Halloween Party! (merged)

debw_4

Create a witches den by buying very cheap black rubbish sacks and lining the walls with them. Use some orange crape paper shredded for the door. The red light bulb idea will work well with this. Drape cobwebs across the ceiling and place spiders in it. Make giant spider by balling up newspaper then cover with black sugar paper or paint it black. The legs can be made from rolled up lengths of paper as well. Bright red eyes make for a seriously scary looking spider.

Make a red or lime green jelly and put sweet snakes and other gross looking sweets in it looks great.

Two good games - 1. pair up the children (or adults) use very very cheap loo roll and give each pair one roll. One of the pair gets wrapped up as a mummy by their partner. The first pair to completely cover their mummy wins. Its great fun.

2. Use a largeish pudding bowl and place a marshmellow in the bottom. Fill with cheap flour and really pack it in tightly to remove all air. Carefully turn it out onto a board and you have a compact mound of flour with the marshmellow in the top of it. The kids take it turns to cut slices off of the flour mound. The one who makes the marshmellow fall has to retrieve it with their mouth. It messy but good fun.

We have dug out all of our McDonald toys for treats and wrapped them in some tissue paper to make a trick or treat pot. Our tricks are things like old tea bags and other useless items.

Grvymix

What about ideas for songs? We could only think of 'monster mash', 'thriller', and the adams family tune!


Hiya, just came across your post, and thought I would chime in. How about
Running with the Devil - VanHalen

Grvymix

Queenie wrote:

Not sure where mine picked it up from (school probably!) but they would say:

Trick or trick, smell my feet or give me something nice to eat

This is a traditional trick or treat rhyme in Canada. Not sure if they say it in the States, but we certainly do in Canada.
Cheers! :rotfl:

Fay

Well guys the party is tonight! We decorated the house last night, it does look good although I am sure I will find some more stuff to buy today hehe.

One of the mose effective things I got were spiders webs from asda, only 42p with plastic spiders too. These look great drapped from the ceilings and walls with the spiders put into them. My friend brought me a big spider yesterday., it attaches to the ceiling and when someone makes a noise it drops down...we have put it in the hall to get people hehe

Everyone who is having or going to a party tonight, I hope you have a fab time. I will be too tired to enjoy ours probably!

Fay

Well we had the party and it was a rip roaring success. In total 30 people came and all of them had dressed up and it was very impressive to see us all together. The house looked great, we had cob webs everywhere, a large spider in the hall that dropped on your head if you made a noise. The front of the house was decorated and we had a gazebo in the garden with a patio heater and decorations out there too.

We played mummy wrap and apple bobbing...the latter was truly hilarious with only 2 people actually managing to get any apples out hehe

The clean up took me from 9 yesterday morning till 3 yesterday afternoon and I am shattered today. The party went on until 3am.

So much fun, so worth it and we will do it all again next year! I hope everyone else had a good time?

elona

Spent all afternoon hand sewing applique bats, cats and ghosts to DDs black circular skirt (she is 11) with a black top and a witches hat and cauldron - she looks so cute - it was worth all the fiddle involved.
Thanks to Queenie for the templates for the halloween motifs.

V.Lucky

I have searched the mega index but couldn't find anything either under parties or halloween.

I am having a Halloween party for my soon to be 5 year old, at our house and have told him max 15 kids (including him).

Any ideas about Halloween themed food? All I can think of is those Haribo wriggly worms in jelly.

I did think about having a bbq, but this depends on the weather, and I can't really judge that until the day.

Thanks

oops_a_daisy

mini pizzas - cooked scabs
mini sausages - dead mans fingers
cheese puffs - well they are orange so go with halloween
egg sandwiches - chopped up brains in bread
tomatoe ketchup - blood of course
use liquorice laces to make spiders webs on cakes
make coloured ice cubes
lime juice and cherryade to drink

can you tell my DD is a halloween child

Sallys_Savings

I once made an orange jelly in a plastic glove and then topped it with a strawberry jelly to make it look as if it had been severed......but it might be a bit much for a 5 year old lol

QueenB.

I love halloween and we often do a jelly hand which my lot think is so funny.

Instead of the bug jelly you could try making an ice bowl full of bugs and serve ice-cream in it.

Decorate fairy cakes with webs and the blood shot eye look (red icing and cherries).

what ever you make just be creative with a name and table decoration and have fun.