Pass the parcel – don’t think it needs any explaining – anyone fancy the tedium of wrapping a many layered parcel to bring along?!
Mummy wrap – players divide into pairs with each pair having a toilet roll. The first team to use their toilet roll up by wrapping it around one of the team is the winner. Please can someone volunteer to bring a big value pack of loo rolls for this game!
Pumpkin bowling – empty 2 litre plastic drinks bottles either painted white and with ghost faces drawn on or with paper/cardboard spooky characters taped to the front. Arranged as skittles and knocked down by rolling a pumpkin. Does anyone drink enough drinks from plastic bottles to have a stash of these by next weekend that they could decorate and bring along?
Pumpkin catch – divided into two or more teams with a grown up heading up each team and several children. The grown up has a plastic pumpkin bowl tied round their waist and from a certain distance away children have to throw the popcorn into the pumpkin. The adult can move around as long as they remain behind the distance marker. The team with the most popcorn in the pumpkin at the end is the winner. I’ve got the plastic pumpkins but if someone could bring along the popcorn – or alternative such as packaging foam or similar that would be great
Pumpkin over head under legs relay game – pretty much what it says on the tin. At least 2 teams with at least 4 players per team stand in a row and pass the pumpkin over their head backwards to the person behind who passes it through their legs backwards to the person behind. When the person at the back of the row has the pumpkin they run to the front of the row and the game starts again. When the person who was initially at the front of the row is there again the team sit down. First team sitting is the winning team. I think if everyone coming could bring a pumpkin then we should have more than sufficient for all these games. This will need an adult to supervise so if anyone is up for that role that would be good!
Quite like this one! But wonder if anyone’s children would get too distressed by it! Whatever – we need a few balls of wool or string if someone could offer to bring them along Spider Web Party Game – Variation
Gather all the children round in a large circle and give them all a ball of wool each. Try to use different coloured wool as this makes a much more interesting web. Get each child to tie the end of the wool loosely around their waist. When everyone is done, each person throws their ball of wool to anyone else in the circle, preferably all at the same time. They then put the wool around their waist and throw it to someone else. This carries on until you run out of wool. To add a little spice, they can wrap the wool around legs, arms, etc. At the end what they have created is a massive multi coloured spiders web which they can’t get out of very easily. Hours of fun and entertainment and if you’re really lucky they will spend the next hour trying to free themselves!
Trick or Treat – lots of ‘tricks’ such as things like ‘cackle like a witch’, ‘walk round the room like a zombie’ ‘crawl like a spider’ written on pieces of paper held in a plastic pumpkin with less pieces of paper with ‘treat’ written on them. Children sit in a circle and take it in turns to pick a piece of paper out and either carry out the trick or claim their treat from a seperate pumpkin of treats. Anyone up for making the pieces of paper with tricks on? And leading the game on the day?
Will also do apple bobbing, cauldron lucky dip of icky stuff etc.
If anyone has any other great ideas for stuff to bring along please shout now 🙂
I like tedious jobs, we’ll do a pass the parcel.
Comment by Sarah — 18 October 2005 @ 12:01 pm
Can I just bring some food and hide in a corner when the games are on?? Sorry!
Comment by Kirsty — 18 October 2005 @ 1:04 pm
We have loads of popping corn in the cupboard, so can probaby contribute the popcorn for the catching game. Is there a saucepan and a kitchen at the hall where I could pop the corn on site, so we don’t have to carry enormous bags of popcorn on the train?
Comment by Dani — 18 October 2005 @ 1:51 pm
I’ll bring the loo rolls, as they’ll be transportable easily. How many? And Bob says he expects to be a performing seal all day, so just treat him as another Ady. You know the drill 😉
Comment by Joyce — 18 October 2005 @ 2:11 pm
Do I have to come to this bit – it sounds awful. I can picture any number of children crying because they lost – in fact I can picture Sarah crying because she lost. I wouldn’t be suprised if she is practising wrapping Steve up in toilet roll at this very moment, knowing just how competitive she is. At least we know she won’t be playing pumpkin bowling ‘cos she is crap 😉
Comment by Chris — 18 October 2005 @ 3:38 pm
LOL@Chris
2L bottles – we get through loads of fizzy water, but it’s the value stuff so very flimsy bottles. Just checked and we have 5 waiting in the recycling atm. I’m sure we’ll get through another 5 in the next fortnight if we have to 😉 (Was just about to type, ‘it *is* 10 for ten-pin-bowling, isn’t it?’ but managed to stop myself in time.) So put me down for providing skittles. Would we use the plastic pumpkins you already have to bowl with?
I’ll try to get to the scrap store tomorrow and maybe that will inspire me with some more ideas…
Comment by Barbara — 18 October 2005 @ 4:46 pm
Sarah – thank you 🙂
Kirsty – of course you can!
Allie – no, no kitchen facilities there so bin bags full of popped corn on the train for you then 😉
Excellent Joyce, probably about 15/20 I would imagine and hurrah to Bob 🙂
Chris – I don’t imagine it being too dreadful. The only reason I’m planning to have lots is cos there are going to be so many children and its all one room so the thought of all of them just running wild would be a bit of a nightmare for such a long time. So the plan is at any one time there will be stuff they can do themselves, stuff going on for smaller groups organised by willing adults (which I am actually quite unlikely to be myself, so i totally understand any one else who is not up for it either) and then an amount of children running wild also.
Barbara, excellent thanks 🙂 The plan is to use real pumpkins. I though if everyone brought one with them we would have enough for various pumpkin related activities.
Comment by Nic — 18 October 2005 @ 6:10 pm
Shout at me next week with last minute stuff and I’ll fill the gaps 🙂
Comment by Roslyn — 18 October 2005 @ 8:15 pm
I have a popcorn maker I could bring if it might help? Assuming the hall will have elctricity 😉
Comment by Kirsty — 18 October 2005 @ 11:24 pm
Nic, I am waiting to read this all properly when I have time – I’m not just ignoring it, ad will certainly do something! Just can’t think atm.
Comment by Alison — 19 October 2005 @ 9:12 am
I’ll do the trick or treat one 🙂 And can probably bring a ball or two of wool – that spider web sounds very funny, we’ll just have to make sure we have a pair of scissors handy if anyone feels the need to be freed immediately!
Comment by Alison — 19 October 2005 @ 9:21 pm
We did the ball of string/cobweb thing at our party, but the kids were generally a bit older 6/7 ish. It went down well though, though somehow Bob ended up tied up in the middle. Sigh.
Comment by Joyce — 19 October 2005 @ 11:03 pm
Thanks for the offer, Kirsty, but I’m sure we’ll manage to bring the popped corn – we’re travelling on the train with Ali, and our kids think it will be a great laugh to be bringing bags of popcorn with us while dressed as witches, dragons and vampires!
We can also bring some wool, and a pumpkin (probably quite a small one, though).
Comment by Dani — 20 October 2005 @ 12:52 am