Monday, October 17, 2005
Ideas for games
Cha...I'm in French class now...looking on the internet for some games...and I found some good ones...And also...I want this one game...where you make Halloween stories...like one person begins one...and then the next person adds a sentence...and so on and so forth...
Deja Blair Witch - Halloween Party
Friends with video cameras? Invite friends to create a scary or humorous 5 minute film in the style of Blair Witch, then have a Halloween Film Festival and play the tapes. Ideas could be: A bathroom with no toilet paper, In a mall with no credit cards, Halloween is here and I don't have a costume, have an idea? - So get going
Halloween Candy Hunt
Like an Easter egg hunt: Buy plastic eggs and paint them in halloween colors. put candy in them. then hide them. The prize can be the candy inside or some of the eggs can contain notification of winning a small prize or party favor.
And also...I want this one game...where you make Halloween stories...like one person begins one...and then the next person adds a sentence...and so on and so forth...
Deja Blair Witch - Halloween Party
Friends with video cameras? Invite friends to create a scary or humorous 5 minute film in the style of Blair Witch, then have a Halloween Film Festival and play the tapes. Ideas could be: A bathroom with no toilet paper, In a mall with no credit cards, Halloween is here and I don't have a costume, have an idea? - So get going
Halloween Candy Hunt
Like an Easter egg hunt: Buy plastic eggs and paint them in halloween colors. put candy in them. then hide them. The prize can be the candy inside or some of the eggs can contain notification of winning a small prize or party favor.
And also...I want this one game...where you make Halloween stories...like one person begins one...and then the next person adds a sentence...and so on and so forth...
Worst Makeover Ever:
You must try and see who can make the worst make over. Divide group into groups of 2,3 or 4 players. Each team needs a willing player to be made up! It can be a guy or a girl! The host can act as judge. Each team get a bag of different items including different makeup items, false eyelashes etc. Give each team 5 minutes to work their magic. The host decides who wins. The winning makeover artist then has to let herself/himself be given a make over by all of the other players.Scary Story Hunt:
Start by making a scary spooky story (you can find lots of these on the internet) and cut it into pieces. Hide each piece in different places of your home. Tell your guests that there are a certain number of pieces of the story and they need to find them all to know the whole story. If you want to make this for teens or scary for a Halloween party then make several scary messages such as Turn Back Now. We suggest putting the pieces of the message in very interesting or freaky places such as test to a puddle of fake blood. If you really want to go all out then why don't you make the paper look old by burning the edges, soaking it in tea, and make it look dirty by smearing it in coco powder, making it brittle by baking it, or use a combination of all of the above. Have a great party! Then once the pieces are found, put them together and read the story! Happy scaring!
Anacrophobia:
Attach a paper clip to plastic spiders and put them in a tub of water. This can be done by threading one end of the clip through a leg or the body. Make a fishing rod by attaching a magnet to a string and tying the string to a pole. Each child get a chance to fish out a spider. Paint colored dots on the spiders with certain colors tied to special prizes. For example, spiders with white dots might get to keep the spiders. Red dots win candy bars and a very special blue dot wins the grand prize.
Candy Bar Guessing Game:
Buy 20 different brands of chocolate bars (snickers, baby ruth, milky way, twix etc.) and put a sizeable piece of each on a paper plate, but not the whole bar - just a piece of each. Number each plate with a marker from 1 to 20 and make sure that you keep track of which candy bar is put on each numbered plate. Make a list such as #1 Snickers #2 Mr. Goodbar #3 Kitkat etc. Put each plate in the microwave and wait until the candy bar is melted pretty good. Some will melt better than others, therefore you may have to do some squashing with your finger to make them a bit less recognizable. But don't melt them or squash them too much since it may make them completely unrecognizable. You want to give your guests a fighting chance here. Next, after all melting and squashing is complete, put all the plates on a table with paper and pencils and have them write down their guesses. Then read off the answers and have them mark their correct guesses. The one with the most correct wins. What do they win? Candy bars of course!
Dopey Donuts:
A donut is hung from the branch of a tree by a string and a selected player must be spun around blindfolded. Then the player has 15 seconds in which to find and eat the donut. Each player is given a chance.
