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The person closest to the where the heart should be wins. Have each person wear a blindfold and try to pin (or tape) a paper heart cutout on the zombie (like Pin the Tail on the Donkey). Pin the Heart on the Zombie: Create a life-sized cutout of a zombie. When a player gets tagged, she becomes the next “It” and gets to wear the mask. This is how the zombie zeroes in on his victims. When “It” groans, all the players must groan back and extend their arms. Everyone has to stay within the circle while he wanders around with his arms stretched out in front, zombie style (this also keeps him from crashing). “It” wears a rubber mask (with blindfold) and hands. This game follows the classic rules of Marco Polo. Make sure it’s a trip-proof playing area. Zombie Marco Polo: Rope off a circular area, and be prepared to yell “out-of-bounds!” to your blindfoldedzombie. The survivor then gets to pick two friends to join him in the middle to be the starter zombies for the next round. Run this game until there is only one survivor left. If a zombie touches them they became zombies themselves.
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After you blow a whistle, they have to run en mass to the other side without being touched by a zombie. The other kids then line up on one side of the room. The zombie kids stand in the middle of the room and are told that they can’t move their feet. Games: Zombie Tag: Tape lines on the floor at either end of program room and chose three or four kids to be zombies. For a beverage, serve berry juice drink, decorated with ice cubes in which you have frozen plastic bugs. Refreshments: Try “brain cake” – chopped up white cake, decorated with raspberry jam and pink frosting, with a few gummy worms thrown in for fun. You can purchase make-up from a Halloween supply store. Make-up: Start the program with make-up tables so everyone who attends can get their “Zombie” on! Have older high school volunteers help with the Zombie make-up – try recruiting the local high school drama club. The topic of Zombies is great for a Halloween program but of course you can use this at others times of the year due to the popularity of the subject. Some of these ideas came from Jennifer Lawson of the San Diego Public Library and some are my own. Here are some Zombie programming ideas, probably best suited to those 10 years old and up, as most Zombie books fall into the Young Adult area of the library. “Vampires are out – Zombies are in!” Or so I was told by a tween recently.
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