A great way to get your guests to remember each other’s name is to play this game.
You seat everyone in a circle and ask them to call out their name.
You as the host, are seated in the center of the circle. You point to one person with either your right or your left hand and say to them “who is the next person?”
The person must then say the name of the guest next to him according to you hand. If it’s your left hand they call out the name of the person on their left and vice versa right hand.
The next player repeats this process and points to another guest with either his left or right hand.
The game continues this way at some pace and anyone who forgets a name is out.
Children love Halloween. Picking out costumes, carving pumpkins, eating sweets, and trick-or-treating makes Halloween a favorite children’s holiday. Projects are also a good idea at this time of year.
For example, making a scrapbook makes children’s imaginations run wild. Go to a store, pick out a scrapbook, and let the kiddies pick out the paper and materials. Back home, use a plastic theme Halloween container to hold the materials and let them go to town copying, pasting, coloring and drawing.
Some materials they might use:
1. Autumn leaves they have collected.
2. Pictures they take themselves.
3. Poetry and songs about Halloween.
4. Pictures of them and their friends doing Halloween activities that you take.
5. Pictures of ‘Halloween past’ as a memory scrapbook.
6. Pieces of Halloween cakes and flowers that are dried and saved.
7. Halloween artwork that they collect.
8. Halloween sweets they got by trick-or-treating.
The list is endless so let your imagination run wild and each year review the ‘previous’ Halloween for unsurpassed memories.
Pick a New Theme for Your Halloween Party!
How? Check your bookstore. For example, using ‘The Complete Jack the Ripper’ as a guide can turn your home into the dreary streets of Whitechapel, England in the late 19th Century. Make a display then for your window or yard, and have others dress up as the characters. The book, written by Donald Rumbelow, an investigator tied deeply into the case, can provide real insight into the happenings at the time and therefore set up a perfect scene.
You can then re-enact the scenes one by one or make up your own. Other books can also be used that are just as great to theme your Halloween. Imagination is the key!
