Throwing a great party isn’t a problem when you have a plan. Food, beverages, guests, decorations and party games are the ingredients you need to have the party of the year. Here are some ideas for fun Halloween games to help your party or your child's party go from so-so to spectacularly spooky.

Have your guests come to your party dressed to impress! Pick a fair group to judge the costumes and give prizes for funniest, cutest, scariest and most interesting. You can also give prizes for things like “Best adaptation of a costume bought at a store.”

Set up witch hats in a line with the first one closest to you, the second one behind the first, with the fifth hat farthest away. Get out some tossing rings and one by one see how far each guest can get on the hats. If there is a tie between two people, move the hat farther and farther back until the tie is broken and you have a winner. If you don’t have rings for tossing, have someone hold the hat upside down and use a ball, tossing the ball into each hat. The person who can toss the ring or ball farthest wins.

Get out some extra Halloween costumes or even some old clothing and get ready to have some serious relay race fun! Have everyone stand on one side of the room and put the outfits or costumes on the other side of the room. When you say, “Go!” everyone should run as fast as they can across the room and put on all the clothing. Then, they run back across to where they started, take all the clothing off (or the costume) and yell, “Done!” The first one to be done wins the game.

Write down Halloween people, places and things on pieces of paper. Fold the papers and put them in a bowl. Then each person, in turn, picks a piece of paper out and acts out what is on the paper for the rest of the group. This game can be played by the whole group, or you can split into teams and play to see which team can get the most points.

Take a pumpkin and some empty 2-liter bottles of soda and get ready to have some fun! For extra fun, tape pictures of Halloween characters to the front of the bottles. Figure out in advance how many rounds everyone will get, and at the end of the rounds the person with the most points wins.

Set out markers, stickers, glue, construction paper, buttons and other household items. Give guests a pumpkin and 30 minutes to decorate. Prizes can be given for prettiest, scariest, best or most interesting pumpkin. This game can also be played to have decorated pumpkins at the end without worrying about winners and losers. It can also be played without a time limit.

Make a bingo card with different Halloween pictures. Then, cut out and color pieces of paper that look like pumpkins (or get white bingo chips and put Halloween stickers on them) — put pictures of bingo squares into a bowl and have a caller call out the pictures. First bingo wins! An easier way to make the bingo cards would be to get regular bingo cards and use stickers to cover the numbers already on the bingo card. Then your caller would call out “N — Black Cat” and if someone had a sticker of a black cat under the letter N on the bingo card, they would cover that square.

Depending on how many guests you have, this can be done with as little as one person per scarecrow or up to four people per scarecrow. Have on hand newspaper or hay, old clothing, pillowcases for heads and markers to draw a face. Set a timer and give the teams 15 minutes to make a scarecrow with the items provided. The best scarecrow wins! (Or you could give prizes for the funniest or scariest scarecrow.)

Split into teams of two. One person gets a plastic pumpkin and the other gets a handful of candy corn. Have all the “pumpkins” line up in front of all the candy corns, then toss a piece of candy corn into the pumpkin. Keep getting one step farther away with every throw. If someone misses the pumpkin, that team is out of the game. The last team left wins.