SKELETON HOOP TOSS

Object of this Halloween Game
Each player takes a turn trying to toss plastic hoops over a Halloween skeleton from a distance. The player who successfully tosses the most hoops over the skeleton wins a prize.

What You Need
Three plastic hoops. Plastic toy hoops made to twirl around the waist have been around since the fifties and are a lot of fun for the user and quite entertaining for spectators. These plastic hoops come in a variety of sizes, with twenty-four, thirty, thirty-two and thirty-four inches diameters being the most common. For this game we use twenty-four in diameter hoops. These hoops can be found at most department and toy stores year round.

A plastic molded skeleton such as the "Glow in the Dark Lab Skeleton" is fifty-five inches in length and works great for this Halloween game. You will need to build a basic stand for the skeleton so that it will be in the standing up position for this game. We used 1/2" PVC pipe and various connectors to build a simple stand and attached the skeleton to the stand using plastic cable ties around the spine at the neck and waist.

How to Play
For kids, you will want to place the skeleton around six to eight feet away and mark the floor with a piece of tape where players must stand. For adults ten to fifteen feet away, depending on how difficult you want the game to be. Each player takes a turn, trying to toss the three hoops, one at a time, over the skeleton. Players who tie, go into a play off game. The player who successfully tosses the most hoops over the skeleton wins.

Game Tip
Since this skeleton will glow under a ultraviolet light, you can position a blackl ight in the room, either behind or to the sides of the players and then turn all or most of the regular lights off while playing the game. Don't place the black light unit behind or near the skeleton, or it could be hit and danaged by flying hoops.

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