Parenting 

Advertisement

Haunted house blind walk

Kids love to be disgusted. This is a fun way to achieve that, while teaching little ones about using their sense of touch and smell

Suitable for: ages 4-8Where: indoors or outdoors

What you need

• Five or six large bowls
• Aluminium foil
• Five to ten peeled grapes
• Cooked spaghetti
• Slime (you can buy this in toy shops)
• Cleaned and dried chicken bones
• Tomato ketchup
• Blankets, sheets, towels, chairs, etc
• Scary music (optional)

What to do

1. You can be as elaborate as you like creating a haunted house. Using blankets, sheets, towels, chairs, etc, make an obstacle course or maze that the children can crawl or climb through.
2. Prepare the bowls, putting each of the above items in a separate bowl. You could also make up your own creepy concoctions.
3. Put the bowls in strategic places throughout the haunted house. Cover them with aluminium foil, cutting a small opening to fit a hand.
4. Play scary music.
5. Each child chooses a partner (parent, friend, sibling). One person agrees to shut his or her eyes first (or use a blindfold). The other leads the child slowly through the maze. Each time the pair reaches a bowl, the person with eyes shut reaches into the bowl to feel what's inside. The guiding partner can tell the other that the grapes are really eyeballs, the spaghetti are intestines or veins, etc. Switch partners when one has completed the tour.

Variation
Switch items in the bowls to keep them guessing!

Delicious     Digg     reddit     Facebook     StumbleUpon

  Get the latest iVillage news on your desktop    Sign up for more iVillage RSS feeds

© iVillage Limited 2000-2008. All rights reserved. | © iVillage inc. 1995-2008. All rights reserved.
iVillage Ltd is a UK company registered in England & Wales (3837269) at 80-110 New Oxford Street, London WC1 1HB