Great and gruesome games...
Halloween Treats
Jane: Here’s a funky way to dispense treats to trick ‘n’ treaters this Halloween – fill up a miniature witches’ broomstick with sweets. The brooms take just a minute to make: all you need is some brown paper, liquorice roots for the handles – they look wobbly and knobbly and very authentic (you can buy them in health food shops) – or just use twigs instead, some chocs or sweets, and a bit of raffia or thread to tie the broomstick together.
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Apple Bobbing and Sweet Dunking
A double whammy of sticky messiness: children get their faces wet apple bobbing, then turn into white-faced banshees when they dip into a pile of flour to dig out their sweet treat.
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Halloween Pop
A good noisy game to kick off a Halloween party.
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Spider's Webs
These are made of plastic glue, squirted out of a cold glue gun, so take about two minutes to create. Drape them around the house with plastic spiders, or use to jazz up the children’s trick or treat costumes. Tiny webs can be used as earrings – just add a loop at the top.
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Starchy Ghosts
Hang these ghoulish apparitions around the house or in a window or tree outside to attract trick or treaters. They look even spookier when underlit with a lamp or torch.
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Sweetie Spiders
The children love making these little sweet parcels for Hallowe’en trick or treaters.
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Halloween Fun with Pumpkins
Young children love making pumpkin lanterns but will need a bit of help with the cutting and scooping. We always stand the lit pumpkin lanterns on the window ledge outside at Halloween, to let trick or treaters know we’re home.
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’Allowe’en Acrostics
A pencil and paper game that’s good fun and will get everyone in the Hallowe’en mood.
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Hunt the Pumpkin
A Hallowe’en party version of Hunt the Slipper that makes a good game for 8 or more children. Play with a pumpkin or squash small enough to pass easily from hand to hand.
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Soul Cakes and Cake Racing
Between Hallowe’en and All Souls Night (2nd November), it was customary to make, eat and even beg at houses for soul cakes as a way of remembering the dead. These cakes taste like rich rock buns, and are good for playing Hallowe’en cake-racing games.
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Shrunken Heads
These spooky shrivelled faces, made from apples, look very sinister dotted around the house at Hallowe’en or even worn like a talisman around the neck when out trick or treating. You can paint them spooky colours too.
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Face To Face
A Hallowe’en or party game that provokes massive giggling and is much harder than it looks. If you don’t want to use apples (which get bruised when you drop them) you can play with a small ball instead.
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Halloween Divination Games
Halloween was traditionally a night when the spirit world was thought to be especially close to the everyday world. People used to divine their fortunes from apples and nuts, and find out whom they were going to marry. Here are five divination games your children might like to try.
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Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here...
Invite the older kids into a spooky dark space (the garden shed, under a creaky old tree in the park) to hear a gory story, and raise the spine-chill factor with a few well-chosen props.
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Halloween Lanterns
Take these decorative night lanterns trick or treating to light your way, or put them outside your front door or in a window to let the Halloweeners know you’re home. You’ll need to save up a few old tin cans, big and small.
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