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Halloween Party Activities
Prize Hunt Game
What you need: Lots of leaves or shredded up newspaper in a big pile and at least seven people. What to do: As fall starts to approach, save your leaves and or newspaper. What I did was get pumpkin bags and put leaves and/or newspaper in them. Include prizes in them such as (toys, money, candy ,etc.) you need to make a huge leaf or newspaper pile that has prizes buried in it (make sure this is outside in your yard) then get a group of friends together and on the count of 3, jump into the leaves and try to look for the prizes. It may sound stupid but it is so much fun. The bigger the pile and better the prizes the more fun it is!
Spiders and Worms
Take two sets of cups, two colors like black and orange,and put them in two groups, orange and black. Take the orange cups and write "Do you have a spider in your cup!" take the other color and write "Do you have a worm in your cup!" Take and put a spider in 1 or 2 of the orange cups and a worm in 1 or 2 of the black cups. Fill each cup with the same amount of punch and set them out on a table. As all the guests start to get bored, hand every one a cup and ask them not to drink it yet. As soon as everyone has a cup ask everyone to drink it at the count of 3 and see if they have the spiders and worms in their cups. Whoever finds the things in the bottom of the cup and drinks all the punch gets a life sized plush spider and a good scare!
Chuckie
It was last Halloween when I went round my best friend's house for Halloween. She had invited three other people other than me and her. I had helped her set her house up and we were watching "Chuckie" (the movie). Any "Chuckie" movie will do like "Bride of Chucky". Around the room we placed rag dolls and china-faced dolls and it really freaked me out and everyone else out! We thought they could come alive any minute! A really good tip for Halloween.
Dress Up Game
Get some friends to spend the night at your house. Divide your friends into groups. Then get some old pieces of clothing, hats, purses, etc. (or weird things like toilet paper) and put all the things you could find into something creepy like a cauldron. Hand it out and whoever dresses the creepiest has to walk up and down the street mumbling creepy things. If they do it, give them a treat.
Mummy Wrap
Get a lot of toilet paper rolls, assign guests in pairs; one is the mummy, one the wrapper. Start a timer. The wrappers have to wrap their mummy completely in toilet paper by the time the timer goes off (say four minutes). The team closest to wrapping the mummy in the time given wins!! It's messy but fun!
Murder in the Dark
You choose one person to go outside the room and be a detective. While they are out choose a murderer. Everyone then sits in a circle and asks the detective to come in. Someone then turns off all the lights and the murderer gets up and taps on one of the players. That person has to scream and pretend to die. The murderer sits back down and someone turns on the light. The detective has to guess who the murderer is. The murderer has to wink at one of the players every now and again who then has to scream and collapse on the floor. The detective has to guess who the murderer is before all the people have collapsed.
Murder in the Dark (Version Two)
First, have everyone pull out of a pumpkin, a piece of paper telling them whether they are a person, the one detective, or the one murderer. DON'T tell what you are! Then have the detective leave the room, and everyone pick up and hold a brush, water bottle, or other prop. Close your eyes, and scoot around the room. The murderer secretly opens her eyes and hits someone in the head with her tool. The victim yells as she dies, and the detective runs in the room and tries to guess who did it and with what.
Scavenger Hunt Buy small pumpkins (as many small pumpkins as there are guests coming) and hide them in the room or yard. Write the names of your guests on each pumpkin, let them find their pumpkin and let them keep it! Have fun!
Spirit Pen Game
Hi there! We don't celebrate Halloween here but this is a really cool and spooky game to play and everyone swears that it's true. Don't ask me as I haven't dared to try it yet. First, get an empty piece of paper. Then, get a pen, put your 3rd finger right at the top and another 2 fingers at the middle of the pen. Mark a spot on the paper. After that, call out, Spirit of the pen, please come out. Call a few times if it doesn't come out. At this time the pen will start moving (you must not move it!). You/your friends can ask questions and it'll answer if it can. When you're finished asking questions, say "spirit of the pen" please go home, then bring the pen back to the spot you marked earlier and tap 3 times with your 3rd finger on top of the pen. It's fun but be careful.
A Guide in the Dark!
Turn off the lights and tell the group to pair off two by two. The older girl (or boy) puts on a blindfold, and the other gets a flashlight. Then, pick a destination for each pair, such as the piano, the computer chair, etc. The person with the flashlight has to guide her partner to that certain spot by telling the other girl to go left, right, 10 steps etc. Let them all try, 1 pair at a time for practice. Then, let them pick a destination from slips of paper put into a hat. Now everybody goes at the same time! The first person to get her partner to their destination wins a prize -- like maybe the hat!
Dangling Donuts of Doom
You need a tree with branches that stick out.
You need a couple of donuts. (Plain to make it easy; powdered sugar to make it messy!)
You need 2 or more people do to this activity
You need some string
How to Play You first take donuts (one for each player) and attach the stings. Then hang them (the donuts!) from the tree. The players clasp their hands behind their backs and have to keep them there. After that somebody says go. You start to eat the donut with just your mouth -- no hands! (Careful when you get to the hole or your donut will fall!) The person who eats the whole donut first wins!
