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Carnival Party Games for Fall and Halloween

Planning carnival party games for your special spooky night?

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Carnival Party Games: Floating Ghost Busters

Start with a punch bowl or a large bowl and fill it with ghostly green lime punch or some other green drink. Float small marshmallows on top. Give each player a straw.

Using a timer, each guest has 30 seconds (or a minute) to see how many ghosts they can capture. How do they do it? Simple, the player puts the straw in his or her mouth and uses suction to capture the ghost marshmallow on the other end.

Without touching the marshmallow, he or she must place the marshmallow in a second bowl located at the other end of he table. The marshmallows are counted after each player. The player who captures the most ghosts wins!

A variation on this for a large group would be to have players play tournament style. Team up players in say groups of 5 or 6. Have as many bowl as you do players on the team plus one. That is, if you have 6 players, have 7 bowls. Place the bowls along the length of a table or an obstacle course.

Have player number 1 sequester a "ghost" and place it in bowl number 2. Guest 2 (waiting at bowl number 2) will in turn transport it to bowl number 3 and so forth. You can time team number 1, then team number 2, etc.

Or, if you have a party of 12 people, you can have one team start at one end of the bowl run, and one at the other. To keep track of whose marshmallows are whose in the middle of the run, you'll need differently colored marshmallows.

Carnival Party Games: Balloon Animal Game

No need to be a professional balloon artist with this game. You need only have a little "crazy clown" in your genes!

Give each contestant an assortment of long skinny balloons (the type that balloon animals are made from). Guests have a small amount of time, say 2 to 3 minutes, to create as many balloon animals as they can.

The host sets the rules. So that every animal isn't a snake or a worm, you may want to require that every animal consist of two different balloons. The winner is determined by popular vote. If you like, you can display the animals in groups according to who created them and have guests vote on the group of animals they like best.

Tara of Orangeville California wrote in a very crafty idea for making a vampire bat out of balloons in her Vampire Themed Party. Her instructions will make it easy for you to do the same!

Kids Halloween Games

Pinatas For Teens

Pinatas are fun at any age! For teens, you may want to include some fun items that are geared toward teens. Glow in the dark lipstick, temporary tattos, a crazy 8 ball and fortune telling games are all great additions to you teen's pinata.

Carnival Party Games: Mystery Box Game

Take a shoebox and cut a round hole in it. Select 5 or 6 things such as a plastic spider, a snake (not a real one), a fake rat, a piece of chain, and whatever else you may have around the house to put in the box.

Place each item in a new tube sock and tie the end in order to make it more difficult to discover the identity of the item. Place the items in the box and put the lid on.

Guests put their hand in the mystery box and write down, along with their name, what they think the contents of the box are. Each guest folds his or her paper so the others can't see what they wrote.

The slips of paper are placed in a jar. The host looks through the papers reading them off (if desired) for the correct answers.

The guest with all the correct answers wins. If there are multiple guests with the correct answer and you're giving a prize, have a drawing from the correct answers to determine a winner.

Candy Corn Guessing Game

Everyone remembers this one! The hope that you'll be right ... the anticipation ... how many candy corn are in that jar?!

Fill a jar with candy corn, empty the corn into a bowl to count, and refill the jar with the counted candy corn. The guest who guesses the closest to the number of candy corn in the jar gets to take it home!

Of course, you can do this with other treats as well, such as chocolate covered coffee beans (yum) or hand-pulled taffy. The choice is yours!

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