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 Halloween
Kids Party
Party
Ideas by Party Consultant Michelle Hylton
Updated: 08/31/2010
www.PartyShelf.com
Here
is a basic 2-hour Halloween Party Outline:
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Greet guest (5 minutes)
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Opening Activity (15 minutes)
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Games (40 minutes)
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Food break or Cake celebration (for a Halloween Birthday)(20 minutes)
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Next 20 minutes is filled with one of the following:
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Closing Activity/Wrapping
up the party (10 minutes)
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DECORATING
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Pumpkin
Patch |
Fun
Party Decor |
Spooky
Party Decor |
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Outside Pumpkin Patch Decor:
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Use the corner area of a yard, fence or between two
trees.
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Create a "U" shape wall of straw bales and add some
cornstalks for your back setting.
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Use
pumpkin,
black and
orange balloons tied to the straw bales and
corn stalks.
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If you have burlap sacks, lay them across the bales to
be used as a seat for the party. They can also be reused for some fun
sack races.
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If you have fallen leaves scatter them around. For
warmer climates, you can use paper leaf cutouts.
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Place mini and large pumpkins
all around your pumpkin patch. The mini ones can be used as a favor or
party of your craft time. Kids can paint their mini pumpkins.
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Create a sign for your pumpkin patch
or
customize your own banner.
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Add some extra decor like apple baskets, Scarecrows, a
wheel barrow filled with pumpkins.
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Don't forget to gather all your goblins for a pumpkin
patch photo.
Indoor Pumpkin Patch:
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Using a corner of the room, layout burlap sacks. If you are daring, put down
heavier floor paint covers, tape to carpet or floor and bring in real straw
bales for the corner. Place them as close to the wall to minimize the mess.
Use the
cornfield or
autumn scene setters to create the perfect background on your wall.
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Add mini pumpkins or create mini balloons pumpkins
(shown in photo above). Just use 5" orange balloons, wrap with
green curling ribbon fittingly to create the pumpkin look. You can cut out
leaves from green crepe paper.
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Add more decorations like:
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Use traditional Halloween
colors of orange and
black. Add some fun with purple or lime green.
Table Decor
Start with a
Spider Web Tablecover
and add one of these colorful patterns.
Boo
Prismatic
Spider
Frenzy
Eyeball
Gruesome
Halloween Kids Plates
Solid
colors
Roll napkins and utensils
and secure with a LED
Flashing Ring
or
bracelet as a napkin holder.
Adorn your guest with Black
and
Orange
leis or
Pumpkin beads.
Use black cups and write
your guest's name in white
marker. Then draw a spider web
around their name. Or just use these colorful
monster cups.
For snacks use these fun trays:
Gruesome Group Bowl
Gruesome Platter
Room Decor
Halloween
Balloons
Spider Tinsel Garland
Halloween Chandelier
Halloween Door Cover
Pumpkin Electric Lights
Happy
Halloween Clings
Greet your guest
with a
personalized
Halloween banner.
Deluxe Halloween Kit
9" Smoking Cauldron
Mr. Bones Glow Skeleton
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For
the older kids (including adults) who like it a bit more spooky here are
some party decorating ideas.
Use
Black Tableware
or the
Cemetery Terror
pattern.
Add a
skeleton candelabra
to your table or
Cemetery Table Deco Kit.
Sprinkle the table with
Creepy Table Sprinkles.
Use
Flashing Spike Bracelet
as napkin rings and party favors.
Keep your drinks Chilled!
Room Decor
Set the scene with
Scene Setters.
Mix and
match with the Graveyard , Haunted Forest, Skull Border Roll and other
giant decorations. Use your imagination to create your own Spooky
environment.
Halloween Decorating Kit
If you are limited to one room, then section off the corners of each room to be a different scene.
Here are some ideas:
Graveyard
Haunted forest
Mad Scientist
Lab
Dungeon
Spider Web
Bat Cave
Blood Scene
If you can spread your party to multiple
rooms, then make each room a different scene.
