Ball Of Yarn
Preschool Halloween Game
Ball of yarn is a fun preschool Halloween game that can be played in the classroom or at Halloween parties. 
Tricks or movements the children are to perform are written on slips of paper and tied to a strand of yarn while it's unrolled. The yarn is rolled back up so that the tricks aren't seen. Children unroll the yarn and whatever trick they uncovered needs to be attempted to win a treat.
Object of gameTo perform a trick to get a treatNumber of players4 or moreEquipment Paper Hole Punch
Black or Orange Yarn
Treats (stickers or candy)
1" x 1/2" pieces of blank paper (one per player)
Set upMake a list of silly cat related tricks for the kids to perform. Write one trick per piece of paper.Examples of cat tricks: Meow like a cat, stretch like a cat, spell the word cat, draw a cat eye on the chalk board, pretend you are a sleeping cat. With the hole punch, make holes in the paper.
Slide yard through the holes and secure each piece of paper about 2 feet apart by tying a knot in the yarn.
After all the papers are on the yarn, carefully roll the yarn up into a big ball so none of the tricks show. How to playHave the kittens, I mean children, sit in a circle.
Bat the ball of yarn around the circle for a few seconds and then call out for the tricks to begin. The person closes to yarn ball, picks it up and hands it to the player on their left while holding onto the end of the yarn so that it starts to unwind. Continue passing the yarn around the circle until a child comes to a trick. The child closest to the trick, pulls it off the yarn and try their best to perform it. No trick, no treat so make sure you make them easy enough to accomplish! Winning the gameEveryone wins with this game as you'll play until everyone has had a chance to do a trick and earn a treat.VariationsIf the children have desks you can have them hand the yarn up and down the rows instead of sitting in a circle.Instead of tricks, you can label the papers with cat toy, cat food, cat claws, cat eyes and have those correspond to treat bags filled with small toys. A child unwraps a paper with cat toy marked on it, they have to match up the phrase with the bag marked the same and get to pull a treat from that bag.
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