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Halloween Games ? 7 Fun & Scary Games for Teens, Families, & Groups
So, it is true that Halloween unfortunately is associated with words such as: dark, scary, evil, spooky, etc. (we probably should throw the word ‘cavity’ in there also)! However, as strange as the holiday certainly is, Halloween must be viewed as more than just eating an excessive amount of sugar, visiting haunted houses, or attending costume parties. Halloween should also be an opportunity to spend time with family, friends, and neighbors participating in fun and wholesome entertainment. I realize that the word ‘wholesome’ and ‘Halloween’ are not exactly synonymous with each other, but the culture, traditions, and activities of the masses should not also dictate our actions! Halloween is thus the perfect opportunity to have good clean fun, create wonderful memories, help serve others, and most importantly – allow us the opportunity to spend time with family.
Below I have listed just 7 of the many fun Halloween games that are good, uplifting, wholesome … and extremely FUN!
1) Halloween Scavenger Hunt: Divide everyone playing into teams of 2-3 players each. Each team will need a car, camera, and copy of the tasks to be completed. The goal is to either be the first to complete all the tasks and get back to the house first, or be the one who completes the most after an hour. (For smaller children, adapt the tasks to things to do/find around the house). Examples of random items to get and tasks to do may include: trick or treat 5 houses, buy a pumpkin and carve a face, give a candy to 3 random kids, go to the video store and find the date a Halloween movie was made, go to the grocery store and find out how much a pumpkin costs, go to a grave yard and write the name of one of the tomb stones, knock on a random door and ask for a roll of toilet paper and then wrap another teammate like a mummy, etc. They can be anything … but to prove you did it, take a photo for each task.
2) Halloween Charades: Each guest at the Halloween party will take 3 slips of paper and write down random acts (ideally related to Halloween) that can be acted out. Examples might include: trick or treating, carving pumpkins, eating candy and feeling sick, flying on a broomstick, visiting a scary graveyard, walking like a mummy, crossing paths of a black cat, attending a dress up party, etc. Place all the slips into a bowl and then divide everyone into two teams. Team 1 will start and send one person to the front, who will have one minute to act out as many scenes as possible. The team will guess, and the teammate acting can’t move on to the next word until it is correctly guessed. After a minute, that team gets one point for every correctly guessed acted scene. Then, team 2 will take a turn. The first team to 20 points wins!
3) Pumpkin Quarter Toss: In preparation, carve the middle out of 5 pumpkins. Then, place them at varying distances (each a few feet away from each other). Then designate a throwing line that player will toss from, and divide everyone into two teams. For each turn, every person on the team will get one toss. If the quarter lands in the closest pumpkin, it is worth 1 point; if it lands in the next farthest pumpkin it is worth 2 points; etc. up to 5 points. The first team to score 50 points is the winner!
4) Scary Story Succession: After the trick or treating is done and the party has died down, sit around the family room and turn the lights off. One person will start and take about 30 seconds telling a scary story. At the 30 second mark, they will leave the story hanging and call someone else’s name, who will then continue the story making up new twists. After 30 seconds, they will call someone else’s name, and this continues – and get’s very funny. Otherwise, have one person start and tell a story for about a minute. Then, everyone will take 30 seconds and make up their own ending to that story. Each person takes a turn telling their version of the ending, and everyone will vote as to which one they like the best. Players can’t vote for their own story’s ending, but a person receives a point for everyone who voted for their ending. Start again with a new person starting a story, and the person who scores 10 points first wins!
5) Halloween Pumpkin Hunt: This game takes a little preparation, but is extremely fun. Hide pumpkins around the yard – or for older teens, hide pumpkins randomly around the town. Then, write down clues that will lead teams from one pumpkin to the next. Divide everyone into two teams or teams of 3-4 people each (thus there pumpkins hidden for each team). The first team to find and retrieve all the pumpkins and get back to the house first is the winner.
6) Pumpkin Bocce: Set a large pumpkin in the middle of the yard (park or open field). Then, each player will need their own smaller pumpkin. Standing about 30 feet away, each player will take a turn rolling their small pumpkin and trying to get it closest to the large pumpkin. The closest player receives 3 points, and the next closest receives 1 point. Then, the person who was closest chooses another spot (but can choose to be close or far away from the main pumpkin), and this repeats. The first person to score 20 points is the winner!
