Comments on: How to Throw a Halloween Party for Kids

on 9/15/2008 Here are some great kid-safe Halloween music suggestions:

Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
It's A Hip Hop Halloween Night - The Halloween Freaks
Witch Doctor - The Chipmunks

on 11/22/2005 Get a halloween cd with songs like "Monster Mash" and others like it. Have a contest on who can dance the funniest, or the weirdest. Award prizes to the winners, it's great for the kids, and a lot of fun for the adults to watch.

on 11/22/2005 During a children's Halloween Party we set the table up with all the 'supplies' needed to make a take-home Spooky Haunted House that is fully edible. (Along the same lines as a Gingerbread House)

Each child is given a styrofoam base that is covered with tin foil.

Then each child is given an individual bowl of mixed dark-color candies, like black licorice pieces, orange and brown Smarties or M & Ms, little candy coke bottles, orange, green & black jube jubes, candy corn, and raisins, etc.

Each child also gets a bowl of 'glue' made of royal icing and green food coloring. A popsicle stick is used to spread the 'glue' and connect the pieces of the haunted house.

The building blocks for the Haunted House - chocolate ice wafer cookies, chocolate covered marshmellow cookies, and a few white marshmallows (ghosts)are shared by all and kept in the centre of the table.

The children will 'build' their houses and decorate them however they like. Take pictures of the creations, because they don't last long. (They get eaten!)

on 11/22/2005 THIS IS FUN FOR ANY AGE. WE TIE A ROPE BETWEEN OUR TWO TREES IN OUR FRONT YARD, THEN TIE STRINGS THAT HANG STRAIGHT DOWN FROM THAT ROPE, TIE A GLAZED DONUT TO THE STRING, EACH CHILD HAS TO PUT THEIR HANDS BEHIND THEIR BACKS AND TRY TO EAT THE DONUT ....IT IS SO MUCH FUN AND KIND OF MESSY..THE KIDS LIKE THAT!!! WE HAVE BEEN LUCKY TO HAVE GREAT WEATHER EVERY YEAR FOR THIS. WE HAVE ALSO DONE ALL THE OTHER SUGGESTIONS AT OUR PARTIES AND THEY HAVE BEEN ALOT OF FUN.

on 11/22/2005 This game is the traditional blackboard version of "hangman," only instead of drawing the hangman, you purchase a jointed cardboard skeleton and take the joints apart. Choose a Halloween-related word and for each guess.

on 11/22/2005 Divide guests by two so everyone has a partner. Give each person 1 roll of toilet paper. At the word GO!, all guests quickly wrap their "mummy" partners in toilet paper using entire roll. The first team wrapped shouts WRAPPED! and wins a novelty or treat.

on 11/22/2005 Have a contest having three kids wrapping three other kids as mummies with toilet paper. The first two who finish first, get a halloween prize.

on 11/22/2005 Blindfold them,lead them thru putting their hands in the "goodies". Peeled grapes for eyeballs, cooked spaghetti for worms, thick batch of jello with pieces cutout for heart, mix the rest putting in other things for guts, brains. They love it.

on 11/22/2005 I use plastic pumpkins, the ones kids use to trick or treat with. They were only $.99. I fill them with halloween novelty party items and candy. The kids love them and get to use them again when they go trick or treating.

on 11/22/2005 Buy and disassemble a plastic skeleton. Hide the bones, then start a scavenger hunt for skeleton bones with clues at each site leading to the next bone burial site. Kids love it!