Get off My Hat:
Get several brown grocery bags and cut open so that they lie flat. Cut the bags into the shape of witch's hat (you can color them if you want) and mark one hat as the "magic hat." Scatter the hats on the floor. The players get into a line and shut their eyes. A leader is at the front to see that no one peeks. Whoever peeks is out of the game. When the music starts, the players walk back and forth across the hats. Any player on the magic hat when the music stops is out of the game. The last player left wins.
Halloween Balloon Battle:
Divide the group into two teams. Tie the balloons to everyone's ankles. Say "go" and watch the teams trying to burst the other team's balloons first. The team with the last balloon wins. As your balloon is burst you withdraw from the game.
Monster Dancing:
Play Halloween music and have the kids dance like monsters! Monster Mash is a good song for this game. When the music stops the kids freeze in their monster positions. The first kid to move gets to stop the music. This is a good game for the end of the party since you can make it last as long you want.
Mr. Ween's Body Parts:
Ahead of time, prepare the cups that are described below. Have everyone sit in a circle. Pass out the paper and pencils and explain the guessing game. Then shut out the lights and start the story. You have to have the room dark so that people cannot see what's inside of the cups. The guests write down what they think is really in the cup. You'll want to briefly turn the lights on between each cup so that they can write their answers down. If the kids are really young (they can't write), then simply have each one guess what it is out load (but don't tell them what is really in the cups until the very end).
Story:
"Once in this town there lived a man named Hal O. Ween. T'was years ago this very night that he was murdered out of spite. They say these are his remains.
Here is his brain, which now feels no pain. (a wet squishy tomato)
Here are his eyes, still frozen with surprise. (two frozen peeled grapes or olives)
Here is his heart. Be careful lest it start! (a large lump of uncooked liver)
Now we have his hair, which once was so fair! (a handful of corn silk or wet fur or yarn)
Feel these drops of his blood. All the rest turned to mud. (a little catsup thinned with warm water)
One hand all alone, just rotting flesh and bone. (a damp plastic glove filled with red gelatin or ice)
Now touch his ear. He nevermore will hear! (a dried apricot)
This is his nose. T'will never smell a rose. (a pickle, a hot dog or a soft chicken bone)
These worms are all that's left to feel. For them Brown was a lovely meal! (wet spaghetti)
After the lights back on and everyone has finished writing down their guesses, collect the papers. As you check their guesses, you can show everyone what was really in the cups. Give a nice prize to the person with the most correct answers.
Poke In The Eye:
Everyone leaves the room except three people and the host. The three people seat themselves on chairs lined in a row. The host goes out of the room where the other party goers are gathered and blindfolds a volunteer. The blindfolded volunteer is guided into the room. The host explains to the volunteer that they are to try and recognize by touch each of the three people seated before them. The host holds the index finger of
the volunteer and guides it over the face of the first seated person. "This is the nose" as the finger is guided over the nose. "These are the lips" as the finger is guided over the lips. "This is the left eye"
as the finger is guided over the left eye lid. Likewise with the right eye. After this is done, the host asks the volunteer if they can recognize the person seated on the chair.
The host then moves on to the second seated person and repeats the procedure. And again with the third seated person, only this time, when the host is holding the index finger of the volunteer and is just about to stroke the right eyelid, the host plunges the finger into a bowl of Jell-O. The volunteer thinks he has just plunged his finger into the seated persons right eye. SCREAMS! The people outside of the room wonder what is going on! Repeat all this again with another volunteer who is outside of the room. Eventually you will have a room full of prior victims anticipating the "jelly moment". A very memorable party moment full of laughter, screams and belly aches!
Pretzel Straw Race:
First divide your group into two teams. Each team will need to be lined up facing the forward. Then take a bunch of straws and give each player one. The player at the beginning of the line gets the pretzel. This should be the twisted pretzel, not the pretzel sticks!. Before you begin, everybody puts the straws into their mouth and then the captain (first person in each line) puts a pretzel on his/her straw. The object is to pass the pretzel from team member to team member using only the straw, no hands allowed! The first team to pass it down to the end of the line wins. If the pretzel falls on the floor then you must start at the beginning again.
