September Round Table Part TWO- Halloween Party

Get ready for a long post but one filled with lots of great ideas. I love Halloween and every year my Wolves help plan a party. This month is the perfect time to start thinking about planning a Halloween party for your Cub Scouts. Elective 9b in the Wolf book says to help plan a party by making decorations and playing games.

Check out my Previous post here for a simple decoration the boys can make. I start about 3 weeks before the party and show the boys the samples and let them choose one that they would like to make. The next week at den meeting I have the boys paint their blocks and let them dry until the following week when we add the details.  Then they will be all ready for the Party at the next den meeting.

A few notes: I usually don't do the bat because you have to use stiff felt for the wings and it can get pricey depending on how many boys you have.

Also when making the mummy you can use plain white fabric and tear stripes about an inch and a half wide instead of using gauze.

For Frankenstein you do not have to use real screws you could use the wood furniture buttons similar to the ones found HERE and just paint them gray.

With all that said here is what you will need

• 2x4 cut into 6 inch pieces
• paint; white, apple green(or preferred green), orange, black, and gray
• foam paint brushes
• Black sharpie
• Hot glue gun/glue sticks (ADULT SUPERVISION IS NEEDED FOR THIS)

Frankenstein-

• black felt, fun foam, or construction paper
• googly eyes
• screws or wooden furniture buttons
• small furniture buttons (nose)

Pumpkin

• green ribbon for the stem

Mummy-

• gauze or white fabric 
• googly eyes

Refer to the picture to put them together 

Here is a quick, fun treat you can make to give to the boys as they leave. Plus it makes a great decoration on your food table if you have one. 

Materials:

• Candy corn-goblin teeth
• Marshmallows- ghost poop
• Golden grahams cereal-monster scabs
• Chocolate chips- witch warts
• Snack size Ziploc bags
• Colored paper; orange, purple, green
• stapler

Instructions:

• Print label onto colored paper
• Fill bag with some of each ingredient
• Staple bag topper to top of bag.

If you would like to use a colored version and print them on white paper instead send me an email and I will create it for you. 

Here is a picture of our food table that I did last year and forgot to post. I have each boy bring a treat to share. I went to the dollar store and bought the plastic eyeballs, ears, flies and all that creepy stuff then gathered jars and spray painted the lids black. When I am ready to decorate I fill the jars with water and a little bit of food color. You could make labels for them such as "french flies" 

I made the eat if you dare sign using photoshop if you would like a copy of it feel free to email me. 

The mummies on the right are made out of the bottom half of a water bottle then wrapped with torn pieces of fabric and googly eyes. Check out last years post HERE to see a close up of one. 

Have the boys make a Jack-O-Lantern glyph to use as decorations.If you are not familiar with glyphs they are used a lot in school. It is a fun way for the kids to represent things about them or things they like. I found the printable HERE and used the questions she had done, but you could easily make your own questions.

Kids always love playing bingo. Here is a game I made years ago using Halloween words. 

or if you want pictures you can make one just like this HERE. I love this site they have so many options for making your own bingo games. You can make it the size you see above or you can make it bigger (5 pictures by 5pictures). Check it out they have a bunch of holiday ones. 

Here is a fun game I made. Halloween Scavenger Hunt. 

Materials:

• Each boy will need a sheet of items like above (one sheet will do two boys). 
• Gather the items on the list (or print out pictures of each one) 
• brown paper lunch bags (one for each player)

To play: Place items in large bowl on a table and have them pick one item and place it in a brown paper bag (try not to let anyone see what item you have)

The players then need to find out who has which item. They may ask other players to show them what's in their bag. When they know what item that player has, write their name in the space next to the item. Don't tell any other players what each person has, let them find out on their own. Repeat this process for each item. See who can get them all done first.

Variation: To make it a little harder have the boys go around the room and ask each player on or two yes or now questions about their item. For Example player is trying to figure out who has the apple. He will go to a player and could ask him "can you eat the item in your bag?" "is your item red?" if the player answers no then move on to the next person until you find who has that item. If the player answers yes and does in fact have the apple, write their name in the space next to the item. Continue this way until you know which item everyone has. 

 Here is an easy pre-opening activity. Halloween activity book. The boys can work on these as the others are arriving, and can take them home to finish if they do not have enough time.

Here is a sample of what is in the book. 

If you would like a copy of this please email me