Hallways -
Haunted Forest,
Bat Cave
or
Spider Alley.
Kitchen - How about a Ghostly Chef with devilish treats
for your guest. Use
ghosts scene setters,
devil picks,
skull punch bowl,
cemetery terror platter,
and
gruesome platter
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Bedroom, Parlor, Sitting Room
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"Never
the
Bride" Suite with a
skeleton
bride.
Add a
peeling plaster scene
to the walls
with some
Ethereal Ghosts.
Or add the
doomed Bride & Groom
to the walls.
Bar or Serving area -
Mad Scientist Lab with
brains,
mad scientist spooky specimens,
pulsating heart
and LEDs.
Bathroom - Bloody Scene or Water torture Room (leave the tub or sink dripping).
Cover the door with
bloody door cover. Add the
bloody wall border around the bathroom. Use the
"GET OUT" mirror
grabber.
Dining Room -
Skeleton
Reunion.
Hang some
skull and bone garland
or
terror tinsel garland.
Add a
skeleton candelabra
to your table. Use the
Catacomb Scene Setter. Sprinkle the
table with skeleton bones. Scatter these
tabletop skulls
around the room. Use
Glow Skeleton Balloons.
Front yard -
Create an area for your cemetery in the front yard. Add
Cemetery Fence Set/2
 to
enclose the graveyard. Start with tombstones and spider webs. Add several any of these
graveyard extremes:
Music
Frightening Halloween Cd
Kids Halloween Cd
Misc.
Items
Mummy Garland
Rusty Barbwire
Skeleton Tray
Skull Ice Bucket
More
Ideas
Cover furniture with white sheets , use black lights or dim your lights, add a skeleton
and prop it on a chair reading a book. Also take a moment to view my
Photo
Gallery for a graveyard, mad
science lab and ghastly guest bedroom. |
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GAME IDEAS |
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Pass
the broom - A variation of Hot
Potato. Children stand in a circle while Halloween music
plays. When the music stops the person holding the broom is
eliminated from the game. The game continues until 1 child is left,
who is the winner.
Game
Variations:
Pass
the Witches Hat
Pass
the Skull
Pass
the Pumpkin (mini size)
Pass the Slime |
Pin The Wart on the Witch
- Similar to Pin the tail
on the Donkey, instead of a tail use gum for the wart! Draw a witch's face on a piece of
poster board or find a witch cutout. Give each child a small piece of gum to
chew. One at a time, blindfold the child, spin them around twice and
point them in the general direction. Tell them to take out their gum and
put it into their fingers to pin on the witch. The closest piece of gum to the wart on the witches face
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Pin the Spider on the WEB - Use a giant
spider web, blind fold and spiders
(plastic,
paper, foam craft with tape or Scotch's sticky
squares). Each child gets a
turn at trying to get the spider near the center of the web where a
plastic fly is waiting to be caught (tape or tie with black thread a
plastic
fly in the center of the web). For the spider web, purchase one
at the store or make one with black yarn .
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Ring
the pumpkin - Large decorated rings ( embroidery
hoops) are used to toss and ring a pumpkin. Give each child at least 3
tries.
Pumpkin Bucket Toss - Simply set
up plastic pumpkin buckets and use bean bags. Set the buckets in a line.
Each child gets a turn trying to get a bean bag in the first bucket, if they
succeed they try for the next bucket and so on. The higher they get the
bigger the prize. Also include a consolation candy prize for those who
don't get any in.
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Frankenstein
Eyeball Race - Divide guest into teams.
Each team gets
an eyeball and spoon.
Guest race to one line and back to the next player
without dropping
the eyeball. If the eyeball is dropped they have
to go back to the
start line and go again. The first team all
members finish wins!
Tip: Use candy foiled wrap eyeballs,
ping pong balls decorated to look like eyeballs or a peeled boiled egg
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Bat
Soup - Toss bat bean bags into a witches pot. Each person is
given three bags
to throw into a black witches cauldron.
Make bat bean bags from fabric, or felt, fill with rice or beans.
