Cheap Halloween Crafts and Games for 3rd graders

[emmocakeysari]

Any ideas???

 

[ltl engine]

We have tried this and kids love it. You have some target on a board, then take the really long balloons and fill them up (suggest $4.99 small hand pump at a party stor). Have the kids hold the open end closest to them and let go (shoot it at the target). You will have balloons flying all over the room and mostly not at the target. You can make points for the target and extra points for things like landing on the teacher's desk, etc.

The kids were laughing histerically at the poor aim.

Target ides-witch, spider, ghost, Xmas tree, snowman, hearts, etc.

 

[3boymthr]

Wrap the Mummy (or mommy as the case may be). Takes a couple of rolls of toilet paper. Really there's no point to it other than they have to wrap someone up and he/she has to be able to walk when they're done. You can put the kids in teams and make it a contest. Cheap TP works best (you know the thousand sheets on a roll).

Guess the number of candycorn in the jar. Closest guesser gets to keep the candy.

Instead of bobbing for apples sticking or spooning for apples. Best done outside or in a garage or on a plastic tablecloth or get plenty of towels. Put four or five apples in a pot of water filled to within a couple of inches of the top. Make sure there is lots of room in the pot for the apples to move around. A canning pot or large spaghetti pot works best. Prepare a second pot of water. Give kids drum sticks or wooden spoons. They have to transfer the apples from one pot to the other using only the drum sticks or the handles of the wooden spoons. You can use any other kind of long handles cooking implement but not something they can scoop the apples up with they have to balance the apples on the handles. It's tricky but they really get a kick out of it. The second pot is so that you don't have to keep moving them.

A take off on the egg race - Eyeball races. Take some old golf balls or pingpong balls and decorate to look like icky bloodshot eyeballs. Get some very small spoons (the shallower the bowl of the spoon the more challenging it is). Can be held in mouth to make it more challenging or do relays to make it more competitive.

Paper pumpkin decorating. Print out some pumpkin coloring pages and have the kids decorate them as jackolanterns using crayons, markers, confetti, construction paper, glitter glue, ribbon, bottle caps, stickers, etc (just whatever you have on hand). You can make it a competition to motivate them or just let them got at it. We've used, Jackolantern most unlike a jackolantern (it's amazing what they come up with), Jackolantern that looks most like me, scariest, prettiest. Let them decide what category they're shooting for.

 

[Jennyvelaz]

 

[BABY_EINSTEIN'S_MOM]

I picked up a couple games from orientaltrading.com since I just have preschoolers. Their teachers said they probably wouldn't do much in terms of organized activities, so I just got a bean bag toss and a foam dartboard with velcro balls.

 

[ash&abby'smom]

We've had each kid bring in a small pumpkin and they decorated them with paint, glue, markers etc. We also decorated bags and each kid brought in one individually wrapped piece of candy for each child and they went around and trick or treated in class. They also decorated cookies.

 

[mom2twinz3]

familyfun.com is a great place to look for holiday craft and game ideas.

However, it looks like you already have some good responses on here!

 

[PHXscuba]

Halloween bingo using candy corn (or holiday M&Ms) as the markers.

PHXscuba

 

[GraysMom]

Halloween bingo using candy corn (or holiday M&Ms) as the markers.

PHXscuba

I always had my first graders make a bingo board on a pumpkin shaped board (I copied it onto bright orange copy paper) and had them cut out their sight words to glue into the spaces. You could have the third graders write Halloween related words in the spots (just coming up with a list to put on the board would kill a lot of time). We used candy corn since it didn't melt as easy in their sweaty little hands .

 

[MousekaMaddi]

using plain white computer paper, I cut out 25 ghost shapes and place them all around the floor,(well spaced out) then play music as kids walk around the room(like musical chairs,without chairs) when the music stops each kid needs to be on a ghost, remember to keep removing one ghost each time so there one less ghost than kid.
In my game, the kid who gets out get a prize, this way they dont feel bad losing. Each kid who gets "out" gets to pick a prize before the game continues.

 

[MissAndrea]

For my daughters halloween party last year (she's in 3rd grade now and we will be doing this again year) we made "picture frames". I got black and orange poster board, cut it about 5x7 and took a picture of the entire group in their halloween costumes. Then the kids got to pick out either a black or orange frame, decorate it with halloween stickers (bought very cheap at Walgreens) then we placed their group pic in the middle! They turned out very cute, the kids had a good time decorating them, and the parents LOVED them!

I guess I should note that my boyfriend was printing all of the pictures out on our printer while the kids decorated.

 

[Laurie Disney]

Pin the nose on the pumpkin
mummy wrap
candy corn on a spoon race - Fill up jar