Here are some sites that should give you some ideas. The
first two have party games and stuff and I think the others
have mostly recipes. Hope you find something that you can use.

http://www.e-tutor.com/kn/backIssues/issue1099/parent_crafts.html
http://www.boardmanweb.com/party/halloween.htm
www.fabulousfoods.com/holidays/halloween/halloween.html
www.garvick.com/funpark/recipes/dl/halloween.htm halloween recipes
www.kitchenlink.com/cgi/public_frames?page=halloween2
www.kraftfoods.com/templates/ff.jhtml?main=/ff/halloween_2001/kikh_pumpkin_place&wf=11004

I had a kiddie Halloween party last yr & will do so again this yr. I keep it fun & it's mostly for younger kids but here are some of the things I did.

Coloring pages I printed out 4 different jack-o-lantern coloring pages which I could make copies of & use it when the kids first arrive until everyone gets here & the official activities begin. I bought small boxes of crayons from Oriental Trading.

Candy Corn Drop Halloween Party Game
· Each child is given 15 pieces of candy corn.
· Kids kneel on a chair and drop pieces of candy corn, one at a time, into a glass on the floor.
· The person who gets the most corn in the glass wins!

Pin the Nose on the Jack-o-Lantern: - I used reusable tape

PICTURE FRAMES
Take a Polaroid of the guests when they arrive and the photo and frame are a great gift.
Oriental Trading as well as Micahels have cute foam frames which they can decorate with Halloween foamies

Who's Got the Pumpkin
Place everyone is a circle. Start a song (Halloween themed songs like Monster Mash are neat to use!) and toss a mini pumpkin to one person, they throw it to the next, and so on until the music stops. The person who is caught holding the pumpkin has to leave the circle. The last one left is the winner and keeps the pumpkin. Note: this is like hot potato.

Of course what'a party without a pinata _ i add junky toys like spider rings & candy of course

Pumpkin Bowling: Get a hold of 4-6 plastic pumpkin buckets and a small ball (plastic bowling balls are perfect). Stack the pumpkins in a pyramid on a hard surface and let the kids bowl to their hearts' content! Assign a little helper to assist you with picking up the pumpkins and stacking them.

Mr Pumpkin Head (2 cersions)
1 -Get a real pumpkin and supply washable markers, and props such as glasses, paper mustache, hats, scarves, and wigs. Let each child have turn to decorate and dress up pumpkin. When next child's turn - just wash the markers off!
2- Oriental Trading has stickers to decroate balloons with - eye, nses, mouths, etc. & I had each child bring their own medicum sized pumpkin & they got to decroate theirs with a whole asst. fo facial features

We set up a little trick or treating area: Of course you can do anything for that but I set up 3 stations:
· 1st station: have plastic jack-o-lantern filled with lots of pennies. Then each child can reach up (eye level) and grab as many as they can with one hand. It is surprising how thrilled they are that they are getting a handful of pennies for their trick or treat bags.
· 2nd station: Ghosts Pops - Take a small round lollipop. Lay it in the center of a kleenex and wrap around the head of the lollipop. Tie with a piece of yarn, string, or ribbon. Add 2 black dots for eyes and there you have your ghost.
· the 3rd station I did min bags of microwaveable popcorn, but if you want to stay away from candy b/c they'll be getting plenty int he pinata you can do the animal crakers or pretzel bags instead

Oriental Trading catalog as well as Party City also have other games, like a sand bag toss, Halloween bingo, Halloween twister, velcro Halloween dart board..... They also have great ideas for favors & goodie bags.

Michie