You can print and use these Halloween Bingo boards to play your own bingo games. You will need to print enough Bingo cards so that each player has one. You will also need to print some extra so you can cut them apart to create small individual picture cards. These are best if they are printed on card stock. 

To play, you will need to have one person be the caller.

• Each player needs enough counters (beans work well) to cover his or her board.
• The caller draws a card out of a hat or box, then announces what the picture is. 
• Players cover the picture with a counter.
• You can play so that the winner only needs to cover a line or so that the winner has to cover the entire board. Just let everyone know which way you are playing.
• As soon as a player reaches the goal, he or she shouts "Happy Halloween."
• The caller then makes sure that the player really has one by checking the player's card with the small cards drawn. 
• A small prize can be given to the winner.

To print off playing cards, PC users, right click on the image. Save image. Mac users, click and hold mouse button. Then save image. After saving the image, insert it into a Word Perfect, Word, or other word processing program that accepts jpg images. Then you are ready to resize the image if needed or print.

How To Make A Haunted House (These are our suggestions for making a really cool, spooky haunted house.

• Buy or make a skeleton to hang in a doorway.  Add some ketchup for "blood", or use some from a tube of fake blood where you buy Halloween makeup.
• Use plastic lined paper lunch bags and put in one of each: peeled grapes (eyeballs), wet, overcooked, soggy spaghetti in jello(intestines and guts), cooked cold scrambled eggs in a mix of raw egg white (brains).  You could offer these to the guests as candy rewards along the way ("Here's a bubblegum for making it down the haunted hall" (Hold the bag out and let them reach in.)  "Ooops! That was the wrong bag! That was witch intestines from Dr. Frankenstein's Lab!  Heeeere's the bubblegum bag--silly me!"  (Hand them a paper towel and a bag that really has bubblegum or treats in it)
• Note: For "feely" jello, use the reduced-liquid recipie, i.e. for Jello Jigglers.  The regular recipie will quickly melt.
• Put sand along part of a trail, with big ugly footprints.

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This game is a race. To play you divide your friends into teams of two each. Give each team a roll of toilet paper. Instruct one member of each team to wrap up their partner (mummy style). At the sound of the screech the person who isn't going to be wrapped  must start wrapping their partner and must use the whole toilet paper roll . Arms must be separate from the body, and try to avoid wrapping the head. When their mummy is wrapped they should yell "It's a wrap!". If there is a tie or a close call, the other teams could vote on which "mummy" is wrapped best (i.e. fewest bare spots except for the head). If you play again trade partners.

Write up clues for Halloween characters, Such as Frankenstein, Witch, Mummy, cat , rat, Etc.,
on the slips of paper. Get a white balloon and color a ghost on it and put a slip in each balloon.
Divide your guests up into two groups .The first player gets Three minuets to choose what balloon they want. Pop it , then read the clue silently. Act it out until you team guess the character.

Decorating Ideas
 

• Buy some cotton spider webs from a craft store. Separate the cotton webs into long strands and hang them from corners, lights, and fixtures.
• Cover a table with a black paper table cloth. Place a  plastic orange sheet over the top. Cut out Halloween shapes (bats, etc.) from the top cloth around the overhanging edges.
• Get cardboard and cut out gravestones and cut and paint them gray. Write down funny or scary things on them.
• Play some scary music for friends when they arrive.

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Hang some donuts on a string and tack the string to the ceiling.
Have your friends be on their knees and race to see who can eat their donut the fastest with out using their hands.

• Get an 8 !/2 by 11 inch or larger sheet of paper or cardstock and with a ruler divide the sheet in thirds with two horizontal lines all the way across, and in thirds vertically with two lines equally spaced down from top to bottom.  This will look like a large Tic Tac Toe board. This leaves you with 9 equal spaces on the paper. 
• Now, print or draw 9 Frankensteins (with slight differences in faces, hair color etc., so they look unique, and put small numbers in the top corner of each box (from one to nine). The drawing of each Frankenstein can be done by the party players as a fun activity if you like.
• Buy some candy "markers" that can fit on the paper( jelly beans, m&m's, fruit loop cerial etc. ). Put one piece of candy on each Frankenstein face. 
• Send one person out of the room and choose one of the Frankentsiens to be the "jinx". 
• Call the player back in.  She may start to take one treat at a time from the board. (She can have a little plastic cup to collect them in). 
• The  object of the game is for the player to gather as many treats as she can before reaching for the "jinxed" one.  As soon as she picks up the jinxed one, even if it's her first try, all in the group can holler, "DON'T EAT FRANKENSTEIN!!!". 
• That player's turn is over. She gets to keep the treats in her cup. 
• Another person in the group now can go out of the room while the last player gets to select a new Frankenstein "jinx". Refill all the spaces on the card with candy before the player comes out. 
• This variation of "Don't Eat Pete!" is so popular it can go for several rounds through all the players. 
• Also, if you have a lot of players this game can be done in smaller groups of three to five players at several tables, each with a game board and a bowl of candy for markers. This way, even a classroom can be kept involved. 
• A Halloween sticker can be used to fill each of the nine spaces on the gameboard to save drawing time.

Each player can have their own pumpkin, or an especially nice round one can be shared by the group.  Use soda cans as pins.  The cans or soda bottles can be full or empty. Its your risk! Soda bottles can be used that have been refilled with water for stability. This can be done on the driveway, lawn, hallway etc.  Wherever a mess is not a problem.  Have a point value on a sticker stuck to each of the cans.  Play as you do bowling, with modifications as needed.

A variation of musical chairs.  Cut an orange paper pumpkin for each child or get a small red pumpkin to use.  Put the pumpkins in a large circle.  Take one pumpkin out of the circle.  Have the children walk around the circle while the music is playing.  When the music stops, one child will not be standing in front of a pumpkin.  This child should pick up one of the pumpkins from the circle and go to snack.  The game continues until all of  the children have a pumpkin and have gone to snack.

Make lots of tissue paper ghosts.  Lay a white tissue flat.  Put a piece of cotton in the middle and tie with a rubber band or piece of yarn.  Just before circle time, hide the ghosts throughout the room.  Play Halloween music and let the children search for the ghosts.  When the music stops, the children should return to the circle.  Extension:  When circle time is over, have markers available at the Art Center and encourage the children to put faces on the ghosts that they found.  If there is a table top "spooky tree", they can hang the ghosts on to decorate.

A variation of Pin the Tail on the Donkey.  Draw a witch's head on a poster board ( profile -- with ugly nose,  long chin, hat, etc.)  Stick poster to the wall with putty.  Have the player stand 6 feet from the witch.  Give the player a dime-sized putty "wart".  Blindfold and turn the player around 3 times.  Point the player forward towards the poster. If the player presses the wart anywhere on the witch's face the player wins one ticket/prize/treat.  If it lands on the nose, the player gets a reward and another turn.