Pin the Tail

This is a pin the tail on the bunny game that I made for my favorite kindergarten class. I hope they enjoy it!

Mummy Wrap

Yeah, I know, it's only September and I'm already getting ready for Halloween. I love holidays though, and Halloween is definitely a fun one. You can't beat free candy. I've experimented with all sorts of methods of collecting the most candy. One year I thought I'd hit the "rich" houses and get full sized candy bars and other rich people stuff. I soon discovered that rich people are actually really cheap. That's how they got so rich in the first place. Plus those mini-mansions are pretty spread out, and each driveway is like 2 miles long. I've successfully lied and collected an extra piece of candy from each house for my "sick brother" and of course I've switched masks and hit the same houses twice. There is a house of Chinese people that live up the street from my mom. One year they didn't have any candy, so they gave me a dollar. Score!

I have little ones that look up to me now, so my days of lying and cheating are over. The real best way to get the most candy is to start early, and stay out late. Plan your route ahead of time. Stick to middle class neighborhoods where the houses are close together. Use a pillowcase to avoid tear outs, and move quickly. I once took a group of kids trick or treating until their feet bled. No pain, go gain. It's one night of your life, suck it up for the candy!

Anyway, I wanted to share a favorite Halloween game of mine. The mummy wrap game is a hit with kids of all ages. Toilet paper is funny. Wrapping your friend in toilet paper is even funnier. Older kids can separate into teams and race to wrap each other up the fastest. Younger kids just enjoy wrapping each other up. The best part of the whole game (at least for me) is breaking out of the toilet paper once you're all wrapped up. I buy the dollar store toilet paper, four rolls for a dollar. Last time I planned on two rolls per child but had a bunch left over. It's not the cheapest game, but it's well worth the money. The kids will thank you!

Matching Game

This is a game I whipped up tonight to use with the bambinos tomorrow. It's just a cookies and milk matching game. They match the number of chocolate chips on the cookies to the number on the glass of milk.

I made myself cardboard stencils and traced the cookies and milk on paper. Then I cut them out, drew on the chocolate chips and numbers and covered them in contact paper. I also watched my cat get stuck on a sheet of contact paper. Serves him right for gettin' all up in my business. :)

Traced milk glasses

For the 20th time, Get Down! Here comes the contact paperAll done

Bowling

This is a cute little game I made for a Kindergarten and Pre-school Halloween party one year. I like to volunteer in the classrooms and my favorite thing of all is planning parties. I usually set up four or five stations with a game or craft at each one and let the kids rotate around to all the stations. Table top bowling is always something easy to make. The bowling pins are just toilet paper rolls. You can staple any kind of character on them. For Halloween I used ghosts, but I have also done Leprechauns and Reindeer. If you aren't a great artist, you can print pictures of whatever you want. Ghosts are really easy to draw, so I made my own on card stock. They are stapled to the bowling pins. (don't use glue..they will fall apart) The balls are actually squishy little pumpkins I found at the dollar store. You can use little gourds from the grocery store and cut off the stems. For other holidays you can use any little balls you happen to have lying around.

And here is a picture of the game in use. Awww! Gutter Ball!

Pin the ____ on the _____

I like to make pin the ________ on the __________ games for class parties. Here is a pin the nose on the jack o lantern and a pin the nose on the Rudolf.

I just use masking tape to pin on the noses. It's no problem to take off and reuse, especially if you draw on the shiny side of poster board.

There's me, getting ready to blindfold a little guy to play.