Fall Party Game Ideas
Memory Game
The Ghost and the Witch
Heads up 7-up
Students will get to view a tray of fall items, the tray will
be taken, they will write down what they remember
Similar to Doggie, Doggie where’s your bone, but the item
hidden is a little Ghost
7 players come to front of the room, others lay heads
down and thumbs up, 7 players quietly tap one thumb of
one person tapped kids then try and guess who tapped
them.
Mummy wrap (Supplies: white crepe
http://familyfun.go.com/playtime/mummy-wrap-game-
paper-or TP- and spooky music).
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Mr. Bones Relay Race
Split the kids into 2 teams and have them line up. There
will be a pile of bones (made out of paper using a template)
and they will take turns grabbing a random bone and have
to place the bone in the correct place (on poster board
with tape that I will supply). The first team to correctly
assemble the skeleton wins!
Spooky Grand Prize Game
Just like Bozo's game! Use eyeball plastic balls and use the
plastic pumpkins as buckets. Will line up the pumpkins and
assign each a point value (more points the farther away it
is). There will be two teams. Each kiddo will have a turn
throwing the eyeballs into the line of pumpkins buckets.
The team with the most points at the end wins.
Witch's Stew Game
I will cut several Halloween shapes out of construction
paper and place them in two piles by two plastic witch's
cauldron. The kids will be split into two teams and each
child will get a straw. Taking turns, each child will try to
pick up a shape using their straw as a vacuum and then
placing it in their team’s cauldron. The first team to
"make" their stew (get all their shapes in the cauldroncan't use hands!) wins!
Ghost Bowling
The kids will try to knock over all 6 ghost pins by rolling
the eyeballs bouncy ball.
Eyeballs Toss
The kids will try to toss as many eyeballs bouncy balls into
the bean bag toss game as they can.
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Witch's Hat Ring Toss
The kids will try to toss as many rings onto the witch's hat
as they can.
Pumpkin Ring Toss
The kids will throw a ring until they get a ring around a
mini pumpkin, and then they take that mini pumpkin and
decorate it with craft stickers (like put a funny face on it,
etc.) The kids will take this pumpkin home with them! (A
parent will have a Sharpie to write the child's name on the
bottom and then set the pumpkin at their spot at their
table.)
Halloween bingo
Bingo cards- numbers with letters are called out and the
kids cross out the number if they have it on their card
Trick or treat memory game
Halloween themed items on table then kids recall/write
down what they saw after items covered up- items are
rubbery-stretchy toy or window clings of witch hat, black
bat, cat, spider and rat
Eyeball Relay
Supplies needed: 2 spoons, ping pong balls painted like
eyeballs. Students will be divided into 2 teams of 11. They
will carry the “eye” on the spoon to the end of the course
and come back, passing it on to the next in line. If they
drop the eyeball, they have to return to the starting point.
Relay continues until all children have played on the team.
First team done wins!
“Pin the Nose” on the Pumpkin
Attach pumpkin to wall. Give one nose to each player. Use
mask to blindfold player. Turn him/her around once or
twice. Tape nose to the first place he touches. After
each player has had a turn, the one who tapes the nose to
nearest the “x” is the winner.
Eye ball toss
Students will decorate ping pong balls to look like eye balls
and try to bounce them into buckets.
Spider crawl race
Students will form two teams and each will take turns
racing like a spider to one end and back.
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Spider web game
The kids are in a circle with the teacher in the middle as
the "spider." The kids toss orange and black yarn back
and forth and this creates a spider web!
Build a Skeleton Relay
Pin the Bone on the Skeleton
Find the Spider
Sling-shot Spiders
Skeleton part assembly relay
Ghost Waiter
Each child will attach one part of the foam skeleton with
the fastener and the first team to put their skeleton
together wins.
Each child will be blindfolded and spun and will then try to
pin the bone on the skeleton on the wall.
Each child will try to retrieve their spider in the worms
(noodles) in the black pot.
Each child will take the stretchy spider and sling-shot it to
knock down as many ghosts as he or she can.
We will have the kids in new teams, then they will each
race to assemble a paper skeleton.
Supplies needed:
Balloon for each team
Paper plate for each team Divide children into teams. Set
up a course for them to race on. The child has to balance a
balloon on a paper plate while walking it down the course
and back to their team.
Put a face on the pumpkin
Supplies needed:
Pumpkin cut out of poster board
Double-stick tape
Straws (purchase more than one per child)
Create the pumpkin ahead of time. Make one for each
team. Use double-stick tape on the areas where you want
the face to be placed. Cut out the pieces for each of the
pumpkins. Create 2 eyes, nose, 4 teeth, stem, and 2 leaves
for each pumpkin. These will be the pieces that the
children will place on the pumpkin.
Child picks up a pumpkin piece with a straw (by inhaling)
and places it on the paper pumpkin that is on the wall. Tape
is already on the paper pumpkin where the piece should be
set. Make a relay to see which team can create their
pumpkin face first.
Popcorn Relay
Supplies:
Plastic or paper cuts w/ thick rubber band attached to the
bottom; popcorn.
2 Shallow boxes or bowls
ruler
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Popcorn Relay, cont.
