Games and Activities
Candy Corn Guessing Game. Fill a large jar with candy corn and have everyone take a guess at how many there are inside the jar when they first enter the party.
Make little ghosts using Tootsie Roll® Pops®, small squares of old white sheets, some colorful string, and a black marker for the eyes.
Pumpkin Carving
- Provide butcher paper and black markers and have the kids draw the faces that they want on their pumpkins.
- Clean out the pumpkins, scooping out all of those yummy pumpkin seeds. Have salt and a few spices on hand to spice them up. As everyone carves, toast the seeds for a special treat.
- Finally, the kids can supervise the adults carving the pumpkins to their specifications! Give out prizes for the scariest, funniest, and silliest pumpkins.
Candy Corn Catch
Divide guests into groups of 3 teams, 4-5 per team. Tie a plastic pumpkin around one team member’s waist (use a guest). Give the remaining team members a basket of candy corn. Play Halloween music 
. When the music begins, yell “Go!” Each team tries to toss the most candy corn into their pumpkin from a certain distance. Stop and start the music to give team members a chance to change turns. When the song is over, count the candy corns and the team with the most wins!
Play Pin the Wart on the Witch.
String donuts on a clothesline, blindfold the kids and/or tie their hands behind their backs, and enjoy eating the donuts off the line.
The Hanging Tree. You will need:
- 13 Apples (12 red and one green) plus a few extras
- String
- Blindfold
- Tree branch
Tie each of the apples to a tree so they can swing freely. To keep observant kids from memorizing where the green apple is just loosely tie the strings together.
To Play:
Take a child and tell him to close his eyes and make a wish. As he does, blindfold him. Once blindfolded, spin him around and say this rhyme with the group:
13 Apples hanging from a tree
12 dark red and one bright green
Blindfolded, spun around, and then set free
Is that green one meant for me?
Release the apples and point the child in the right direction. They will stumble about and pick an apple. If they get the green one their wish will come true! Before the next child goes, replace the apple and move the green one. If you want you can place a tag with a number on each apple, then each number will correspond to small gift or prize.
Play Pass the Pumpkin. Have the kids sit in a circle and pass small pumpkins and gourds to music. When the music stops, whoever isn’t holding a pumpkin is out!
Mummy Fun. Break up the kids into two teams, provide several rolls of toilet paper to both teams, and choose one person to mummify. The team to wrap the mummy in toilet paper the fastest wins!
Build a Scarecrow. Divide the kids into two teams and provide old clothes, pillowcases, newspapers, and markers. Give them 20 minutes to build their scarecrow.
If this Halloween birthday party is for a tween, have a video camera on hand and give the kids the chance to make their own Blair Witch Halloween film. Give them 5 minutes to shoot the film on a Halloween topic.
Have a Halloween Candy Hunt.
Sit in a circle in the dark with only flashlights. Begin the tale of a scary story and go around the circle with each kid adding the next portion of the story until the end of the circle has been reached.
