Halloween games

Halloween snuck up on me and all of the sudden I realized that I would need to come up with some Halloween games for my classes in the week before Halloween. Here are the games I have been using.

4-7 year olds

• Pin the spider on the spider web
• My 4 year olds thought this game was so fun. I didn't spin the 4 and 5 year olds with the blindfold on, just the 6 and 7 year olds. Although my 6 year class seems to be unusually intelligent, half of them are in a Chinese immersion program and I think they are smarter than me. 
• Pass the pumpkin although instead of having them decorate a pumpkin when they get "out", I just gave them a page to color and some crayons to do it with. 
• This game was a riot! Not only was it fun for them to pass the pumpkin around and try not to be the last one with it, but since they still had something fun to do once they were "out" there wasn't any whining. Amazing. 

Preteens

• Make a spiderweb. Take a thing of yarn (what do you call those things? They aren't actually in balls...). Make a circle with your class, the teachers grabs one end of the string and throws the rest of the yarn to a girl across the circle, each girl does the same. Once everyone has grabbed the yarn once, you have made a giant spiderweb!

Teenagers

• Unwrapping candy game - classic game trying to unwrap candy with mittens. 
• Beans - Split the class in two or three groups, each group has two bowls, one full of beans and one empty, and each on a different side of the room. Using a plastic spoon, the team, one by one, fills the empty bowl with beans from the full bowl. 

I'm very glad the internet exists because I never would have thought of these games on my own. I'm not a game type of person and never liked playing games at dance when I was a dancer. It was way more fun as a teacher!

It was especially fun to see my sweet dancers in their little costumes. I'm kicking myself that I didn't get a picture!