Thread: Doing Halloween Party for the MCTC deaf

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Spookyone and I are doing.... Helping with the Deaf committe to do Halloween Party to raise money for the deaf scholarship at our MCTC... I do not know how we got suckered into helping. LOL. We have a few ideas to do or use. So far that i know there isnt a theme planned. We will be using sence setter, black trash bags, prob-ly wall cut-out things, and balloons. We can bring our own decorations to use but keep in mind that we are kinda worried about some dumb kid(s) stealing it.

What I know we will be doing...

Door Prize..... $1.00 per tickets, drawing on couple of Horror DVD with maybe a bag of halloween theme candy.

We will be having a corner set up with someone to man the computer, printer and camera to take pictures or group pictures and charge them $2.00-3.00. Yes there will be background decoration done. No sure as what.

We might be doing a cake walk with Halloween theme cupcakes and cakes.

Now, there is a talk of doing a Haunted Maze... I know bubble wrap and black trash bags... but there I would like some more ideas, tips, suggestions.. something. The details are not fully worked out and we have until Oct. 29th.

I have games in mind planned, but still working on it. i am trying to figure out how to do this to DEAF PEOPLE. (Yeah, I know I am deaf with cohlear implant)
So, I know Monster's War and Mummy Wrap is DEFF.
I do not know on food ideas yet either...
What do you guys think? Spookyone and I believe this to be a bigger event then the usually Halloween gathering, we have been doing for the last 6-7 years and we are willing to take on this challgne and learn from it. So any thoughts, tips, suggestions, ideas.... SOMETHING let me know and see what I can do.
WISH US LUCK!!!

For food... keep it easy and cheap.

How about appetizers, desserts, and drinks. To spookify it, use food coloring, cut items into halloween shapes, or use halloween themed food labels.

Good Luck.

But you and spookyone have great ideas and are both very talented. So I don't think you will need it.

What ages?

You could do a mad lab with spooky things to feel. Cold spaghetti brains, peeled grapes for eyeballs, etc.

What about the dry bobbing for apples that someone posted here. It is basically apples or doughnuts hanging from the ceiling on stings.

Will this be in booth form with various activity stations?

You could scatter hay or straw on the ground and mix in some candy for them to scamble and find. You might give out small treat bags for them to fill so someone didn't take it all.

Cake walks are always fun. You could have someone dressed up in costume to dance while the music is playing and then FREEZE when they are to stop. That would help with hearing impaired.

We used to do a booth where they tossed toiled paper rolls into an old toilet. The one to get it inside won a prize. Buy cheap TP for this.

Do a Monster Mash (dance) contest or a Thriller dance. You could use the songs, but emphasize the moves more. The music would be secondary and not necessary.

Make scary or silly masks out of paper plates, stretch bands to attach and various things to glue on them. (glitter, felt, paper, eyelashes, etc.) You would also need to have markers.

One of my favorites at things like this is the decorating rocks. You would need some good size rocks and some eyes, small yarn noses, pipe cleaners, lashes, hair, etc. Let them decorated a pet rock.

Make bowling pins out of 2 liter drink bottles filled partially with sand. Use a ball to roll and bowl. Paint the bottles in Halloween colors.

Let us know and we can probably come up with more ideas.

Printersdevil you have some really good ideas there!

printer devil... from my understand while its college kids but they have family of thier own that they will bring to the party. We are suppose to get three rooms. One for the maze...
one for bit like an baby-sitting area with some small craft to do and the large one is for food, mingleing, games area.

REMEMBER THEY ARE DEAF hahahah SO even I am not even sure about MONSTER FREEZE, but i plan to ask anway. hahah

You might want to ask around the community to businesses you frequent if they would be willing to donate things for raffles etc. My BF has a son who is deaf and autistic so I will ask her about games.

What about Halloween Bingo. You could use large cards for the letters. It could be done with Halloween related items to reflect the letters.

B--bat and the number
I--Igor and the number
N--
G
O

The idea about gathering prizes from merchants is great. Kids this age would love them. I work with college age kids and this would be a great hit. (especially food coupons or discounts)

COnsidering the ages, I would definitely go with some games. The old pass the orange or small pumpkin would be great. Kids alway love this. Set up two teams of equal number of people and have them each pass a small pumpkin from under their neck to the person behind them. No hands are allowed. It gets really, really funny.

Also, someone on here described a Halloween Twister type game. I can't remember how they made the "board" but it sounded like a lot of fun. Again, with this age group, it would be a riot. Again large picture cards could be made into the realm of the game. They could be held up as instruction. It makes everyone pay closer attention.

ooh, reminds me of pass-the-parcel where every time the music stops* that individual tears a wrapping layer off a package to reveal a small party favor. The very core has a nicer prize.

*LOUD music that deaf can feel? I went to a deaf dance once where everyone had to sign, it was so, ahem, deafening. Alternatively, strobe lights that stop?