Toddlers Halloween Party ideas please ?

[minnie29uk]

Hi All,
Im having my first ever Hallowwen party,so looking for any ideas for games.

Taking the Disney theme and entitled it a not so scarey Halloween party...just after an idea of a few games that are different to the normal run of the mill party games we play.

Thanks all,
Lynn

 

[pokemon_master]

Pin the tail on the Eeyore?

 

[natalielongstaff]

apple bobbin !

 

[AnitaCB]

Chocolate challenge - you put half a fun size milky way in a small dish of icing sugar and they have to eat it with no hands or the alternative is to hang the pieces of chocolate up using string and again make them eat it with no hands. The fastest eater is the winner. We have great fun with this at parties and it's a good ice breaker.
Colouring comp - let them colour in a spooky picture and the best one wins (impartial judging of course!)
Make witchy cocktails using lemonade and food colouring - they can help and choose their own colours.

Hope it goes well!

 

[minnie29uk]

Thanks for the ideas guys.

Lynn

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

My kids play 'reck the house' its a game they play without parents, basically you live them for 10 minutes to do cooking etc, and they get every toy out and leave it out and then reck the house.

The parents usually loose the batter, with agreeing if they do their homework, you will tidy everything up!

 

[Karen Mouse]

Do a ghost treasure hunt with pictures. Photograph loads of things in the house. Print them off and then hand them the first photo. This will have a picture of where to go next etc. At the end have a little cut out ghost holding a small present - eg chocoalte ghost lollipop etc.

 

[cstokell]

I had a treasure hunt at my DD party last year.

I hid :

Ghost lollies - Put a tissue over a lolly, hold it in place with a bit of wool and draw a ghostly face onto the tissue, you now have your ghost.

Satsuma/Tangerine Pumpkin head - Using a black felt tip pen draw a pumpkin face on one of the small oranges with a zig zag aroung the top so it looks like a lid.

Other Halloween sweets, plastic spiders etc.

Each child was given a Trick or Treat bag and told what they needed to find (one each).

We have played variations of this game at every party my daughter has had since she was 3 years old. You just hide fewer things in easier places for younger children. The only thing I would say thought is keep a record of everything you hide so that you can find that last missing lolly.

We also made Spider Biscuits:

You need Rich Tea/Digestive Biscuits (two biscuits per spider), Marshmallows, Icing (Various Colours), mleted chocolate, Shoelace Liquorice (you need 4 pieces for each spider), Jelly Tots, Smarties.....

Put one marshmallow onto one biscuit and put in microwave for 10 seconds. The marshmallow will swell up, take the biscuit out of microwave and quickly lay the four piece of liquorice over the marshmallow to make the legs. Place the other biscuit on top and gently squeeze. This can be done before the get children arrive.

Then let the children decorate the biscuits using the icing, chocolate and sweets.

You will need a cover for your table or floor and possible something to protect the children. I normally have one friend who overseas this and the children do it when they do not want to play the games.

Another game I always like is "Sleeping Ghosts" (Sleeping Lions). I normally play this towards the end of the party to help settle the kids down before sending them back to their parents. It also gives me a little bit of a break. One time my DD actually feel a sleep.

I also read everyone a story whilst waiting for parent sto turn up. For the Halloween we read "Room on my Broom" and "The Gruffalo". Even at 5 years old the children sat and listened and joined in with "The Gruffalo".

 

[aaronandterri]

mummys buy stacks of cheap white toilet paper and kitchen roll split them into pairs and give the best mummy maker pair a prize, always goes down well here!
x
woolworths sell pumpkin pinyatas. x

we buy medals and have a parade and a winner for best costume as well.

 

[aaronandterri]

oopps posted twice, my brain is mush today. x

 

[minnie29uk]

Some great ideas.I feel alot happier now about what we will do.
What is the game "Sleeping Ghosts"? I like the sound of it!!!

Thanks,
Lynn

 

[cstokell]

"Sleeping Ghosts" is the same as "Sleeping Lions". All the children have to lie down and pretend to be asleep. They are not allowed to move, talk or giggle. If they do they are out, they then have to help you watch to see if the others are moving.

It is really a good way to help them chill before you send them home and it is so simple to play. My DD and her friends love the game and the more they play it the better they become and the longer they can lie still and quiet.

 

[MazdaUK]

Another great fun game is eating doughnuts no hands. Hang the doughnuts from a suitable pole (we used a laundry rail but you can tie them to a bamboo and get two helpers to hold it or balance it across furniture) and the first one to finish their doughnut gets a prize! (Then do apple bobbing to help them clean up! ;-) ) Ring doughnuts are easiest to tie on, jam doughnuts are good and messy!

Another good story is "On the way home", as its not actually scary in the end - my boys always loved it.

How about "cut the pudding"? You pack flour into a pudding bowl and turn it out onto a plate (like making a sandcastle). You put a smartie on the top and they have to take it in turns to cut a slice off the pudding (using a safe knife!) without dislodging the smartie. This is a good one to play when some guests have arrived but there's still a few to come, as it doesn't matter if you end up abandoning it.

 

[minnie29uk]

"Sleeping Ghosts" is the same as "Sleeping Lions". All the children have to lie down and pretend to be asleep. They are not allowed to move, talk or giggle. If they do they are out, they then have to help you watch to see if the others are moving.

It is really a good way to help them chill before you send them home and it is so simple to play. My DD and her friends love the game and the more they play it the better they become and the longer they can lie still and quiet.

Thanks Caroline,never heard of that one!

Does anybody have a link to some spooky colouring in piccys to print off please?

I might buy the Gruffalo(if I can find it...never read it,but heard of it)

Thanks again everyone,

Lynn

 

[cstokell]

.....I might buy the Gruffalo(if I can find it...never read it,but heard of it)

I am sure that you will have no problem finding "The Gruffalo".

They have it on Amazon at the moment along with all of the other Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. All of the books are brilliant my DD loves them.

 

[Karen Mouse]

I am sure that you will have no problem finding "The Gruffalo".

They have it on Amazon at the moment along with all of the other Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. All of the books are brilliant my DD loves them.

You can get it with a cd of the story too. My son loves listening to the cd - they do all the voices really well and the kids are enthralled.
He's now old enough to follow the story with the book, so it grows with him.

The gruffalos child is the sequel too. - equally good.

 

[minnie29uk]

Thanks sooooooo much everybody.It went really well today.There were 17 children and Im sure they all had a great time.

The only cheat was a Halloween Winnie Pooh DVD ,but they only watched that for 15 minutes!!!

Sleeping ghosts at the end was just soooooo perfect,the way they calmed down and parents then collected them,

Thanks ever so much,

Lynn

 

[mandymouse]

It sounds like it was a great success Lynn

 

[cstokell]

Sleeping ghosts at the end was just soooooo perfect,the way they calmed down and parents then collected them,

It works every time!!!!

Glad the party went well.

 

[higgy66]

You had 17 children WITHOUT parents!!!! OMG!

That's the scariest Halloween story i've ever heard!