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| Halloween:
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Halloween
originated from the celebration of the Celtic new year on
November 1st.
Pumpkins
are low in calories, fat and sodium and high in fibre. They
are good sources of Vitamin A, Vitamin B, potassium, protein,
and iron.
The
Celts believed the souls of the dead visited the earth every
October 31st.
One
tradition for Halloween was to carve letters into a pumpkin.
Blindfolded players would then point to letters with a pin
to reveal their true love’s initials.
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| Duck
Apple |
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will need: |
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washing up bowl filled with water and as many apples as you
can fit in!! |
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you do: |
Probably
the most famous of all Halloween games. The aim is to get your
jaws around the apple and pick it out of a the bowl of water.
Be warned you will get very wet! To make it even harder and
look more foolish you can try it blindfolded. Be warned, you
will get wet! |
| Bob
Apple |
| You
will need: |
| Apples
with stalks, string |
| What
you do: |
| Hang
an apple on a string from your ceiling or a tree and try grab
the apple with your mouth with your hands behind your back.
Probably the most difficult of all Halloween games. |
| Mummy
Wrap |
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will need: |
| Lots
of toilet paper |
| What
you do: |
| Take
your party and divide them into partners. You will need a lot
of toilet paper. One
person will be the mummy, and the other will be the wrapper.
The object of the game is for the wrapper to cover toilet paper
around his or her mummy, including their arms which are held
out. The winner is the first person to be wrapped like a mummy
in toilet paper. |
| Scary
storytelling |
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will need: |
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group of people and a vivid imagination! |
| What
you do: |
| Chinese
whispers can be adapted for Halloween by starting off a scary
message and see how the story develops whilst it is whispered
around the circle of people.
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| Eyeball
Relay |
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will need: |
| Ping
pong balls, spoons |
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you do: |
| Think
egg and spoon race with a difference!! Balance the ping pong
ball, disguised as an eyeball, on the spoon and take turns to
run from one end of the room to another. The winner is the team
who gets all its players back the quickest to the start line.
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Pin
the nose of the pumpkin
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will need: |
| pumpkin
or poster of a pumpkin |
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you do: |
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copy of ‘Put the Tail on the Donkey,' though just as much fun.
You blindfold one of your gullible friends, spin them around
and send them on a wayward journey to try and pin the nose on
the pumpkin. You could also try drawing a picture of a whitch
or ghost for a variation on this game.
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Pumpkin
bowling
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| You
will need: |
| oranges,
plastic bottles of water |
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you do: |
| Draw
pumpkin faces onto the oranges and substitute your living room
for the local bowling alley. Use the bottles of water in them
as pins and replace the ball with the oranges and try to get
a strike! |
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Halloween
Pictionary
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| You
will need: |
| lots
of paper and felt tip pens |
| What
you do: |
| The
familiar game of pictionary can be easily adapted for this scary
night. You need to fill a pumpkin with slips of paper with Halloween
themes on them, for instance, Mummy, Witch, or Vampires. You
play with two teams. One player from each team takes turns to
draw a picture in a time limit set by yourselves, for example,
two minutes. A point is earned everytime your team guesses a
word. The team with the most points after each player has had
a turn, wins the game.
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