Halloween Party! (merged)

northernlass_2

last year my husband made a coffin out of polystireine insulating sheets from B&Q, once made he put the lid on hinges and attached it to the coffin he then attached the lid to a home made pully going from the garden gate, we then placed inside it a light up skull dangling from the lid of the coffin and had the smoke machine set up so when any one came through the gate the lid on the coffin opened and all you could see was a skull and billowing smoke, we were the talk to the street on halloween and everyone called. we also made grave stones out of the same and using OH soldering iron we melted inscriptions on the front,
eg,
here lies jason plodd
fell down a well
silly s*d

When the kids did call they had to choose between 2 bowls to put their hands in to get a treat, both bowls were covered so the contents couldnt be seen but inside one bowl was a mixture of slimy soap flakes and creepy crawlies and the other bowl had goodies in it. every child got something tho just for being a good sport.
we completely decorate the hallway with cobwebs and coloured lighting and we all dress up to welcome our visitors.

Juliav_2

Hello

I am having a halloween party for children and adults and would love some fun, easy sweet and savoury food ideas that fit in with the theme.

Hope someone can help!

Thanks

donnajt

Years ago i threw a halloween party for my 3 little brothers, the menu was simple - but i can't remember it all - the starter was tomato soup (which i called old people's blood) I bought some plastic spiders (washed thoroughly) and threw them on the top of the bowls on serving, i cannot for the life of me remember dinner, pudding was blackberry jelly with jelly snakes all over it and i served with bogey-milk (milk with green food colouring), adorned the place with pumpkins, spent the night telling my brothers scary stories, which they found funny - i was terrified, and then at 4am in the morning my central heating pump broke down - there was this terrible banging noise - I was screaming my head off - my brothers found this hysterical and that was the end of my halloween parties...

ps. i also sent the boys "Wicked Witch of Walthamstow's" menu about a week before, the evening was memorable for all the right and wrong reasons!

Pink.

Hi Julia,

I've added your post to an earlier thread that should give you lots of ideas as it helps to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

Laura_D_3

Any ideas for some party games? We're going to be have about 20-30 adults and kiddies.

Pink.

Hi Laura,

If you look back through this thread there are a number of posts suggesting Halloween themed games.

These threads from the Special Occasions and Celebrations board might give you some ideas too:

Christmas Games?

halloween games

Playing Games

Pink

sandy2_2

We're having a party too with silly games
Games
pumpkin bowling using small pumpkin and old lemonade bottles filled with water or sand as the pins
quoits, small water bottles, rings cut from card board to toss onto the bottles, if I have time I might make snmall witches hats to go on the water bottles or just make witches hats and use instead of bottles
halloween trivia, there are plenty of quizzes on internet
word game, print off A4 sheets with a halloween phrase eg ghoulies and ghosties then people have to make as many words as they can from the phrase
Pin the nose/tail on the witch, witches cat or pumkin..depending on what I make
Pass the eyeball, 2 lines of people passing a boiled egg or table tennis ball (suitable decorated) from person to person via a spoon
pass the pumpkin, small gourd, pumkin, apple, orange from one person to another under their chin
Mummy wrap, wrapping people up in toilet roll paper
get a ring out of a mountain of flour with your teeth
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)
then there's the yeuky feely games where you have to put your hand in bags of yeuk (spaghetti or some such) and feel witch body parts using liver, peeled grapes or picked onions as eyeballs, dried apricots as tongues, rice crispies as warts etc
pass the parcel type thing with trick or treat when the music stops

Butterfly_Brain

Try this site it is American and they really go to town on halloween I have used lots of the ideas and recipes www.bhg.com

PigginSkint

Hi All

It is my son's 15th birthday in just over a week's time and he is having a Halloween themed fancy dress party with bonfire and fireworks.

I could really do with some ideas for food, games, decorations and costumes - particularly food!

We live in a small terraced house with a garden about the same size - so not a great deal of space.

All suggestions gratefully received!

Penelope_Penguin

Take a look at this thread on Halloween parties Bonfire toffee and apple bobbing spring to my mind :j

I'll merge this later to keep ideas together

Penny. x