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Halloween GamesHalloween Hunt Like an easter egg hunt but spookier! Wrap suitable prizes (Halloween sweets, bats, spiders and similar items) up in black tissue paper. Hide the litle packages around the house so your children can search for them. If your children are older write clues as to the prizes' location, as you would for scavenger hunt. Here are some other similar game suggestions: Mummy Wrap For this popular Halloween game, you will need to divide the children into pairs. Give each pair a toilet roll. In each pair, one of the children is the 'mummy' and has to be wrapped up with the toilet roll by the other child. The first pair to use up the toilet roll is the winner! Ghost Hunt Divide the children into two or three teams (depending on the number of guest you have). Cut out ten ghosts per team from coloured paper, with a different colour for each team. Click here for a simple template for making the ghosts. Hide the ghosts around the house. Whichever team finds all their ghosts first is the winner. As with Halloween Hunt, you can write clues for older children. Alternatively, if your children are old enough to be able to spell, write a letter on each of the ghosts. Once all of the ghosts have been found the children can rearrange the letters to make a word (for example pumpkin, goblin, etc) and claim their prize. What's In The Box? Take a box (preferably about the size of a shoe box) and cut a small hole in the lid, just big enough for the children to be able to fit their hands through. Fill it with items from around the home that will allow the children's imaginations to run wild (suggestions below). Dim the lights, or turn the lights off and use candles and torchlight, to add to the spooky atmosphere. Sit the children in a circle and get them to pass the box round, taking turns to put their hand in it and guess what disgusting items are inside. Items you can put in include: Pin The Tail On the Cat Some artistic skill required for this one! To play this you will need a drawing of a cat, a drawing pin with some string through it to make the cat's tail, and a blindfold. Draw a little x on the drawing/painting where the tail should go. Blindfold the child, spin them round to disorientate them a little and then see how close they can get to pinning the tail to the x. Make a mark where the child places their pin and put their initial next to it. Give a prize to the child who gets the closest. Variations could be pin the nose on the pumpkin (put the pin through a black triangle forming the pumpkin's nose) or pin the wart on the witch.
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