7) Halloween Relay: Begin by dividing everyone playing into two equal teams, and make sure you have a lot of pumpkins because some will break. This relay has many legs/stages. For stage one: line up as a team and the first person will pass the team pumpkin over their head to the person behind who will pass it under their legs to the next teammate, etc. Once the last person gets it, they will run to the front of the line and repeat this. The team that gets the first person who started back to the front of the line first wins that leg and gets a point. For leg two: first team to gut and clean 3 pumpkins first. Leg three: designate a starting line and middle line about 30 feet away. The first person must roll the team pumpkin to the middle line and back, tag the next teammate, and then they must do the same. The first team to finish gets a point. Be creative and make up many more legs – the first team to 5 points wins!
Have Fun!
Matt is the founder of http://www.Tips4Families.com/ – a website full of helpful parenting advice, fun games and activities, traditions and holiday ideas, and tips and articles for families everywhere. Matt is also the author of: “Great Games! 175 Games & Activities for Families, Groups, & Children.” To view the book and learn more, visit: http://www.GreatGamesBook.com/
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Halloween party games should carry a spooky theme to entertain all participants. This is how the many games available for you to play at the occasion are. Halloween is a very important and grave celebration which is planned months in advance to achieve the most fascinating party that can kill anyone. You get to think of various ideas as you put your thinking cap on. The celebration is meant to bring out creativity and at the same time seek to scare as many people as possible to experience the ultimate fun. Perhaps the most outstanding feature about a Halloween party are the costumes which can be used to play many Halloween party games.
Halloween party games are many and they include the following word scramble, eyeball hunt game, zombie game, pumpkin passing game, memory game, Halloween feel box and the list goes on. One of the most interesting games to play is the zombie game and it involves the participants lying down motionless acting as zombies and one person will do all it takes to have them smile or wiggle without touching them. The zombie that will be the hardest to impress will win the game. You will realize that games come in many categories and there are those meant for children. There are Halloween party games that will be played by adults and bring so much fun to the party. Therefore, get to study particular games well so that you can fully be entertained by it.
You can also think of a game and include it at a Halloween party. Your game must make sense and manage to entertain majority of the attendants. Some of the greatest games are brought fourth by ordinary people who have a keen interest to please people. Also, you can add a twist to the already existing games for more fun at the party. While doing this, do not make the game dull but, more interesting. Another game that is going to add some black sizzle to your haunted party is the Halloween memory game. It is a fun game that will test the memories of your guests. You will put some items on a tray and let your party mates study them for around 30 seconds. Then, remove the items and everyone will write down the items they remember.
The person who remembers most of the items will get to walk away as the champion. This game is also good for the overall memory of children because it stimulates their memory faculties and they can get to remember things more often. Do not include Halloween party games that are dangerous for your party and this means that they might be a bit extreme. Keep games for children very light so that they can have fun in the most natural way. Before you go ahead with any game, know the rules that are involved. This will enable you correct somebody who may have done contrary to the stipulated rules even if they know how the game is played.
So, it is true that Halloween unfortunately is associated with words such as: dark, scary, evil, spooky, etc. (we probably should throw the word â??cavityâ?? in there also)! However, as strange as the holiday certainly is, Halloween must be viewed as more than just eating an excessive amount of sugar, visiting haunted houses, or attending costume parties. Halloween should also be an opportunity to spend time with family, friends, and neighbors participating in fun and wholesome entertainment. I realize that the word â??wholesomeâ?? and â??Halloweenâ?? are not exactly synonymous with each other, but the culture, traditions, and activities of the masses should not also dictate our actions! Halloween is thus the perfect opportunity to have good clean fun, create wonderful memories, help serve others, and most importantly â?? allow us the opportunity to spend time with family.
Below I have listed just 7 of the many fun Halloween games that are good, uplifting, wholesome â?¦ and extremely FUN!
