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Halloween Party Games
Party games for Halloween may or may not have dark themes. The purpose of these games is to bring together person who may not know each other well and be an icebreaker. The games and activities should be enjoyable by all and encourage people to talk to each other. One should choose the games carefully according to the age and tastes of the gathering. A game, which involves lots of activity, may tire the elderly but will be enjoyed by young children. Games that involve adventure and perhaps use of strategies such as treasure hunt or ghost hunters may become a hit with tweens and teens.

Improvisations can be done to adapt popular games to the theme of Halloween. Simple games like peanut race or pass the balloon can be kept simple or made challenging by introducing new twists and turns to the game. Here, we are suggesting some of the easiest and best-enjoyed Halloween party games. Use your creativity and innovative bend to make these games more interesting and earn the adoration that you deserve for throwing best Halloween parties in town.

Carve out the meat from the walnuts and fasten short pieces of colored birthday candles to each halves. Name each walnut candle boat after a person in the party, light them up and set them afloat in a tub of water. If the two boats glide together, then those two people are said to have similar destiny. If they glide apart, it means separation for the owners of the boats. Sometimes candles seem to huddle together as a close-knit family while one or two will be left alone to represent loneliness and solitude. The candle that goes out first is said to indicate that its owner would remain a spinster or a bachelor.

This fortune game is not only interesting and keeps the youths interested at least as long as the candles last but also add to the Halloween aura. The party venue with creepy decorations looks even scarier in flickering candlelights as walnut candle boats float around water. If a pair of candles seems to float together from the start, it is predicted that the pair will be very close to each other throughout their lives and will probably marry each other. Toppling of the walnut candle boats is considered an ill omen and thus, care should be taken not to let the boats drown.

Fortune telling using a deck of playing cards or tarot cards is increasingly becoming a favored time-pass among youths. Halloween party with the host and hostess dressed as a wizard and a witch and telling fortunes of their guests wing tarot cards or playing cards is sure to be a hit. You can also dress up like a gypsy and have a crystal ball on the table for added effect. Keep the lights dim and focus the desk lamp on the cards. If you are doing this for the first time, you will need a Tarot Card book or a fortuneteller book for playing cards to assist you in interpreting the cards. There are two ways to make predictions using the cards.

Ask the person to shuffle the cards well, while thinking up and concentrating on a question. After they have shuffled enough, take the cards from his or hands and fan them out, so that the person can choose a card from them. Open the book and see what the card they have drawn means. Another simple way is the three-card spread. Here, the person has to think of a question and focus on it while they shuffle the cards and cut the deck twice to make three piles. Then, ask them to choose one of the piles, and keep it on the top of other piles. Deal 3 cards from the topmost pile. The first card to the left reflects the past of the person; the card in the middle reflects the present while the card on the right reflects the future. Interpret the cards and reveal the past, present and future of the person.

Prepare a coffin-shaped cake for Halloween. Hide a penny, a ring and a feather in the cake. One who bites upon the feather will have good health. A penny in your mouth means that you will have prosperity and wealth in the coming year while a ring indicates that you will soon meet your true lover and would-be spouse. Since, children may swallow these things, this game is intended only for teens or adults Halloween party. You can also improvise on this fortune game to make it more interesting for your guests.

Hide the penny, ring and feather at different places in the venue for Halloween party. Drop clues from time to time. Anyone who finds one or more things at the earliest will be the winner. Finding more than one thing might mean that a particular person is luckier this year. Some of the places where you can hide things are:
A ring in the skull’s mouth,
A penny in skeleton’s hand, and
A feather on the pirate’s hat.
You can turn this into a treasure hunt game of a larger magnitude by adding more things to the list, each one symbolic of a particular happening in the future.

Variation of fortune cookies, the peanuts have to be rolled in tiny bits of paper with words that indicate the possible future course and are arbitrarily passed out to the guests. The words can be - journey, wealth, success, marriage, promotion and so on. There can be variations of the peanut divination game and you can improvise on them, as you like. You can also wrap boxes with roasted peanuts and a chit with a small prophetic sentence written on it as a party favor for your guests. You can make your prophecies funny, hilarious or scary, as you like. Here are some ideas for prophecies you can write this Halloween:
At midnight, you will see Satan under your bed.
Your beloved lives in the mirror - call for ‘Bloody Mary’.
Twist your hair in bun or
Demons will have Halloween fun
With your head.
Be on the alert for a new opportunity.
A promotion and a beloved for you.
Salty treats for nasty tricks - beware.
Your destiny is just around the corner.
Your success will astonish everyone
I am only here for your soul.
Keep your doors open
For the Opportunity coming to you.
Many surprises are coming up.
Go ahead and bet on the horses.
Vampires are extending their powers to you for the night.
Anyone who comes by you in this year
Will be bewitched by you.
Pure heart, clear mind and devout soul
Will keep you safe from sins.
Things are turning for the bright/dark side.

Apple Peel is an old practice among young girls and women on Halloween to know the initials of their lover or future spouse. It also keeps them interested in their work while preparing Halloween feast as they play along and look for their fortunes and share their secret desires or chuckles. It is an easy game and an interesting one to play and get your guests to share some of your work. Give each of the guests an apple and a paring knife. The guests have to work diligently and peel the apple from top to bottom in a continuous circle.

The guests have to make sure that peel does not break in between for the charm to work. Once they have an entire apple peel, which now looks like a spiral, they can start tossing it for predictions. All the guests have to do is to throw the peel over their shoulder while stating that ‘Peel, peel, please reveal, the initial letter, of my true love.’ Do not look back, until it falls on the floor. It is said that if done in the right manner, the peel will fall in the shape of an alphabet, which is supposed to be the initial letter of the true lover of the individual. This game is more popular among teenagers and boys and girls of marriageable age.

