im having a halloween party, catering for 5to 12 year olds, ideas please?

Question

im on a extreme low budget and mean low. How can i entertain the kids and have a scary time too. I was thinking of making a bucket of goo, wot would i put in it( cant be anything that would make the kids sick!) DONT WONT THEM ALL SICK AROUND THE HOUSE, THANK U. PLEASE ALL IDEAS WELCOME!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

To make your bucket of goo - use flour, water, a tin of spaghetti, a pack of jully, green water colour paint (don't use food colouring it stains their hands) and mix it together in a big bucket. Put mini chocolate bars into it.

For games you can do apple bobbing (a bowl of water with apples - the children have to get an apple without sing their hands), you can tie hot cross buns, tea cakes or doughnuts to string and get the kids to eat them without using their hands.

Musical bumps, statues, chairs, etc. Or for a spooky element Musical monsters - where children have to do there scariest monster action (no noise or moving once in pose) when the music stops - noise or movement means theya re out.

If you are doing food, use food colouring to make it into freaky foods, blue food colouring with beans or hot dogs is good. Red food colouring in lemon or orange squash is also quite good.

Answer 2

PENNY SWEETS IN FLOUR - Ever played that before its great fun- got to get a sweet out using ur mouth.. make sure you put something down though cus could get abit messy..

APPLE BOBBING- The ultimate Halloween game thingy.. Uv got to do that on Halloween... :P

FIND THE PUMPKIN - Buy some small pumpkins or apples, hide them in the yard (or house :S) and let the kids find them.You can also tie sweets to them.. which makes it more fun for them.. then see how many they have found each - the person with the most wins...

Use a pin the tail on the donkey idea but with a Halloween theme... i.e - Pin the stem on the pumpkin
Pin the bromstick on the witch
Pin the tail on the cat
Pin the spider on the web

*You get the idea*

Uv so got me in the Halloween spirit lol... hope this helps a little bit... and hope the party goes off with a bang :-) x x

Answer 3

You Can do such things as:
Get a pumkin (of course) and other items to create the theme.
Light candles to create an eerie atmosphere.
Put a coin in a basin of water & see can anyone put their head in the basin and take out the coin with their teeth.
Get string and put it through the apple, hang on the top frame of the door and let it drop to a height that every1 can try and take a bite out of(easier said than done).
Get a real scary book.
Tell ghost stories.
Take them on a trail to a Cemetary...that will get the imaginations going!
Best of Luck :)

Answer 4

I remember going to a similar party at that age - one small room of the house was closed off with a curtain, a tiny little night light in the corner, a box with tissue paper etc in side with streamers etc covering up the opening and a 'beware of the monster' notice in ripped up cardboard - all very spooky.

The challenge was.... to find out what was in the box - by feeling it.

With us all scaring the life out of one another no-one found out!

My friend told me the next day that her mum had got a small teddy bear and covered a toy frog in cooking oil then put them in side by side!!!!

If any of us had managed to get up the courage to do it we would have had a shock anyway.

We really had fun that night. A few soft drinks some party food and things like apple bobbing in darkened rooms and running around outside as it was quite warm. I think we all acted like we were 5years old even though we were 14 & 15!!!

Answer 5

I would scrub the bones from chicken drumsticks & put them in the goo and olives for eyeballs. Get some haribo worms & put them into lime or orange jelly for a cheap party food.
A good game our kids enjoyed last halloween party was to give each a sheet - ask them to lie down & cover themselves completey. One person has to go around, prodding each sheet & asking "Can I wake the dead?". The person under the sheet says "Yes" but in a funny voice. The person has to guess who is under the sheet.

Answer 6

corn flour water and green food colouring!
a good idea is to get them to decorate then it's an activity and u din't have to do it . The kids don't eat the goo put a pound in their and the first one to find it maybe!
apple bobbing
make toffee apples ( u can get packets at tesco's)
wrap the mummy ( u need tissue paper u ever does it the fastest
go out trick or treating
good luck and have a gr8 party!!!

Answer 7

nicely, for sturdy video clips that arent TOO frightening: indicators w/ Mel Gibson Corpse Bride & Nightmare formerly Christmas- no longer frightening yet cool The Haunted Mansion The Watcher in the Woods Goosebumps dvds- ya comprehend that previous television prepare? For activities: perchance a homicide secret sport? do a dress contest. maximum suitable dress,maximum ingenious, maximum unusual, etc. tell frightening thoughts yet make it a sport. have each and all the lighting fixtures off. sit down in a circle and enable each and each lady take a turn making up a frightening tale. on the top vote on whose is the scariest. a prize is optionally available. or somebody starts the frightening tale, stops at a cetain factor and shall we the lady next to her p.c.. it up and then so on around the circle till the tale is finished. do halloween makeup. enable the girls attempt to make one yet another look the creepiest. desire to procure some recommendations. have relaxing!

Answer 8

No need to make goo. Fill a basin with water and put it on the table with apples and grapes and make them try and lift them out by mouth. Another one is put an apple on a string and hang from the ceiling and see who can eat it.

Answer 9

Mummy Wrap
Divide guests into pairs Give each pair a roll of toilet paper. One person wraps the other with the paper, first one to empty their roll wins. Older kids and adults get two rolls, once the first person is wrapped they wrap their partner. Prizes to the first team who empty both rolls

Answer 10

ask them all to bring a torch,and sit them all down in a circle , put all the lights out and light up their torches just under their chins and ask them to tell a scary story or joke and the best one will get a small prize at the end of it . it can be fun.pre warn them to have a story to tell or a joke so they are prepared.