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The Halloween Party will be at SPOOKTACULAR
October 30, 2007 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Divide the kids into 4 groups for stations—generally works best and keeps the noise level down during party time. Plan approximately 10 - 12 minutes of activity for each station.
Rules: Absolutely NO RED dyed drinks, limit messy snacks, please do not send kids home with large goodie bags
Stations:
#1: Snacks and Story
#2: Crafts
#3: Games
#4: Craft/ Game/ Story/ Puzzles
You can very the order of activities and even have an entire class beginning and closing group before and/or after the stations.
Games
Guessing Games:
- How many __ are in the jar?
- Guess the # of Bats, witch’s, ghosts, etc. are hidden in the room?
- Guess how old is MR/ MRS so and so? Guess who/ what I’m thinking of?—give clues about a famous character or Halloween related thing.
- Hang a sheet for students to stand behind barefoot then guess whose feet belong to.
- Guess what it is?—prepare various foods for students to reach their hands in and feel then guess what it is—spaghetti, peas, use different textures then come up with a Halloween title for them like “Brains” or “Eyes”, etc.
- Individual Games: Tic-tac- toe, Bingo, puzzles from puzzles.com. color pages, picture finds, word searches, cross words, de-coding—check the web to find printable games
Group Games:
- card games like uno, old maid, go fish, etc.
- Mummy wrap: wrap your teacher or students wrap each other in toilet paper or paper towels
- Don’t Eat Ernie: prepare a game board of ernie faces- 12 to 16 works best, then place a piece of candy in each square, send one child out while the group chooses an ernie not to be eaten, call the child out back in to begin picking up candy to eat, when he/she gets to the ernie chosen by the group the group calls out “Don’t eat Ernie” and their turn is over and another child leaves the room and play continues until every child has had a turn.
- Musical games: musical chairs, musical statues, etc. Play music then turn it off and call out something for the children to do.
- Simon Says or Follow Me
- Toss games: toss a bean bag in to a bucket of candy or prepared board, toss bean bag onto a tic-tac-toe or other such prepared game board.
- Balloon Games: Put an action inside balloon then blow up and tie, have the kids pop the balloon and do the action. Walk, jump, hop with a balloon between your legs. Blow a balloon along the floor. Etc.
- Food Games: Tie a donut to a string, one person holds while another eats, first person done wins then repeat for the other person to hold the string and the other one eats for a second win. Bob for apples. Pass an orange from neck to neck.
- Mingle games:
- Spider’s Web, everyone stands in a circle, closes their eyes, put their hands out and grabs another hand. After opening their eyes proceed to untangle without letting go of any hands.
- Do you love your neighbor? Everyone has a chair in a circle except one person in the middle, the person in the middle goes to a seated person and asks Do you love your neighbor? If they say yes, the two people sitting by each other exchange places while the person in the middle attempts to take their seat. If they say no, then they must what kind of neighbor they like—for example I like everyone wearing red or I like everyone who didn’t brush their teeth this morning, etc. Everyone that it applies to must change places and the person not able to get a seat goes to the middle and starts the game again.
- Different forms of Tag
- Heads up 7-up
- Get to know you candy game: place a lot of little pieces of candy in the center of the circle of students, one student begins with I have…(traveled to Europe), then everyone who has traveled to Europe picks up a piece of candy. Play continues around the circle until everyone has told something they’ve done. If the candy runs out of the center then players take from other players piles of candy.
- Who am I? Put names of famous characters or people taped to the back of the students and they must mingle and ask questions to discover their identity.
Snack/ Recipes
Simple ideas:
Popcorn, snack mixes, fruit with dipping sauce, veggie trays and dip, donuts, root beer floats, nachos, pizza, etc.
Fun Halloween theme recipes:
Use a color theme: all foods black: olives, oreos, chocolate, etc. any color will work—just get creative with foods.
Peanut butter Ghosts: Nutter Butter cookies dipped in melted white chocolate with mini m&m eyes
Dirt: chocolate pudding cups topped with crushed oreos and gummy worms
Create a graveyard with Dirt and create tombstones out of cookies dipped in white chocolate then use icing for wording.
Freeze plastic eyeballs, spiders, or worms in ice cubes to put in drinks.
Witches’ Hats: 32 milk chocolate kisses, 1 (111/2oz.) pkg. fudge striped shortbread cookies, 1 tube orange or red decorating icing. Pipe icing on bottom of chocolate kiss around the edge, then place kiss on top of the chocolate bottom of the cookie covering the hole in the cookie. Pipe icing around base of kiss and decorate with an icing bow.
Sweet Bones: 6 lg. eggs and 1½ c. sugar (can be made 3 days a head store in an airtight container at room temperature)
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Put egg whites and sugar into the heatproof bowl of an electric mixer. Set bowl over a pan of simmering water, whisk constantly until sugar is dissolved and mixture feels warm to the touch, about 5 minutes.
- Return bowl to mixer, and fit mixer with whisk attachment. Beat on high speed until very stiff peaks form, about 8 min.
- Transfer meringue to a pastry bag fitted with a ½” plain round tip. Pipe bone shape, each 5” to 6” long, onto two baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Bake until crisp throughout, about 1 hour. Let cool completely on a wire rack.
Tip: Make meringue bones using one continuous motion: begin by piping a horizontal s shape at the top. Continue piping meringue downward in a straight line to form the middle of the bone. Finish by making another horizontal S shape at the bottom.
Popcorn Goblin Corp
2½.c. Pop corn
2c. mini pretzels
2c. raisins
1c. salted peanuts
1c. m&ms
1c. candy corn
½ c. sunflower seed kernels
Combine all ingredients and toss gently
Crafts
Decorate pumpkins, cookies, or trick-or-treat bags
Make Ghosts out of tootsie roll pops, Kleenex, and yarn
Make a spider web picture with black yarn, glue, and plastic spider
Decorate a picture frame and take photos of kids with teacher
Spider suckers out of tootsie roll pops, Kleenex, and pipe cleaners
Witches hats out of construction paper
Tomb stones or grave yards out of construction paper
Google crafts online for the latest and greatest
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