1)Â Halloween Scavenger Hunt: Divide everyone playing into teams of 2-3 players each. Each team will need a car, camera, and copy of the tasks to be completed. The goal is to either be the first to complete all the tasks and get back to the house first, or be the one who completes the most after an hour. (For smaller children, adapt the tasks to things to do/find around the house). Examples of random items to get and tasks to do may include: trick or treat 5 houses, buy a pumpkin and carve a face, give a candy to 3 random kids, go to the video store and find the date a Halloween movie was made, go to the grocery store and find out how much a pumpkin costs, go to a grave yard and write the name of one of the tomb stones, knock on a random door and ask for a roll of toilet paper and then wrap another teammate like a mummy, etc. They can be anything â?¦ but to prove you did it, take a photo for each task.
2)Â Halloween Charades: Each guest at the Halloween party will take 3 slips of paper and write down random acts (ideally related to Halloween) that can be acted out. Examples might include: trick or treating, carving pumpkins, eating candy and feeling sick, flying on a broomstick, visiting a scary graveyard, walking like a mummy, crossing paths of a black cat, attending a dress up party, etc. Place all the slips into a bowl and then divide everyone into two teams. Team 1 will start and send one person to the front, who will have one minute to act out as many scenes as possible. The team will guess, and the teammate acting canâ??t move on to the next word until it is correctly guessed. After a minute, that team gets one point for every correctly guessed acted scene. Then, team 2 will take a turn. The first team to 20 points wins!
3)Â Pumpkin Quarter Toss: In preparation, carve the middle out of 5 pumpkins. Then, place them at varying distances (each a few feet away from each other). Then designate a throwing line that player will toss from, and divide everyone into two teams. For each turn, every person on the team will get one toss. If the quarter lands in the closest pumpkin, it is worth 1 point; if it lands in the next farthest pumpkin it is worth 2 points; etc. up to 5 points. The first team to score 50 points is the winner!
4) Scary Story Succession: After the trick or treating is done and the party has died down, sit around the family room and turn the lights off. One person will start and take about 30 seconds telling a scary story. At the 30 second mark, they will leave the story hanging and call someone elseâ??s name, who will then continue the story making up new twists. After 30 seconds, they will call someone elseâ??s name, and this continues â?? and getâ??s very funny. Otherwise, have one person start and tell a story for about a minute. Then, everyone will take 30 seconds and make up their own ending to that story. Each person takes a turn telling their version of the ending, and everyone will vote as to which one they like the best. Players canâ??t vote for their own storyâ??s ending, but a person receives a point for everyone who voted for their ending. Start again with a new person starting a story, and the person who scores 10 points first wins!
5)Â Halloween Pumpkin Hunt: This game takes a little preparation, but is extremely fun. Hide pumpkins around the yard â?? or for older teens, hide pumpkins randomly around the town. Then, write down clues that will lead teams from one pumpkin to the next. Divide everyone into two teams or teams of 3-4 people each (thus there pumpkins hidden for each team). The first team to find and retrieve all the pumpkins and get back to the house first is the winner.
6) Pumpkin Bocce: Set a large pumpkin in the middle of the yard (park or open field). Then, each player will need their own smaller pumpkin. Standing about 30 feet away, each player will take a turn rolling their small pumpkin and trying to get it closest to the large pumpkin. The closest player receives 3 points, and the next closest receives 1 point. Then, the person who was closest chooses another spot (but can choose to be close or far away from the main pumpkin), and this repeats. The first person to score 20 points is the winner!
7)Â Halloween Relay: Begin by dividing everyone playing into two equal teams, and make sure you have a lot of pumpkins because some will break. This relay has many legs/stages. For stage one: line up as a team and the first person will pass the team pumpkin over their head to the person behind who will pass it under their legs to the next teammate, etc. Once the last person gets it, they will run to the front of the line and repeat this. The team that gets the first person who started back to the front of the line first wins that leg and gets a point. For leg two: first team to gut and clean 3 pumpkins first. Leg three: designate a starting line and middle line about 30 feet away. The first person must roll the team pumpkin to the middle line and back, tag the next teammate, and then they must do the same. The first team to finish gets a point. Be creative and make up many more legs â?? the first team to 5 points wins!
Have Fun!
Matt is the founder of http://www.Tips4Families.com/ â?? a website full of helpful parenting advice, fun games and activities, traditions and holiday ideas, and tips and articles for families everywhere. Matt is also the author of: â??Great Games! 175 Games & Activities for Families, Groups, & Children.â? To view the book and learn more, visit: http://www.GreatGamesBook.com/
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