Halloween - Fun Party Plan

Posted on Feb 1st 2016

Party Outline
Ages: 4 to 8 years old
Total Time: 1 Â½ to 2 hours

10 minutes:
Greeting Greeting
Costume Awards

20 minutes:
Make ‘n' Create
Boo Bags
Tootsie Roll Ghosts
Shave Jack
Swinging Spiders
Haunted Houses

Greeting
Costume Awards. Everyone's in costume so every guest receives an award ribbon made with orange construction paper, black crepe paper streamers and Halloween stickers. Write on the ribbon a descriptive word about each guests' costume (i.e., "Scariest," " Ballerina Fairy," "Funniest," "Great Pumpkin", etc.) With a safety pin, pin it on through a punched hole at the top of the award ribbon.

Make ‘n' Create

Boo Bags
Give each guest a flat white lunch bag to decorate with Halloween stickers, stamps, stamp pads, stencils, markers, and crayons. Suggest guests draw a spooky ghost or freaky monster. Another idea is to make the white lunch bag into "boo bags" by cutting out two circles for eyes and an oval for a mouth. Then line the inside with black tissue paper to complete the ghostly bag and prevent any goodies from falling out. Make sure guest's names are written on each bag. By the time the party is over, you can be sure it will be full of treats made or accumulated by each guest.

Tootsie Roll Ghosts
Let children choose a favorite flavor Tootsie Roll Pop and cover it with a white Kleenex tissue. Wrap the Kleenex around the lollipop and fasten with a small rubber band at the neck of the candy. Draw the ghost's eyes, nose and mouth with black felt tip marker. Have guests place this ghostly treat in their boo bag.

Shave Jack
Inflate and tie the end of an orange balloon for each guest . With black permanent markers have children make their own Jack-o'-lantern face on the balloon. Set balloon in an empty 3 pound coffee can. Next cover Jack's face with shaving cream. Now the fun begins as guests try to shave Jack with a blade less razor without breaking the balloon!

Swinging Spiders
Scavenge the neighborhood or local parks for easy to find oak apples attached to oak trees or lying on the ground nearby. Oak apples are large round galls that are tannish in color and are produced in nature naturally when a wasp stings the tree resulting in a swelling of the tree tissue. Give each guest one oak apple and small pieces of pipe cleaners for legs. Children can easily stick the pipe cleaners into the oak gall creating an instant spider. Draw eyes on with a black felt tip marker. Attach a long piece of thin elastic to the top of the spider with a push pin and voila, a Swinging Spider --that kids love to have hanging around! No oak galls in your neck of the woods, make spider bodies and heads with black construction paper circles and glue.