Reverse Trick or Treat- Submitted by Cheryl

Give each of the players a bag with 10 pieces of wrapped candy in it. have the players write their names on their bags so that the bags don't get mixed up. Decide on a time limit. If you are giving a party, you could keep the game going the entire time, even while you are doing other things. The object of the game is to catch people saying one of the following words:

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Get Off My Hat-Submitted by Cheryl

Materials:
Big brown paper bag, Pencil, Scissors, Record player or radio

1) Cut the bag so that you can open it out flat. 2) Draw a big witch's hat and cut it out. 3) At the party, put the hat on the floor. 4) The players get into a straight line and shut their eyes. 5) A leader is at the front to see that no one peeks. Whoever peeks is out of the game. 6) When the music starts, the players walk back and forth across the hat. 7) Any player on the hat when the music stops is out of the game. 8) The last player left wins.

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Find The Pumpkin-Submitted by Cheryl

Materials:
10 pieces of white paper, 5 pieces of yellow paper, 5 pieces of orange paper, a crayon, scissors

1) Draw ten white pumpkins, five yellow pumpkins and five orange pumpkins. 2) Cut out all the pumpkins. 3)Draw a funny face on each pumpkin. 4) Write the number 1 on the backs of the white pumpkins. 5) Write the number 5 on the backs of the yellow pumpkins. 6) Write the number 10 on the backs of the orange pumpkins. 7) Hide the pumpkins. 8) When your friends come, tell them to find as many pumpkins as they can before you say "Stop!" 9) Have your friends add up the numbers on the pumpkins they found. 10) The person with the most points wins.

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Catch the Ghost- Submitted by Cheryl

Inflate a white balloon for ghost. Do not tie end. Player releases balloon and tries to catch the ghost before it touches the ground.

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Pumpkin Push- Submitted by Cheryl

Place inflated, round, orange balloon at starting line. At signal, player kicks balloon to finish line.

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The Corny Game-Submitted by Cheryl

Materials:
one small glass, 20 kernels of corn, a chair

1) Put the glass on the floor. 2) Put the chair so that the back of the chair is facing the glass. 3) Each player takes turns kneeling on the chair and trying to drop the kernels into the glass. 4) The player who gets the most kernels in the glass wins.

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Submitted by Barb

Instead of Duck Duck Goose.... try Ghost Ghost Witch! They LOVE this!!!!!

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Outline a ghost on a large piece of oaktag & tape it to a wall. Make eyes out of black construction paper and put two-sided tape on the back. Blindfold the children and "Pin the eyes on the ghost!"

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Skeleton Skeleton where's your bone? - Submitted by Christi

This is a simple variation of the old favorite, Doggy doggy where's your bone.

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Halloween Ways to play "Pin the Tale on the Donkey" - Submitted by Christi

Pin/Tape the tail on the Black Cat

Pin/Tape the Nose on the Jack-o-Lantern

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Ghost Ghost Boo!- Submitted by Christi

This is a fun variation of Duck Duck Goose

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Have Sack Races- Submitted by Christi

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Ghost bowling- Submitted by Christi

Add white tissue paper to the bowling pins and draw on faces - they knock down the ghosts!

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Halloween tic-tac-toe game- Submitted by Christi

Use 2 Halloween symbols and a grid taped to the table using masking tape.

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Halloween Sensory Tub- Submitted by Julia

Fill a sensory table or tub with sand or corn feed. Mix metallic pumpkin confetti, plastic spiders, or other small items into the tub. Have the children search through to find the treasures.

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Halloween Treasure Hunt- Submitted by Sherry

We have a treasure hunt for Halloween. I make ghosts out of fun foam and put them down our hallway. Then I make clues for the kids to follow the ghosts and figure out the clue and the prize. We have four rooms we walk to and I hide little prizes. I like this idea because it's better then giving a lot of candy.

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Guess How Many- Submitted by Sherry

Fill a jar with candy corn and have guests guess how many are in the jar. (Don't forget to count as you put them in the jar!) Place the jar near the door and hand each guest a 3x5 card to put their name, their guess and their favorite Halloween candy. Halfway through the party read them all off and announce the winner.

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Halloween Memory Game- Submitted by Sherry

Place a few themed items such as a candy corn, apple, mini pumpkin etc. on a tray. Show the tray to the guests for a few seconds, then have them write down (or call out) as many items as they remember.

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How Many Words- Submitted by Sherry

Hand each person a sheet of paper printed out with a Halloween word or phrase such as Haunted House, Trick or Treat, or Scarecrow. Do these on the computer so you can include some small Halloween Graphics. Ask each person to make as many words as they can out of the letters in the phrase or word you've given them! .

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Mummy May I- Submitted by Sherry

One child, or an adult, is "mummy". The other children stand in a straight line, with the mummy standing in front of them with enough distance for them to move forward towards him or her. (It's really neat if you can rip up an old pillow case or sheet and stain them with leftover coffee or tea to wrap around the "mummy's" head.)

The children move toward mummy by asking permission to take steps. For example, a child could ask, "Mummy May I take ten steps forward?" The mummy can be creative as to the type of steps they ask to take, such as giant monster steps, pixie steps, as well as ogre, howling dog etc.

