Fun Halloween Games

Make a Spider Web All you need for this fun game isbest looking mummy.Eyeball Race Start with a plain
a ball of black, white, or silver yarn or string and aping-pong ball for each child. Use a Sharpie marker
few kids. Have everyone stand around in a circle. Askand draw on it to turn it into an eyeball. You can
one child to hold one end of the string and then tosssimple draw the pupil, or for a scarier version, add
the ball to another kid. Each child holds on the stringsome red wiggly lines to make the eyeball look
and then tosses it to someone else. Before youbloodshot.Give each child a spoon and drop one of
know it you'll have a great spider web.Mummythe eyeballs in each spoon. Now it's time to race. The
Contest Grab a few rolls of toilet paper and matchchild that reaches the finish line with the eyeball in the
the kids up in pairs. Of course you could also havespoon first wins.There you have it - three fun games
them choose partners. Ask each pair to decide whichyou can play with your kids to pass the day until it is
one of them will be the mummy and who will do thetime to go trick-or-treating. These games are also a
wrapping. Then - you guessed it - have one of thelot of fun at a Halloween party. Get your kids playing
children wrap the toilet paper around the other,them and watch all the spooky fun.Would you like to
creating a mummy.You can either make it a contestquickly make creative Halloween costumes that you
of speed or one of creativity. For the first, the teamand your children will be proud of -- for a fraction of
that has a completely wrapped mummy first wins.the price of store-bought? Susanne Myers has
For the second contest, the kids take as long asco-authored a book to show you how -- no sewing
they need to and you get to play judge and pick theinvolved. Visit to learn more.