Fun Games to Play at an Older Kid's Halloween Party

Similar to pin the tail on the donkey, you can put a face on the pumpkin. For the game, you need to cut out pumpkins from orange poster board, one for every child who playing. Then cut out the pieces that the children will use to put on the pumpkin. Make eyes, a nose, a mouth, a stem and maybe a leaf for each pumpkin and paint them accordingly. Place double sided tape on the pumpkin where the pieces will go. To play the game, each child will use a straw to suck up each piece of the face. No hands to pick the piece up but it may be carried to their pumpkin. The first child to pick up and correctly place their pieces on the pumpkin wins.

An easy game kids of any age can enjoy only uses a ball of black string or yarn. In this game the children will be asked to make a spider's web. While standing in a circular form, the children can toss the ball back and forth. When the ball is caught they will hold on to the piece of string and then continue tossing the ball to make a pattern that looks like a spider's web.

Like the common party game egg relay, you can create an eyeball relay game. If you don't want to use an egg, use a ping pong ball and paint it like an eyeball. You'll need one eyeball and one spoon for each of the teams. Line the children up in teams and tell the kids to race down to the cone and back with the eyeball still on the spoon. The first team with all of members to do so wins!

Another spin on this type of relay can be called the "Candy Corn Relay". You'll need a jar and spoon for each of the teams, and a big bowl of candy corn. The object will be to scoop the candy corn up with the spoon, race over to the jar and drop the candy corn in. The children will race one by one from each team and the first team to fill up their jar wins!

Mummy wrapping can provide lots of laughs when children wrap each other up with toilet paper. Divide the children into a few teams and have an older child be the one to get wrapped up. Give the other children a few rolls of toilet paper and have them work as a team to completely wrap up the mummy. The first team done wins!

Article Resource: Stacie Kolberg