Halloween is a time for spooky fashions and sweet treats. Host a raging Halloween party with wild costume-related games. Use these games to get the ball rolling at your creepy-crawling event. Make sure these games are age-appropriate for your Halloween partygoers. Then dress to impress this Halloween with these Halloween dress up games.
Costume Contest
Every Halloween party has a prize for best costume. Allow your guests to cast their vote for their favorite character of the evening. Create a ballot with different categories including best group costume, best couple costume, best commitment to the costume and best overall costume. Hand the ballot out to guests in the middle of the party. Tabulate the votes, announce the winners with a grandiose flair and hand out prizes.
Costume Relay
Find a cheap, classic Halloween costume (with a lot of different pieces). Purchase two to four of these costumes, depending on the number of people attending your party. At the party, set the costumes up on hangers. Divide partygoers into relay teams. There should be one purchased costume for each team of three to six partygoers.
Split the teams in two halves. Divide the teams across the room. Team members will run from one half of their group to the other. Upon beginning the game, one team member from each team dons the purchased costume. They then run to their teammates across the room and take off the costume as fast as they can. Another member of their team puts the costume on, then continues the relay by running back across the room.
Go back and forth like this until each member of one of the teams has worn the costume. The first team to finish wins!
Costume Scavenger Hunt
This game is for a party on the go. Divide guests into teams. Give each team a digital camera and a list of common Halloween costumes. As your party jumps from bar to bar or crawls the streets of your neighborhood, each team should snap a shot of the various required costumes. The first team to find all the listed costumes and return to "home base" wins the game.
Mummy Wrap
Dress your party guests up as mummies for this game. Start by dividing the players into teams of four. Hand each team a roll of toilet paper and have them designate a person to become the mummy. When you say "Go," the teams all start to wrap their mummies with toilet paper from head to toe. The first team to have its mummy completely wrapped wins the game.
Creepy Makeup
Come up with several different costume ideas, including "cat," "vampire" and "witch." Write these ideas down on papers and put them in a bowl. Divide the group into pairs. Each person pulls out a paper. Using Halloween makeup items, the pairs have to give each other the look of the costume idea they pulled. For example, if a player pulled a paper with "clown" written on it, he has to make his partner look like a clown. The player who does the best makeover, as voted on by the group, wins the game.
