Games
Ichabod Crane Trivia
The first game we played was a trivia game and bean bag toss all in one.
Whenever it was their turn, they would toss the bean bag onto the mat and whichever square they landed on, that was how many points they got when they answered the question correctly. (As soon as we got to grandma's house, we had them watch the show while we finished setting up a few things. That way the show was fresh in their minds.)
I found a few questions on line, but mostly made them up. They were all fairly easy.
Here's a few examples:
"What color is Katrina's parasol?"
"What are Ichabod's feet compared to?"
"What are two things that Ichabod usually carries with him?"
"What is the last line of the movie?"
I love movie trivia, so that was probably my favorite part.
answering his question
Punch a Pumpkin
The second game was just a simple get a prize game. They had to punch their hand (fingers worked best) through the tissue paper and then got to pull out the prize inside. Most of the prizes were candy, but there were some socks and little cheap toys and some small packages of Cheetos.
They each got to do it about 4-5 times.
"Are they shovels or are they feet?"
Racing in Ichabod's Shoes
I was so happy to have found this next game because I thought it went perfectly with the line from the movie (above). He does have such big feet!
I didn't get a good picture of the shoes and cups of popcorn, but I guess you can see from the pictures of the kids racing.
Pretty much this was a relay race using shoes that are too big for you. I gathered up some of Garrett's shoes for the older kids and some of mine for the younger ones. I had attached some plastic cups to the shoes with rubber bands and filled the cups up with popcorn. They had to put the shoes on, and race to one side of the barn and back and the person with the most popcorn still in their cup, wins!
Trying to get their cups on their shoes and the shoes on their feet.
Bella and Noah were the first to race
Noah's shoes
Ready to race
Maggie and Paige ready to race.
Trying not to spill their popcorn
Lydia was moving pretty slow on her turn. It was a pretty funny game.
"The Headless Horseman needs a head..."
"Heads will Roll Game"
This game was just a race with mini pumpkins--meant to be heads--although I don't think I ever told the little kids that. It was really simple, but the little kids loved it. They wanted to play over and over. I just found a big piece of wood in Jim's barn, set it up so it was leaning against a chair and then we just raced pumpkins by seeing which would roll the farthest and fastest.
I apologize about the quality of the pictures...the lighting in the barn was so awful and the pictures were full of shadows and bright lights. I tried to edit them and they look somewhat better, but not great.
"They say he's tired of his flaming top..."
"Beat the Pumpkin Pinata"
This was your typical hitting the pinata game. Of course it wouldn't be complete if Garrett wasn't messing with the string and pulling the pinata away from the kids when they were about to hit it.
Getting ready to whack the pumpkin
Paige being a clown!
Noah was up first
Garrett working the string
Paige's turn
Lydia
Jim and Savann hung the pinata for me and they actually hung it up with a bungee type rope. So at one point, Garrett sent the pinata flying at Maggie.
It just barely missed her head. :)
After this, I actually had one more game lined up and ready to go, but I forgot about it. It was a memory game.
This was before our last activity. I had bought a colonial hat, kind of like what Ichabod wears, just for a decoration. Lydia wanted to try it on.
"For once you cross that bridge my friends, the ghost is through. His power ends!"
"Wagon Ride through Sleepy Hollow"
I was so excited when I had decided on the theme and that it would be at my in-laws house because after the party, I knew we could go on a tractor ride in the dark and have Garrett scare the kids!!
The only crappy thing was that it was raining the night of the party. We still went on the ride and Garrett did scare them, but it was cold and wet. Oh well. It was still fun!
and that was the end of the party.
I had so many other game ideas but they wouldn't work inside the cramped barn. My ideas were more for outside where the kids could run and spread out. I'll keep them though in case there's a next time!
