Halloween party games and food

tinkerbellsmum_2

could make smooties or orange juice

sandy2_2

The little clementines are available at end of Oct so you could use those for small jellies. I sut out pumkin faces on them and floated them in punch bowl. Also did Witch face pizzas,witches hat pasties, pusy pimples Ie cherry toms filled with cream cheese, hounds of hell chilli,cheese straws for witches fingers, chopped up green jelly with frogs coming out of it, individual small chocolate instant whip with sweet worms draped over the edge or snakes, Rice krispie cakes as brain balls. The secret is to give everything horrible names. For decorations I raided the local industrial estate skips for large (huge) sheets of corrugated gardboards and cut out silhouettes of bats, haunted houses, cats, witches hats ghosts, stars, moons, pumkin faces, cauldrons, spiders, tomb stones with jokey mottos etc and used cheap poster paints to paint them. I must admit it was time consuming, but fun to do and cheap!!! As we were having our party at home, I made lots of halloween cushion and wall hangings and appliqued the curtains with small ghosts. Even painted one of the spare toilet rolls with a witches face and gave it a Hat in the bathroom

Giggle

Me again im looking for some small brown paper bags i want to make some treat bags with them and they need to be brown and small any ideas

berniesmaster

almost peed my pants with excitement today :j as im having a birthday halloween party for my lillte un' (7), poped in to matalan today, they have a half price sale on loads of halloween stuff, plates, cups, table cloths, loads of decorations and props. saved a fortune and organised....whoo-hoo!!

Giggle

I went to matalan as well and got loads of bits going agin next week to get some more

Mrs_Optimist

WHSmiths are selling last years Halloween stuff of on 3 for 2 at the moment. I spent £4.50 on two bags full of stuff which ranged from 25p for £1 per item.

Claire_Bear

I'm totally excited about making little Trick or Treat bags again this year. I did them a few years ago with some wrapped sweeties from Home Bargains, some little plastic spiders and rats from the poundshop, and those glowsticks that you click together to make a bracelet, all in a sandwich bag. The kids absolutely loved them because of the glowsticks, and they were only £1 for a tube of about 25 so well chuffed. I'm totall excited about Halloween, it's my favourite day of the year apart from Christmas :rotfl:

greenpixey

Home Bargains were putting out their Halloween stuff this morning! :j
I checked Asda and they are not doing it until end of Sept.

bubblegumcola

Giggle wrote: »

Me again im looking for some small brown paper bags i want to make some treat bags with them and they need to be brown and small any ideas

You can get brown paper bags with handles from Home Bargains, supposed to be used for packed lunches. 89p for a pack of ten, you'll find them next to the tin foil, etc. I bought some today with the thought of using them for either treat bags or for some sort of decoration for Halloween.

Another cheap decor idea which I did last year. I took a pile of white paper plates and used my kids poster paint to paint orange. Once dry I took a sharpie (black marker pen) and drew pumpkin faces, bats, spider webs on them. I stuck them on one of my plastic pipes which run down from the gutters, its right beside my front door so all the trick or treaters could see them. I also put a few on my fence. Might not work so well if its raining but last year it was dry and it worked really well. I had some shop bought stuff from Poundland last year too so it worked out well. Kids loved it all anyway which is the main thing.

Loving Martha Stewart's website for ideas, might try some of them for this year.

I had another idea for decor but haven't tried it. Buy some white paper lampshades, the round ones, and paint them orange then draw scary pumpkin style faces and hang from your window or indoors in some sort of chain. I wasn't thinking of lighting them, not sure how safe that would be once you paint them. I'll give it a go and let you know how it goes.

Pips_Mum

bubblegumcola wrote: »

I wasn't thinking of lighting them, not sure how safe that would be once you paint them. I'll give it a go and let you know how it goes.

Oh no, be careful! Images of firemen running in and you saying well I was just trying it out for the MSErs!! :rotfl: