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Halloween Decoration Ideas??

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  • Dark_Star
    Dark_Star Posts: 624 Forumite
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    Have a look on pinterest (do not need to be a member to look)

    http://pinterest.com/search/boards/?q=halloween

    lots of fab ideas there; food, decoration - everything!

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    glow stick spiders :D

    http://www.marthastewart.com/264328/glow-stick-spider


    merry halloween!
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  • Thank you all for your great tips and links I will do a bit of research and see what I can put together! :)

    What about games though?

    So far I have...

    - Bobbing for apples
    - Musical statues (when the music stops they have to freeze in a scary pose)
    - Pin the broom on the witch

    Any ideas??

    Thanks again!
  • LV_Sue
    LV_Sue Posts: 273 Forumite
    The best game my children and now grandchildren like to play is 'Wrapping the Mummy'. Divide the children into teams and get them to choose one to be the 'Mummy'. Give each team some of the cheapest toilet rolls you can find and then they have to wrap the 'Mummy' in the toilet rolls. First to finish wins a prize!
    Not very MSE, but great fun :rotfl:

    Make a pumpkin pinata, or sometimes Asda or Wilkos have them, and fill it with spooky sweets and cheap toys
  • LV_Sue
    LV_Sue Posts: 273 Forumite
    edited 22 August 2012 at 11:31AM
    Over the years I have also made up spooky stories with props and sound effects on tape or CD. I use empty ice cream containers and fill with various things. Cold cooked spaghetti (hair or innards), peeled grapes (eyeballs), angel hair or bought spiders web decorations (hair), chopped jelly (slime or brains), fur fabric (rats or mice), small cold hot dogs/frankfurters - the slimier the better (witches fingers) and best of all, a vinyl glove filled with flour, tied & put in the freezer. This is then taken out and placed unseen on someone's shoulder at the end of the story. Cue shrieks and screams as the lifelike feeling hand is felt.:D.
    When telling the story allow the children to put their hands in each ice cream box at the appropriate time, but don't let them look inside. It may be a little too scary for the younger ones though.

    My son just remembered Hunt the Eyeballs or Pumpkins. Hide wrapped chocolate eyeballs or pumpkins around the room and tell the children there are 5 or so each for them to find.
  • LV_Sue
    LV_Sue Posts: 273 Forumite
    Make spider decorations to hang up. Circles of black card for the bodies and 8 strips of black paper, folded concertina fashion, stuck around the bodies. Stick eyes on stalks (folded paper) and hang with black cotton.
  • we do a massive party every year for my dd's birthday. over the years we have built up a massive collection of decorations, ill list a few;
    cerial boxs cut in to bat shapes and painted black.
    we made fantastic headstones, by creating a fab stone effect on polystyrene. then got creative with names to put on them.
    any old net you can find, dye it black. get to carboot sales, we have bought loads of decorations from there.
    made a couple of "cages" from cardbord boxs, cut out strips to look like bars and painted grey. then stuck a ghost inside, made of a bed sheet cut to size.
    wicked funnnnnn!! oh, and its quite amusing for the kids aswell!! lol

    games,
    we do,
    apple bobbing, then find the sweet in a bowl of flour! lol
    the mummy game, but in pairs,
    guess whats in the bucket (what ever it is its sat in jelly!
    limbo-ing
    pop the balloon, (sweets in side the balloons)

    all adults must dress up aswell

    its awesome!!!!!!!
    3 wonderfull kids :female::female::male:, 1 fab hubby :heart: , 2 beautifull cats and 1 very large dog = my family!
    :grouphug:
  • Thank you LV Sue and berniesmaster!

    Loving the mummy idea!! The kids will go crazy for that!! Especially my two! :D

    I also really like the 'feeling' guessing game! My only concern with that is 15 pairs of sticky fingers! :O lol
  • rsdiscos
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    www.tipjunkie.com , www.familyfun.go.com and www.oneprettything.com are a good source of ideas for decorations and costumes just search halloween.
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  • If you havnt signed up to PINTREST I would highly reconmmend it. It isa site that people can just 'pin' things onto that the like or that they have made etc.
    There is a part where you can search for certain ideas, so you could search for halloween and all sorts of ideas will pop up, it its fantastic!!!!
    Having just had a flick through myself they have things like homemade black paper bunting with purple and green glitter on and also one i quite like is the person has got branches from the garden and has put them in vases and lying across tables etc and has put homemade/toy spiders and cotton wool around them to made some very creepy looking decs!!
  • themull1
    themull1 Posts: 4,299 Forumite
    we put plastic spiders in rice krispies, and the kids had to get them out with their mouths, hilarious! or with chopsticks if you dont want too much mess.
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