Halloween Games

[marshac]

This month we're having a ward Halloween party, and my wife and I were tasked with coming up with 7 games. Never having been to a LDS Halloween party before, I have no idea what good games would be. Care to help a brotha out? What are some of your favorite (or even not-so-favorite) games?

[Jenamarie]

Cookie decorating always goes over well at our trunk-or-treats.

Also "Fishing". You attach a long string to a "pole" (any long stick) and tie a clothes pin to the end of the string, paint some blue butcher paper with an ocean scene and tape it to one of the portable church chalk boards, and someone hides behind the chalk board to clip little cheap prizes or candy to the clothes pin when the kid throws their line over the board.

Cake walks with cupcakes and/or cookies as prizes. In our ward the Young Women usually make them as a service project.

Bowling using a kids' plastic bowling set (someone in the ward usually has one of these sets)

Donut-on-a-string. Tie donuts to a string, tie the strings to a broom handle laid across some chairs, players have to try and eat as much of the donut off the strings without using their hands within the time set (15-30 seconds usually)

[silvermoon]

apple bobbing. Get a large tub of filled with water and apples. They players have to try to get the apple out without using their hands - only their mouth.

Pin the nose on the witch. Make a poster up with a picture of a witch. Cut out witches noses and blind fold the players, one at a time and spin them and have them pin the nose on without looking. (Same as pin the tail on the donkey)

[pam]

With health issues these days...I think I would not attempt the apple bobbing. That means you've got several different people trying to bob for apples in the same tub...just spreading around germs.

Edited October 9, 2009 by pam

[Generally_Me]

A good one is having a kiddie pool full of sand and letting the children dig for treasures.

Modified to change "did" to "dig"

Edited October 9, 2009 by Generally_Me
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[hordak]

tp mummys. give the kids in groups rolls of toilet paper and see who can cover their mummy (a person from the group) first.

TP and Halloween, it's not just for houses anymore:)

[Guest]

I'm the activity person for our ward and this is what we got planned (a lot of the games are already mentioned, so I'm just mentioning some that are not mentioned above).

1.) costume parade - we get everybody lined up, then go up a stage one by one and say their names and what they're supposed to be (last year, we got somebody with just a ribbon on his chest, nobody figured out what he was supposed to be until he said he was "God's gift to women" on the stage). Then we have some folks write down their names on a "Great ___ Costume" certificate - varieties are: Great funny costume, great scary costume, great wierd costume, great creative costume, etc. etc...

2.) Bingo - we have dinner at the social hall, so we play bingo while having dinner.

3.) Bean bag toss - just put 3 halloween buckets (those el-cheapo orange pumpkin ones) on the floor at certain distances and throw a bean bag to each bucket. You get all 3, you win a bigger prize.

4.) Pin the nose on the pumpkin - same as the witch one mentioned above but using a pumpkin picture instead.

5.) Pumpkin ring toss - Make 3 stacks of small-sized pumpkins and glue them together to make a "pole". Glue them to a plywood base. Use 3 plastic rings (usually found in pool toys) to toss.

6.) Football game - just had thick fabric with holes cut-out and a football person drawn onto the fabric. We plan to use the volleyball poles (they have wheels on them - used to hold the net up) to string 2 ropes. The first rope is on top and strung through the top of the fabric like a shower curtain and another one at the bottom to hold the thing in place. We'll have a blackboard behind the thing to catch the football. And we use Nerf footballs.

7.) Mini-golf - somebody in our ward has a golf-set with a fairway and a cup thing. We just use regular putter.

Hope this helps!

[Bini]

Apple-bobbing would still be fun. If you're not afraid of a few germs. It can't be much worse than swimming in a pool with other people..

You could do shaving balloons! Blow up a bunch of balloons and carefully draw funny faces on them with a black marker. Then put a couple drops of food colouring into a large bowl, add shaving cream and mix it around. Players must smooth shaving cream all over their balloon (around the drawn face of course) and then must give their balloon a quick shave without popping it! The winner is the one that completes task with balloon intact :]

[Generally_Me]

Apple-bobbing would still be fun. If you're not afraid of a few germs. It can't be much worse than swimming in a pool with other people..

Actually it could be; unless you've got chlorinated apple water. Plus, then you eat the apple that has been floating in the water that everyone's been putting their mouth, nose, hair in, possibly even eating an apple that was in someone else's mouth for a while. It's amazing what chlorine can do to keep a pool clean.

[pam]

I think I'd still pass on it.

[pam]

You also have to keep in mind that many of these activities will probably happen in the cultural center. Keep in mind the amount of clean up that will be involved as well.

[Bini]

Actually it could be; unless you've got chlorinated apple water. Plus, then you eat the apple that has been floating in the water that everyone's been putting their mouth, nose, hair in, possibly even eating an apple that was in someone else's mouth for a while. It's amazing what chlorine can do to keep a pool clean.

Aiya! Sometimes you just have to live a little and have fun. Like licking the brownie batter from inside a bowl!

But IF you decide to do apple-bobbing, you could drop a bromine tablet into the water, it's not harsh like chlorine and will do the exact same job.