Halloween Party Ideas, Crafts, Games and Recipes

• Candy Corn Relay Line up two bowls of candy corn and two corresponding teams. Place two plastic pumpkins some paces away (depending on how much room you have; the farther the better). Give each racer a cup, and on a signal have them scoop out some candy corn, race to a plastic pumpkin, and pour the corn in. They must race back and hand off the cup for the next child. First pumpkin filled wins.
• Leaf Pickup Cut all sorts of leaf shapes out of lightweight paper. Equip each child with a drinking straw and scatter the leaves on the floor. On GO, each child must "suck up" a leaf and place it in a basket. The child with most leaves at the end of two minutes wins. •Estimation Guess the number of candy corns in a jar.
• Bingo Play the game with candy corn as markers.
• Wrap my Mummy Have a mom volunteer to be wrapped by the kids in rolls of toilet paper. Why the kids think this is so funny I don't know, but it never fails.
• Hot Potato Game with a twist Bring in different clothing items and play the hot potato game, where you play the music, when it stops, they have to put on the piece of clothing. Make sure the clothing is age appropriate. We had a room mom that once did this game and she brought in a giant bra and girdle, my son ended up wearing it. The kids thought it was hilarious, but some of the parents and the teacher were mortified.
• Blind Pumpkin Game Have the kids with a partner, then have them each draw on the chalk or white board a picture of a pumpkin. Easy? Not when your partner is covering your eyes! Then vote on which was best!! You can also do this where they write their names, either blindfolded or backwards.