Halloween Birthday Party

What about the old stand-bys...

Where you are blind folded and told you are touching really gross things...like eye balls (peeled grapes) and worms (spaghetti noodles)?

All my boys have October B-days and I always try to push a Halloween themed party...no one has ever gone for it...yet!

Do a costume Halloween birthday party. Our niece was born on Halloween and she always has a party.. The kids love the excuse of getting to wear their costume, not just on Halloween..

Pinata, filled with tattoos, stickers, bandaides.. and a little candy..

You could do The Freeze dance, Simon says, and some toss games.. Toss hoops over Pringle cans, Toss bean bags through hoops, that get smaller and smaller.
Musical Chairs..

Balloon bust, where they have to sit on a balloon and pop it. on chairs.. like a race..

We do a neighborhood halloween party every year. We have kids from 1 to 12 come. We try to keep it simple and fun. We do a cake walk or musical chairs for a cupcake or small prize. We play pin the wart on the witch, or pin the bone on the skeleton. I made a akeleton that they try and assemble as fast as they can I think that came from family fun's website. We try to stay away from gross stuff, we've also done a mummy game where the kids stand in a circle and the person in the middle is the mummy. I don't remember the rules but I'm sure you could google it. The kids always seem to have fun. For refreshments we buy apple juice and put dry ice in it for witches brew. You could take a rubber glove fill it with candy corn in the fingertips and popcorn in the rest.

The bottom line is to just have fun games, and fun food. Let them come in costume and it will be great. Oh we have also done pinatas and donuts on a string, and we've done bobbing for apples before too.

My daughter's b-day is in October too, and we always have a Halloween theme. Last year we turned our garage into a spooky haunted graveyard with headstones, cobwebs, a creepy gate across the entrance and a fog machine. We also had a costume contest that the kids voted on, and the winner got a little plastic trophy from a halloween shop that said best costume and a $10 gift card to McDonalds. We also had crafts for the kids to do, I got a kit from wal-mart that had foam papers with fall-themed foam stickers and letters and they made their own pictures. That kept them occupied for a good while! We also have done a piñata and that is always a hit. A spooky graveyard birthday cake is adorable to have. There's a mummy game where the kids partner up and one wraps the other in toliet paper and the team with best mummy wins. Also a spooky scavenger hunt would be cute especially if the party is outdoors, or blindfold the kids and pass around a tray of squishy and sticky candy and have them guess what 'body part' it is. I also make Halloween themed goody bags with candies and glow sticks and other Halloween treats inside. Hope this helps, good luck!

I remember some spooky activities at school, but they are a bit gross and I don't know if its what you're looking for. We would do a blind feel of spooky things. Like peeled grapes = eyeballs, boiled noodles = brains. I forget what else they had us do. I also know at the end we each got a dirt cup with chocolate pudding, oreos, and gummy worms.
I got an awesome idea (I think it was martha stewart if you want to try googling it) but it was for a punch bowl face. You get non powdered latex gloves and a simple plastic face mask, tape up the holes in the mask, and fill it and the gloves with water (tie the gloves) freeze it. When you make your punch you use the frozen molds and it looks like a face and hands in the punch bowl.
You could also have the kids make their own halloween masks, or you could do mini pumpkin painting, that would be fun. I think its a great idea! Have fun!

My daughter's bday is around Halloween as well, and it's such a fun time to have a themed party. We always had a mix of boys and girls and she is now 11, and still remembers those parties as her favorites!
We always found it fun to have lots of games and prizes, for example we did an eyeball relay race, where the kids had a spoon with an eyeball (tennis ball or candy) and the kids had to run and exchange the eyeball into the other spoon with out dropping it. we also did the Mummy wrap which is always really fun and had a contest, who could wrap up one of the kids with toilet paper and make them into the best mummy, it's way fun if you have Dad's there and have 2 teams and a Dad end up being the Mummy on each team, the kids think it's hilarious and the Dad's get into it too, or Moms :)

