Please Help Mommies! Planning a Holloween Party for a 6 Yearl Old Girl.

How fun! I love this time of year!
Table with medium sized pumpkins kids can decorate with paint, glitter, felt
Table with taffy apples kids can decorate with sprinkles, chocolate chips, marshmallows
Game "ghost in the grave yard"
Game "freeze dance" with Halloween music
Scavenger Hunt

Have fun!!

have everyone paint/ carve a pumpkin.
make a masquerade mask, or a paper bag mask.
decorate with ghosts hung from the trees (white baloon inside a a white kitchen garbage bag ( you can use a sharpie to draw on the eyes and mouth.
play the monster mash and do musical chairs.
pinata
serve goolh eyes (green grapes)
severed fingers (hotdogs in ketchup)
witches brew (any kind of purple punch)
spider cupcakes (just get some plastic bugs from the 99 cent store).
send them home with some gummy worms if you want.

Best,
F. B.

I've helped with my child's school Halloween parties for the past 3 years (grades K-2). The favorite games for that set that I've seen:

1) Blow up orange balloons and put jackolantern faces on them. Give each kid a balloon. They all have to hit their balloon into the air, and whoever keeps it up without hitting the ground the longest wins. To change it up, have multiple rounds. In round 1, you hit the balloon any way you want. In round 2, you can only hit the balloon with your head. In round 3, you can only hit the balloon with your elbow. Round 4, back of your hand, not the palm. (TIP: Do NOT have a round where they use their feet or knees, someone WILL get kicked, not good)

3) Carve a pumpkin so the mouth opening is flat to the ground. Get a golf putter (cheap plastic outdoor sets for toddlers are perfect) and have each child take a turn trying to putt the ball into the pumpkin's mouth.

4) Make round sugar cookies, and bring a batch of orange icing, and some tubes of black icing. Let the kids ice their own cookies, and draw a jackolantern face on the cookie.

5) All the kids sit in a circle and play hot potato, but instead of a potato, pass a small stuffed pumpkin (or even a balloon from game 1).

6) Bring paper bags (little treat bags) and a bunch of halloween stickers. Let the kids decorate treat bags. They can use these to collect their prizes from the games, and for a treat to take home.

7) Freeze dance to halloween music.

Get a bag of halloween candy, and for each game, pass out candy prizes to the winners. At the end, divide up the remaining candy among all the kids so everyone goes home with some candy in their bag, even if they didn't win a game.

How fun. Don't worry you don't have to spend much $. I never have!
-Make your front yard & right by your front door a graveyard w/styrofoam
headstones from the Dollar Store. Use those small black fences to make
it look like a yard (also @ the $1 store)
-Hang black & orange streamers on the garage door, around the front
door, hanging down in doorways in your house.
-Serve punch & put a piece of dry ice in there so it'll smoke.
-Get mini pumpkins for the kids to paint on & take home.
-Get black & orange balloons from the Dollar Store, blow them up yourself & decorate the house.
-put mini spider rings out on the table.
-have black & orange napkins
-have a bean bag toss w/little prizes (pencils, rings, cars etc.).
-make a sheet cake & decorate it like a graveyard using oval cookies you
cut in half for the headstones, candies that look like rocks, a black
archway.
-hang bats from your ceiling in the house
-hang ghosts from the trees out front (the head is either a sm kids ball or
a balloon, tie a white pillow case around it, decorate face w/black construction paper cut outs for eyes & mouth
-for food make: mummies (mini weiners wrapped in pastry dough & baked
for a few mins), pumpkins on a stick (take donut holes, frost in orange
frosting, stick a long popscicle stick in it, draw pumpkin face w/mini
black frosting tube), assemble mini carrot sticks into a pumpkin shape w/
mini dishes of Ranch for eyes, nose & mouth), take 2 apple slices &
adhere them together w/peanut butter or carmel w/candy corn for teeth,
take sugar cookie dough & shape into long sticks putting an almond sliver in the end to resemble fingers.
-Google kids halloween party food ideas for more.
-Have skeleton heads/skulls around the kitchen table & counters

Edit: have extra boas, cowboy hats, wands, crowns, hankerchiefs, soldier
hats etc on hand so the kids can dress up.

Look at Family Fun magazine and web site. They always have cute and inexpensive ideas.

Halloween parties can be so much fun! You don't need to spend a lot of money, just make some good food and treats and play some games. You can decorate with crepe paper and balloons (cheap!) and if you get on Pinterest you will find TONS of ideas for crafts and other fun things that cost next to nothing.

Parties cost some money - but you can have a pretty fun time and still be budget conscious.
Shop at Dollar store and see if you can get some Halloween crafts for the kids to do.
Pumpkin carving (or painting) is a lot of fun but it can get pretty messy.
You can also put some spray glue on the pumpkin and sprinkle glitter on them.
Glow sticks are great - kids love them.
Cake is traditional but if you want something different you can make Ghosts in the Graveyard and stick candles in it for her to blow out.

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/ghosts-in-the-graveya...