Classic Games

• Turn bobbing for apples into bobbing for skulls. Peel apples and remove the stem. This is your basic skull. Next gouge out holes for the eyes and nostrils, and score in lines for the teeth. Now you have apple skulls. Float the skulls in a large tub of water and play the classic game. Some play the game blindfolded. Another classic blindfolded game is blind-man's bluff.
  
  

Contests

• Have a pumpkin-carving contest. Since this is messy, spread out a painter's tarp, newspapers or old sheet. Award prizes for the fastest carving, the scariest pumpkin and the best overall.
  
  Another easy contest, suitable for all ages, is a tombstone-making contest. For the tombstone you can use a variety of materials: gray construction paper, Styrofoam, cardboard or even clay. The contest is to make the best tombstone in categories such as funniest, most sentimental, scariest, coolest and best for someone historical. As with the pumpkin-carving contest, those guests not participating in the contest vote on the winners.
  
  

Mummy Wrap

• Divide into teams. Each team gets a couple of rolls of toilet paper. One person on each team is picked to be the mummy and the rest of the team does the wrapping. The team that finishes first may win one prize while the team with the best mummy wins another. "Best" may be determined by the mummy's ability to walk without losing his wrapping.
  
  

Werewolf

• The game is simple: The host is the moderator. Use index cards and make a deck of cards. You need two cards to read "Werewolf," one card to read "Seer" and all the rest to read "Villager." The cards are shuffled and distributed to the players. The aim is for the villagers to figure out who among them are the werewolves, while the werewolves are busy slaughtering the villagers. All cards are kept secret, and everyone plays as if he is a villager. (The werewolves will, naturally, lie if asked.)
  
  The moderator calls "Night" and all players close their eyes. Then the werewolves only are told to open their eyes. Silently, the werewolves point and agree on one person who is then "killed." The moderator then tells the werewolves to close their eyes and for the seer to open her eyes. The seer is then directed to point out one person in the room. If that person is a werewolf, the moderator gives a thumbs-up; if a villager, a thumbs-down. The seer may choose to reveal herself to the villagers, but if she does, it generally means the person she designated will be the next one killed come "night." The moderator announces "day" and says whose body is found; that player is out of the game and can no longer speak. The villagers discuss (and accuse) the person they think is the werewolf and vote on whom to lynch. Only after a lynching is the player's card revealed to show if a villager, a werewolf or the seer was killed. Then it's back to "night."