Boo Bingo (ages3-5)

What you'll need:
* plain paper
*candy corn
*pencil or pen
*bowl

How to Play
1. Prepare Bingo cards ahead of time. Draw a large grid with nine squares. In each square draw a simple Halloween picture: a cat, a bat, a witch's hat, a ghost, a broom, a jack-o-lantern, a spider, a full moon, and a candy corn. Make a bingo card for each player, but vary the order in which you draw the pictures, so that each card is different. Draw an extra set of pictures and cut them apart. Put them in a bowl.
2. Give everyone a card and some candy corn for markers. Take turns drawing slips from the bowl and calling out the picture. Cover that picture on your card with a candy corn. The first person to get 3 pictures covered (across, up and down or diagonally) yells "Boo!" and is the winner.

Toss a Ghost (ages 3-5 and 6-7)

What you'll need: *small plastic sandwich bags with twist ties *white paper towels *rice *1/4 cup measure * string *black marker *3 plastic buckets or coffee cans

How to Play:
1. Pour 1/4 cup rice into the plastic bag. Twist the bag tightly around the rice and secure it with a twist tie. Tie the paper towel around the rice end with string. Draw a ghost face with the black marker. Make a total of 4 ghosts.
2. Set up 3 buckets or cans opposite the players. Put the first container 4 feet away, the second 5 feet away, and the third 6 feet away.
3. Take turns tossing the 4 ghosts. The first bucket is worth 5 points, the second is worth 10 points and the third is worth 20 points. The player with the highest score wins.

The Witch's Cauldron (ages 6-7 and 8-10)

What you need:
*several players, the more the better

How to Play:
1. Sit in a circle. One person begins by saying, "I am the witch, and in my cauldron I put..." and names something ghoulish.
2. The person to the left then repeats what the first person says and adds another item. Continue around the circle adding spooky ingredients as you go. If you forget an item or name it in the wrong order, you're out. The last player in the circle wins.

Jokes from Bobby
(my 8 year old)

1. What is a little witch's best subject?
Spelling!

2. How do you unlock a haunted house?
With a skeleton key!

3. Why couldn't the witches play baseball?
Because they couldn't find the bats!

4. What dessert do ghosts like best?
Boo-berry pie with I scream!

5. Where do cowboy goblins live?
In a ghost town!

6. When is it unlucky to be followed by a black cat?
When you're a mouse!

7. Why do witches wear black capes?
Because they get too hot when they werewolf!