Halloween Party

The primary was in charge of putting on our yearly Ward Halloween Party. The primary does the game booths and trunk or treat, the youth do a spook alley, and the activity committee does the food.

I was so tempted to cancel the trunk or treat. Last year not one person decorated thier car-and I had to beg people to go stand outside and pass out candy. And then people still told me they didn't want to. What?! No fun spirit!!!! So this year we had a cute orange folder go around the ward that said "I will decorate my car and pass out candy for trunk or treat"--it had a detachable piece of paper to take home as a reminder---this worked. I think we had 8-10 cars out there decorated.

The next improvement we made was to let the small children-3 and under go outsided for the first 3-4 minutes. Last year was chaotic, with the older kids running around like wild indians. Even the youth were way to zealous to "get to the candy". So this idea was a plus!

Another improvement was to have a microphone to announce when we had a round of limbo or cupcake walk. So much easier than me trying to yell it out in the gym--that was pathetic!

Here are the games we did this year:
Bounce-those big bouncy ball things with handles for the smaller kids. just two, with semi-enclosed areav
Extreme Webbing-shoot silly string toward the spider in the web.---a big hit!! This should be in a closed off area, with plastic table cloths covering everything to protect the floor, walls, ...
Nightmare Facials-face paint and temp tattoos
Hairy Scary Spider Toss-spider toss game from Oriental Trading
Spin art-one of those spin art toys-the kids added paint and glitter-messy, but another hit! You need to have an area for the art to dry.
Duck Swamp-ducks in a pond.
Limbo and cupcake walk-up on the stage-these games were only at certain times.-every 15 minutes or so.
A table with bags and stickers for the kids to decorate and put their prizes and candy in.

Food was hot dogs, pizza snacks, and veggies and dip, and yummy punch.