Hallowe'en Party

Our Hallowe'en party had full attendance, with many interesting costumes!

Our arrival activity was a craft - Lollipop Ghosts, made by tying a napkin over a lollipop and drawing on eyes and a mouth.

We had our usual opening and then started the evening off with a costume parade - while everyone's costume's were still intact! Then we started into a series of Hallowe'en-themed games:

• Pass the Creature - Girls are in patrols and must pass the creature (a rubber toy) along the line without using their hands.
• Goblins & Ghouls - Girls are divided into two teams and line up facing each other. One team is Goblins, the other Ghouls. Call out Goblins or Ghouls, the team called chases the other team to the back of their playing area. Anyone tagged joins the other team.
• Pumpkin Ball - similar to Prison Ball. Girls are in two teams and face each other. an area behind each team is marked at the 'pumpkin patch'. Girls throw balls from opposite sides of the room and try to hit other players below the knees. If you are hit, you go to the pumpkin patch behind the opposite team. If a player in the pumpkin patch catches a ball, she frees everyone in that pumpkin patch and they rejoin their team.

Towards the end of the evening we did a creepy murder story. The girls sat around in the circle with the lights off and were told that sadly Mr. Hal O. Ween had been murdered and that his remains had been recovered (I don't recall where the original story came from - we modified some of the items). Dishes were then passed around for the girls to touch:

• This is his brain, which no more shall think (soaked torn up paper towel)
• These are his eyes, frozen in surprise (2 peeled grapes)
• This is his hair, once so fair (an unraveled piece of string)
• Some drops of his blood, the rest turned to mud (ketchup mixed with water)
• One hand alone, just rotting flesh and bone (plastic glove filled with water and put in the freeze at the beginning of the meeting)
• Worms are all that's left, for them 'twas a lovely meal (cold cooked spaghetti)

We ended the evening with another edible craft - Dead Surgeon's Hands (blue plastic gloves with candy corn for finger nails and filled with caramel corn), followed by treats.