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games for halloween party
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Nabila Manzur
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games for halloween party
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Hi friends!
 I wonder if you can help me to find some new games suitable for our next Halloween party.
Last year we played with apples, the mummy game, saying vocabulary through drawings and some others.
I`d like to innovate a bit this time, you know the children tend to say ^ We did it last year^!!!
I wait for your suggestions! Thanks a lot !
Have a nice day !
Naby
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23 Oct 2008
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jpcabedo
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Have a look at this website: www.mes-english.com. There�s a wonderful bingo about Halloween, among other activities. An activity I did last year was to divide my students in groups. I told one of the students in the group they they had to think of a costume for one of their partners . The rest of the group asked yes/no questions in order to guess the costume.
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23 Oct 2008
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Zora
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Here�s a game, I don�t know how it will work for large groups though. But you blindfold the child and she/he has to put his/her hand into a bag (or a bowl of jelly or mud) and pull out an object and say what he thinks it is by the feel of it.... a golf ball with an eye painted on it, is an eyeball for example... and stuff like that.
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23 Oct 2008
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Nabila Manzur
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Great ideas! thanks ! jpcabedo and Zora - f
I forgot to tell you that the party will be held in a reception room and we
will be dressed up for the ocassion.
I was searching on the net about some ideas but i wanted to read yours,
it`s always better when you try something previously tested by colleagues,
we can assume that it works;)
thanks again !  |
23 Oct 2008
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Vickiii
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Hi Nabila,
I hope you have a wonderful party. I was going to suggest sensory boxes - but I much prefer zora�s idea of putting objects in jelly. (peeled grapes are great for eyeballs!) make sure the kids are blindfolded when feeling the objects. Alternatively you can have a range of differt textures - jelly, slime, sand, etc.
You can always play wink murder which kids always love to play (not alot of talking involved though!) and what about a scavenger hunt using photos. Take close up photos of thngs in the room and on the premises - like a toe bone from a skeleton you have on the wall... The kids have to go round in pairs or small groups and write down a description of the place they have found the photo. You give them about 10 different photos.
Good luck
Vicki |
23 Oct 2008
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Zora
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Hi there again, I was reading Vickii�s fun ideas (wish I was a kid still, lol )and I remembered a game you can also play. The kids sit in a circle and they have a ball (or a bone.. hehe...) and they toss it to one another. The person who throws it says a halloween related word and the person who catches it has to make a sentence with that word... if that person can�t come up with a sentence in (say 10 seconds?) then they are out of the game. This goes on until there is only two people left and the winner or winners, then gets a prize or something like a fancy notebook or a pen...
This game can be adapted though to age groups and instead of a sentence, they just have to say a word and that word can�t be repeated for three rounds... (I say this cause there aren�t a huge amount of Halloween related words)...
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23 Oct 2008
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Nabila Manzur
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Thanks Girls!!! You are very creative and helpful!!
I�ll try your ideas, then I�ll share my experience with you !
Naby |
23 Oct 2008
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miss_yanis
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hi! I have a file on some funny games I found on the net. Write to me to [email protected] and i�ll send them to u.
I�ll use them with my students this year.
Kisses!
Miss Yanis |
23 Oct 2008
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Tere-arg
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Hi Nabila,
There are many games kids love:
*The mummy game is one;
*putting apples in water or hanging from somewhere so they have to catch them with the mouth (no hands),
*dividing them in lines and they have to pass the apple holding it with their chins only
*making a line or obstacles they have to sort out -blindfolded- to reach the end
*writing words/sticking words on a surface so they have to make as many words from that one as possible,
*making parcels with a little surprise inside and then adding tricks between the different layers so they are divided in groups and put in circles having to pass the parcel until you stop the music: the one having the parcel has to unwrap it to find a trick (sing a song, move like a vampire, scream, etc) If he/she does not , he/she is left out.
*divide them in groups and give each group a word -letters mixed up- so they have to find out the word and hold it before the others
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23 Oct 2008
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Nabila Manzur
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thanks a lot Vickii, Yanis and Tere!!!
I�ll try them too!!!
Naby |
27 Oct 2008
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