I am looking for some scary songs and stories for children 9 and under. I am racking my brain to remember some of the camp songs we sang in the Guides and Brownies, and all I can come up with are "woman in a graveyard sat, ooh ooh ooh ooh aah aah aah aah" and "nobody likes me everybody hates me".
Can anyone remember any fun songs and stories that I can use for a kids' Halloween party?
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My mum and dad used to sing the opening few bars of that Worm Song, any time I'd complain about the other kids I used to play with.
Very annoying at the time but most amusing now.
My Mum and Dad sang the Worm song too. There was another one that went
Misery Guts,
Fell in the cut,
And frightened all the fishes.
Interesting isn't it.... This year I am planning my second Halloween party for kids and thought I'd dig up this old thread to see what brilliant ideas I got from my britnet friends four years ago, and lo.... it's the same date! Also, apart from the worm song and the cd that marmite sent me four years ago, there was not a lot I could use.
So here I am- I'm going to try again. This time I am looking for games and ideas for a Halloween party for kids aged 7-12 years, please, please, please :) (Four years ago the kids were aged 3-8!)
So far I have:
[list]Toilet paper mummy game
Winking murder
Pass the halloween parcel
apple bobbing
eating marshmallows off strings
monster musical statues (for the younger ones)
scary face ugly contest (for the older ones)
spooky story where kids provide the sound effects
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Also does anyone remember those games where you entered a room blindfolded and you were led by the hand and told to feel things like Lord Nelson's good eye and Lord Nelson's bad eye? Last time I did a Blackbeard's Cave story - with sound effects and feely things - there is one 8-year old in the neighborhood who remembers it to this day! This time I want something new - so please, if you can find or remember a story I can use, please let me know!
Thank you!!
I may have a good one for you, if my daughters and I can re-construct it. I can't find it on the web. It's called, "My uncle Joshua died last night", or at least, I think it is.
Found this link. It might help.
http//childparenting.about.com/cs/holidays/a/halgames.htm
Lsq - If you can do that, that would be great! thanks!
cel - thanks for the link - I'll see what comes up )
You could play the memory game with gruesome objects
(tray full of things, one minute to look, then write down as many as you can remember. Or say which one has disappeared when the tray comes back.)
What about hunt the eyeball? instead or warmer and colder you could get bloodier and... erm... unbloodier? lol (wimpier, safer, cleaner....)
oh oh oh I know! We use to play a game where each picked a card with animal names on them there were two of everything and you had to make the noise of the aminal and find your partner. lat two to pair up were out. Could you do that with bats, witches, cats, snakes etc?
How about Musical Coffins? Musical chairs but standing on coffin shaped pieces of paper?
I went trick-or-treating and I got... (remember "I went to the shops.....")
Oh and, not wholly gruesome but recited in the same voice as a scary story...
One dark and gloomy night
When the lavatory light was dim
I hear a "splish" and "splosh"
"Oh my God! She's fallen in!"
First she did the backstoke
And then she did the crawl
And then she swallowed something
She didn't like at all!
;)
Do you know "Black Magic"?
For a quiet time in the proceedings. You need a mind reader and an accomplis. Explain that the mind reader gets vibes from the accomplis' brain. The mind reader leaves the room and the group selects an object. The mind reader is called back into the room and the accomplis points to things and asks "is it this vase?". The reader will say no. This will continue until the accomplis asks about a black object. the reader says "No", but says yes to the very next object. It is always the thing following a black object.
Make sure there are a number of different black objects in the room in case you have to play it a few times. Ones own children love to be the mind reader.
Nelson's eye.
A “victim” is blindfolded outside the party room and lead in to hear the story of Lord Nelson. At strategic points in the long and complicated (and inaccurate) story, he/she is asked to feel Nelson’s wooden leg (a chair leg), the stump of his missing arm - a rolled up cushion, and finally his bad eye (socket) - the victim’s finger is pushed into a jam tart or a warm half of an orange, and screwed round - it is an awesome experience to the uninitiated.