Thread: HELP - IDEAS NEEDED - Halloween Fundraiser

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Hi everybody,

I'm hoping you can help me come up with some ideas for our halloween carnival at work.

Last year, my workplace had a Halloween Carnival as part of our United Way campaign. This year, we're doing it again, and I'm in charge of the activity.

I work in a Canadian Federal government office. We have 420 employees between the ages of 20 - 65, located on 6 floors. We are able to use all 6 floors, including boardrooms, hallways and cubicles. Employees are invited to bring their children to the event. Last year we had about 60 children ranging from infants to 8 years of age. Due to the fact that we are a government office, and the age of the children that may be here, I can't go too scarry ... not too much blood and gore.

Things I know we're having ...

• Costume contest
• witch hat ring toss
• pin the spider on the web
• Zombie arm wrestling?(maybe)
• Halloween mini-putt
• Wheel of misfortune (if I can get my Nephew to build it)
  Scarry food
  Halloween cake raffel

I'm also hoping for some kind of bowling game... but I havn't worked that out yet.

I have a reputation for being a Halloween nut... and I want this to be the best carnival possible. Since we're raising money for united way, our expenses must be minimal. Each section is responsible for their own decorating, but last year, it was a bit haphazzard, and didn't flow well. There's an average of 3-5 sections per floor, and my goal is to get everyone to work together, so that each floor has a theme, but that's just an idea for now.

I just took this project on today, and I'm looking for ideas for games, decorations, food... basically anything you can think of. I'm usually all about the gore factor, so I really need to tone down my usual style and make it more of an all-ages event.

Found these threads:
Halloween Party Games Ideas

Halloween Party Games Ideas

How to Entertain pre teens?? HELP!!!!

2009 Boo Bash

Murder Mystery games for middle schoolers?

I didn't have time to read all of them but maybe you can get some ideas. Good luck

thanks for the links

I'd suggest:

Pumpkin lollipop pull: Drill holes in a large funkin and use in place of the traditional tree. If the lollipop pulled has a colored end, the player wins an additional prize, all players get to keep the lollipop.

Face painting/glitter tattoos

Also, I can't seem to find a picture online, but those murals with the face cut-out so you can pretend to be a vampire, or Frankenstein and Bride, etc. are fun for photo ops.

Oriental Trading has those face outs for photo op pretty cheap and I think www.shindiz.com has them too.