Halloween party: games and ideas
FLOUR TEST
For halloween a bowl is filled tightly with flour. During the process of filling, a
wedding ring is inserted vertically in some part of it. The bowl, when
full, is inverted upon a dish and withdrawn, leaving the mound of
flour on the dish. Each guest cuts off with a knife a thin slice which
crumbles into dust. The guest who cuts off the slice containing the
ring will be married first.
HALLOWEEN LOVER’S TEST
A maid and youth each places a chestnut to roast on fire, side by
side. If one hisses and steams, it indicates a fretful temper in owner
of chestnut; if both chestnuts equally misbehave it augurs strife. If
one or both pop away, it means separation; but if both burn to ashes
tranquilly side by side, a long life of undisturbed happiness will be the
lot of owners.
These portentous omens are fitly defined in the following lines:
“These glowing nuts are emblems true
Of what in human life we view;
The ill-matched couple fret and fume,
And thus in strife themselves consume;
Or from each other wildly start,
And with a noise forever part.
But see the happy, happy pair,
Of genuine love and truth sincere;
With mutual fondness while they burn,
Still to each other kindly turn;
And as the vital sparks decay,
Together gently sink away;
Till life’s fierce trials being past,
Their mingled ashes rest at last.”
PERPLEXING HALLOWEEN PARTY HUNT
In this game the seeker for a prize is guided from place to place by
doggerels as the following, and is started on his hunt with this
rhyme:
“Perhaps you’ll find it in the air;
If not, look underneath your chair.”
Beneath his chair he finds the following:
“No, you will not find it here;
Search the clock and have no fear.”
Under the clock he finds:
“You will have to try once more;
Look behind the parlor door.”
Tied to the door-knob he discovers:
“If it’s not out in the stable
Seek beneath the kitchen table.”
Under the kitchen table he finds another
note, which reads:
“If your quest remains uncertain,
You will find it ‘neath a curtain.”
And here his halloween quest is rewarded by finding the prize.
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