Here are some games that are are fun,
some will even give your guests the willies.
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Object of the Game: The first team to wrap their
mummy wins! What You Need: Lots
of toilet paper. Try looking at a supply store or a dollar
store since you'll
need about three rolls
per group.
What You Do: Here's
the classic bridal shower "Toilet
Paper Bride" game changed around for Halloween and kids.
Divide the kids into smaller groups, four kids per group is
usually good: one for the mummy, three to wrap.
The object is for each group to wrap their mummy faster than
the other groups but doing a good job. You can have a winner
for the best mummy or a race for the fastest mummy wrapped,
or no winner at all.
To organize it a bit, try letting each group draw jobs, one
child might pick the mummy slip of paper, one gets wrapper,
etc. You can also break this down further to give each child
a job like wrapping arms and legs, one wraps the torso, etc.
Keep the eyes, mouth and nose uncovered, don't throw the toilet
paper around the room. This game works better with older, more
behaved kids.
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Object of the Game: This game will
test each player's memory of what they see on a tray full of objects
for a short time.
What You Need: A tray, a cloth that covers it, 20-25 small
Halloween related objects, pencils and paper. You can find
all kinds of small, inexpensive Halloween trinkets that are
great for this game.
What You Do: Using about 20 to 25 different Halloween related
items, such as rubber bats, spiders, skulls, ghosts, etc. and
place a few of them on a tray. Cover it with a cloth. Give
each player a paper and pencil. Players sit in a circle around
the tray and the cloth is removed for 60 seconds. When the
time is up, replace the cloth. The players write down everything
they can remember seeing on the tray. The person that gets
the most items is the winner. You can keep the game going by
having more items to add to the tray. Remove a few of the beginning
items and add some new ones.
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What You Need: A variety of vegetables,
old sheets, Thumtaks, Duct tape, Face paint. Object
of the Game: In this gooey game, a someone dressed
as a monster sits at the end of an operating table while unsuspecting
physicians (party guests) examine the patient's ghoulish guts.
What You Do:To make the monster's body, arrange vegetables on a picnic
table to resemble a skeleton, minus the head. For arms, thighs
and shins, use zucchini; a turnip, split in half, makes excellent
kneecaps. Use toothpicks to pin a celery rib cage together,
secure dried apricot toes to celery feet, and attach baby corn
fingernails to hotdog fingers. Just below the rib cage, pile
cooked spaghetti (small intestines) and licorice ropes (large
intestines) directly on top of the table. No container is necessary.
With a thumbtack, secure a plastic pie plate to the picnic
table, below the intestines. Fill with gelatin (guts). Water-chestnut
gallstones and a water-balloon heart make nice additions to
the monster. When the organs are in place, secure them to the
table with duct tape.
Top the operating table with sheet or fabric and cut slits
in it so the children can reach in and touch the organs without
being able to see them. Just before the guests arrive, position
the live monster (someone with green face paint) as close to
the head of the table as possible, sitting on a chair. To create
the illusion that the head is connected to the body, drape
a second sheet over the monster's shoulders.
When the guest arrive, Dr. Frank N. Beans
(someone with a mad glint in his eyes) leads them to the
spooky operating room.
The monster groans. The doctor explains that the monster needs
an extensive checkup, requiring the guest's help as assisting
physicians. The doctor knocks out the monster with a tranquilizer
shot (from a play doctor's kit). Clipboard in hand, the physician
leads the guest doctors around the table, guiding their hands
through the slits so they can feel the guts. "Go ahead
and tweak, prod and poke them," he says. "The monster
hasn't had a checkup in centuries!" Then he records each
guest's prognosis ("clean bill of health" or "transplant
required") on his chart. When the doctor announces that
the patient needs a complete overhaul, the monster suddenly
rises from his chair, pounds his chest, and roars.
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