Prize Auction:
This game is designed to be played after all other games at your party have been played. Before your party or gathering, put play money (like Monopoly money) in envelopes with one bill per envelope. Use bills of $20, $50 and $100. Next, play games and have the players play for about 5 envelopes per game with the winners of each game getting an envelope. You can give first place an envelope with a higher bill or you might just let the winners randomly choose from a handful of envelopes.
Once you play all your games and get rid of all the envelopes, you start the auction. Hold up a prize in a brown paper bag and start the bidding with $20. Then everyone will get the hang of the auction. The catch is that you hold the brown bag up with the prize inside and have them bid without knowing what they are bidding on. The person with the highest bid opens the bag and to see what they have bought.
Have some fun and put some good prizes in bags and some practical jokes in the bags. My guests really enjoyed it when I did this game for my son's baby shower. Especially when someone got some baby food with a bib. That was hysterical. Have fun.
The Pick Up Bench:
This is a game for costume parties only. Players must be wearing costumes for it to be funny. Give each player a number. Numbers are randomly called. The first sits on the left and the other on the right. The player on the left has to invent a comical, creative pick up line for the player on the right based on how they are dressed, their costume. Flirting is permitted!
Tommy:
The group sits in a circle and one person (the detective) goes out of the room, closes his/her eyes and sticks his/her fingers in their ears. While the detective is out of the room the other people put sweets such as wrapped candies, homemade treats etc. onto a plate and name one sweet "TOMMY". Then the detective comes back into the room and picks up one sweet at a time, when the detective picks up "Tommy" the other people stop the person and all the sweets the detective has picked up is theirs to keep and the left overs go back with the other sweets. Then another person is the detective and leaves the room etc. This carries on while each person takes a turn until all the sweets have been used.
Truth or Scare:
Form a circle with the group. You pick a person to ask, "Truth or Scare?". If they say "truth" that means you have to ask them a question about their scariest time or their greatest fear or tell a scary story. But if they pick "Dare" then you dare them to do something daring that is scary!
Witch Witch Ghost:
Four or more people sit, stand, or kneel in a circle facing in. One person goes around the circle touching each person on the head as they pass and saying "Witch". The person on the outside continues around the circle tapping and saying "Witch" until he/she decides he/she's ready. He/she then taps someone on the head and says "Ghost" and proceeds to run around the circle. The "Ghost" must run around the circle in the opposite direction. Both are racing for the open spot in the circle. The loser gets to be the caller for the next round. Variations on this game are many including hopping or skipping, or perhaps in piggy-back.
Witches Brew:
Fill a big pot with prizes wrapped in black and green paper and throw a bunch of other gross stuff in such as rubber spiders and snakes, cobwebs, popcorn Styrofoam to make it look like a big stew. Keep paper towels handy, etc. to make it look like a big stew. If you are really daring you can add cooked wet spaghetti or Jell-O. Then have them reach their hand in for prize (if they dare!). For added fun, turn the lights down and/or blind fold each person before they reach in. Have fun!
http://www.partygamecentral.com/pgcstandard/gameliststd.asp?type=halloween&catname=HALLOWEEN+PARTY+GAMES
Start by making a scary spooky story (you can find lots of these on the internet) and cut it into pieces. Hide each piece in different places of your home. Tell your guests that there are a certain number of pieces of the story and they need to find them all to know the whole story. If you want to make this for teens or scary for a Halloween party then make several scary messages such as Turn Back Now. We suggest putting the pieces of the message in very interesting or freaky places such as test to a puddle of fake blood. If you really want to go all out then why don't you make the paper look old by burning the edges, soaking it in tea, and make it look dirty by smearing it in coco powder, making it brittle by baking it, or use a combination of all of the above. Have a great party! Then once the pieces are found, put them together and read the story! Happy scaring!
Anacrophobia:
Attach a paper clip to plastic spiders and put them in a tub of water. This can be done by threading one end of the clip through a leg or the body. Make a fishing rod by attaching a magnet to a string and tying the string to a pole. Each child get a chance to fish out a spider. Paint colored dots on the spiders with certain colors tied to special prizes. For example, spiders with white dots might get to keep the spiders. Red dots win candy bars and a very special blue dot wins the grand prize.
