Halloween Party! (merged)

trace-j

Chris25 wrote:

There's another song that's popular with teens but I can't remember what it's called :rolleyes: - it was brought out by a group that got together after losing Pop Idol/Fame Academy type show. I'll post it if I remember more details.

I think it was called 'Things that go bump in the night' and the group had a TV series also. They might have been called *something* Street. I think they did a Quality Street ad too.

I'll hum it, perhaps you can pick it up from that

It was a band called allStars, Jennifer Allison was in it along with the bloke in Hollyoaks (Jacks son), program was called Star street. It was pants and the song will be great at my Halloween do, we'd all want to kill ourselves.

Trix

We have had a Halloween party for the past 5 years. The party room is usually decorated from ceiling to floor with black wheelie-bin bags (be careful - don't have hot lights/candles/cigarettes or anything near) but this year we're painting a whole load of cardboard boxes grey to look like castle walls. (the room is 21' x 15' so a lot are needed!) We have a fog machine as well so it looks really creepy.

Some favourite games:
Feely box: Cardboard boxes made so you can't see inside with things in them like: rubber bat, spider (put either web type stuff or dry leaves in with it), cauliflower (warm with jelly on) to feel like a brain, cooked spaghetti (worms), boiled eggs in jelly (eyeballs), rubber glove filled with warm water, cooked rice (maggots)....I'm sure there's more but can't remember at the minute.
Pass the cauldron: cauldron filled with spaghetti, pass around until the music stops then whoever has the cauldron has to put their hand in and find a piece of paper (wrapped in a foil) that has either trick or treat on it. The trick is a dare, the treat (obviously) is a sweet. I'll have to check my Halloween stuff (still haven't got it down out of the loft) for what the dares are. Ones I can remember are: go outside and shout 'Boogie Woogie Woogie' 3 times, howl like a wolf, name 5 spooky characters (vampire, werewolf etc), tell a Halloween joke, make a scary face..have to check for others.
Ghost train: Lights off, creepy sounds CD on loudish. Kids walk around in a conga line, adults have rubber spiders and bats on strings attached to some sort of stick and touch kids on head with them, shake rice in bottles,do creepy screams and laughs, pop balloons etc.
Warty Faces: Plate of chopped up jelly with plastic spiders in, plate of rice crispies with plastic spiders in - alternating between plates, race to see who can get all their spiders out first. (they really look like they're covered in warts by the end)
Mummy wrap: rolls of cheap white toilet paper. One kid is the Mummy, other the wrapper. Race pairs of kids to see who can wrap their Mummy first.

Will reeeeaaalllly have to get all the stuff out of the loft. I'm sure I've missed lots of other stuff.

Sarahsaver

my sons made spiders yesterday with some pipecleaners and an old button, you need 4 pipecleaners and a button with 4 holes.

PLay the game where you have to feel a 'mystery object' in a box - like a wet bar of soap, cold porridge, spaghetti, 'cobwebs' (silly string?), a brain (cauliflower) the idea is to freak people out but also a prize for who guesses what's what.

Fay

Well the time is fast approaching for our party, its this saturday and I am soooooooo excited!
We are going to decorate the house tomorrow night so that saturday is free to get the food and make it and of course to get ready.

Not really OS but we went to B&Q tuesday night and their halloween decorations are half price. I got a large pumpkin candle reduced to 97p, a string of pumpkin fairy lights for £3 and the best....a 4' inflatible, light up monster, for £6.20! They also had inflatible light up pumpkins for the same price.

We also got some green light bulbs for the living room as we aren't putting too many decs up in there as it is freshly decorated. The hall is a different matter though as that is being decorated in the next month. We have spiders webs, spiders, bats, witches, skeletons, wall plaques, buntin, lights...you name it, we have it for in there. It will be like walking into a halloween grotto!

I really can't wait, I feel like a big kid. We have decided to do just 2 games, as its all adults I think that drinking and dancing will take priority So we are going to do apple bobbing...cus you have to, and the mummy wrap game. Asda do a pack of 12 smart price toilet rolls for £1.15. But I don't want to just waste it at the end, so any ideas for unrolled and probably dirty (from the floor etc!) toilet roll?

squeaky

My local co-op are selling bags of white chocolate foil covered coins if you want to give any trick or treaters some "money"

tjohn

Don't know if this has been suggested but a good idea for decorating is to get someone to help you by lying down on the floor. Get some masking tape and stick it around their outline on the floor, like a crime scene. This can also be done in chalk. I also got hold of a plastic knife (looks like a butchers knife) and covered it in fake blood. Then I placed it on the table with a sign next to it saying exhibit A, then I did it with some rope (also stained with blood) and put exhibit B. I scattered these things around the room. This is probably best for an adult party. Might scare the little ones!

katyk_2

Thanks everyone for some great ideas. Have been asked to help at a party for a youth group on Monday (age 9-12) and am in charge of doing the feely box. Had already thought of the spaghetti worms and peeled-grape-eyeballs. Someone suggested cold cooked rice as 'maggots' - not sure if beleivable? Loved Your idea of cooked cauliflower in jelly, Trix. Does it work as well with cauli cold? Would not have facility to heat it up there or keep it warm from home. Any other ideas welcomed.

Poing

My O/H had drawn a pumpkin face on a satsuma when I went to the fruit bowl this morning - could be quite impressive if you get a bag of them and dot them round the room - you might even get the kids to eat them?! :rotfl:

P.S - Netto had pumpkins for 49p yesterday - they were at least £2 in Morrisons.

Trix

katyk - cold cauliflower should work as well, I just use warm because the kids seem to think anything warm is more realistic. If you want to do it warm, just take a flask of hot water and dunk it for a few minutes before you put it in the box. The rice maggots seem to be believable if you have created the right atmosphere. The kids know that none of it is real anyway so it's just letting them use their imagination.

Update on our party - we aren't doing the cardboard box castle walls anymore. We went to 'No Frills' yesterday and bought 3 rolls of wallpaper for 99p each that are grey and kind of stone looking. We then Duct tapped cardboard boxes together, covered them in the wallpaper, sprayed them just a bit with green and black spray paint (leftovers in the garage) and now have half a dozen tombstones of various sizes:eek: (some made into crosses that stand about 5' high!). This only took a roll and a half of paper. The rest of the paper is being pinned around the bottom of the wall with stone shapes sprayed on.

We also bought 2 rolls of black weed control fabric for £4.99 each (15 metres per roll) and that is going to be pinned on the top of the walls (easier and not as flammable as the bin bags).

As a final touch - we went to the woods and got loads of 5 & 6 foot high dead branches that will be stood around the room and a bin bag full of dead leaves to spread on the floor (we have wooden floors so aren't bothered about the floor).

Once we have the fog machine going, the garden bench in and all the rest of the ghost/vampire etc decorations up, the result will be one creepy graveyard! And the total cost was only £12.95, with everything being able to be used next year :T

katyk_2

Trix, that all sounds too fanatastic to be true. Too late and too busy to have my own party this year now, but just might be tempted for next year...
Meanwhile, I am off to buy a cauliflower. Kids did not look too impressed as they just assume they will be getting it for tea and it is not exactly a favourite.