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I'm the room mom for my daughter's first grade class for the halloween party coming up. does any one have ideas for room parties i'm also love to crafts for children . I don't want use the same ones from last year
thanks alot
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mouser-5@sbcglobal.net

I'm hoping this is a unique idea that you'll enjoy...
Last year, I got "BOO"ed for the first time. What is a "BOO", you may ask? "BOO" is a paper ghost with the following poem attached...

The air is cool, the season is fall,
Soon Halloween will come to all.
The spooks are after things to do,
In fact, a spook brought this to you!
“BOO” is the shield from the witching hour…
Just hang it up and watch its power!
On your front door is where it works,
It wards off spooks and scary jerks.
The treats that come with cryptic note
Are yours to keep, enjoy them both!
The power comes when friends like you
Will copy this and make just two.
Then others here among our friends
Will give warm fuzzies that will not end!
We’ll all have a smile upon our face…
No one will know who “BOO’ed whose place!
Just one short day to work your spell…
Or a big zap will strike your tail!
And don’t forget a nifty treat,
Like something cute or sweet to eat!
Please join the fun… Let’s really hear it…
And spread some “BOO”s and Halloween spirit!

The ghost and poem and a bag of treats are left on someone's doorstep. They then have one day to "BOO" two other people. As a surprise, I "BOO"ed my daughter's classroom... they then "BOO"ed 2 other classes... eventually, most of the school was "BOO"ed. The teachers seemed to enjoy it and it made a fun class project.

Hope this gives you some new ideas!
Kelley
Madison PTO
Mount Vernon, WA

When I was my daughter's room mother I loved to do parties! Every party I made up a packet of things to keep the kids busy (free printables off hte internet),like word finds, picture finds, etc. I always included a craft idea they could do themselves - one of my favorite for Halloween was to use their candy wrappers decoupaged - with Elmer's glue onto a can to make a neat pencil tin. Could be messy, don't know how many kids to parent ratio. We also had them bring in a regualr brown grocery bag and make them into masks they could wear at hte party. Have fun!

Best resource for great Halloween party ideas that I've found---Family Fun Magazine. Check out their website or go to your local library and see if they have the issue. I subscribe and have gotten the best ideas for so many parties, crafts, and treats. I even found instructions for making jungle vines for our spring carnival last year that everyone thought were so cool.

We have our annual party at church and the most popular game is musical chairs! YES! A tried and true one at best!
If you are planning on crafts, I have learned much from anything that requires beads! A big big no! The marshmallow caracters are really popular and easy to do, Micheals and Orental Trading had a lot of this stuff.
Our kids enjoy decorating cookies, tossing games (throw the bean bag into the witches pot), pin the bone on the skeleton, ring toss game using recycled soda liter bottles, word searches using fall words etc, Tossing bones into something....sorry I'm losing steam here!

We don't usually use alot of Halloween music for the musical chairs- we also have Twister next to this for the ones waiting to play to keep the kids active- nothing worse than 10 bored kids when 5 can play twisted and the 5 five can wait and laugh at the twister game and cheer on the muscial chairs!

I hope this helps!! Have a great party!

I can't remember where I read this idea or what it called but one year I took a latex glove filled it halfway with water and froze it. Then I got red punch and put the glove in a bowl so it looked like a bloody hand. It was a hit in my son's class. It went along with a scary story the library had been telling them all month. So I told them it was "Amy's Hand."

Another food favorite that my vp has often done is take a clear plastic glove like the kitchen ladies use put corn candy in the finger parts for the "nails" and fill the rest with popcorn.

-Guess the number of halloween jelly beans in the jar
-split them in groups and have them turn the parent volunteers into mummies
-have them bring an old sock from home and make sock monsters (with glue and a rubber band-no sewing)
-powdered doughnut eating contests
-we also put together a packet of mazes, crosswords, and such because some of them jsut get worn out
-Oriental Trading, Crayola, and the M&M websites might have some projects you can use without spending a bunch of money too.

Have you tried theholidayspot.com? They have Halloween craft ideas. I have it on my favorites for different things. I had a few more like that before the crash, maybe I can think of them later.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
jelly beans! and I have a HUGE jar! One parent always donates an awsome prize and we never know which contest to give it away...perfect!
Thank you Scott's MOM!

We had great success with a pull string pinata that we strung up in the gym. We added extra strings so more kids could have a chance.