Chocolate Covered Ghost Oreo Cookies

Chocolate Covered Ghost Oreo Cookies. America's favorite cookie meets Halloween. What a perfect combination! Our adorable hand dipped and hand decorated chocolate covered Oreo cookies come individually wrapped in a cello bag and matching ribbon. Use as a Halloween party favor or hand out to the kids in the neighborhood.

Sound Activated Spinning Ghost Prop with Lights

Sound Activated Spinning Ghost Prop with Lights. It might look like a simple Halloween ghost decoration at first glance, but it is so much more. Hang it from a tree or your roof, or any other place you can hang something, turn it on, and wait for it to do its thing. When it detects a sound, the ghost will start spinning, the head changes colors, making it look like it has light up eyes, and it makes moaning sounds.

Hanging Pumpkin Ghost Decoration

Hanging Pumpkin Ghost Decoration. Combine two classic Halloween symbols this year. If you're looking for a perfect decoration to represent this holiday, then the 6 Foot Hanging Pumpkin Ghost will get the job done. This prop depicts the face of a ghastly, killer pumpkin, wearing a black cloak with shredded brown cloth over it. Hang the evil pumpkin from a tree, or anything with a hook, and let the murderous expression on his face scare all the trick or treaters and party guests this year.  Makes a great addition to your Haunted House too!

Airblown Inflatable Color Changing Ghost Trio

Airblown Inflatable Color Changing Ghost Trio. The Color Changing Ghost Trio is a great addition to your Halloween decorating this year. The Color Changing Ghost Trio is super easy to setup and will give your indoor or outdoor decorating an added flair for Halloween this year. This Airblown self-inflates in seconds, and comes with everything you need for quick and easy set-up, including lawn stakes and tethers. Plugs into standard outlet.

My First Pumpkin Halloween Play Set and Photo Album

My First Pumpkin Halloween Play Set and Photo Album. Baby's My First Pumpkin Halloween Play Set and Photo Album Gift Combo Developmental Playset includes fun play pieces: Pumpkin carrying case, Ghost that squeaks, Cat that meows, Spider that rattles and Candy Corn that crinkles.  Ages Birth and up.

Lego Halloween Accessory Set

Lego Halloween Accessory Set. Lego# 850487. 58 pieces with 3 cool Minifigures included (Zombie, Witch, Ghost w/ chains). Scare yourself silly with the LEGO Halloween Accessory Set! Build a haunted graveyard scene with creepy tombstone, rat, bat, spider and 2 snakes. • Features buildable tombstone • Let the bat "hang" on top of the tombstone! • Rattle the ghost's chains! • Take the witch for a ride with her broom! • Makes a great gift for LEGO fans!

Wilton Mini Ghost Pumpkin 6 Cavity Pan

Wilton Mini Ghost Pumpkin 6 Cavity Pan

Create gobs of goblins or jack-o-lanterns at one time! One cake mix will bake 9 to 15 treats ready for decorating. 6 cavities, each approximately 3 1/2x 3 1/2 x 1 3/8 in. deep.

HERSHEY'S KISSES Ghost Bags

HERSHEY'S KISSES Ghost Bags

Talk about a boo bag! These HERSHEY'S KISSES Ghost bags contain individually foil-wrapped “BOO” KISSES and have an attached tag. In a fun ghost shape, the spooky tags are printed with “You’ve been boo’d!”.

Ghost Pinata

Ghost Pinata

Fill this spooky papier-mache ghost pinata with your own candy or small toys for the perfect Halloween party game! Kids love to take a swing at this friendly target! Fun for a Halloween party or birthday celebration! A pinata can be used by a charity at an annual fundraiser — stuff the pinata with donated gift certificates and have supporters buy a swing at a prize!

Tips for Telling Ghost Stories

Tips for Telling Ghost Stories

Whether it's on Halloween night or simply sitting around the campfire, telling ghost stories is an age-old tradition. The idea of course is to tell a story that frightens the listeners in a fun, frightening and entertaining way.

Typically these short stories center around some sort of supernatural or malevolent occurrence or creature such as a haunted house, ghosts, vampires, monsters, crazed killers and the like. And while most ghost stories are pure fiction or urban legends that may or may not have any truth to them, some are the real thing, or at least have some shred of truth to them.

To be good at telling ghost stories you need to keep several things in mind:

Whether you tell a known ghost story, adapt one to your needs or create a completely original story, it should be believable and able to hold the interest of its listeners. Tell important aspects of the story in enough detail so that they can visualize the events taking place, but not so much as to slow down the flow of the story.

Ghost stories are usually told as a though is were a historical event or sometimes as something that is currently taking place. Provide a basic setting that includes the time period of the event, the location where it happened, any fabricated historical facts. Do a little research and find stories that are fairly short and believable.

There are plenty of real or at least possibly real "scary" stories and urban legends out there that you can use. Some would be the "Haunted Railroad Tracks" in San Antonio, Texas, the "Mothman" of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, the "Chupacabra" along the American-Mexican boarder and local "Big Foot", sightings, which are always good for a scare.

If the story centers around a place it should contain vivid details so that listeners can visualize it in their minds and possibly relate to a place they've been to or know about. Stories that revolve around a person or group of people should have characters that are believable. Make the characters real by giving some information about them. Don't do this all at once, but over the course of the story.

Adapt the stories as needed, but most importantly, learn the story by heart. If you sound like you yourself believe the story to be true, everyone else will. If you sound like you are making it up as you go along, no one will believe you. If a story is to long or doesn't get to a scary fairly soon, your listeners will get restless and then bored.