Mummy answers, "Yes, you may" or "No, you may not," and the child must follow her instructions. If the child moves when he or she has not been given permission, they must go back to the starting line. The first child to touch mummy becomes mummy in the next game.

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Who's Got the Pumpkin- Submitted by Sherry

Place everyone is a circle. Start a song (Halloween themed songs like Monster Mash are neat to use!) and toss a mini pumpkin to one person, they throw it to the next, and so on until the music stops. The person who is caught holding the pumpkin has to leave the circle. The last one left is the winner and keeps the pumpkin!

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Halloween Hunt- Submitted by Sherry

Using the same idea as an Easter Egg Hunt hide little bags of candy corn, or other fun candy around the back yard. Set the kids loose and let them find the candy. Be sure to keep back several extra in case someone does poorly. You can give them a few more!

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Ghost Callers/Ghost Hunt- Submitted by Patrisha

You will need two ghosts; draw them or use two ghost figures.

Cut white construction paper into 4"x5" pieces. Roll and tape to form tubes. These are the ghost callers. Make one for each child.

Go on a ghost hunt. Show everyone the two ghosts. Have children close their eyes. Teacher hides the ghosts. Children open eyes and count 1-2-3 GHOST! On the count of "ghost" the hunt begins. The children who find the two ghosts sit by the teacher. Give them a ghost caller and let them make ghost noises for the next ghost hunt. The noise helps call the ghosts from their hiding places. Continue until all children are making ghost noises.

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Pin The Smile On The Pumpkin- Submitted by Patrisha

Make a huge pumpkin out of posterboard. Decorate the pumpkin with eyes minus a smile. Make a smile for each child out of black construction paper. Then play the game pin the smile on the pumpkin.

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Old Witch and Her Black Cat Game- Submitted by Patrisha

Children sit on the floor in a half circle. One child, the witch, stands a short distance away with her back to the cats. One of the children is pointed to, by the teacher and the child "meows." The witch turns around and tries to quess which child is the black cat. Continue until everyone has a turn.

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Black Cat Hunt- Submitted by Patrisha

Hide many paper black cats around the classroom so that children do not have to move objects to find them. Have children each hold hands with a partner. Each pair of children must find as many black cats as they can without letting go of their partner's hand. After the hunt, everybody meows, and receives cat food from the teacher. (Candy corn.)

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Pumpkin, Pumpkin- Submitted by Patrisha

Place paper pumpkins, all different colors, and without stems, on floor. Give each child a stem that matches one of the pumpkins. Then form a circle, and walk around the pumpkins as you chant: Pumpkin, pumpkin without a stem, laying in the pumpkin patch. Here comes (name a child) with a stem of(child names color) to match. (Child then matches stem to correct pumpkin. Continue.)

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Spider Watch- Submitted by Georgie

Place some real spiders in a clear container for the children to watch. Be sure to return them to their natural habitat.

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Spook-E-Do- Submitted by Georgie

Tell the children that each one of them will have a chance to show the others in the group a trick. Call on a child and lead the group to chant:
Hello, (Child's Name),
Spook-E-Doo
What is the trick you are going to do?
Will you hop, or bend, or spin around?
Stretch, or wiggle, or touch the ground?
Continue until all the children have had a chance to show their trick.

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Pin The Stem On The Pumpkin- Submitted by Georgie

Have the children paint a large cardboard pumpkin shape. When the pumpkin is dry, secure it to the wall or your bulletin board. Give each child a construction paper stem with a piece of tape looped at the top. Let each child cover or close their eyes and let them try to pin the stem on the pumpkin.

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Hunt for the Black Cats- Submitted by Georgie

Paper, a drawing of ten cats on one sheet of paper with a number (0 through 9) on each cat (see below), Pencils

Make nine or ten copies of the page of cats (enlarge if necessary). Cut the cats apart in rectangular pieces of paper. When the students are out of the room, hide these cats throughout the classroom. Distribute one piece of paper and a pencil to each student. Show students a sample of the paper cats that are hidden around the room and tell them that today's math lesson is a cat hunt.

At a signal, have the children search the classroom for cats. Allow 5-10 minutes for this. Sound the signal and ask students to return to their desks. Have the students write down the numbers they found in a column on a piece of paper. Instruct each student to add up all the numbers on the cats they found. Let the child with the highest number come up to the chalkboard and write the numbers of each child's total cats in a long column on the board. Discuss how to reach a grand total. Have children attempt to find the sum of everyone's cats. Calculate the total as a group and ask students to check their work against the correct answer.

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Pass the Witches Broomstick- Submitted by Georgie

Our children enjoyed playing the game, "Pass the Witches Broomstick." This is played like musical chairs by passing a small brookstick around children seated in a circle. The child holding the broomstick when the music stops is out of the game. But first they have to ride the broomstick around the circle wearing a witches hat.

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Costume Parade- Submitted by Georgie

Our school has a school-wide costume parade on Halloween. It is done twice, once for the younger children, and once for the older children. They win prizes and enjoy having the audience of other grades watching them. We like to practice marching around in a circle ahead of this special event.

