Hobbies And Interests
The Body Part
This is a fun scary game to play once the scary stories start. You will need a few items like paper bags lined with plastic bags. Peeled grapes, canned apricots, cooked spaghetti noodles, popcorn kernels, Jello, tomatoes, and other food items that might feel like body parts. Make kids sit in a circle on the floor. Turn off the lights, light a candle if the room is too dark. Tell a story about a mean witch, who as she ages starts to fall apart. As you tell the story pass around a paper bag with a food that feels similar to the body part you are talking about. Have the kids feel inside the bag without looking. For instance, if you are talking about the witches eyes falling out, pass around a bag with peeled grapes inside. Use the popcorn kernels for the witches teeth, cooked spaghetti noodles for her brain, and a peeled tomato for her heart. The Jello could be the witches liver, and macaroni noodles her intestines. Get creative and use foods for different witch body parts. As you are passing the bag around have the kids try to guess what the real food is. The person who guesses right the most often wins the game.
Spin the Secret
This game is similar to Spin the Bottle but with a "Truth or Dare"-like twist. Have the kids sit in a circle on the floor and spin the bottle in the center of the circle. When the nozzle points to two people they have to go to another room or closet. The spinner has to tell the other person a deep, dark secret. Continue playing this version of Spin the Bottle until all the participants have told their secret. Pass strips of paper around and have each person write the secret that was told to them. Each participant reads out the secret they have written and the other participants have to try and guess whose secret it is.
Obstacle Course
Make an obstacle course in the house. Use sofa cushions, tables, chairs, and anything else that can be jumped over, but which isn't breakable. Divide the kids into two teams. Have the first player of each team get into a sleeping bag as if it were a sack. On the word "Go" the first players should start racing through the obstacle course. The objective is for each member to get through the obstacle course while staying in the sleeping back, just like a sack race. If a player comes out of the sleeping bag, he must return to the "Start" point. When a player reaches his team members another person must get into the sleeping bag and run the obstacle course as fast as he can. The team that finishes first wins.