| Make a Spider Web All you need for this fun game is | | | | best looking mummy.Eyeball Race Start with a plain |
| a ball of black, white, or silver yarn or string and a | | | | ping-pong ball for each child. Use a Sharpie marker |
| few kids. Have everyone stand around in a circle. Ask | | | | and draw on it to turn it into an eyeball. You can |
| one child to hold one end of the string and then toss | | | | simple draw the pupil, or for a scarier version, add |
| the ball to another kid. Each child holds on the string | | | | some red wiggly lines to make the eyeball look |
| and then tosses it to someone else. Before you | | | | bloodshot.Give each child a spoon and drop one of |
| know it you'll have a great spider web.Mummy | | | | the eyeballs in each spoon. Now it's time to race. The |
| Contest Grab a few rolls of toilet paper and match | | | | child that reaches the finish line with the eyeball in the |
| the kids up in pairs. Of course you could also have | | | | spoon first wins.There you have it - three fun games |
| them choose partners. Ask each pair to decide which | | | | you can play with your kids to pass the day until it is |
| one of them will be the mummy and who will do the | | | | time to go trick-or-treating. These games are also a |
| wrapping. Then - you guessed it - have one of the | | | | lot 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 contest | | | | quickly make creative Halloween costumes that you |
| of speed or one of creativity. For the first, the team | | | | and 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 as | | | | co-authored a book to show you how -- no sewing |
| they need to and you get to play judge and pick the | | | | involved. Visit to learn more. |