Musical Chairs
Pass the Pumpkin
Decorate Sugar Cookies
Pumpkin Bowling
Fancy footwork is the ticket to success in this event.
First person in each team's line slips the popcorn-filled
cups over their shoes. At “GO”, they must sprint to the
appropriate box and empty their cups into it, trying to lose
as little popcorn as possible along the way. Racers run back
to tag the next teammate in line and that person must
then run to the team box with newly-filled shoe cups. The
popcorn in each box is then measured with a ruler. The
team with the most is declared the winner.
Musical Chairs-Play musical chairs using spooky music, like
The Monster Mash.
Holding a small pumpkin under their chin, students will try
to pass the gourd onto the next person in line without
using their hands.
Each student will use frosting (in Ziploc bag can squeeze
onto cookies) and sprinkles to decorate one sugar cookie.
Give each bowler two turns to roll the pumpkin toward the
pins and knock them down, just like in a real game of
bowling.
BINGO (BOO)
1 Take a bingo card from the host and have a seat.
2 Cover the "Free" space in the center of your card with a
marker.
3 Listen as the host calls out a letter and number such as
"B-3."
4 Find the "B" column.
5 Look to see if you have a "3" in the column under the "B."
6 Place a marker over the "B-3" if you have it.
7 Listen as the host continues to call out letters and
numbers.
8 Place markers over the letter and number combinations
that appear on your card.
9 Yell out "BOO!" as soon as you cover the numbers in a
winning pattern - usually a straight line going horizontally,
vertically or diagonally.
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Pin the body parts on the monster.
Pin the Monster" (pin-the-tail on the donkey except do
"frankenstein" body parts. Will have a poster size board
cut out of a monster shape and then the kids will have a
body part (shoe, arm, head etc..) to pin on - turns out
really funny. With this the kids will have to be split into
two groups
kids sit in a circle and 3-4 kids are given some yarn - those
Make a spider web out of yarn with
the students being the caught bugs.
first wrap some yarn around their waist and then toss it
across the circle and whoever catches it then wraps a
piece around their waists and so on until all the kids have
had a piece of yarn wrapped around them
Candy Wrapper Relay Race
Have 2 teams. One person from each team puts on mittens
and then has to unwrap a piece of candy. Then the next
person does it, etc.
Guess Who?
Each person will have a character name on their back but
he/she does not know who it is. They have to ask their
classmates yes/no questions to figure out which character
he/she is.
Candy Corn Estimation Jar
Scarecrow Body Parts
Children estimate candy corn in jar
Classic identification game that is organized around Sam
the Scarecrow, a fictional character. The back story can
be as simple or elaborate as the storyteller wishes, but
the bottom line is that Sam's body parts have been
recovered, and it is up to the players to determine what
the items really are. Different food items are placed in
containers, and each player is asked to make their guesses.
Each student takes a turn dipping a spoon into the bowl of
Pumpkin Seed Relay
pumpkin seeds, scooping as many seeds as they can, and
then carrying the spoon in their mouth to the pumpkin
(plastic) at the other end of the room. If any seeds fall
off the spoon, the student continues on but then must
return to scoop them up without using hands. When he/she
has deposited all the seeds into the pumpkin, the student
returns and tags the next student in line to go.
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Word Games
Write a Halloween-themed word or phrase on the board
and give the students an allotted amount of time in which
to create as many new words as possible using the letters
of the phrase.
how many words can you find from the phrase Happy
Word Mining Game
Halloween. The sheets are printed and ready to hand out.
Ghostwords with Friends
Very small ghost-shaped erasers have one letter written
on each side. The erasers are placed in 4 containers and
the students are divided into 4 teams. The students must
run across the room, one member of each team at a time,
and grab one eraser from their team’s container, then run
back to the rest of the team. The object is to form as
many different words as possible with the letters. Each
letter may be used only one time in one word. Points are
awarded by the length of the word: 1 point for a 2-letter
word, 2 points for a 3-letter word, etc., and by additional
opportunities granted for a round, such as an extra point
for any word containing a double letter, or 3 extra points
for making 2 words that rhyme.
Minute to Grin It
Students will be put into teams. Each member of the team
will perform one “Minute to Win It”-style challenge. One
of the challenges will be to pull all tissues out of a pack
using only one hand.
Hangman
Traditional rules will be used, but a skeleton will be used as
the hangman’s victim.
Ghost-centration
Memory game using a large board that the whole class can
play. As they make matches, the kids get a couple pieces
of candy corn (Amy Sharbaugh will provide candy corn).
Guess who the ghost is
Divide class into boys and girls. One group goes into
hallway, chooses who the ghost will be (that person puts a
sheet over their head and gets guided back to the room),
then the other team has to decide who it is with everyone
lined up.
Weigh the pumpkin
I will bring a pumpkin and a scale and everyone writes their
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guess down on paper of how much they think the pumpkin
weighs. The pumpkin gets weighed at the end.
Boo is It!
Boo is It!--The kids will all get a blown up, white ghost
balloon with a piece of paper inside. The paper will have
Halloween objects on it - witches, ghosts, pumpkins, etc.
The kids will have to pop the balloon and find the others
that have the matching items in order to form a group.
They will go in their groups to four different stations for
about 5-7 minutes each.