Gross Halloween Party Games for Children
- Dressing up in costumes, trick-or-treating, hanging creepy decorations and telling bone-chilling tales are all part of Halloween fun. If you intend on having a Halloween party for your children and their friends, incorporate some gross games to make the party a squeamishly good time.
- Find the Eyeball game will gross out the children at your party and provide them with lots of laughs. Prior to the party, cook a pot of plain spaghetti and cool it. Purchase fake eyeballs from a party or craft supply store. Mix the eyeballs into the pot of spaghetti. To play, children must sift through the spaghetti with their hands and pull out as many eyeballs as they can. The person to find the most eyeballs is the winner. This game can be played with any age group.
- The Transfer the Slime game has been modified from the Disney Family Fun website. Prior to your party, purchase four plastic witch's cauldrons and plastic eyeballs, worms, snakes, spiders and any other gross creepy-crawly objects. Make a large batch of Jello--enough to fill two of the cauldrons at least halfway. Before placing the Jello in the refrigerator to set, mix in the plastic toys that you purchased. To play the game, place two cauldrons at one end of a room or your yard and the other two opposite--with about 15 feet of space between them. Divide the party-goers into groups of two. Using their hands, the players must scoop up the Jello from one cauldron and fill the empty cauldron opposite them as quickly as possible. One person from each team goes one at a time. The team to fill the empty cauldron first wins. A word of caution: if you are playing this game indoors, protect your floors from dripping Jello by lining them with old sheets or plastic. This game can be played with any age group.
- The Creepy Body Parts game will creep out and gross out children in a fun way. You will need olives, cooked spaghetti, pork rinds, raw carrots and Chiclets gum. Place these objects into individual jars or bags--do not use see-through containers. Find or create a spooky story to tell children involving body parts-- perhaps a story about a mad scientist or a witch brewing a human stew. Tell the story in a dark room and illuminate your face with a flashlight as you tell the story. Keeping the room dark will prevent children from seeing what is actually in the containers. As you tell the story, pass the containers around so that children can feel the body parts that the mad scientist or witch used. The carrots represent fingers or toes; the Chiclets represent teeth; the olives represent eyeballs; the cooked spaghetti represents guts and the pork rinds represent skin. It may be best to play this game with older children, as younger children may be too frightened.