Little ones aren't the only ones to have fun getting dressed up in costumes - with the many choices available, adults will be able to have fun too. There are plenty of reasons to find yourself getting dressed up in a costume, not only for Halloween, but just about any sort of occasion will do, and you'll find yourself being transformed into that someone you have always wanted to be. If you find yourself needing to get ready for a costume party, you'll be excited to know that there are many many ideas and costumes obtainable on the market, the hardest decision is picking out who or what you are wanting to become.



10 Halloween Activities

For ages 3-5

Pin the Crow on the Scarecrow

What you need:

  Scarecrow

  Crows

  Push pins or tape

Directions:

Make a flat scarecrow for hanging on the wall out of child shirt and pants. Add a paper face and straw hat. You can also use a store-bought cutout. Cut out crows from black and yellow (for beaks) fun foam. Give each blindfolded child a crow with tape or tack. Pin the crow on the scarecrow’s shoulder!

(you can also make a witch and pin the wart onto the witch)

Gooey Green Slime

What you need:

  1 1/2 cup Warm Water

  2 cup Elmer’s Glue

  Green Food Coloring

  4 tsp. Borax

  1 1/3 cup Warm water

Directions:

Solution A: 1 1/2 cups of warm water and 2 cups of Elmer’s Glue Food Coloring

Solution B: 4 tsp. Borax and 1 1/3 cups of warm water

Mix solution A in one bowl, mix solution B in another bowl. Dissolve both well. Then just pour solution A into solution B, DO NOT MIX OR STIR! Just lift out flubber. You can use glass bowls so the kids can see the chemical reaction. Store in Ziploc baggies.

Holiday Bowling

What you need:

  10 toilet tissue rolls (or 10 2 liter soda bottles)

  Tag board cut outs

  Small ball (or small pumpkin)

Directions:

Take ten toilet tissue tubes and attach tag board ghosts and pumpkins. Draw a triangle shape on the floor and place the tubes in a 4-3-2-1 triangle. Have the child roll a soft ball and bowl. Get the children counting by setting up tubes, and by counting the ones that are knocked over.

Variation:
You can use cleaned out 2 liter soda bottles with a small amount of water in them (decorated). And you can bowl with a small pumpkin, or even a grapefruit!

Mr. Skeleton Where’s Your Bone

Directions: One child (Mr. Skeleton) stands in the middle of the circle of children with eyes closed. This can be done with only a few children but if you have a large number of kids, I’d suggest having 3 or 4 Mr. Skeletons at a time in the middle of the circle with 3 or 4 bones passed out. Let the skeletons take turns guessing.

The children chant:
Mr. Skeleton where’s your bone?
Somebody stole it from your home.
Guess who? Maybe you!
Maybe a ghost from Kalamazoo
Now Mr. Skeleton find your bone!

While they are chanting the leader hands a “bone” (a pencil would work or you could cut a bone shape from cardboard) to one of the children. All the kids put their hands behind their backs and then Mr. Skeleton opens his eyes. He guesses who has the bone (you can either give three guesses and then he has to be Mr. Skeleton again if he guesses wrong or you can let them guess until they succeed). The person who had the bone becomes the new Mr. Skeleton.

Magic Potion
What you need:
• 2 Tbsp Water
• 1 Tbsp Baking soda
• 2 Tbsp Vinegar

Directions:
1.  Place a bowl or cup on a pan or tray (or you’ll get potion all over the place!)
2.  Fill the bowl with 2 tablespoons of water and stir in a tablespoon of baking soda until it dissolves.
3.  Measure 2 tablespoons of vinegar into a separate cup.
4.  Pour the vinegar, all at once into the water/baking soda mixture and watch your potion bubble up!
WHY’D THAT HAPPEN??  The bubbles that are created are filled with carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide is a gas that forms when the vinegar (an acid) reacts with the baking soda (a base). For all you bakers out there, this is also what makes cakes and quick breads (the no yeast kind) get all nice and fluffy.

Push the Pumpkin
What you need:
• 2 Small pumpkins
• 2 Teams of children

Directions:

Have the kids line up in two teams. This is a relay race.  Determine a start line and an end line. Children get on all fours and use their nose to push the pumpkin to the line and back. When they get back, the next child in their line goes – and so on. The first team to finish wins!

*Make the distance a short one, because this takes a bit of time!

Witch Hunt! In Search of Halloween Candy

What you need:

  Brooms

  Flashlights

  Pot of candy

  Optional – witch

Directions:

An evil Which has stolen the Halloween Candy! And now we need to find her and get the candy back. Good thing there are clues.. Gather a bunch of brooms (borrow from neighbors) and scatter them around the yard, with the handle pointing in the direction you want the children to go. (If you don’t have brooms use something else) Start at the beginning of the broom path and search with flashlights for the next broom, and the next. At the end of the line have a big pot of candy waiting for the kids. For more fun buy one of those witches that look like they smacked into a tree and place the candy right under that spot.

Bobbing for Apples

What you need:

  Large bin

  Apples

  Water

  Optional – milk and red food coloring

Directions:

Float apples in a bowl of water, each player must try to get an apple with their teeth while their hands are held behind their backs. (This can get messy)

Optional- you can also fill the bin with milk and add red food coloring to have it resemble fake blood.

Mummy Wrap

What you need:

  Toilet paper

Directions:

Grab a few rolls of toilet paper and match the kids up in pairs. Of course you could also have them choose partners. Ask each pair to decide which one of them will be the mummy and who will do the wrapping. Then – you guessed it – have one of the children wrap the toilet paper around the other, creating a mummy.

You can either make it a contest of speed or one of creativity. For the first, the team that has a completely wrapped mummy first wins. For the second contest, the kids take as long as they need to and you get to play judge and pick the best looking mummy.

Eyeball Race

What you need:

  ping-pong balls

  Sharpie Marker

  spoons

Directions:
Start with a plain ping-pong ball for each child. Use a Sharpie marker and draw on it to turn it into an eyeball. You can simple draw the pupil, or for a scarier version, add some red wiggly lines to make the eyeball look bloodshot.

Give each child a spoon and drop one of the eyeballs in each spoon. Now it’s time to race. The child that reaches the finish line with the eyeball in the spoon first wins.

Getting dressed up in great costumes is not just for children, even adults and teens can get in on all the frivolity also. All you have to do is check out our online costume store and find a getup that you like and you will be all ready to head to your costume party and have a great time.