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Skip to contentHalloween is a time to activate the imagination and creative juices by creating Halloween costumes, crafts, and decorations. Use the thrifty tips and fun ideas listed below to create some playful Halloween projects that will help celebrate this hair-raising holiday. Whether you’re organizing a haunted house or throwing a Halloween party with some fun Halloween games for older kids, these great ideas will surely make your event a spooky success for every party guest.If your teens enjoy crafting then make sure that you have checked out these 19 Best Halloween Crafts for Teens That They Actually Want To Do! Once this crafting list has been exhausted we also have the following Halloween activities for teens and the family to enjoy.Let us know which craft and activity was a success for your teenagers!Some of the best kids’ activities are the simplest. Making a scarecrow out of old clothes, leaves, and a pumpkin is a fun task that will also add decoration to a front porch. Gather your team members and head to the pumpkin patch to find the perfect pumpkin for your scarecrow’s head. To make the scarecrow, rake up leaves in the yard and stuff them into old pants and a long-sleeved shirt.It may be necessary to safety pin the shirt to the pants to keep them together. Position the pants and shirt in a chair so that it looks like they are a headless body sitting upright. To make the hands, stuff some gloves with leaves and safety pin them to the ends of the sleeves. Place some old boots at the bottom of the pants to look like feet.Make the head of the scarecrow by either using a carved pumpkin or stuffing a long stocking cap with leaves and covering it with a Halloween mask. For a fun Halloween twist, cover the neck hole with a piece of red fabric and place the head in the lap of the scarecrow to make it look like he is a headless man. Paint some red paint on the bottom of the Jack O’ Lantern to add to the spooky theme.Creating a ghost pinata is a relatively simple Halloween craft that can provide both decoration and a fun Halloween game for your party guests. Gather your team members and get ready to have a blast.To make the pinata, start by blowing up a large balloon. Cut strips of newspaper and dip them in either papier mache or a mixture of equal parts white glue and water. After dipping the strips in the mixture, wipe off any excess and smooth the strip onto the balloon. Continue this step, placing the strips so that they overlap until the entire balloon has been coated with two to three layers of newspaper. Make sure to continually smooth as you go. Hang the balloon up to dry.Once the balloon has dried, the newspaper should be hard. Use a utility knife to cut a small slit in the paper and balloon. Pour some wrapped candy into the balloon and use masking tape to close the slit. Next, paint the pinata white.Then use white crepe paper to decorate the balloon. Glue long streamers to the bottom of the pinata. Then, starting at the bottom and working up, glue horizontal strips of crepe paper. Only glue the top edge of the crepe paper and position it so that it overlaps the strip below it. Fringe the bottom edge of the paper. Finally, cut out three ovals from black paper and glue them over the crepe paper so that they look like two eyes and a mouth.Luminaries are small paper bags with cut-out designs. When a small tea light is placed in the luminaries, they are illuminated, and the design can easily be seen. Get your team members together and let’s create some spooky luminaries.To make Halloween luminaries, start by purchasing some luminary bags at a local craft or party store. With a pencil, lightly draw a scary face on the front of the bag. Carefully cut out the face design using a utility knife. Set the luminaries along a walkway or on a windowsill and light them using tea lights. Use extreme caution when lighting the luminaries. They should never be left unattended as they may start a fire. If possible, purchase battery-operated tea lights to increase safety.This activity is a great younger kids’ party game that will keep them entertained and add to the Halloween fun. Children will need to use their imagination, and the creepiness of this game will create giggles. Gather your party guests and let the game begin.The Witch’s Pantry Halloween Party Game requires children to reach a hand into a hole and feel something from the witch’s pantry. They must then guess, based only on the sense of touch, what that ingredient is. To prepare this game, it is necessary to find ingredients that will feel slimy and creepy. Use peeled grapes for eyeballs, canned sliced beets for leeches, the inside of a pumpkin for guts, cooked spaghetti for brains, and oiled gummy worms for earthworms. Place each of the ingredients into a large bowl.Once the ingredients are divided into bowls, set them on a table and cover each bowl with a box with a hole cut out of the side. Decorate the boxes with paint or paper to make them look spooky. To play the party game, create a witch’s recipe full of disgusting ingredients such as toads, eyeballs, worms, guts, brains, an ogre’s toe, etc.Read the recipe to the children and tell them that the witch is missing some of the ingredients for her recipe and needs their help to identify the missing ingredients. Instruct the kids to reach in and try to guess which missing ingredients are in the boxes.Halloween decorations are an important part of the holiday. Since they are based on gruesome, scary figures like skeletons, gravestones, and even dismembered body parts, your teenage boys will love developing and creating Halloween decorations for your yard. They can carve pumpkins, make fake tombstones out of cardboard, or wrap a mannequin with gauze to create a mummy. For a twist on the typical jack o’ lantern, you can find and print out your teens’ favorite band or sports team logo so they can stencil the design onto the pumpkins to carve.Throwing a Halloween party for your teens and their friends is a great way to keep teenagers safe while still allowing them to have fun and be a little bit zany on Halloween night. Make the party a success by letting your teens in on all the planning, from invitation design to guest list, snacks, and decor. On the invitations, make sure to include pertinent information, such as whether this is a costume party and the start and end time of the party.You can visit online sites for recipes and ideas for scary-looking foods and sweets. Then, get the teens busy making the food. Another Halloween activity, which many teenage boys might enjoy, involves finding music suitable for the party through the Internet and burning Halloween mix CDs.Scavenger hunts provide both action and competition win-win for teenage boys. Separate the teens into teams of three or four for your Halloween scavenger hunt. Give them each a copy of the list of items for the scavenger hunt and have them photograph the items as they’re found. You can provide each team with a disposable camera or the teens can use their smartphones if enough participants have one. Some items recommended include a house with tombstone decorations, a skeleton tattoo, googly eyes, a business card of a mortician, dead flowers, and red drinks. Have your teens come up with some ideas for the hunt as well.Teenage boys often enjoy watching horror movies. The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) provides a good starter list of the best and worst scary movies. Some suggestions from the list include “Saw,” “Alien,” “The Descent,” and “The Grudge.” Before you allow your teens to watch a movie, make sure to check the movie’s rating and whether or not you think it’s appropriate for your boys. To add to the ambience, you can set up a black light and place spider webs made from tissue paper around the room. The teens can also set up a tent and watch movies in the backyard, complete with scary noises and low lighting.Halloween parties can be a blast for teenagers. Whether you go with a haunted house, murder mystery, a great game or escape room theme, or simply stick to classic games like pumpkin carving and ghost stories, there are plenty of options to make your party the best Halloween party ever.Remember to consider the age group of the participants in these Halloween party games and plan activities and games accordingly. 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Skip to contentHalloween is a time to activate the imagination and creative juices by creating Halloween costumes, crafts, and decorations. Use the thrifty tips and fun ideas listed below to create some playful Halloween projects that will help celebrate this hair-raising holiday. Whether you’re organizing a haunted house or throwing a Halloween party with some fun Halloween games for older kids, these great ideas will surely make your event a spooky success for every party guest.If your teens enjoy crafting then make sure that you have checked out these 19 Best Halloween Crafts for Teens...

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