Saturday, March 13, 2010

Kid's Activity: scary story with tactile props (dead witch parts)

This is great fun to watch everyone's faces...  Everyone is in a circle.  They all cheat if you tell them to close their eyes so instead you put things in plastic bags covered with a brown paper bag.  First tell them in a low scary voice that you CAUGHT A WITCH!  And then she withered up and died so all you have left are some of her body parts; they're too gross to look at so you have them covered with the brown paper bag in deference to their sensibilities.  Have first kid put her hand in first bag so she can feel HER EYES! (peeled grapes), next bag -- her teeth (unpopped popcorn), her ears (dried apple slices), her nose (avocado), her tongue (wet tea bag), her brain (moist natural sponge), her hair (corn silk), her guts (cooked, cold spaghetti), and all that is left of her pet cockroaches (small dried leaves).  You can get really messy with pudding and jello but you're just asking for clean up trouble.  It's not just for Halloween -- we did this as a campfire game.  A little too scary for little kids but great for mid-elementary and older.  It's especially fun to gross-out the parents...

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