Remember, a scary story doesn't have to be gruesome to frighten people. While many of these stories are bloody and horrific, others are simply creepy and shocking. If one or more people become very scared, tone down the story. If young children are present, keep the stories more on the light hearted side and not too scary. Needless to say, you shouldn't tell extremely scary stories to young children.

A fun game, particularly at a Halloween party where there is a group of people, is for each person to take three minutes to tell part of a story, and then the next person has three minutes to add on to it, and so on.

The most important thing to remember is to have fun! Happy Storytelling!

Halloween Recipe - Easy Ghost Cookies

Easy Ghost Cookies

1 pkg. (6 oz.) BAKER'S White Chocolate
18 NUTTER BUTTER Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
decorating gels and/or assorted small candies

MICROWAVE chocolate in medium microwavable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 minutes or until chocolate is completely melted, stirring every 30 seconds.

SPREAD chocolate onto one side of each cookie for the ghost's "body." Cool slightly.

DECORATE with gels and/or candies to create "faces." Cool until chocolate is set.

How to Make Just a Few Ghosts:

If you want to make only a few ghosts, remember that 1 melted chocolate square is enough to frost about 3 cookies.

Ghost Hunter Halloween Party Game

Ghost Hunter Halloween Game

Game for teams:

Get lollipops, ribbon, paper, tissue paper, and select 5-10 Halloween terms. You may want a styrofoam base to stick the ghosts into during the game.

Divide party guest into Ghost Hunting teams of 3-5 kids per team, the number per team may be based the ages of the kids.

Each team is given clues to find ghosts that can be hidden outside or inside. Note: Don't place all the ghosts together or the kids will grab the first ghost they see rather than find the ghost you want them. Also, tell them not to untie the ghosts until after the game is over. Send them off to different areas. You'll want 1 ghost per guest or a specified number per team, but have extras so each child gets a ghost.

Each ghost is a lollipop covered with tissue paper, tied with ribbon with a letter written on the ghost. Use a marker a add eyes and a mouth to the ghosts.

Send the kids with clues off to find ghosts. If young children have an adult go with them for safety and to assist if they don't understand the clues. Example Clues: "I live near the large tree in the backyard" or "At night I come out from under Mr. Wilson's favorite chair".

Each team will return with 3-5 ghosts with letters. The corresponding letters will spell or help spell a mystery word that relates to Halloween. See the 2 versions below:

Young kids:

Use words where all the letters are given: bat, witch, cat, hat, broom, ghoul etc... One team at a time, take the letters and mix them up. The Ghost Hunting team whose ghosts are being used get the first try to guess the mystery word. If they guess the word correctly they get a point, if they miss the word the other teams have a chance to get a point. Have them raise their hand if they know the answer, 1 guess per team. If no team guesses the word, then a simple clue is given and the process is repeated until the word is guessed. If there is a tie have a tie-breaker mystery word that is a little harder. Offer a small prize for the winners.

A little harder:

In this version the letters on the ghosts only give clues to the mystery Halloween word. Word Examples: pumpkin, headless, horseman, haunted, goblins, Sleepy Hollow, etc... Arrange the letters in correct order leaving spaces for missing letters. The Ghost Hunting team whose ghosts are being used get the first try to guess the mystery word. If they guess the word correctly they get a point, if they miss the word the other teams have a chance to get a point. Have them raise their hand if they know the answer, 1 guess per team. If no team guesses the word, then a simple clue is given and the process is repeated until the word is guessed. Again have a tie-breaker word just in case and offer a prize for the victors.

Ghost Libs Halloween Game

Ghost Libs Halloween Game

This participatory ghost story party game is a real howl.

WHAT YOU NEED:

Ghost story
Cue cards
Assorted noisemakers

HOW TO PLAY:

1. Ahead of time, brainstorm and write down the framework for a freaky story, leaving blanks for many of the nouns. Then cut out twenty 1- by 3-inch cue cards from poster board. On each, write a noun, anything from tombstones to tennis balls (consider, of course, your kids' reading levels) and put the cards into a hat. Next, gather a bunch of noisemakers, such as whistles, birdcalls, pitch pipes, kazoos and triangles, and place in a basket.

2. Have the kids sit in a circle. Hand a noisemaker to each child and let him or her reach in and pick two cue cards from the hat.

3. Instruct the children to make a racket with their instruments every time you say noise and to shout out one of their words each time you point to them. For example, when you say "and then the old woman heard a frightful noise," the kids should blast away.

4. When you reach an appropriate and suspenseful moment, such as, "The monster reached deep into his backpack and pulled out a huge, ugly..." you should turn to the first child in the circle and let him or her belt out a word.

5. Continue, a la Mad Libs, improvising your story until you can draw it to a scary, silly, or most likely nonsensical, noisy end.

Hanging Chiffon Ghosts

Hanging Chiffon Ghosts

Haunt your house or yard with these 7" sheer fabric ghosts! Add spookiness to your Halloween decorations by hanging them in trees or from ceilings, and posing their arms to make them look like they’re flying! Includes hangers.

Create Your Own Halloween Ghost Puppet Activity

Halloween Ghost Puppet Activity

Materials:

Tissue paper

Cotton ball

Rubber band

String

Instructions:

Place tissue paper over a cotton ball and secure under ball with rubber band. Draw eyes on with marker. Tie a string around neck and hang or use as a finger puppet by hooking over a finger with rubber band.

Ghost Dartboard

Ghost Dartboard

Have a ghostly good time playing a game of darts at your Halloween party! This friendly foam dartboard has a 12" target with a grip surface and four 1 3/4" balls.