Halloween party games and food

Giggle

I know its early but where i work (in a local football club) have said my friends and myself can put on a Halloween party. We have a disco booked and now we need ideas for games and food all the food must be or made to look like Halloween food.

So any ideas please and have you done a party in the past and have any photos i could see

b4be

hi , ive seen it somewhere and it looked , gross and scary , so would be perfect for halloween , get a rubber glove , new of course and probably best to steralize it in milton , then some red shoe lace string sweets , fill the glove with green jelly and put the red strings down each finger and tie at the top , probably best to make the jelly firmer by putting in less water , then once you get it on a plate , take some off one finger leaving a hole , so the red string shows like an open wound , and then some black food dye , dabbed around the wood and parts of the hand , like nails , do it sparringly though , could grate some choclate on the plate so it looks like earth , would look like a hand just lying in the ground

totaly gross but edable :eek: and i reckon kids (and big kids:rolleyes: ) would love it ,

Giggle

b4be Thanks that sounds great last year we put green water in a glove and froze it to make a ice hand and we put that in a big bowl of blackcurrant juice it looked fab

sarahf191979

My little boy is a halloween baby so will pull all the sites up I normally use for his partys later and let you have them, gotta rush now to get kiddies to school.

Sarah

JailhouseBabe

I once made a spider cake for a halloween party - unfortunately I lent the book it came from to a friend and she lost it.

As far as I remember, the main body of the spider was a sponge/madeira type cake baked in a pudding bowl. This was covered in chocolate butter icing then covered in vermicelli (the chocolate strands - not the pasta, lol).
The head was a chocolate teacake, with red smarties for eyes attached with icing; the antennae were two flat red lollipops stock in behind the teacake.
The legs were made from chocolate Matchmakers. To get an angle in each leg, they were stuck together with melted chocolate; then they were stuck into the body of the spider.

I wish I at least had a photo to give you an idea of how it's meant to look!

Another idea is green and orange jelly layered in a large glass bowl or individual clear plastic cups - jelly worms/snakes etc. can be dropped in between each layer for a creepy treat.

b4be

heres another cake

buy 2 swiss rolls , cut one on half , stand them on end on a cake tray /plate side by side largest in the middle , then roll out a large enough sheet of white icing , an drape and mould over the swiss rolls , leaving it loose around the bottom , use the black food colouring and dot on eyes and a mouth on the upper part of the taller one , and you have a very easy to make ghost cake:j

moneymouth77

In terms of games, do you have a webcam? There are loads of webcam games online that encourage getting up and bouncing around, we've found them to be great party games! Try http://camgaming.co.uk/ for a couple good ones!

clarelou2

My mum made this cake and monster pizza last year for halloween - they were both easy to make, I can give you the details if you want them.

Giggle

wow clarelou2 i like them mmmmm

thanks everyone keep the ideas coming

Giggle

Does any one know how to make some halloween cocktails

greenpixey

Here are some ideas that was posted for Halloween 2007 might be of some use...

claffys wrote: »

Pin the nose on the pumkin
Get a box and fill it with shredded paper and put in some little wrapped toys/sweets for them to lucky dip.
Also good for kids who will be out trick or treating.
You could even make the box coffin shape. or just pain it black.
They are a bit young for this one but will stick it in for any older ones reading.
Get some cheap balls of wool from the charity shop.
Everyone ties the end of their wool around their waist.
You say (MY OH MY ITS A FLY START SPINNING) each player then throws their ball to another person (not next to them) then the kids take turns saying the rhyme and after everyone has had a go. and everyone is all tangled up the winner is the one who gets out first :-] (this game must have adult supervision)
Swamp treasure.
250g cornflour 500ml of water green food colouring.
Even better when doubled :-)
When its all mixed up put some 10pences in there and some fake bugs and old buttons.
If they get a coin they can either keep it or exchange it for a sweet :-)



DECORATIONS (lanterns)
Old jam/sauce jars and wrap them with orange&black paper and cut out a star/moon on the front.
Put a tea light in side.
Box of tissues. (make some ghosts)
Take one tissue and put a few connton balls in the center tie cotton/wool around the outisde (so the cotton ball becomes a head)
Draw on a face with black pen.
Stitch a long peice of thread/wool to the head and hang.
If you have some plain fairy lights.
Cut out lots of little ghost shapes from white paper and bat shapes from black paper and pumkin shapes from orange paper and push one on to each fairy light.
Fill a rubber glove with red coloured water and tie with a band/bag tie then freeze keeping the hand horizontal and the fingers separated.
Once frozen remove the tie, peel off the glove add the hand to a bowl of clear water.
Lizard ice bowl.
Fill large bowl with cold water to a depth of 4cm throw in some plastic lizards or spiders. put in the freezer.
Once frozen remove from the freezer and place smaller bowl ontop of the frozen layer and weight it down.
Pour in more water between the two bowls and add more lizards.
return to the freezer.
Once fully frozen you can remove the inner bowl by wiping the inside with a cloth wich has been run under hot water then wrung out.
Remove outer bowl by dipping in warm water and leave in the freezer untill needed.
place it on a plate and fill with ice cream or ice cubes for the party.


FOOD.
Pumpkin soup (got a recipe if need one)
Monster pizzas
Make scary faces onto pizzas with toms mushrooms peppers etc.
Kebab broomsticks
(make kebabs using anything from sausages ans tmatoes for savory ones and melon grapes and pineapple etc for fruit ones) get some black paper and cut into little strips and tie with a length of raffia or even a elastic band would do.to the end of the kebab stick so it looks like a broom.
Jack o lantern cookies (have recipe if needed)
fairy cakes like eye balls
GRITTY GRAVEYARD EYEBALL TRIFLE
Crush biscuits in bottom of bowl
put grapes cut into halfs ontop
Make up choc angle delight and pour onto grapes
Insert sponge fingers like tombstones around the edge of the bowl.
Poke a few whit choc fingers at angles into te middle to resemble dug up bones.
DRINKS
Warm halloween punch
Pour 1 litre of orange juice 1 litre of red grape juice and 1 litre of fizzy water into sauspan.
Add slices of orange and lemon a couple of cinnamon sticks and two mulled wine sachets.
simmer over a low heat untill warm.
poor into glasses containing a metal tea spoon (so glass wont crack)
Add sultanas and almond flakes to look like eyeballs and fingernails.
WITCHES BREW
Chop up 3 apples into cubes
Make up fruit punch with 1 litre of fruit juice 1 litre lemmonade and 1 litre ginger ale.
add apple cubes and sultanas to look like teeth and eyeballs
serve in encrusted glasses with creepy ice cubes and neon straws.
ENCRUSTED GLASSES.
Colour some white sugar in a glass jar by adding green food colouring and shaking the mix.
Poor small amount onto a plate.
Dip the rim of the glass into some lemmon juice and then dip into sugar.
CREEY ICE CUBES
Add a few drops on red food colouring to a jug of cold water.
Half fill trays and freeze.
Top up with green and you should end up with half red half green ice cubes.