Halloween Scavenger Hunt and Dinner Party

We decided to have some Halloween fun tonight. We had a Halloween-theme dinner, a scavenger hunt, and did some Halloween crafts and activities. 

For dinner we had spaghetti, bone bread sticks, jack-o-lantern mac and cheese cups, and purple people eater drink (ice cream and grape soda). 

I had some glow-in-the-dark balloons, so I attached each scavenger hunt clue to one of the balloons. Here are the clues: 

Starting clue: Halloween; a spooky time. Clues are written so they rhyme. Start this quest with great fear. Clue #1 is near Root Beer. 

Clue #1 (with 6 rolls of toilet paper): This TP will wrap two mummies. But they 1st need to fill their tummies. Candy can be found at your next stop, Which is where bags go after we shop. 

Clue #2 (basket with movie candy): Once the sweets are eaten, calories to burn. So Mom has a game where points are earned. Before anyone can take the 1st turn, you'll need to report where a fire (kinda) burns. 

Clue #3 (Slime game): Shooting is fine but your brain needs to grow. Putting things together makes your neurons flow. Lego kits are great but you gotta find it. Maybe consider what can make Franklin stop to sit. 

Clue #4 (Vampire Lego set): This ghastly hunt is almost done, But we are only starting the fun. The final prize is great for "chunkin" So, I'd go look inside a Pumpkin. 

(Final prize was items to make a catapult and fire candy corn into the glasses.) 

For this hunt, we turned off all of the lights and used little lanterns. Each clue had the glow-in-the-dark balloon by it too. 

We took turns making each other mummies. 

We made little ghost lights out of a tea light and ping pong ball. I cut a little slit in the ping pong ball and the kids drew a face and put it on the tea light (found at the Dollar Tree). 

We also played "roll a pumpkin". We used dice to roll a number. The numbers told us which part of the pumpkin to draw (1=pumpkin, 2=left eye, 3=right eye, 4=nose, 5=stem, 6=mouth). 

We also made some glow-in-the-dark Frankensteins. I found these storage containers at the Dollar Tree. I filled them with glow-in-the-dark filling I found at Michael's. We glued on eyes and drew on a face. 

We played some of the other games from the Scavenger Hunt and finished the night watching a Halloween movie.