Share Ghastly Stories!
Get a pack of index cards and a pen. Write a phrase on each card that makes you shiver or think of Halloween. Get a minute timer. Then, pass around the deck of cards, face down. Each girl picks up a card and begins to spin a story for one minute or 30 seconds. She has to keep talking. Then she hands the cards to the next girl, who picks one and turns the story another direction. Here's some ideas about what to put on the cards.
the casket creaked
a ghost coughed
in the corner, lay a body. It was...
the candlelight flickered
it was a caldron, and a skull bobbed inside
the hand belonged to a wolfman!
the door opened. It was Count Dracula!
the skeleton shook itself, and moved toward me
the crystal vase was filled with blood
rats scattered across the floor
from beyond the grave
the severed head spoke
it was a giant swamp spider
Dr. Evil had returned to what was now my house
it was a zombie nightmare
the burial certificate had my name on it
I tried to run, but I couldn't move!
Dr. Rigormortus grabbed my arm
there was a ghost, rising from the grave
A Word On Neat Treats!
Want something different to give out besides candy? Think about giving out toys. Halloween themed stamps, stickers, wash off tattoos, erasers and pencils are cool possibilities for gifts. In Amy’s neighborhood last year, one lady gave out plastic fangs and packs of fake blood. Everyone wore them the next day at school.
Giving Out Treats!
Find something cool to put your treats in. Cardboard coffins. Carved out pumpkins. Spider webbed baskets. Fake plastic skulls. Tessa remembers one house put their treats inside a witch’s cauldron with a green emergency light stick inside. The candy-givers poured dry-ice fog into the cauldron between trick or treaters, so you had to reach your hand into a glowing, green fog in order to pull out the hidden candy inside!
Graveyard Dash
This is a takeoff on the old "easter egg" hunt. Hide Halloween candies all over your yard or your party room. Also hide small pumpkins, bones, witches and ghosts you've cut out of cardboard. Each pumpkin, bone, witch or ghost has a number on it. Give a prize for the person who finds the most goodies and numbers, but then draw numbers from a "skull". Whoever has that number gets to come pick a prize from the treasure chest, or coffin.
Giving Out Treats II!
Have your treats right next to the front door so nobody has to wait. And have a can of spare change by the door too. If you run out of treats, you can give out money. Leave the porch light on so trick or treaters know you are home. When you’ve run out of treats or are ready to call it a night, turn the light off.
Monster Mural
You'll need a garage door or a wall and big sheets of butcher paper. Have your guests break up into even teams. Have each team put one of their members up against the butcher paper. Trace their shape. Then, it's a race against time to see who can paint that shape into the scariest monster!
Tombstone Table
Take a sheet of paper and draw a tombstone shape on it. Photocopy that sheet. Then, put a collection of markers, pens, scary stamps (bats, ghosts, witches), glitter, fake insects, glue, grey and black and white paint and brushes. Let your guests make their own tombstones and write out their own epitaph. Use doublesided tape to put each tombstone up on a wall. Give prizes to the scariest, funniest, strangest tombstones!
Monstrous Masks
Buy plain white masks from the store, one for each guest or family member. Pile collections of fake spiders, insects, gummy worms, dead flowers and leaves, macaroni died black, pasta shapes, plastic goldfish, sea shells, doll parts, ping pong balls cut in half and painted to look like eyeballs, springs, electronic parts, etc. Put out bowls of red and black and blue glitter and red and black and blue paints. Have several bottles of white glue on the table, and pie tins to pour the glue in. Now invite your guests to make their own monstrous mask.
Fabulous Freaky Fortunes
Go to a thrift store and buy an old book of horoscopes. Cut the horoscopes apart so each horoscope is a single slip of paper like a fortune cookie. Put these fortunes in one bowl. Then, put lots of folded slips of paper in another bowl with the following topics: Love, Money, Your Future Mate, Your Dream Date, A Mysterious Stranger, Your Career, School. Gather your guests around. You pick from the topic bowl, and each guest pulls a fortune out and reads it. That's their future lot in life!
Have a Safe, Sane Halloween!
Don’t leave junk or trash in your yard for kids to trip over in the dark. Move rakes and toys out of the way. Make sure the path to your front door is well lit.
Pumpkin Toss
This is a mess, but teens really love this one! Go to a pumpkin patch or grocery store and negotiate to buy their discards - pumpkins that are old, or strange looking and therefore cheap. Buy 10 or more of pumpkins. Go outside (preferably on the lawn or in the driveway) and set up two empty trash cans. Mark off 5, 10, 15 and 20 feet away from the cans. Now, have a contest to see who can throw the pumpkin into the cans from the longest distance. Expect some clean up. They break!
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| Required Reading |
| Forget textbooks! Get Maxim, Rolling Stone, GQ, and more! |
| Your Pad |
| Get posters, blacklights, and candles to decorate your place! |
| Drinking Devices |
| You will not find these in Wal-Mart. Get the party started with these necessities! |
| Everything Sexual |
| Edible body paints, condoms and everything else you need! |
| Customized Items |
| Customized shirts, mugs, and hats for your fraternity, sorority, or group! |
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