Hobbies And Interests
Easy Games
Plan for several simple games that very young children and toddlers can play. Make a slime pool by filling a child-size wading pool with green gelatin. Mix small plastic prizes into the gelatin, and let children reach in to "rescue" the toys from the slime. Another easy game is a lollipop pull. Decorate the lollipops to look like ghosts by wrapping a white tissue around the candy. Make a dot on the end of one lollipop stick, and push the stick into a piece of Styrofoam along with other unmarked lollipops. Whoever pulls the marked stick gets an extra prize, but everyone keeps the lollipop he pulled.
Messy Games
A Halloween carnival is ideal for messy games. Have a dead-man dig by filling a plastic tub with food representing human body parts. For example, use cooked macaroni for brains and grapes for eyeballs. Kids must dig to find small prizes contained in plastic bags. Another idea is digging for worms. Fill a pie tin with crushed cookies, whipped topping and gummy worms. Give each child 10 seconds to pull out as many worms as possible using only his mouth.
Toss Games
Have several spooky games in which kids can practice their aim. Transform a traditional ping-pong ball toss into a Halloween game by drawing eyeballs on each ping-pong ball. Let kids try tossing the balls into tall drinking cups. Make a witch-hat ring toss by positioning several pointed witch hats at varying distances from the start line. Kids get bigger prizes for successfully tossing a ring onto the hats that are farther away. Wrap a football with a white strip of cloth so it looks like a mummy head, and challenge kids to throw it through a hanging tire.
Knock-Down Games
Make a traditional milk-bottle knockdown a ghost-busting game by painting the bottles white and drawing ghost faces on them. Give kids three tries to knock all the ghosts down. You can even dip the ball in slime to make kids feel even more like ghost-busters. Play Halloween bowling by filling empty plastic soda bottles with small Halloween candies. Let kids bowl with a pumpkin, and give them a candy from each of the pins they knock down.