Candy Bar Guessing Game:
Buy 20 different brands of chocolate bars (snickers, baby ruth, milky way, twix etc.) and put a sizeable piece of each on a paper plate, but not the whole bar - just a piece of each. Number each plate with a marker from 1 to 20 and make sure that you keep track of which candy bar is put on each numbered plate. Make a list such as #1 Snickers #2 Mr. Goodbar #3 Kitkat etc. Put each plate in the microwave and wait until the candy bar is melted pretty good. Some will melt better than others, therefore you may have to do some squashing with your finger to make them a bit less recognizable. But don't melt them or squash them too much since it may make them completely unrecognizable. You want to give your guests a fighting chance here. Next, after all melting and squashing is complete, put all the plates on a table with paper and pencils and have them write down their guesses. Then read off the answers and have them mark their correct guesses. The one with the most correct wins. What do they win? Candy bars of course!
Dopey Donuts:
A donut is hung from the branch of a tree by a string and a selected player must be spun around blindfolded. Then the player has 15 seconds in which to find and eat the donut. Each player is given a chance.
Get off My Hat:
Get several brown grocery bags and cut open so that they lie flat. Cut the bags into the shape of witch's hat (you can color them if you want) and mark one hat as the "magic hat." Scatter the hats on the floor. The players get into a line and shut their eyes. A leader is at the front to see that no one peeks. Whoever peeks is out of the game. When the music starts, the players walk back and forth across the hats. Any player on the magic hat when the music stops is out of the game. The last player left wins.
Halloween Balloon Battle:
Divide the group into two teams. Tie the balloons to everyone's ankles. Say "go" and watch the teams trying to burst the other team's balloons first. The team with the last balloon wins. As your balloon is burst you withdraw from the game.
Monster Dancing:
Play Halloween music and have the kids dance like monsters! Monster Mash is a good song for this game. When the music stops the kids freeze in their monster positions. The first kid to move gets to stop the music. This is a good game for the end of the party since you can make it last as long you want.
Mr. Ween's Body Parts:
Ahead of time, prepare the cups that are described below. Have everyone sit in a circle. Pass out the paper and pencils and explain the guessing game. Then shut out the lights and start the story. You have to have the room dark so that people cannot see what's inside of the cups. The guests write down what they think is really in the cup. You'll want to briefly turn the lights on between each cup so that they can write their answers down. If the kids are really young (they can't write), then simply have each one guess what it is out load (but don't tell them what is really in the cups until the very end).
Story:
"Once in this town there lived a man named Hal O. Ween. T'was years ago this very night that he was murdered out of spite. They say these are his remains.
Here is his brain, which now feels no pain. (a wet squishy tomato)
Here are his eyes, still frozen with surprise. (two frozen peeled grapes or olives)
Here is his heart. Be careful lest it start! (a large lump of uncooked liver)
Now we have his hair, which once was so fair! (a handful of corn silk or wet fur or yarn)
Feel these drops of his blood. All the rest turned to mud. (a little catsup thinned with warm water)
One hand all alone, just rotting flesh and bone. (a damp plastic glove filled with red gelatin or ice)
Now touch his ear. He nevermore will hear! (a dried apricot)
This is his nose. T'will never smell a rose. (a pickle, a hot dog or a soft chicken bone)
These worms are all that's left to feel. For them Brown was a lovely meal! (wet spaghetti)
After the lights back on and everyone has finished writing down their guesses, collect the papers. As you check their guesses, you can show everyone what was really in the cups. Give a nice prize to the person with the most correct answers.
Poke In The Eye:
Everyone leaves the room except three people and the host. The three people seat themselves on chairs lined in a row. The host goes out of the room where the other party goers are gathered and blindfolds a volunteer. The blindfolded volunteer is guided into the room. The host explains to the volunteer that they are to try and recognize by touch each of the three people seated before them. The host holds the index finger of
the volunteer and guides it over the face of the first seated person. "This is the nose" as the finger is guided over the nose. "These are the lips" as the finger is guided over the lips. "This is the left eye"
as the finger is guided over the left eye lid. Likewise with the right eye. After this is done, the host asks the volunteer if they can recognize the person seated on the chair.
