Apple bobbing either apples in a bucket of water, or sometimes suspended from strings off a pole. You have your hands fastened behind your back.
Murder in the Dark (hide 'n' seek type game) The one where usually an adult tells a creepy story with everyone sat in a circle in the dark, and passes round things to represent a dismembered body - peeled grapes, slimy cooked spaghetti, Twiglets for finger bones etc.
Sometimes the "how long can you peel an apple" thing and then you toss it over your shoulder and it makes the initial of the person you'll marry.
Another one for white faces is creating a mixing bowl of flour and inverting it onto a surface. You place a small penny on the middle and then people take it in turns to cut slices off the "flour cake" until the penny falls into the mess of flour remaining. The person who causes the penny to fall has to retrieve it with their mouth (and hands behind back).
When I was young, Halloween consisted of carving a swede into a jack 'a lantern, bobbing for apples (there was also a variation that called for you to bob for an apple then grab a coin from a tray of flour immediately after) and a few other fortune telling games (looking in the mirror by candle light and repeating a rhyme to see your true love over your reflection's shoulder and peeling an apple in one ribbon to find your sweetheart's initial were the one's I remember trying), plus sitting in a darkened room and telling ghost stories. There wasn't much dressing up and no trick or treat.
Parties and things were always held on November 5th
I second apple-bobbing, murder-in-the-dark and fortune telling games.
At that time-period Halloween was much less commercialised than it is today - no costumes or pumpkins in the shops as they concentrated on fireworks for bonfire night. It might be best to combine your party with a childs birthday party (do we know when Lily's birthday is?) which the parents have decided to theme as 'witches and wizards' - your choice as to whether that is deliberate on the Evans' part, knowing about Lily's magic, or not.
If they are 10/11, then I'd have thought a traditional passtime of children at a halloween party would be complaining that they are having a halloween party when what they actually want to do is go out on Mischief Night four days later.
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Murder in the Dark (hide 'n' seek type game)
The one where usually an adult tells a creepy story with everyone sat in a circle in the dark, and passes round things to represent a dismembered body - peeled grapes, slimy cooked spaghetti, Twiglets for finger bones etc.
Sometimes the "how long can you peel an apple" thing and then you toss it over your shoulder and it makes the initial of the person you'll marry.
Another one for white faces is creating a mixing bowl of flour and inverting it onto a surface. You place a small penny on the middle and then people take it in turns to cut slices off the "flour cake" until the penny falls into the mess of flour remaining. The person who causes the penny to fall has to retrieve it with their mouth (and hands behind back).
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It looks like little the kiddies are going to have something to do at this party besides look at their feet after all. :D
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Parties and things were always held on November 5th
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Thank you, once again! :)
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At that time-period Halloween was much less commercialised than it is today - no costumes or pumpkins in the shops as they concentrated on fireworks for bonfire night. It might be best to combine your party with a childs birthday party (do we know when Lily's birthday is?) which the parents have decided to theme as 'witches and wizards' - your choice as to whether that is deliberate on the Evans' part, knowing about Lily's magic, or not.
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January 30 - it's on her gravestone in Godric's Hollow.
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