Depending on the size of your group, you may want to make sugar cookies from scratch with the children helping, or have the dough pre-mixed and waiting in the refrigerator.

Purchase a lot of inexpensive plastic Halloween cookie cutters so that each child can take his/her's home afterwards as a party favor.

If making cookies from scratch, let each child take a turn at rolling out the dough.

Once the cookies cool, you can have a cookie decorating contest with prizes for different categories. Have some icing and different decorations on hand for a lot of decorating fun.