Now that the kids are back in school and Fall is fast approaching, its time to start planning your Halloween Party, and what you’ll wear to your Halloween Costume Party!

Find out how to plan your child’s classroom party, your adult Halloween party or even one attended at home by all ages with our free Halloween Party Ideas!

Halloween Party Games

EYEBALL RELAY – Before the party you will need to purchase at least 12 Ping-Pong balls. Using permanent markers, draw irises, pupils, and bloodshot veins on the balls. Divide your group into two teams. Players race around a specific course with a heaping pile of “eyeballs” (at least six), before handing them off to a teammate. Dropped balls must be retrieved before the handoff. The first team to complete the course wins. (Ages 5 and up—you may want to give players over the age of 12 more eyeballs to carry)

BOBBING FOR APPLES – This simple game, involving a water-filled tub brimming with floating apples, is a timeless, but forgotten favorite. Most of us enjoyed this game as children at school and church functions, and it will still delight children today, as does any game involving water. (Ages 4-12)

PIN THE WART ON THE WITCH – Borrowing from the concept of the tried and true game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey, we suggest a fun game of Pin the Wart on the Witch. Draw a witch’s face on a piece of poster board, or use our Witch Corner Creep. Use little balls of green Play-Doh ™ or paper cutouts as the warts. Blindfold each participant as his/her turn arrives, spin, point in the right direction, and watch your wicked witch become even more wartful! (All ages)

REVERSE TRICK OR TREAT GAME – Give each player a bag or goodie box with 10 pieces of candy in it. Have bags labeled with players’ names, so they don’t get mixed up. Let players know at the start of the game exactly when the game will be ending—this game can be played throughout an entire party if you so choose. The object of the game is to catch fellow players saying one of the following words:

Halloween, Candy, Witch, Party, Ghost, Pumpkin

To help players, post the words prominently on a board where they can be seen often. If someone is caught saying one of the words on the list, that person has to give up a piece of candy from their stash. The player with the biggest haul of candy at the end of the game is the winner! (Ages 7 – 12)

Halloween Classroom Crafts

MASK MANIA – To prevent sugar overload, take some time during your party to decorate simple masks with pipe cleaners, scraps of felt, fake hair, plastic bugs, fake fingers, plastic spiders, eyeballs, rhinestones or stickers.

COOKIE MONSTERPIECE – This activity doubles as a snack, as children decorate their own sugar cookies. Have a station set up with plenty of sugar cookies cut out in Halloween shapes, on individual plates, along with different colors of frosting, sprinkles, candy corn, and other goodies. This has worked equally well with 2 year-old preschoolers and with 5th graders.

PAINTED PUMPKINS – Purchase one mini pumpkin or gourd for each child, and using tempera paints or paint pens, and let each child personalize a pumpkin.

FACE PAINTING – Some schools do not allow students to wear costumes. Instead, host a hat parade, and treat the kids to some fun, colorful face paint!

Halloween Party Decorating Ideas

To get your party off to a thrilling start, have your guests enter your house through your garage where you have set up a haunted tunnel using Black Corrugated Paper. With duck tape and a staple gun, form a “tunnel” shape with the paper that goes throughout your garage and dead ends into your back door. For fun, hang some Black Streamers from the tops of the tunnel in a couple spots to give your guests the creeps. Place Plastic Spiders on the floor for the party-goers to crawl through.

Hang a few glow in the dark items in the tunnel such as our Glow Eyes to add to the excitement.

Once your guests are in your back door, greet them with the very scary Crypt Keeper Mural, this will scare the pants off of even the most enthusiastic Halloween partier!

Cobwebs are one of most inexpensive, high impact decorating items you can use to create an authentic atmosphere for your scariest of parties. Hang them throughout your house – fasten them to the corners of shelving, across the facing of cabinets, and around lamps or almost any other object. You can never have too many of these around!

Cover all of your furniture with old white sheets to replicate abandoned furniture in a haunted house. Use the All Over Spider for adorning your tables, or corners of rooms. 

Halloween Party Food Ideas

Pumpkin Smoothies
You will need:
½ C. of canned pumpkin
3/4 C. milk
½ t. cinnamon
1/8 t. nutmeg
2 t. brown sugar
4 ice cubes
Combine the above ingredients in a blender and puree until smooth. Pour the smoothies into a small glass and garnish with whipped topping and orange and black sprinkles. This recipe serves 2 to 3.

Frozen Jack-O-Lanterns
You will need:
12 Navel Oranges
12 Cinnamon Sticks
½ gallon dark Chocolate Ice Cream
Cut off tops of oranges. Gently hollow out pulp (reserve for another use), leaving a thick shell; hollow out pulp off tops also. Cut Jack-O-Lantern faces into each orange. Pack chocolate ice cream into shells, avoid letting ice cream come out of holes. Cut a hole into top of orange top. Set tops back on, over ice cream, and inset cinnamon stick stem through the hole. Place in freezer for at least 3 hours, or until serving time.

Witch’s Brew
7-up
favorite sherbet
green Kool-Aid
green Jell-O
Place the 7up and sherbet in a large punch bowl. Fill a latex glove with green Kool-Aid and green Jell-o and put in freezer until frozen. Carefully take off the glove and place hand in the punch right before serving.

Severed Fingers
You will need:
1 pkg. of refrigerated Bread Sticks
1 Egg White
Sesame Seeds
Course Salt
Finely grated Parmesan Cheese
Slivered almonds
Preheat the oven to 350. Line a cookie sheet with foil. Unroll the bread sticks and separate. In a bowl, whisk the egg white and apply a light coat to the top of each bread stick. Sprinkle sesame seeds, salt, and parmesan cheese onto the “finger”. Add a blanched almond at one end to be the “fingernail”. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.

All Hallow’s Eve Dip
You will need:
1 pkg. Frozen chopped spinach
¼ C. chopped green onions
1 C. sour cream
1 C. mayonnaise
1 pkg. dry ranch dressing mix
1 large round loaf of bread
In a bowl, mix together the sour cream, mayo, and ranch dressing mix. Cover and chill overnight. Thaw the spinach. When thawed, squeeze the excess water from the spinach and add to the sour cream mixture. Add the chopped green onions and refrigerate. With a sharp knife, cut the top off of the loaf of bread. Remove the bread from inside of the loaf, leaving a 1-inch thick shell. Tear the removed bread into bite-size pieces. Carefully carve a jack-o-lantern face into the side of the bread. Do not cut too deep or your dip will leak through the face holes. Fill the bread bowl with the dip and serve with the bread pieces.

Be sure to really spook your guests by hiding Plastic Spiders, Snakes, and Glow Skeletons in odd places where they would least expect them. Place them in a soap dish in the bathroom or in a coat closet.