I'm getting a little further on that 4th grade Halloween party. Got a great game idea that I thought I'd share here, since you all gave me many other great ideas! I'm calling it the "Scarecrow Stuff" for lack of a better name. I'm going to split the room into 4 teams and give each team a bag of identical supplies. These will include newspaper, jeans, flannel shirt, boots, gloves, hat, balloon (for head), marker and twine. They are told to stuff the clothes, blow up the balloon, etc., and arrange everything into a scarecrow sitting in a chair, all within a time limit. They can use only twine and creativity to attach things. Then we'll get pictures of each team with their dude and after careful judging, each team Mom will vote for her own teams work, so we'll declare it a 4 way tie and they'll all win a prize. I even found some totally cute straw and fabric scarecrows on sticks at Hobby Lobby for 75% off. They are about 8" and were only 33 cents! That's the prize, and I had bought them before even knowing about this game idea. Weird huh? Well, that takes care of about 15 minutes, only 45 to go. (OK, snack and freeze dancing to a Monster Mash CD will fill some time up too.) I'll have a few extra games ready in case they need more direction, but I think they'd just love some unstructured time to socialize. I don't have a craft planned. What would 4th graders really like and be worthwhile? Any ideas?