Since Halloween is a holiday that celebrates the strange, silly, scary and even disgusting, and with preschoolers often eager to touch and feel anything sticky and slimy, create a game that incorporates both aspects. Fill a large bowl or a witch's cauldron with slimy, though safe, items. As the Kids Party suggests, this could include pudding, gelatin, spaghetti, frosting or a mixture of items. Place small prizes into airtight containers and bury the containers in the mixture. Blindfold the children and give each a turn to try and fish out a prize from amidst the muck.
In a play on the traditional Red Light, Green Ligh" game, adapt it to have a Halloween feel. Choose one player to be the Jack-o-lantern and stand at the front of the room. The other players must each choose a Halloween character, such as a witch, zombie or ghost. When the Jack-o-lantern turns his back and announces, "Green fright," all the other children must walk toward him while staying in character. A witch may bound and jump as if on a broomstick, a zombie may stagger forward and a ghost may twirl and spin toward him. When the Jack-o-lantern player turns back around and says "Red light," however, all the players must freeze. Like with the traditional game, anyone caught moving must go back to the start. The first player to tag the Jack-o-lantern takes his place for the next round.
Create a drawing of a witch on a large sheet of poster board and mount the poster board on the wall. Arm each player with a construction paper cut out of a broomstick with double-sided tape on the back. Blindfold each child one at a time and spin him around three times. Aim him towards the poster and instruct him to try and glue the broom to the witch's hand. The child who places his broomstick the closest wins a prize.
Sit all the students in a circle on the floor, pulling out one student to sit in the middle of the circle. Instruct the child in the middle to close his eyes as you hand a plastic spider to one of the children in the circle. Tell the student to hide the spider tightly in his fist. Instruct all the other students to clench their fists as if they had a hidden spider as well. Have the student in the middle open his eyes while playing some spooky Halloween music. While the music is playing, the student holding the spider must pass it to his neighbor and so on. To help disguise who has the spider instruct the other players to pretend to pass the spider to their neighbor as well. The person in the middle must carefully watch the antics to try and discern where the real spider is. When the music stops, everyone must freeze and the player in the middle will guess who has the spider. If he guesses correctly the person holding the spider switches places with him. If he guesses wrong the game begins again.