Class Party Halloween Games

Children love Halloween. They love dressing up, telling scary stories, going Trick-or-Treating, and all of the other fun activities that come with this holiday. If you work in a school or child care center, then you may decide to throw a class Halloween party. The children will look forward to the party and will enjoy taking the short break from their normal classroom activities.

A class party for Halloween can include costumes, treats, music, stories, and of course party games. For this particular party, you will want to plan and play party games that are Halloween themed. This will keep the theme of the Halloween party and still allow children to play games. Here are some ideas for a few class party Halloween games.

Pumpkin bowling can be a good game for children of all ages, including younger children. What you need are three or more inexpensive treat buckets that have a pumpkin design on them and either plastic bowling balls or lightweight plastic balls. What you will then do is stack the pumpkin buckets. Once the buckets are stacked, the kids can roll the bowling balls and try to knock down.

You can also include a game where the children can turn themselves and their friends into mummies! To play this game, you will need a lot of toilet paper rolls. You can even ask the class to bring in one or two rolls. Let the children divide into teams, with two children on each team. The children on each team must wrap up their teammate in the toilet paper. The first team who finishes wrapping up their partner wins the games. If the child wants to, he or she can break out of the toilet paper and make mummy noises. After the first round is over, begin round two so that the other child on each team can be wrapped.

Sit the children down in a circle so that you can all tell a scary story. You can start off the story with a class line, such as "It was a dark and spooky night." Whoever is next in the circle can continue the story, and so on. Of course you want to be sure that the story is age appropriate, so be sure to think about what will and will not be allowed in the story and let the class know before the actual story begins.

You can also play a game of Halloween Musical Chairs. For this game, play Halloween music and tell the children to act scary and spooky as they walk around the chairs. Of course you should keep this age appropriate, as it may be easier for smaller children to just walk around the chair rather than acting scary. The regular rules to musical chairs still apply. The child who is not sitting when the music stops is out and a chair is then removed.

You can also hold a costume pageants, rather than a costume contest. A child losing a costume contest may hurt their feelings. But a costume pageants will allow all of the children to show of their costumes without any pressure of winning a contest. You can even do this as a Halloween Fashion Show. What you can do is play some Halloween music and let each child walk towards the other children and back as you describe their costumes. Be sure to let every child know in advance that they are to be respectful of all costumes. If desired, you can even ask a parent volunteer to take photos with a Polaroid camera and let all of the children take their photos home with them.

These are just a few of the many class party Halloween games the children can play. You can also include dancing, arts and crafts, Halloween karaoke or sing-a-longs, and more! You can play Halloween music during most or all of these games and hand out prizes to all of the children. When you plan class party Halloween games such as these, the children are sure to have a great time!