My daughter is in the second grade, but she still freaks out when she sees scary Halloween decorations. She’s terrified of the bloody limbs, moving skeletons and rolling eyeballs. Consequently, we tend to stick to the kid-friendly Halloween events and parties that pop up around our small community this time of year.
No tours of haunted mansions, creepy corn mazes or ghost towns for my kid. Rather, we’ve been spending weekends at fall festivals that have allowed her to sample the fun side of a horrifying holiday. Some of the games she’s had a blast playing at the local fests include:
Be a Scarecrow: Kids dress up as a not-so scary scarecrow complete with oversized jeans, a long sleeve button up shirt and plenty of straw sticking out from leg and arm openings. Then parents get to play paparazzi to document the moment.
Mummy Race: Kids are divided into teams of four. One person in the group is chosen to be the mummy and the rest of the teammates use rolls of toilet paper to wrap the kid as quickly as possible. A timer is set and when it goes off, the team with the best-wrapped mummy wins.
Pin the Nose on the Jack-o’-Lantern: This is a Halloween-themed variation on the traditional Pin the Tail on the Donkey game. Kids are given black triangles to attach to the pumpkin. The person who gets closest to the actual nose on the jack-o’-lantern wins.
Mystery Boxes: Fill cardboard boxes with gross-feeling items, such as cooked spaghetti, peeled grapes, Jell-O, and warm chunky soup in a plastic bag-—the goopier the better. Next, cut a medium-sized hole in the side of the box and have the kids put one hand through the hole and guess the identity of each item. The child who lists the most items correct wins the game and gets the prize.
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