HELP!! I am a room mother for Rebecca's class(4th graders). We are having a Halloween party next Thursday, and I'm supposed to do a game. I have done Halloween Bingo, and put- the -stem- on- the -pumpkin, but figure I should do something a little more "sophisticated"this year. After all, they are 9 and 10 year olds--LOL!!! Does anyone have any ideas or a good web-site I could go to for ideas? Thanks a bunch!!Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Mine is full of events and "have-to's".
Be Nice to People,
Julie
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Two come to mind
1. bowling with pumpkins - paint soda bottles like ghosts and filling with sand. bowl using smallish pumpkins
2. bobbing for donuts - hang donuts with string through hole dangle from pipe beam etc... first child to eat donut, not using hands and not falling from string -wins
have fun
FamilyFun.com has some wonderful ideas! Take a look!
Have a Lovely day Julie!
Hey Julie I too am room mother for todays party for my 4th grader. I hate planning games so I decided to play a spelling game called Sparkle using football terms. The reason is we are not allowed to have a Halloween/Fall party so it is our last H.S. Football game and we are playing our biggest rival so the theme is Beat Wooster.
Mary
Julie, my kids are long grown but what fun it is to help @ their parties. I haven't visited this site in awhile but check out
www.kate.net There used to be lots of activities for kids there.
Pam
When I was in Primary at church we had a Halloween party and played some word searches, divided up into teams of 4 and used toilet paper to wrap up someone like a mummy, also did a scavenger hunt for halloween items we placed around the church. Hope this helps a little.
Blindfold them, sit them in a circle, tell a scary story while passing bowls around. Have them touch what's in the bowls... peeled grapes for eyeballs, cold cooked spaghetti for brains, cold cooked rice for maggots, raisens in sauce for larvae... we did this once when I was in Youth. Obviously it was fun because it's still with me!
Any other ideas for things to fill the bowls with...?
Good luck! Kimberly
Hmmmm... when I was teaching, I would do Halloween word scrambles with the kids. Of course the words were all in Spanish ... which wouldn't be of much help to you, I'm afraid ;) Family Fun often has great ideas. Simple and fun.
I hope you'll get to bake up some of those gingerbread ornies for Christmas, Julie. They're such fun and a great project to do with the kids.
Have a great weekend, my friend!
I used to do the bowling game and the donut game too. Wish I could help more!
Have you tried the Family Fun website? They have the most creative and fun ideas for every occasion. Though I love the idea of pumpkin bowling. Sounds like lots of fun!
Smiles,
Lea
The relay type race wrapping with toilet paper as a mummy is fun! We did that one time at ahomeschooling get together when we were studying Egypt.
You could do hot potato passing around a small pumpkin instead.
Have you tried just googling halloween party games?
Have fun at the party!
Tammy
I ahve been a room mom for every party for the last 8 year and I have played MANY games! One that the kids seem to enjoy for halloween is the Mummy Wrap. Teams of three or four kids. One child is the mummy and the others have to wrap the mummy entirely in toilet paper. Which ever team gets done first wins. Uusually there is lots of giggling and screaming going on! Hope that helps.
Hi Julie
I have just been catching up on your news since you have come back from your holiday. Looks like you all had a terrific time away and you got to experience a bit of everything. The outdoor theatre sounded awesome.
Two blogs that come to mind that I have seen that feature great activities and ideas for Halloween are: the crafty crow blog - http://belladia.typepad.com/crafty_crow/ and the make and takes blog - http://www.makeandtakes.com/
Hope that you can find some inspiration from one of these blogs. I think they have some brilliant ideas.
Hope you are having a great weekend even though it sounds as though it is going to be hectic.
Lots of love
Elise.
It has been a while since I was a room mother, but here is a game we played and the kids had a ball. Put the kids in a circle. 2 dice in a pie plate. Each child gets one roll. If they get doubles of any number they get to run to the center...put on mit potholders...use 2 wooded spoons and try and open a giant candy bar wrapped several times. The child in the center gets to try until the next child rolls a double. It keeps all the kids busy and giggling. Hope this helps too!
I hope you get some good ideas! I can't believe Halloween is right around the corner!
~Kelli
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