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Description

A Halloween themed variation of the competitive Fruit Salad Game.

Resources

Chairs or something to mark out seating positions (e.g. bean bags, cones, tape, chalk)

Instructions

Setup
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Sit the young people in a large circle with one person standing in the centre (you can use chairs or just have them sit on the floor, as long as their space is identifiable in some way). Make sure there is enough room to safely move around outside the circle.

Go around the circle and assign everyone (including the person in the centre) a spooky creature type:
e.g. GHOST, WITCH, VAMPIRE, ZOMBIE, WEREWOLF, GOBLIN.
(You want at least four or five of each creature, so adjust how many types you use based on your numbers).

Game
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The person in the centre calls out a creature: e.g. "Vampires!"
All those creatures must stand and go around the circle and sit in a different space.
Meanwhile the person in the middle should also try to claim a space.
Whomever is left without a space becomes the new caller in the middle.

After a couple of rounds allow two creatures to be called out at once - no one moves until the second call.

For maximum chaos, call "Monster Mash!" and everyone must move to a difference place.

Additions
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If you want it loud then get them to make a suitable noise for their creature as they move!
You don't have to play in a circle. You can use seating positions all over the play area, just be careful of them running into each other.
Can also be played as an elimination game, more like Musical Chairs, with the Leader as the caller and a chair removed every time a call is made.

Scene Setting
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Depending on your young people you MIGHT want to add a little spooky scene setting before the game.
Something like....

"You are the creatures of the night. For a hundred years, you have slept in this forgotten graveyard, waiting for All Hallows’ Eve.
Tonight, the moon rises over the crooked gravestones. The rusty gates creak open. Somewhere in the darkness, an owl calls…

It is time to wake.

Some of you are ghosts, drifting silently between the graves. Some are witches, whispering spells into the mist. And some are vampires, creeping out beneath the moonlight.

But there is a problem.

There are eighteen creatures… and only seventeen resting places.

One creature must wander the graveyard, searching for somewhere to belong.

When the Wanderer calls your kind—“Ghosts!” “Witches!” “Vampires!” you must leave your resting place and find another, before the Wanderer claims it. Whoever is left without a place becomes the new Wanderer.

And if you hear the words “MONSTER MASH!”, every creature must move!

Keep your ears sharp and your footsteps light. Even in a haunted graveyard, there is no pushing… the ancient ghosts get very cross about that.

Now, creatures of the night… take your places.

The Monster Mash is about to begin!

Tags

• halloween
• halloween game
• halloween party

Badge Links

• Teamwork - Team game