HELP!

[sparkle**]

:DHey all! I was just wondering if any one can help. My boys are having a monster dressing up party and i need ideas for games. their 8 and 10 years old.

[Shrimply]

As long as you don't mind them getting dirty I have some all right Ideas.

Make some red jelly and before it sets add small prizes like plastic insects or such like. If you can get a monsters head to house the jelly its great but otherwise use an old sheet with a hole for a hand to cover the bowl. Guest take turns at getting out the prizes. This game is even more fun if you don't actually tell the what is inside and let their imaginations fill in the gaps.

If you have got plenty of outside space and the weather is good this one is great fun.Get the least transparent balloons you can find. Fill some up with water and food coloring and put sweets or other prizes in the others. Number them and suspend the in a row along a piece of string. Guests pull a number out a hat and stand under the balloon with the matching number. Each is then issued with needle and have to pop the one above their head.

Pinatas are also great fun if you can be bothered to make one. Using paper mache I'm am sure a monster could be sculptured.

Also if the party is later at night or you have really heavy curtains. replacing all your lights with coloured pygmy bulbs would produce a really interesting effect.

Hope this helped

[lozzer]

I know a few good games like donuts thats when you hang loads of donuts on strings all connected to a line and you have the eat the donut as fast you can with your hands tied up.So yuor just useing your mouth to eat the ung up donut.

[Shrimply]

Just a word of advice. Stock up at halloween next time

[sparkle**]

:DHey these ideas are great im deffenatly doing the jelly one and the donut one. i dont mind making anything and the messier the better!
Cheers any more would be greatly appreciated!

[Shrimply]

this one is a little more tame but what about
pin the nose on the monster

[Shrimply]

A few more.

If you can find some willing volunteers. Parents and older brothers or sisters are best. The kids will have great fun if you supply make up, decorations etc. Then split them up in to groups and the group that turns their volunteer into the best monster win.

Another fun game although it doesn't have anything to do with your theme is Fluffy Bunnies ;D

The kids all stand in a line and you go along the line putting a marshmallow in each of their mouths. Each time you put in a marshmallow they have to say fluffy bunnies. If they dribble, chew or swallow a marshmallow or fail to say fluffy bunnies then they are out the winner is the one with the most marshmallows in his mouth still able to say fluffy bunnies

[Jared]

haha that fluffy bunniy one is a good one!

[Shrimply]

Lets just say I have been in a scout troop for 9 years with some leaders which have a lot of imagination and a very warped idea of whats fun . However there is never a dull moment with them.

[sparkle**]

:DCheers Shrimpy! I have spent the last 2 days making grave stones out of cereal boxes to put in the front garden!games are great i'm making a list but the more the merrier!!

[Shrimply]

Just wondering if you have had the party yet and if it was a success ;D

[sparkle**]

Hey! no not yet. its the 28th october. Heres the graveswe've made for the front garden!

[Shrimply]

Wow. You do plan a long time ahead my parents always do everything at the last moment. Love the gravestones. Just clicked that it is a halloween party so I have amother game for you. You know after dunking for apples make them get a sweet out of a pile of icing sugar. What a mess.

[John Pilling]

I'd love a grave yard in my front garden, lol. (ignore me i'm a big stephen king and richard laymon fan).

[sparkle**]

Hey!! I'm glad you liked my grave yard. Thats just the beginning!!!
I have to plan ahead,with my brood and working i have little time.
But it is gonna be a top night! ;D my kids are really looking forward to it. NO ONE is alowed in to the party unless they are dressed up. even my mum and dad are dressing up. one of the kids mums asked if she could stay for the party and she was told " you can only come if your in fancy dress!"
All of my walls are going to be covered in webs and i've got all sorts of weired and wonderful things to hang from the walls!
Its turning into a major event!!

[lozzer]

Hope it goes ok,ive had halloween partys in the past and we spent about £100 on all the web lol.And a little word of advice if you do apple dunking make sure no one dunks for them with hair dye in their hair lol as ive learned of from experiences.

[Shrimply]

It sounds great. My parents just don't have the imagination or time to pull off something like that. I can imagine that you will be tidying up months later.
When lozzer said that they should not wear hair dye what he actually meant was the more hair dye and make-up that gets in the water and icing sugar the better.

Oh and we just have to see a picture of you in fancy dress. ;D

[lozzer]

Lol quite right shrimply

[sparkle**]

Hey! my costume is being made as we speak!
I will post pics after the party. my dads gonna be dracula, mums a witch,my kids are a devil a zombie, a skeleton and darthvader. hubbys gonna be a werewolf and im gonna be a.........well you'll have to guess!!!!!!
The reson for this party is that its my boys birthdays and im not sure how many parties they are gonna want, as wesley is gonna be 11.

[Shrimply]

We all love a party no matter what age we are. Maybe this part is as much for you as the kids . For one of my sisters parties my parents rented a bouncy castle and then got us all off to bed early so they could spend the rest of the evening playing on it .