Here is a photo of my bat bean bags:
I
am not a sewer, but I was able to make these by hand sewing 4" square
pieces of bat material. I put two squares together, with the print side
facing each other. Sewed around 3 sides and left a small opening on the
4th side. I then turned my bean bag inside out to get the bright print
side facing outward. I then filled with rice and then sewed up the
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Musical Bones -
Place foam, paper
or plastic bones on a small table.
There
is one less bone than players. The children walk around the table while
Halloween music plays. When
the music stops, the children all try
to grab
a bone. The child without a bone is eliminated from
the game. Continue playing until there
is one winner.
Broom Race -Have two teams and let
them race through an obstacle course on brooms. The first team to have all
players go through the course wins.
Spider Ring Toss
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Twisted Spiders - Play the game of Twister.
Spider Web - Best played outside among
trees, if playing inside use sturdy object to anchor web.
Prior to the party cut
15-20ft strings of different color yarn. One color per expected guest.
Anchor one end of the yarn to a tree or large sturdy object (for example the
couch leg). Now weave the yarn around other trees or objects to create a web
leaving about 3 feet at the end. Repeat for other colored strings, be
careful not to break any. All strings should end up at the same spot.
I like to knot the end of the string through a medium size bead and write
the name of each guest on the bead. This will be the starting spot for
the game and each child can easily find their string.
To start the game give
each player an end of a string. Players make their way rewinding their
yard through the web. The first player to untangle their yarn from the
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Mummy Wrap
- Divide children into 3 teams. Each team chooses a Mummy
and the other are wrappers. Provide each team a small roll of toilet
paper.
The wrappers
must wrap their mummy from head to toe. The first team that wraps their
mummy and finishes their roll of paper wins. Play some Halloween music
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ACTIVITIES |
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Opening
Activity
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Boo Who? |
Piñata |
Craft picture frames using Halloween precut foam pieces and black or orange
foam for frame. Provide a separate craft table,
materials, and
glue (optional q-tips/containers to share glue). Take a Polaroid picture
of your guest in costume. At the end of the party give each child their photo
and frame.
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As each guest arrive, tape a paper or index card with a Halloween
icon written on it to their back. The object of the game is to guess
what Halloween icon you are by asking only yes or no questions to other guest?
Guest can
only answer with a yes or no. For
example, you are a black cat. You may ask, "Am I orange in color?" Another guest would
answer, "No." You ask, "Am I black in color?" Other guest answers, "Yes"
and so on. You have to ask a different person each time, but may return to ask someone you
have asked before. You cannot ask one person two questions in a row.
The first to figure out who they are yells, "BOO!". If they guess
wrong then everyone keeps playing.
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Give
each child a loot bag and have them take turns at smashing the piñata.
Here are some tips for a safe game.
1. Have at least two adults supervising.
One to help the child trying to hit the piñata, while the other watches
the other children do not get in the way.
2. Make all kids stand behind a line
(use tape to mark off or cones) while it is not their turn.
3. Make sure each child has a loot bag
to collect goodies.
4. After the piñata breaks and candy
falls, tell the children they must wait until an adult says 1, 2 3, GO!
This way you can make sure the person with the stick (plastic or wood) has
cleared the way and can also pick up candy.
Witch Piñata
Jack
O'lantern Piñata
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Coloring Pages |
Face Painting |
Shadow Play
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Print coloring pages off the
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Paint bats, ghosts, witch hats,
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Hang a sheet across the corner of the room.
Create a box of Halloween costume pieces. Set up a strong lamp in the corner
directed at the sheet. Pre-write descriptions of actions the children have
to act out. Each child gets a turn to stand behind the sheet and act
out the instructions on a card. For example a witch crashed on her broom,
Dracula bit something too hard, ghost rising from a grave, be creative. They
can be ghoulish or fun. |
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Hugs & Kisses, Bugs & Hisses
Party Favor |
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Supplies Needed:
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Cello Bags-
treat sack size
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Colorful
Spiders & Snakes
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Curling
Ribbons (orange & black, orange & purple, black & lime green, black and
purple)
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Crinkle Cut Shred
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Hershey Hugs &
Kisses Candy (Dark
Chocolate wrappings add color.)
