, what I gave I have, what I saved I lost.	Here lies Mark, because he tried to eat bark.
Here I like for no wonder I am dead, for the wheel of a wagon went over my head.	Anita nu life	When your razor is dull you want to shave, think of the man that lies in this grave.	Here lies my wife, here let her lie. She's at rest and so am I.	Here lies Ben, because he fought with a hen.

Mommy Wrap (K-6)

Supplies

Roll of toilet paper
(one per child)

Directions

1. Pair up the kids. One person will be the mummy and the other will be the wrapper.

2. The wrappers are each given a roll of toilet paper. ON the word "go", they wrap their partners from head to toe leaving the eyes, nose and mouth uncovered.

3. When the toilet paper runs out or when each child feels he has completed the job, the game is over.

4. The parent helpers check each mummy for completeness and then have the wrappers unwrap their mummies.

5. The first team unwrapped is the winner.

6. Beware there will be lots of toilet paper all over. Make sure to have extra trash bags.

7. Allow about five minutes per wrap. Don't forget to wrap the teacher and take pictures.