The Enchanted Pumpkin
Posted on July 20, 2007 - Filed Under Halloween Games
When your little brother or sister has a birthday party and you want a novelty for the tea table, try the “enchanted pumpkin,” and see what fun it will make for the guests.
It ought to be a prize pumpkin, and a big one. Scoop out all the inside. That will do well enough to make […]
Fortune Telling with Apples
Posted on July 7, 2007 - Filed Under Halloween Games
Bite the Apple
At the left is an example of a traditional Victorian-era Halloween game.
Apples are suspended by means of string from doorways, or in this case, a ceiling, at a height that allows them to be caught between the teeth. Then, with hands at their sides, the first player who successfully takes a bite from […]
Bean and Nut Games
Posted on July 7, 2007 - Filed Under Halloween Games
Walnut Boats
Open English walnuts, remove meat, and in each half shell fasten short pieces of differently colored birthday candles, each of which is to be named for a member of the party and, after lighting, set afloat in a large pan or tub of water. The behavior of these tiny boats reveals the future of […]
The Enchanted Pumpkin
Posted on July 7, 2007 - Filed Under Halloween Games
When your little brother or sister has a birthday party and you want a novelty for the tea table, try the “enchanted pumpkin,” and see what fun it will make for the guests.
It ought to be a prize pumpkin, and a big one. Scoop out all the inside. That will do well enough to make […]
Web of Fate
Posted on July 7, 2007 - Filed Under Halloween Games
Long bright colored strings, of equal length, are twined and intertwined to form a web. Use half as many strings as there are guests.
Remove furniture from center of a large room - stretch a rope around the room, from corner to corner, about four feet from the floor. Tie one end of each string to […]
