Ideas for Your Halloween Class Party

When I was teaching school, I had great classroom moms in charge of organizing our class’s holiday parties. Now as a parent, I’m on the other end trying to get ideas for the upcoming class party. Here’s some ideas I’ve gathered that can be done for your child’s Halloween Class Party. Most ideas can be adjusted for any grade.

Setting Up Stations: This is a must for a classroom party. You can come up with 4-5 different activities and rotate the kids through to each. This way, each parent and activity only has 5-6 kids at a time. This helps to ease the crazy excitement the kids are feeling with Halloween and candy.

• Pin the Face on the Pumpkin: I love this idea from Little Birdie Secrets. They also have more great party ideas on this post.

• Candy Haunted Houses: I had a parent do candy houses with my class, but each graham cracker house was hot glued together prior to the kids getting them. Then all the kids did was use the frosting to decorate it with candy. They loved it, but was a little messier. This could be done instead of decorating a cookie or cupcake.

• Squirt the Pumpkin’s Candle Out: Set up 2 pumpkins (carved, real or plastic) on a table with a plastic backdrop, we used black garbage bags. Place a tea-light candle into each pumpkin and light it using a long lighter. Now have 2 kids race to squirt the candle out with their squirt bottles. A tip for this game is to have 10 or so candles to rotate through, as they get wet and are harder to light.

• Storytime: I liked having a station set up for a little quiet calm down time. Usually 3-4 books were read for the group of kids. Here’s a fun book and activity for Piggie Pie and Zoom Broom. I’ve also read Jerry Seinfeld’s Halloween book to older kids and they love it.

• Kid-Sized Spider Web: This giant web would be a great activity for a classroom setting. Just clear out some space and use the classroom chairs.

• Craft Table: Some sort of craft activities is great to do as one of the stations. Here’s a few activities that would be great for a class party. Spider Lacing Cards, Noodle Skeleton, Yarn Pom Poms, and The Crafty Crow has listed some great activities for party crafts.
  

• Get Mummified: Using toilet paper, wrap the kids up like a mummy. You could have 2 toilet paper rolls and have a contest to see who can wrap from head to toe the fastest.

Other great sites listing fun activities for Classroom Parties:

• Room Mom Ideas
• Reason to Party
• Are You a Room Mom Now?
• Holiday Party Ideas

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