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Tags with saying "Hugs &
Kisses, Bugs & Hisses ~ Happy Halloween"
Start by putting some crinkle
cut shred into the cello bags. Add 2 snakes and 2 spiders, and a
handful of Hershey Hugs & Kisses candy. Create a tag off your
printer or craft one. Punch a hole in one corner of the tag and thread
ribbon through hole. Tie tag and close bag with ribbon.
Note: I printed the tags off my
printer using business card paper. They are also cute to sell at
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FUN
PARTY FOODS |
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Headstone Dessert
Fill 9 oz. cups 3/4 of the way up with chocolate pudding.
Top pudding
with crushed Oreo® cookies an insert any plain rectangle cookie in to
resemble
a tombstone. Use decorating gel to write the name of each guest on the
cookie
or write "RIP".
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Nutter Butter Ghost
Ingredients: 6 ounces of vanilla flavored almond bark
One package of Nutter Butter® Cookies
Small bag of mini chocolate chips
Directions:
Follow instructions on almond bark bag for melting. Briefly immerse
two-thirds of each cookie into the melted bark. Hold each cookie
above the saucepan until the cookie stops dripping. Lay the cookie
on a wire rack, immediately placing two mini chocolate chips on each for
eyes. Cool completely. Makes about 32
cookies.
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Oreo® Spiders
Ingredients: 1 Oreo® cookie
6 inches of black licorice string (thin and cut into four 4-inch pieces)
White decorating icing (fine tip)
Two cinnamon perils
Directions: Open up the cookie without breaking the top or bottom halves.
Lay four pieces of black string across the white-crème filling. Put the cookie back together. Place two tiny dabs of white icing on the cookie. Place a cinnamon candy on top of each dab for eyes.
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Bewitching Hats
Ingredients: Bag of Chocolate Hershey Kisses®
1 11.5 oz package of fudge striped cookies
Orange or Red decorating icing (fine tip)
Directions: Unwrap chocolate kisses for the number of hat cookies you will make.
Turn the fudge cookie over, so the flat side is up. Squirt icing around the center hold of the cookie. Place a chocolate kiss on
top of the icing to form the peak of the witches hat. Pipe
icing and a bow around the kiss to represent a hat band.
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Pea-nutty Pumpkin Spread
(check with guest for allergies)
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup solid-pack pumpkin
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 T. honey
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
2 T. chopped peanuts (optional)
Carrots, celery sticks, apple slices
Directions: Combine pumpkin, peanut butter, honey and cinnamon; mix well. Chill. Top with nuts before serving (optional).
Serve with vegetable sticks and apple slices. Makes one cup.
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Monster Mash
Ingredients: 10 cups of Popcorn
1 16 oz. bag of M& M's
1 14 oz. bag of chocolate covered peanuts
1 cup of candy corn
1 cup peanut butter chips
Directions: Mix all ingredients in a
large bowl, serve in a witches cauldron or large green bowl.
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Bat Wings
Place chicken wings in a barbeque sauce and bake in 350 degree oven
for 45 minutes.
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Witches' Brew
Add
green food coloring to lemonade. Place in a punch bowl or witches
cauldron.
Freeze some gummy worms in ice cubes and simply add the ice cubes. Makes
a
howling good thirst quencher!
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Ghouls-Aide Punch
Ingredients: 1 Envelope Kool-Aid Grape Flavor
Unsweetened Mix
1 Envelope Kool-Aid Orange Flavor Unsweetened Mix
2 Cups of Sugar
3 Quarts of Cold Water
1 Bottle of Ginger Ale Chilled (qt)
Directions:Mix Kool-Aid together with sugar, in a large
pitcher. Add water and mix. Just before serving, add ginger ale.
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Witch's Mix
Ingredients: Bugle chips
Pretzel sticks
Goldfish
crackers
Cheez nips
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl or witch's cauldron.
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