The host then moves on to the second seated person and repeats the procedure. And again with the third seated person, only this time, when the host is holding the index finger of the volunteer and is just about to stroke the right eyelid, the host plunges the finger into a bowl of Jell-O. The volunteer thinks he has just plunged his finger into the seated persons right eye. SCREAMS! The people outside of the room wonder what is going on! Repeat all this again with another volunteer who is outside of the room. Eventually you will have a room full of prior victims anticipating the "jelly moment". A very memorable party moment full of laughter, screams and belly aches!
Pretzel Straw Race:
First divide your group into two teams. Each team will need to be lined up facing the forward. Then take a bunch of straws and give each player one. The player at the beginning of the line gets the pretzel. This should be the twisted pretzel, not the pretzel sticks!. Before you begin, everybody puts the straws into their mouth and then the captain (first person in each line) puts a pretzel on his/her straw. The object is to pass the pretzel from team member to team member using only the straw, no hands allowed! The first team to pass it down to the end of the line wins. If the pretzel falls on the floor then you must start at the beginning again.
Prize Auction:
This game is designed to be played after all other games at your party have been played. Before your party or gathering, put play money (like Monopoly money) in envelopes with one bill per envelope. Use bills of $20, $50 and $100. Next, play games and have the players play for about 5 envelopes per game with the winners of each game getting an envelope. You can give first place an envelope with a higher bill or you might just let the winners randomly choose from a handful of envelopes.
Once you play all your games and get rid of all the envelopes, you start the auction. Hold up a prize in a brown paper bag and start the bidding with $20. Then everyone will get the hang of the auction. The catch is that you hold the brown bag up with the prize inside and have them bid without knowing what they are bidding on. The person with the highest bid opens the bag and to see what they have bought.
Have some fun and put some good prizes in bags and some practical jokes in the bags. My guests really enjoyed it when I did this game for my son's baby shower. Especially when someone got some baby food with a bib. That was hysterical. Have fun.
The Pick Up Bench:
This is a game for costume parties only. Players must be wearing costumes for it to be funny. Give each player a number. Numbers are randomly called. The first sits on the left and the other on the right. The player on the left has to invent a comical, creative pick up line for the player on the right based on how they are dressed, their costume. Flirting is permitted!
Tommy:
The group sits in a circle and one person (the detective) goes out of the room, closes his/her eyes and sticks his/her fingers in their ears. While the detective is out of the room the other people put sweets such as wrapped candies, homemade treats etc. onto a plate and name one sweet "TOMMY". Then the detective comes back into the room and picks up one sweet at a time, when the detective picks up "Tommy" the other people stop the person and all the sweets the detective has picked up is theirs to keep and the left overs go back with the other sweets. Then another person is the detective and leaves the room etc. This carries on while each person takes a turn until all the sweets have been used.
Truth or Scare:
Form a circle with the group. You pick a person to ask, "Truth or Scare?". If they say "truth" that means you have to ask them a question about their scariest time or their greatest fear or tell a scary story. But if they pick "Dare" then you dare them to do something daring that is scary!
Witch Witch Ghost:
Four or more people sit, stand, or kneel in a circle facing in. One person goes around the circle touching each person on the head as they pass and saying "Witch". The person on the outside continues around the circle tapping and saying "Witch" until he/she decides he/she's ready. He/she then taps someone on the head and says "Ghost" and proceeds to run around the circle. The "Ghost" must run around the circle in the opposite direction. Both are racing for the open spot in the circle. The loser gets to be the caller for the next round. Variations on this game are many including hopping or skipping, or perhaps in piggy-back.
Witches Brew:
Fill a big pot with prizes wrapped in black and green paper and throw a bunch of other gross stuff in such as rubber spiders and snakes, cobwebs, popcorn Styrofoam to make it look like a big stew. Keep paper towels handy, etc. to make it look like a big stew. If you are really daring you can add cooked wet spaghetti or Jell-O. Then have them reach their hand in for prize (if they dare!). For added fun, turn the lights down and/or blind fold each person before they reach in. Have fun!
http://www.partygamecentral.com/pgcstandard/gameliststd.asp?type=halloween&catname=HALLOWEEN+PARTY+GAMES
