Bright Ideas - Celebrations

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Halloween Ideas

Patrol and Circle Names

Witch Things - Black Cats, Flying Brooms, Bubbling Cauldrons, Cackling Laughs, Secret Spells

Spooky Things - Black Widow Spiders, Bats, Witches, Goblins, Black Cats, Monsters

Ghostly Things - Ghosts, Mist, Fog, Screeches, Howlers, Rattlers

Name tags would be the shapes of the name, decorated by the girls with glow in the dark stickers, and glow in the dark pens

Menu would be things named appropriate for a Halloween Camp (make sure you choose names that are appropriate for the age group)

Pumpkin Faces - mini pizzas - made with half English muffins, covered with the spaghetti sauce and cheddar cheese (needs to be orange) with small pieces of salami or pepperoni and vegetables cut up into pieces to make pumpkin faces - make each one a little different and bake until cheese is melted.

Pumpkin Pancakes - draw a pumpkin with the dough (very roughly) and let cook for a minutes then add rest of the batter to make a branded pumpkin pancake for each girls (each girl gets one fancy and rest plain) and have sausages or bacon and syrups

Scrambled Brains - scrambled eggs but add cheese, tomato sauce to make it taste good and add colour

Witches Brew - any type of soup but keep in mind the colour - tomato is the best colour if all the girls will eat it

Maggot Brew - any type of soup with wild rice in it

Bleeding Hot Dogs - take a large wiener - run a wiener roost stick through the hot dog length wise, with a meat baster insert ketchup into the middle of the hot dog, wrap the hot dog in tea bisk or other pastry (can coat the pastry with cheese before wrapping around the hot dog) and make sure the whole hot dog is covered. Bake until the pastry is cooked. When you bite into the hot dog it will "bleed".

Slime Sandwiches - Grilled Cheese or Sandwiches grilled with cheese and a cold cut

Worms and Eye Balls - spaghetti and meatballs but make sure the meat balls are quite small and have lots of tomato sauce in them

Rattlin' Bones - chicken drumsticks served with lots of Bar-B-Que sauce so they are extra messy - make it a dark sauce and call it mud - and serve with anything you like

Lime Green Slime -lime jello made according to instructions on Jello package. After it is set up, use a hand mixer to mash it up really good. Then add gummy worms for a gruesome effect. Keep in the fridge until you are ready to serve.

Grave Yard Cake - make a thick (at least 1/4") layer of graham wafer crumb crust and cover the bottom of large rectangular cake pan. Top this with extra thick chocolate pudding (mix up two or three packages but reduce the milk about 1/4 so that it is extra thick). Spread the pudding on top of the crust and mound it up in places. Take cool whip or vanilla pudding (extra thick) and glob on - not covering all the chocolate but filling in the low spots. Take rectangular teething biscuits and insert in "mud" for gravestones. Insert gummy worms throughout and add appropriate shaped candies as desired. Make sure there is enough gummy worms and cookies for at least one each.

Activities:

Each girl decorates her name tag any way she likes - make sure there are lots of glow in the dark things

Each circle or patrol makes a sign for their patrol - again lots of glow in the dark things.

Have each girl decorate a goody bag (use brown paper bags and make handles for them) - have lots of Halloween coloured paper, paper ribbon, crayons, felts - and everyone does their own thing.

Have a mini pumpkin for each girl and felt pens that they can decorate them with.

Carve pumpkins - younger girls draw on faces and leaders cut their design out - older girls can do the whole thing with supervision.

Do a trick or treat trip - leaders place pots of treats in the trees, around the field, what ever you have and lay a trail with glow in the dark creatures (shapes of bats, witches, ghosts, etc. with glow in the dark eyes) leading to each pot. Leaders follow along and make sure no one gets lost - one leader makes sure the eyes will glow by flashing a light on them periodically. Older girls could do this by patrols and be asked to do a skit, song, chant, dance at each station before getting their treat. Time would have to be allowed in the afternoon to prepare them. Girls wear costumes so time needs to be allowed to get ready.

Go on a haunted night walk - each girl makes a ghost out of white plastic - decorate with felts - and tie the ghost over a flashlight. Walk with the flashlights shining through the ghost (blow them up a bit before tying to the flashlight) Can also make orange pumpkins to tie on the flashlights as an alternate.

Have a face painting event just before you leave for home.

Bake sugar cookies and decorate with orange icing and candies.

Bring gingerbread pieces and have the girls build a haunted house. Or give each girl whole graham wafers and lots of icing and let them build a haunted house from the graham wafers. You will needs lots of icing (orange, black and white) and lots of candies, gummy worms, thin licorice, etc.

Have a haunted house for the girls to go through. Cover one or two long tables with cloths and have obstacles that the girls crawl through in the dark - thin stretched out quilt batting for spider webs, cold, wet spaghetti noodles, foam peanuts or plastic bubble sheets on the ground, plastic spiders on strings, small plastic, squissy toys, wet, slippery fabric hanging down (rayon or nylon are best).

Have a gross blind fold identification game. Blind fold the girls and ask them to reach into bags and identify what they find - peeled grapes, quartered tomatoes, cold spaghetti, gummy worms, slime toys, cold turkey stuffing, dryer lint, and anything else that will feel funny or spooky.

Have a mummy wrapping contest - each patrol is given rolls of toilet paper and is challenged to wrap one girl up as a mummy - see who covers the most of the girl. Make some rules - they have to have their faces uncovered, the girl who is wrapped must want to be wrapped. Older girls should be challenged - make the mummy so she can walk and move her arms and still look like a mummy, find a way to make the mummy bandages look worn.

Have a costume parade and everyone gets a prize - leaders get to spend time thinking of lots of them but here's a few for starters - brightest colours, darkest colours, most colours, hardest to recognize the real person, friendliest costume, funniest, scariest, prettiest, most difficult to make, most original, saddest, happiest, etc.

Have a box of old clothes and have the girls create spooky skits using the clothes and other things for props

Find your bunk by unweaving the spiders web - tie a string to each bunk and wrap them all around each other and throughout the room. As the girls arrive they choose one string end and follow it without unweaving it from the others to find their bunk - make sure they have to climb over and crawl under other strings. For younger girls use different colours of wool to make it a bit easier for them to follow - older girls can have all the same colour and hang bats and spiders through out the web.

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