HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
Our daughter's birthday is just a couple days away from Halloween, so we have a Halloween/Birthday party every year to celebrate. Last year, we came up with a game we called Pumpkins in the Graveyard, and it was a hit!
First, we had some scary activities beforehand. We had the buckets of 'body parts', where the kids stuck in their hands and felt around and guessed what each part was--like the peeled grapes for eyeballs, etc. We did the fun stuff first, and then came the freaky, scary fun. We played a cd of creepy music and sounds, and set up a fog machine in our backyard graveyard. We had all these little pumpkins set up all thoughout the tombstones, and light up zombies. So, we told the kids that they each could have a pumpkin to decorate, but they had to go 'pick it' first in the graveyard. They had so much fun running throughout it-trying not to be too scared. It's optional whether or not you'd like to have someone jump out and scare them. The kids took the pumpkins inside after that to a table to decorate, but I noticed them looking outside to the graveyard often!
That's all they could talk about after the party was over--about how scary it was--but something they would never forget!
- Set up your graveyard.
Put the little pumpkins throughout--hiding a lot the best you can so it takes them a little while in there to find.
Put in a fog machine.
Turn on some scary music or sounds.
Let them go pick their pumpkins!
Have a table set up to decorate the pumpkins afterwards.
- Set up whatever you have to make a scary graveyard! Tombstones, body parts, bats, cobwebs, fog machine, etc. The kids love to help with this!
- Buy little pumpkins, one for each child at your party, and scatter throughout the graveyard.
- Turn on the fog machine and whatever scary music or sound effects you may have. It's best to do this when it's somewhat dark. That way, the effects are better and it takes the kids a few minutes in there to grab their pumpkins.
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