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Ideas for simple Halloween party games

With only a week to go until Halloween, we thought we’d share some ideas for simple and spooky party games that your little monsters will love to play and that require relatively little effort to put together:

• Ghost Hunt: Cut ghost shapes from cardstock or white paper (allow about 4-5 per guest). Hide them around the house and garden and have your little guests find them. (If you have different age groups of kids, you may want to give the little ones a head start.) This is also a great game to play near the end of the party and you won’t have to provide full party bags either. Glue a small treat to each ghost before hiding, give each child an empty party bag and let them fill it with whatever they find.

• Ten-pin pumpkin skittles: Partially fill 10 similar-sized plastic bottles with small rocks and gravel, so they stand up and don’t topple over too easily. (If you have time or are feeling creative, you can also decorate them to look like monsters.) Draw a scary face on a mini pumpkin – this will be the bowling ball. Line up your bottles and let kids take turns knocking them over with the pumpkin, keeping score as they go. The child with the highest score is the winner.

• Yucky Dip: Scoop out a pumpkin and fill it with cooled, cooked pasta. Add small packages of candy or wrapped treats and mix well. Invite your little guests to take turns making the yucky dip. Note that this can get complicated!

• The Haunted Jar – Fill a jar with small candies or toys and shredded white paper (write down how many candies you put in!). Each child guesses how many items are in the jar and whoever comes closest wins the treats!

• Musical Monsters: Play spooky music and make your little guests move like monsters. When the music stops, they have to stay still; if they move, they are out of the game. The last monster standing is the winner!

• Trick or treat: cut squares of paper. In the middle of the squares, write ‘treat’. On the other half, write ‘trick’ on one side of the paper and a simple activity (such as ‘cluck like a witch’) on the other side. Fold the squares up and place them in a bucket (or cauldron if you want to get creative). The children then take turns pulling a piece of paper out of the bucket. If they pull out a ‘treat’, give them a small treat. If they pull a ‘trick’, they must complete the task written on the back before receiving their prize.

• The Graveyard Game: This is a great game to play when you want to calm down the party. Your little monsters lie down in the ‘cemetery’: the child who stays still the longest is the winner.

And finally, how do the monsters predict their future? They read his scope of ‘horror’!

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