Game/Activity Ideas

Bowling Game

Ghosts made out of rolls of toilet paper, faces done with black marker.

Empty cans/cups decorated like monsters.

Empty water bottles/plastic liters

DIY Photo Stand-ins

These can be made of wood or cardboard. Basically it's an image or picture with a hole cut out for someone's face.

Halloween Mystery Boxes

These can be small (tissue box) or big (paper copy box with lid). They just need one opening large enough for a hand. The rest can then be decorated.

Most of the ideas are for creepy things (label on the outside of the box) such as:

Eyeballs - peeled grapes or olives

Intestines/worms - cold, wet spaghetti

Fingers/toes - cheese sticks, baby hot dogs

Ears - slices of green pepper

Spiders - twisted chenille stems

Petrified rat tails - pretzel sticks

Pin the 'Tail'

Pin the tail on the black cat

Pin the wart on the witch

Pin the nose on the Jack-o-lantern

Pop the pumpkins

We have a board with hooks, where the balloons can be attached. Use orange balloons for 'pumpkins' - they can be filled with confetti and/or a small prize.

Pumpkin Broom Race

For this we'll need a couple of brooms and small pumpkins, plus masking tape to mark out a 'course' on the gym floor.

Ring Toss

Rings can be tossed around witch's hats; the tops of pumpkins, or bottles of colored water. The rings can be glow stick necklaces, bands from canning jars

Treasure Hunt

Fill a kiddie pool, large cardboard box, wheelbarrow, etc. with things like leaves or hay. Then small 'treasurers' will be hidden inside. Children can search until they find one.

Decorations

We will have activities in the gym, cafeteria, hallways, and rooms 1, 3, 4, 6 & 8. We'd love to add some decorations to make things festive. Ghosts, leaves, witch hats, cats, pumpkins, etc. would all be great additions. If you'd like to bring a jack-o-lantern we can display those along the front during the festival - just don't forget to take it home at the end.