Halloween Party Ideas: Help for Classroom Parents

It’s almost Halloween time, which means that all around the world, Classroom Parents will soon be scrambling about hither and yon in search of Halloween party ideas. You can find yours right here!

Boogers on a Stick

Our Halloween Party letter

Help for Classroom Parents–the Halloween Party:

There’s no need to reinvent the wheel and the Halloween party has been done in many forms for years and years and years.

But we can all stand to have some cool ‘new’ ideas each year so that our kids don’t get too bored, right?

The first thing to do is send a letter home with all of the kids in your child’s class–something that looks like this class parent note. 

Feel free to download and adjust as necessary.   I asked that his teacher email the document to the parents, and I sent a hard copy with the kids as well.

Grab your copy of the Halloween Class Party Parent Letter Form, in DOC format, here:

Most public schools I know anything about have a pretty good idea already of what they expect to happen on party day. Some schools have a Halloween Parade while others may have the kids dress up as their favorite book character instead of all the scary costumes.

I think most schools schedule the actual parties so they end right when school is out. You need to check with your teacher to find out if there are other expectations, restrictions or considerations you need to be aware of.

Parade

The school does a parade, and all students participate. We helped them get dressed, then we shuffled them O-U-T to the parade starting point.

Snacks

You can really have a blast with this part.  Be creative! Go wild and bay at the moon in best werewolf style. Seriously. Spooky snacks are THE best. Aren’t feeling it? Don’t worry a second about it. Because store-bought cupcakes and cookies are really great, too.

The kids don’t care. They’ll be overloaded with candy after Trick-or-Treating anyway.  But for this classroom party, we had cupcakes, juice boxes and water, and some special Halloween treats.

Boogers on sticks (cheese-wiz with green food coloring). . .

 . . . ‘eyeballs’ (small powdered donut with gummy LifeSaver in the middle and a chocolate chip in the center) dripping with blood (gel icing). . .

. . . and ‘fingers’ — carrot sticks with almond slivers as nails (glued on with cream cheese)

made the kids totally creep out at the party.

Quick Party Games

• Estimation Game: While the kids ate their snacks, you can play a little estimating game with candy corn and spiders. The halloween party estimate game 2024 can be downloaded here, and all you need is a jar of candy corn and a jar of spiders!

The Estimation Game kept kids focused–and thinking!–during Spooky Snacks!

Mummy Wrap: 

All you need are two (or more) teams of about 4-5 kids each, and a few rolls of toilet paper.  Each team picks one ‘mummy’ and the team works to wrap him (or her) up!  The teacher is the judge, and the best lookin’ mummy wins! (have some little prize ready)

Hot Pumpkin:

Like hot potato, hot pumpkin requires a small, silly pumpkin or gourd, some crazy Halloween music, and kids sitting in a circle.  They pass the hot pumpkin around until the music stops, and whomever is caught holding it is out of the circle. The winner is the last person without the pumpkin!  *For more excitement, and to keep the kids engaged longer, 2 or 3 you can have two or three circles going at the same time

Craft:

Keeping it simple is the key here–so we bought a kit from the craft store, and the kids used Foamie stickers to decorate pumpkins and ghosts. Each child had his own set of supplies already separated into a sandwich bag so it was easy to hand out crafts and everyone gets exactly the same thing (no fighting over supplies!) Have examples of the finished crafts on every cluster of tables.

Bingo:

Bingo is a great end-of-party game, because it can be played over and over as needed, filling in space or skipping if you run out of time.  You can use this Halloween GHOST! Bingo Board if you’d like. Bingo away!

Need some more? I have a whole other party planned for you here:   (And that’s not a Halloween joke)

Want a few more fun halloween party ideas?

• Halloween Class Party
• More Halloween Class Party Ideas
• GHOST Bingo!
• Spider Web Craft
• Pumpkin Match 
• Halloween Word Search
• Halloween Ghost Cookies
• Boo! Your Neighbors
• Alternatives to Halloween Candy
• Halloween Joke Notes
• Halloween Learning
• Hats, Cats, and Pumpkins Grid Game
• Cool Halloween Costumes for Kids
• Candy Experiments

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