Childrens Haloween Party Ideas Help Wanted

lucylema

Hi

I know its early but i have been asked to organise a halloween party for an 8 year old but i have no real idea what to do as only ever been to adult haloween parties.

Please could you help me????

berniesmaster

hi,
we had a haloween party last year for my 7 year olds birthday, it totally rocked!! amazing day.
i can give you a few ideas;
firstly, through the summer hols, i had my kids painting balck big bats that i had cut out, we stuck them on the walls everywhere in clusters, looked really good. just cut up breakfast cerial boxs for that. then i took a book from the library out, (think it was "art attack" haloween special) and made some funky ghosts statues and cut out ghosts. had about 20 odd kids here, and in each corner of all the rooms had games going on, like apple bobbing (a big hit) pin the eyes on the ghost, find the jelly sweet worms in the bowl of flour, wrapping up your mates in toilet roll (mummy game) and the food was fab, we re-labled all the fizzy drinks with spooky names like "witches water" for lemonade and "bogie brew" for limeade, stuck little flags in all the plates of food with spooky names for it all. it was fantastic. everyone had a bill time! but it took loads of planning and time to organise. all worth it though!

flea72

i did a party last year, and we played as above, toilet roll mummies, apple bobbing (though hung the apples off string from the door frame, as kids and buckets of water is just too much of a temptation for dunkings and water fights). Pin the nose on the pumpkin was also another good one

but the most popular game was halloween bingo - i created our own bingo cards with pics of spiders, haunted houses, witches etc, rather than numbers (much easier for younger kids to match pics than numbers) and used buttons to cross off the numbers (meant we could play multiple games off just a few cards too) - also a good game for getting the kids to sit down for a while, rather than go nuts

we also had a pinata - i blew up a balloon, then covered it in a few layers of papier mache, painted it white, drew an iris, pupil and lots of red veins all over it -voila one giant eyeball they could beat the living daylights out of

hth F

nuttybabe

I did a halloween party last year for yonger kids. the oldest was 5. Before the party we decorated the house with flying bats and spiders made out of egg cartons and huge webs.

for food i made witches fingers (cheese strings with red pepper nail), pumpkin puke (cheesy pasta), zombie toes (mini sausages wrapped in tortilla with tomatoe sauce inside), zombie shaped pizza, witches broomsticks (cheese straws in shape of brooms), fairy cakes with loads of toppings ie marshmallow for zombie, spider web, sea monsters, frankenstein. I also made a green jelly hand using a rubber glove.

for games i cut out pumpkin shapes and did musical pumpkins and musical zombies and we played pass the parcel which had scary sweets and bats and spiders. think the kids also watched igor after eating.

thats all i can think of now.

edited to say - we also have a prize for the best costume.

lucylema

thanks for the above guys - great ideas. I think the apple bobbing (out of water) will be a definite one to do.

don1975

hi all a first post from a long time lurker im a halloween party thrower for the food i do worms in a bun very easy use tinned hot dogs ,cut them length ways in half then each half into 3 strips so they look like worms when you need to heat them i use a wok as a couldren and throw the worms in and heat them for about 30 seconds and serve with blood sauce (tom sauce lol).then there is bogey dip (soft cheese coloured green)bbq chicken wings as bat wings, ghost shaped cookies.i hope this helps

lunar

if its for a birthday you could do pumpkin carving, get the kids to draw a face then the adults can help them carve them out. Buy some tealight candles, they can take them home instead of needing to buy party bags. It will be under £1 per child.