In some regions of Scotland and Ireland, Halloween celebrations start by kindling fire on top of hills and on plains by young people, which is known as ‘Halloween Bleeze’, as a part of the holiday ritual. In the past, a circular trench to symbolize sun surrounded these sacred bonfires. Then, youths kindle faggot’ made up of heath, broom and dressings of flax tied to the end of a pole from this bonfire and carry on the shoulders to the village to rekindle old hearths with new ceremonial fire. If the faggot gets burnt out in the way, a second one is ties to the pole, before the fire dies. Thus, several blazing faggots being carried through the villages look quite beautiful.

The natives of Hebrides used to pour ale into sea for a marine God called Shony on Celtic Samhain or Halloween, so that he sends seaweed to the shore, which is a good fertilizer. The sacred bonfires of Samhain are similar to Solar fire festivals of Solstices and Equinoxes, except that it was timed with the lunar calendar and were called ‘Samhanagan’. Each household used to compete each other to have the ‘Biggest one. Later these traditions moved on to Nwe Year Celebrations but still a traditional Scottish Halloween song called ‘Hogmanay’ mentions these rituals. Fire rituals of Halloween also include the Nutcracker ritual, predominant in the north of England.

One of the Halloween rituals related to these fire rituals indicate that when the fire dies down, its ashes are used to form a circle and one stone for each member of the household is kept inside this circle near the circumference. If any stone is displaced or seems broken by next morning, then the person to whom that stone belongs is believed to die within a year. A similar rite in north Wales includes a great bonfire called ‘Coel Coeth’ being built for each family on Halloween. Later, the members of the household throw a white stone in the ashes marked in their name. Next morning, all the stones are searched for and if any stone is missing, then the person who threw that stone, is believed to die before next Halloween.

An old custom, which was meant to be fun but was dangerous, involved hanging a stick horizontally from the ceiling using string at Halloween. On one end an apple was hung from the stick, while on the other end, a lighted candle was hung from the stick. The stick was twirled rapidly and then left to unwind the string on its own while the guests used to leap up and bite the apple, while their hands were bound behind their backs. Most of the time, while they were jumping, the candle used to scorch their faces or black soot stuck on their face and it was thought to be hilarious. Apple bobbing is an old Halloween sport too where people duck inside the tub to catch the apple as it floats away from them. While some know how to suck up the apple deftly, others force it to the bottom by plunging in. People also display their marksmanship skills by taking turns drop a fork from the height into the tub and try to make it stick in the apple.

In the old Greek and Celtic mythology, apples are often associated with sex and pagan religions. The Three Mothers of the World were said to be connected with apple tress while the apple tree was sacred to the Goddess in Romanian folklore. In Christianity, apples are well portrayed as the symbol of sex in the Garden of Eden legend. It is believed that eating an apple before a looking glass at midnight on Halloween will allow a young girl to see their future husband in the reflection peeping over her shoulder. The spell says that the girl should cut the apple into two pieces in such a way that the ‘seed part’ resembles a pentangle. She should then throw one of the pieces over her left shoulder for her lover and should walk backwards towards the mirror without looking back while she eats the rest of the apple with one hand and comb her hair with the other hand before the mirror. Then she should look back to see the face of her future spouse.

The youths of agrarian societies of Scotland and Ireland celebrated ‘All Hallow’s Eve’, the forerunner of Halloween, as the occasion to indulge into foretelling of their marital prospects using crops. Halloween basically originated in Scotland and Ireland as All Hallow’s Eve. With time, these casual games turned into customary Halloween rituals. Scottish youths used to go out in the night of Halloween blindfolded. They would pluck the first colewort (a type of cabbage) that comes their way along with the roots. The length of the stalk was used to determine the height of the future spouse and the amount of earth clinging to the roots was thought to be the indicative of the wealth and prosperity of the couple.

Some youths would even hang the stalks over the door and would try to guess the names of their future spouse from the first names of the people who enter or leave the door. Scottish women also used to place two nuts in the fireplace. They named the nuts after themselves and their boyfriends. This Nut Cracker ritual was believed to indicate the faithfulness and loyalty of the couple towards each other. The nut that jumped or cracked was thought to be indicative of unfaithfulness of the person after whom that nut was named. If both the nuts burned silently and simultaneously, the couple was said to be faithful towards each other and was indicative of their marriage.

Jack-o’lanterns have their origin in a legend of Ireland. There was an old man called Jack who had never done a good thing in life. He would just drink and play pranks upon people. Thus he was a favored servant of Satan. However, once when Satan was about to win over God, Jack tricked him into defeat. After his death, he could not enter the heaven because of his evil ways. He went to Satan for help who only threw a burning coal on him. The coal landed into the half-eaten pear (another version cites turnip) of Jack and thus it became the first lantern of Jack or Jack-o’lantern. In United States, pumpkins replaced pears/turnips as they were bigger and easier to hollow out and were readily available. Pumpkin carving and making Jack-o’lanterns are popular activities of Halloween.
 

Items you will need:

Ice cream stick,
Orange tempura paint,
6 (12″ long) orange chenille sticks,
Red glitter glue,
2 Wiggle eyes and
Tacky glue.
Directions:

Paint the ice cream stick in orange color.
Wrap chenille sticks around body to form legs.
Bend legs into position.
Glue two wiggle eyes on the head.
Fill in the gaps with red glitter glue.