Halloween Party! (merged)

vivaladiva

This will be too late now but for future reference you need 400g flour. I used plain and mine didn't really spread - I just made them too big.

soozg

Hi Every1,please bare with me as I'm new to all this!!! Can any1 share some cheap & cheerful Halloween party ideas with me....nibbles,party bag ideas,drinks,anything home made etc. I hosting a party for adults and kids and would love some wild and wacky tips,etc.

Quackers

I got the asda mag today and these ideas were in it (I'm hunting for ideas for my sister!)

Rotten apples.

Use an apple corer to make 2 long holes in an apple. Use a clean small paintbrush/pastry brush to coat the inside of each hole with lemon juice(to stop apple browning) and then get some of those sweet & sour wiggly worms and have them coming out of the holes.

Eye balls

1 tin of lychees & some red grapes.

Drain tin of lychees & put a grape in each one.

How easy is that & they will look fab I think

In the mag it says to use a cocktail stick to serve but I think they will look better 'rolling' around the plate all by them selves

Spooky fingers

sausages. Bread. cream cheese & almonds.

cut off crusts on bread. cooks sausages (:rolleyes: ).

gently roll bread with rolling pin to flatten it slighty to make it easier to roll up.

spread cream cheese (optional I guess) onto bread. Put on a sausage & roll gently.

Then dip one end in ketchup (blood) and on the other put an almond to look like a fingernail.

This sounds gross but looks ok in the pic :rotfl:

Theres other recipes & ideas for drinks in the mag. ITs the one that they put on the end of the counter & its free.

minimacka

I did a halloween party a couple of years ago and the games we did were:

First game was to find the bag that i had bought the kids in the dark with a scarey torch

mummy wrap - kids loved this one, get everyone into pairs and make one person the mummy by getting the other person to wrap him/her head to toe in a white cheap toilet roll. The winner (but we didnt have winners) is the first to use all the toilet roll up, you can then swop mummy's

Swomp monsters eye - I bought some sweets that were an eye and put one onto a paper plate for each person then squirted cream over the eye and they had to find the eye and eat it using only there mouth.

witches eye - press some flour into a small bowl and tip it out onto a tray, then put a eye sweet on top. next you get people to take a slice of the flour until there isnt very much flour left and the sweet drops then they have to pick it up with there teeth, and of course everyone pushes there head into the flour.

draculars coffins - I decorated some shoe boxes to look like coffins and inside them i put different things like beans, slimy spaghetti and got people to put there hands in and feel them.

bat droppings - I did this at the end because we didnt have any winners on the games this game was there prizes - i bought a halloween plastic table cloth with bats on made some rings out of cardboard and painted them black, I put sweets and halloween pressies onto the mat on the floor and got the kids to throw there rings onto the mat and whatever was in the ring they got to keep. I bought loads of things so they had lots of goodies, so they had lots of goes at this.

I did so many more games, pass the pumpkin, pin the nose on the witch etc. the kids had a ball and the games lasted ages, and if im honest i loved the whole party from making the games to seeing the kids have a right laugh.

sandy2_2

Try Martha Stewarts website for some great and cheap halloween party ideas, downloadable cutouts of mice etc

miss_phish

As a kid we had Ghoulishly Green Popcorn which I think was made by pouring some green food colouring into popping corn before cooking.

Thats really cheap!!!

LJM

i make my girls a mixture of things last year i made blue cakes with green icing,pink egg mayo sandwiches,jellys with creepys in just to name a few

stressedoutmumof1

What about Ghoulish Ghost Cupcakes

Make some fairy cakes in white cake cases, ice with chocolate buttercream (kind of like a Mr Whippy ice cream cone) leave in the fridge to go hard. Cut out some circles from white fondant/ready roll icing and out on the cake - shaping to look like a ghost, use a straw to poke 2 eyes in the top.

moanymoany

sandy2 wrote: »

Try Martha Stewarts website for some great and cheap halloween party ideas, downloadable cutouts of mice etc

Just looked up the site to recommend it. Really worth a look.

Also her 'Wedding' programme on the wedding channel on Friday mornings is full of crafty ideas that are not just for weddings.

thriftmonster

Take the top of some value oranges and scoop out the flesh (of course saving for later use!!!). Fill the orange shells with red jelly and leave to set. When set cut shapes out of the side of the orange shells to look like little pumpkin lanterns - the red jelly will "glow " through