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Pumpkin Buckets- Submitted by Georgie
This game is based on Bozo buckets, only use pumpkins that children use to collect candy on Halloween night. Use 5 or 6 buckets and place them in a line (front to back) and give children bean bags to try to toss into each pumpkin beginning with the closest pumpkin.

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Halloween Bone Toss- Submitted by Georgie

One large mason jar or bucket, several bleached chicken bones, or plastic if desired

Have the children stand about 3 to 6 feet away (depending on age) from the jar/bucket. They then have to try to toss the bones into the bucket/jar. Great for hand-eye co-ordination and judgment of distance.

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Eyeball Mini Putt- Submitted by Georgie

a dozen or so of those novelty eyeballs *can be found at most novelty stores, a few plastic golf clubs, shoe boxes or milk containers

Decorate the boxes or containers in a festive deco and cut out a large enough entrance/exit to allow the balls to pass through. Then just set up a miniature golf course inside or outside. *sand boxes work great to create a challenging course.

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Pin the Nose on Jack- Submitted by Georgie

Purchase a large orange leaf bag that resembles a jack-o-lantern. Make a nose the same size as on the bag from tag board or paper. Place sticky tack or tape on back, blindfold students, and let them try to pin the nose on Jack!

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Donut Game- Submitted by Georgie

We play a game with chocolate donuts and we string them on a string and we spread them apart maybe six at a time and then we have the kids eat the donuts off the string with their hands behind their backs!! Use only chocolate, don't use the white powder sugar they are hard to swallow fast!!

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Pinata Fun- Submitted by Georgie

Have made a really cheap Halloween piņata by taking one of those big leaf pumpkin trash bags and filling it with candy and cheap toys from Oriental Trade Co. and then I hang it up and have everyone take a whack at it!!! (Stuff it with newspaper to make it look really fat!!)

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Pass the Orange- Submitted by Georgie

You pass one orange (by using only the neck) no hands. The one that doesn't drop the orange is the winner.

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Ring Around the Ghost- Submitted by Georgie

Simple game that is played like "Ring around the Rosie" except you use a chair covered up with a white sheet. I let the children each take a turn being the ghost in the middle. They loved it!!

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Fall Harvest Activity- Submitted by Georgie

We buy enough pumpkins for each child in the school, plus extra) and place them in a large circle on the lawn. In small groups the children run around the entire circle then walk back around and choose a pumpkin of their own. We write their names on them and put them in a garden cart. Together the group pushes the cart back to their classroom. The pumpkins are then used for counting and measuring activities. We also have other outdoor centers going on at the same time. We hide small treat bags in several bales of hay and the children take turns finding their prize.

A Fall Obstacle Course Climb over a bale of hay, jump over small pumpkins, throw a hula hoop over a large pumpkin.

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Mummy Wrap- Submitted by Georgie

Have your children form two groups. Each group picks one person to be the mummy. The rest of the children try to wrap the mummy using toilet paper.

I took 11 sheets of large green construction paper and labeled them 0 - 10. I then cut out 55 pumpkins. My students just love putting the correct amount of pumpkins into each pumpkin "patch.

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Halloween Bingo- Submitted by Georgie

I make bingo cards using recognizable Halloween pictures such as bats, jack-o-lanterns, witches, etc.. I divide each card into 9 equal squares and cut and paste copies of pictures into the squares and laminate. I make sure that each card has 9 different figures, but not all cards will have the exact same figures (you'll probably need at least 12 different figures). One of each of these pictures is put onto a "draw card" and one card at a time is drawn and called, at which time the children playing cover the matching picture. You can either play to get 3 in a row or black out. We use candy corn as bingo markers then have a sweet snack when the game is over.

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Pumpkin Toss Game- Submitted by Georgie

Make a Jack-O-Lantern on one side of a heavy cardboard box. Cut out the eyes, nose & mouth big enough that a bean bag can go through it. You can make it lean back by cutting out the opposite side of the box and along the bottom on the two adjacent sides. You may need to use the back part to build braces to support it where you want it. Make bean bags and let the kids throw it through.

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Halloween Sort- Submitted by Georgie

During Halloween we learn how to sort. One of the things we sort is wrapped candy. I ask each child to bring in a bag of candy and they may sort it according to type of candy, color of wrappers, size, etc.. any way they can think of. At the end of class we divided the candy equally among the children. This is a great activity for them around Halloween time. I also tell them that after they come home from Trick-or-Treat they should sort their candy to show their parents what they have learned.

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Pumpkin Hide N Seek- Submitted by Georgie

Buy pumpkins of all sizes but not to big the kids can't pick them up.(they like little ones) Hide them in the yard and let the kids find them. You can also tape candy to them. It is fun to if you put streamers around the trees and fence.

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Pin The Tail On The Cat- Submitted by Georgie

Cut out a cat shape from black felt. Use fabric paint to add the eyes, nose and whiskers. Cut out several tails from black felt and sew or glue the hook side of velcro onto the end that attaches to the cat. The hook velcro will stick to the felt anywhere the children put it. Then play they game just like pin the tail on the donkey.

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