Mummy Race

• Using toilet tissue, have pairs of kids race to become the first to turn their partners into a mummy. Pair off the kids and give each pair a roll of toilet tissue. When you say "Go!," the kids with the toilet tissue race to completely wrap their partners from head to toe in tissue. The first person to have her partner completely wrapped wins a prize. Have small prizes ready for those who win games during the event.
  
  

Hot Pumpkin

• Play a party game similar to hot potato, but use a miniature pumpkin instead. Have the kids sit in a circle, and hand one of them a miniature pumpkin. Turn on a CD of Halloween songs, and while the music plays, have the children pass the pumpkin to each other around the circle. Randomly pause the music. Whenever the music stops, the child holding the pumpkin is out of the circle. The game continues until only one child is left; he is the winner.
  
  

Milk Carton Haunted Houses

• Use pint-sized cardboard milk cartons to make individual, miniature haunted houses. Thoroughly wash and dry each carton. Pass out construction paper, scissors, glue, Halloween stickers and markers to the children, and have each child glue paper to the outside of a milk carton and color it to make hew own unique haunted house design. They might draw cracked window panes with ghosts peeping out from inside or a hole in the roof with a monster hand coming out. The options are only limited by the imaginations of the kids.
  
  

Scary, Hairy Spiders

• Help the kids make spiders from their own hand prints, and then add hair to the spiders with yarn to make them even scarier. Have each child dip his hand into washable paint and press it onto a piece of paper with the fingers pointing to the left side of the page. Turn the page 180 degrees and have the child press his hand onto the page again with his palm overlapping the first palm print and the fingers pointing in the opposite direction. Have the child hold his thumb in the air while making the prints, as only four fingers from the hand will be needed. The result should be a body in the center with four legs made by the fingerprints on each side of the spider body. Let the spider hand print dry completely for at least one hour. Cover the spider body with craft glue after it dries and have the child lay 2-inch pieces of yarn over the spider's entire body to make it "hairy." Add two googly eyes from a craft store as the spider's eyes in the middle of the body. Let the glue dry before the kids take home their spiders. If you run short of time, skip adding the yarn and just have the kids glue or draw eyes onto the spider after the painted print dries.