Feel the Corpse
This is a morbid activity that exercises the powers of imagination. Get all the participants sitting in a circle on the floor or around a table. You, the host, should sit in the midst of them with a container full of 'body parts' within easy reach. Either blindfold all the participants or else turn out the lights and ensure that the room is pitch dark. Tell your guests that you will be passing around bits of a dead person for them to identify. (Kids ages five to eight or so won't actually believe you're handing them parts of a real corpse, but they will tend to get into the spirit of things and act as though what they are touching is gross and disgusting. The reactions of older people are less predictable.)

Start by passing around two fresh grapes. Tell each participant to feel them and pass them along to the next person in the circle. Someone will most likely pipe up and identify them as eyes --to which the others will likely agree (unless some precocious kid brings up testicles). When the grapes make it around the circle and back to you, announce that they were indeed the dead person's eyes.

Continue in this manner with as many 'corpse parts' as you can find. Have a possible body part in mind for everything you pass around. If the guests seem to agree on a different body part than the one you thought of, you can maximise party fun by confirming that they guessed correctly.

Some suggestions:

• a balloon filled with warm water (stomach?)
• a cauliflower (brain?)
• two dried apricots (ears?)
• a small, wet, terry-cloth covered bath sponge (tongue?)
• four cocktail sausages (fingers?)
• a scrap of thin leather (skin?)
• an old withered apple (heart?)
• a wig (scalp?)
• a bowl of cooked pasta in oil (guts?)

This is a cooperative, rather than competative game, so there is no 'winner' as such, however if you're playing with young children, it's probably wise to declare them all winners at the end for correctly identifying the body parts. Cheap rubber fingers or eyeballs (available in UK card and party shops during the Halloween season) would make good prizes.