Halloween Party! (merged)

PrincessPeach_2

Hi,

ideas for food - http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/halloween_party_food.htm


for games - what about the traditional apple bobbing in the garden, and pumpkin bowling - though i think the second might be a little young for your son but apple bobbing works for any age.

Nordictat2

These are some useful links

https://www.recipezaar.com/Dragons-Blood-Punch-and-Hand-Ice-Mold-186676

http://www.foodnetwork.com/halloween/package

Decorations wise...go to a pound shop and have a look. I recommend the spiderweb stuff. Comes in small packages but a little goes a long way. Don't know how uch area you want but a few packages should do the trick.
If you can get some dry ice...that's another cool effect. Get a few buckets or containers and get some water and then put the dry ice in..bits at a time and creates fog/mist

PigginSkint

Thanks all for the useful ideas and links!

snoopy58

How about eye balls and broken fingers? Eye balls - cover Maltesers with rolled out fondant icing, wait for it to set slightly, then paint on eyes, plus the veins.
Broken finers - chocolate finger biscuits, knead flesh coloured colouring into fondant icing, roll out and use as above. Then take a knife (table knife will do) and make indentations to represent finger joints, then take a small spoon, make finger nail indentations. Dip the end of the 'finger' in red food colouring.
Always went down well at a Halloween party.

Fruball

Hi folks

I am thinking about having a little haloween gathering at my house and can't afford to spend a lot.

I am going to do a bbq and do hotdogs and maybe a few burgers for everyone... I wanted to do jacket spuds but then that means forks/plates etc which will become effort!!!

I suppose I could do stuffed half potato skins and do them in napkins... hmmmmm.... thinking aloud!!!

Anyway, the other thing is I don't really know any haloween type games that we can get the kids to do - ages will be from 4-10ish - have thought of apple bobbing but don't fancy getting wet in this cold weather!

So, please can you lovely people help me out with ideas perhaps for food, but also for games, decorating the garden and anything else which springs to mind bearing in mind budget please

Many thanks :beer:

tracey357

Hi Frugal,

We had a halloween party last year and one of the favourite games was jelly hunt, it was a bit messy and really needs to be played outside.
Get some of the cheap jelly packets, I think mine were from Morrys 9p, make up as directed, empty in a large bucket, and hide random items, we played by timing everybody on how long it took them to find all the items. It was great fun but very :eek: messy.
Great fun!!

BlimusOreilly

At an all age Halloween party that we held some years ago we played a game of lucky worm dip (for those brave enough to plunge their hands in).
Cheap plastic halloween novelties hidden amongst a load of cold cooked spaghetti.

Someone else bought some very cheap loo rolls and we played 'wrap the mummy' game. Get into pairs - one person is the mummy and one person is the wrapper. Prize for the quickest and most effectively wrapped mummy!

sarahsarah

The doughnut game is popular at halloween parties, a mini ring donut for each child tied onto a long string and then 2 adults hold the string and the kids have to eat the donut without using their hands.. If you do a google image search there are pics if I haven't explained it very well...
Went to one once though where they bought jam donuts by mistake and poked the string through them.. very messy!

delicious_2

sarahsarah wrote: »

The doughnut game is popular at halloween parties, a mini ring donut for each child tied onto a long string and then 2 adults hold the string and the kids have to eat the donut without using their hands.. If you do a google image search there are pics if I haven't explained it very well...
Went to one once though where they bought jam donuts by mistake and poked the string through them.. very messy!

yeah i did this a few years ago, worked really well with adults and children.

For food this year I'm making a big pan of broth then a selection of cakes for afters.

I too am stuck for games really but like the spaghetti one.. will give that some thought!

kirsty822001

Hi, my fav time of year!!
For our halloween parties with kids of all ages and adults I would do hot dogs/and proper sausage hot dogs and a pan of cooked onions.
OR/ AND
Pizza/crisps/rolls/saus on sticks/carrot sticks/grapes/bread sticks/hm halloween shape biccys and halloween decorated fairy cakes/crispy cakes.
Games we did were:-
Pin the nose on the witch (using one of the haloween plastic 75p door decorations) or a picture and cut out sticky on nose with a scarf for blindfold and a roll of tape.
A few jelly trays ,,make up jelly put onto flat trays and before set put haribo snakes or horor mix in it, it sets flat and keeps the sweets in place, kids have to put arms behind backs and bend over and remove sweets with their teeth, when its an adults turn push their face in the jelly tray LOl
Guess the goo' put some disgusting things in bowls covered with plates or towel,,kids have to place hands into each bowl and guess whats in each, u can blindfold the kids. I told them they were putting hands into 'witches teeth ' actiually was bowl of peanuts, 'witches hair' was overcooked long spaghetti pasta,, nice and slimey!! 'SNOT' was tinned custard beware the value custard goes like water after one or two hands been in it! 'Trolls eyeballs' tin of lychees with a few raisins in the hole. there are lots of oohhs and yuks at this game, and the odd tear at the thought of putting hands in snot LOL

pass the spooky parcel', sweets,plastic spiders, teeth etc wrapped in newspapaer and plain paper ,,i get my kids to write and draw halloween measages and pictures on the paper.

ant think what else we did but they are always such fun, we dont allow pop so i buy cartons of drinks cos it reduces mess and spilt drinks all over the living room!!