Also freeze dance or musical pass the pumpkin (where you pass and then when the music stops you are out) there is another where you get a big witch pot and put prizes with paperclips on them and then take a want with a string and magnet and try to fish out a prize, (that ones good for little ones)
We also did a treasure hunt/scavenger hunt, sort of like an easter egg hunt but with the little pumpkins, and I had them decorate their own bags with stickers and markers for a craft and then did the pinata and they were able to put their candy into the bag . At each game/station we also gave the kids prizes to put in their bag.
Bobbing for apples, or taking the mini powdered sugar donuts and putting on a string and having them try to catch the donut in their mouth is another fun one.
We always have fun themed halloween music and have the kids dress up in costumes and it's always a fun time.
if you don't do costomes, face painting and tatoos are fun too.
I think boys or girls have a blast at Halloween.
Some friends of ours did a little hay ride with a 4 wheeler and pulled a trailer with haybales behind it and that's always fun for kids as well.
For crafts, painting pumpkins or decorating cookies or cupcakes with Hallween themed sprinkles is always fun too.

For other fun food ideas, you can make all kinds of cool food, like the popcorn bag hands with spider rings on them and candy corn as the finger nails, homeade rootbeer is a lot of fun and you could use a big cauldron and it just takes dried ice, rootbeer flavor, sugar and water , I'm sure you can google a recipe but if you make it in front of the kids, it has lots of smoke from the dried ice and looks really cool and spooky and it's really yummy and no caffine either!
You can also do the whole haunted food theme where they are blindfolded and you cook up spaghetti and that is the worms, and use peeled grapes for eyeballs, etc and have them taste each one and guess it.
I think whatever you do, you all the kids will love it, especially at the age 6, I would avoid really scary at age 6 for boys or girls, because you never know how scared they will get and you don't want to have to deal with a little one in tears while you are trying to have a fun party! I think the funny scary is a blast though, I know they have those mice or bats that are sticky that are sort of gross but kids love playing with them.
Good luck and hope you have a fun party!

Good luck!

pin the wart on the witch.. get a big picture of a witch.. take one off the internet.. and then go to a copy place and get it enlarged.. i made warts out of cardboard and then found a cheap doll at the dollar store, cut her hair off.. glued the hair to the cut out cardboard circles about a nickel size and the kids would take the wart and try to tape it on to the nose.. they loved it call them hairy warts.. you blind fold them... it;'s fun.. also get a bale or two of hay.. put it apart in the yard and bury candy in it.. the kids look for the candy in the hay... also buy a few small pumpkins.. and put them around the yard... and the kids go pumpkin picking to take one home with them...

I do not let gross and scary Halloween into my house, ever. I don't like it! We do "cute" Halloween, with pumpkins and smiling spiders and very un-detailed, happy skulls. Cute! And I have three boys. They will never know the difference, and do not delight in gory (well, not much, anyway.)

Go cute on the decorations and do what you'd do at a regular party, but adapt it to your theme. Pin the nose on the Jack-o-lantern, the tail on the cat, etc. Get a pumpkin pinata. Play bat, bat, mummy or pumpkin, pumpkin, Jack-o-lantern instead of Duck, duck, goose. Just let them all play together, whatever! Hand out a little baggie of candy corn with a spider ring tied on with orange and black ribbon for favors. You don't have to do gory!!!

I've seen a lot of cute things like making green punch with lime sherbet and Sprite, and serving it in cups with the rims dripped in something red that drips down the sides. You can make it very fun without grossing anyone out, and your son and his boy friends will never think it needed to be grosser.

That reminds me--my nephew's birthday is the day before Halloween. They had his 7th birthday party in a park. They handed out long glow sticks and the boys played sword-fighting for like and hour and a half. Then they had cake and opened presents and that was it. He still talks about it, and he's 11 now! I think parents often over-think parties and what kids need to have a great, memorable time.

decorate pumpkins! use paint, or if you fear big messes like i do, use stickers and markers (test the markers out first to make sure they will work on the pumpkins). i found lots of fun halloween themed stickers at dollar stores and some monster stickers at walmart. we had ages 3 to 12 and the only kid bored with this activity was one 7 yr old boy who finished his pumpkin quickly and wanted to know what was next. we also did a mummy wrap with toilet paper. this one is best for cooler days or an air conditioned house. we have a printer and took pictures of the kids in their costumes or wrapped as mummies and included them in the goodie bags.