[Jilly]

Its my daughters 14th birthday on Saturday, and she is planning a halloween/birthday party. Whats some good games, fun things for them to do, etc to keep them entertained? Its an evening party, and all girls, (so far!) and has a limited budget!

[miss piggy]

Hi Jilly
At my niece's birthday party the kids played bobbing apples .It's where you fill a big bucket with water and then put apples into it .Then you have to get a apple out by just using your mouth ,the children loved it .Sorry can't be much help my mind gone blank now

[hisamsmith]

Rent old horror movies, Sixth Sence, Signs, The Village, are great ones without guts and gore.
Have a pumpkin carving contest or paint those cute little fist size pumpkins.
Have the girls make their own pizza, cookies or other snacks from scratch.
Dance to random music.
In high school my most popular parties were Eukure parties (a card game usually only played by people in the Midwestern US area)

[Texaswheelz]

Those are old horror movies? I thought old horror movies were Friday 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween...etc. The orginal ones not the Jason in Space type stuff.

Make some scary food and have them come into a dark room blindfolded or put them in a box with a small cut out to put there hands into.

Bowl full of peeled grapes=eyes
Spaghetti=guts
Feel a plastic glove with water and freeze it for a hand
Use a real liver(chicken, beef)

We would do that and some one would be telling a scary story as they the box's were being passed around. Like telling a story about coming upon a car wreck on a dark foggy night and finding different body parts. Although I'm pretty sure I was like 8 or 9 at the time so i don't know how well it would work with 14 year olds.

Here is a whole page of Halloween party idea's that I found.

have fun

[Joed]

I once hosted a troop of girl scouts at my cabin during the Halloween weekend years ago. I contrived a scary story, put it on tape...and they had to figure out the clues contained in the story and try to find a 'treasure' based on those clues. They had a lot of fun with it.

We also played a game where different animals (but you could use ghouls and various scary sounds, etc.) were written on a piece of paper...each animal was entered twice (and the pairs should be separated for later), and each girl would pick one out of a hat....that will be the sound they should imitate...then you draw the papers from the second batch...that will be the sound they should try to locate in the dark....then turn all the lights out of the room, while each person performs the sound of their particular ghoul, witch, whatever, and try to find their assigned pair in the dark. It gets pretty loud, I can tell you that. I hope I've explained it well enough.

The best thing about having some Girl Scouts live in your home for several days, is that when I came home from work, supper would be on the stove, kitchen cleaned up, floors swept. Girl Scouts....it's a good thing.

[lune14]

When I was in high school I held a neighborhood party for all the kids. I got all the teens together, dressed them as assorted gouhls and we held a "funeral" for "RIP" (that was his name) The deceased was portrayed by one of the teenagers and we dressed him in an old tattered suit and had him lay still on a table at the end of the garage. We seated the younger kids in a semi circle and passed about all the "body parts" as Texas mentioned. (I used molded jello vs a real liver though LOL). I narrated in an eerie voice, which part was being passed next... "these are his eyes muuuaaahhahahahaha". Hey like I said, I was in high school! LOL
Anywho just thought I'd share that!

Myself & my niece[attachment=590:attachment]

[lune14]

Some of the teens dressing for the show [attachment=591:attachment]

[Jilly]

Thanks everyone,

Theres some good ideas here! Yep..I work with kids, but little ones not big ones! Apparently theres about 20 of them coming, some staying, some not. Hopefully it will be fine enough for most of it to happen outside....they can sleep in tents, we have lots of room outside. I dont think Im going to get much sleep though!Lol!

[juls]

We had a great game in our backyard..we set up a bugee rope/harness attatched to a pole and the person who was wearing would have to try and reach a bowl that had a marshmallow hidden in flour and find it just using thier mouth..at some stage the bowl was knocked off the chair and one of the guys picked up a dog poo in his mouth that had been covered in flour..thinking it was the marshmallow very funny!

We were drinking though

[Apparelyzed]

juls, on Oct 28 2006, 12:15 PM, said:

one of the guys picked up a dog poo in his mouth that had been covered in flour..thinking it was the marshmallow very funny!

We were drinking though

[Jilly]

Well, the party is all but over and they didnt do anything like that!!

They didnt really do much at all except scream at DVDs!
There are 9 tired girls out in tents on the lawn right now, and I can hear them telling each other to 'shut up'. Time for sleep I think! Its after 1 am, and Im absolutely knackered!

[Jilly]

Grooooaaannn.....dont say that!

My two girls just turned 14 and 15 just in the last week! I can remember what I got up to at that age and its scaring the hell out of me!