My sister is having a halloween party for her daughter. She will have 13-16 year olds. She's having music and snacks. She wants to keep them coming back for more. I need low cost ways of keeping them busy. I've already mentioned a costume contest, hanging apples from a tree and eating with no hands.....Need more please. A haunted house will cost too much money.
2007-10-10 05:23:05 · 3 answers · asked by cotoncandy 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
Okay, kids games will just not work for 13-16 year olds. She needs an ice breaker activity that will interest the kids without being babyish.
Pull out the video camera and set up a picture spot for each kid or group of kids to demonstrate their costumes. Put up a good background, set up some lights, and make a little stage set for the kids to act out their persona in their costumes.
Turn off the lights and turn on some black lights or ultra-violet lights to see whose costume glows in the dark.
Have a dance party, walk around with the video camera, and have each guest do a dance all in character with their costume.
Let them experiment with dry ice in different substances (they will probably play with it anyway) like Jell-O, carbonated sodas, and whipped cream.
The girls and boys might be shy around one another, so play "Let's Make a Date" in the style of the game on the tv show "Whose Line is it Anyway?", have the kids pretend they are on the dating game and answer questions as their costume characters.
After that, the party will flow naturally.
"Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin". Humph. How five year old is that?
2007-10-10 05:41:54 · answer #1 · answered by enn 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
How about pin the nose on the pumpkin!. Get a yard of orange cloth and draw a pumpkin on it with a permanent marker. Leave the nose blank and get some of that black felt that is sticky on the back. Cut several triangles out and use those to stick the nose on.
Another game that's cheap would be pass the lifesavers only using toothpicks. Divide into teams. Give everyone a tooth pick. Make the teams stand in a line. Tell them to put the tooth picks in their mouth, no hands allowed! Put a life saver on the first persons tooth pick and the first team to get their lifesaver to the last person wins!
EDIT: We did this with kids in this age range and they had a blast! They loved blind folding each other and spinning each other around.
Another thing we did was put a piece of bubble gum on a string, dangle the string from their mouth, using no hands they had to get the bubble gum to their mouth. First one to blow a bubble wins:)
2007-10-10 05:29:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Get some Gourds (not pumpkins--you know those weird green and yellow funny shaped bumpy ones..and have them decorate them with markers, stickers, fake eyelashes, string, glitter whatever you can think of and have a contest. Or you can have a "spider crawl"--Put a bunch a plastic spiders, set up a "maze" on the floor and see who can blow theirs across the line int he fastest time using a plastic straw. Get green jello and make some very watery jello and have a jello balloon toss....see who gets slimed.
2007-10-10 05:47:56 · answer #3 · answered by nina1117 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