Halloween Party! (merged)

DSmiffy

frizz_head wrote:

Its my turn to host a Halloween party this year! :eek: Now that is scary!!!

I want to create a really eerie atmosphere in the house and thought about replacing all my light bulbs with green ones - does anyone know where I could get these from? Did think about spraying some plain ones with green paint - but worried they might give off toxic fumes when they heated up!!

Frizzle

You can get coloured lightbulbs at B & Q, ordinary lgihtbulbs, just different colours.

benji173

Not sure how safe this is for kids but get some resin and some kind of red paint, mix them, and then paint it whereever, it peels or washes off and looks wet even when its dry. Alternitavely you can use pva but it doesnt go as clear. If you dont fancy putting it on yourself you can perhaps put it on decorations? Maybe somewhere on the doorbell or door for trick or treaters?
You can dilute fake blood too and put it all over the doorstep so it looks like its coming out the house, its dark outside anyway so it doesnt matter how real it looks.
Gonna go and have a mess in the kitchen, see what else I can come up with

benji173

After a bit of testing Ive come up with the following:
Found an old bottle of cheap blackcurrant high juice that is a lot like blood, if its too watery you can boil it for a while til it thickens. The cheap high juice is probably best as its a lot more sickly and thicker.
Tried adding some bicarb to the heated stuff just to make it fizz (you could pretend you were making a potion or whatever) but its safe to say its no longer edible, drank a spoonful and was nearly sick, like hot sea water.
Another idea I had was to get a popcorn maker and a spot lamp, turn the lights off and put the lamp facing the top of the popcorn maker (leave the lid off), get the children to stand well back and turn it on, you could tell them they were spiders hatching and show them the 'eggs' beforehand. As its dark they should just see small spider-like things jumping. Alternitively if you dont have a popcorn maker is to do it in the kitchen or take a pan in as theyve started to pop.
As said before marzipan make great edible eyeballs and are great to leave in fake edible blood, not tried it but making them thin with an airpocket in the middle might make them float, or you could put strawberry laces in them and leave the end that isnt attached hanging over the edge so they can pull them out

EmLoo

We are also having a Halloween Party for 'grown ups' (although that is subject to debate!) I've seen the idea of filling a (cleaned) rubber glove with water and freezing it, then floating that in your punch along with grapes to look like eyeballs!

I got a few bargain decorations at Wilkinsons, Poundstretcher and yesterday I got some brill serving dishes from Tesco. I got a big orange pumpkin serving bowl for £1.40something, and a large pumpkin shaped plate for 94p. They also had inflatable ghosts and skeletons for 94p... loads to choose from!

Have a good party!

:T

katyk_2

We had a party last year and some of the things we had included a spider cake - sponge cooked in bowl then turned out onto licorice 'web' and given cola string legs, then decorated with thick cho icing and spooky sinister eyes. Also made severed fingers, otherwise known as cheese straws with toasted almonds as fingernails and red food colouring on the 'ragged' end. We made a spooky ice bowl with plastic skeletons and spiders etc set into it them filled it with grapes (never seen kids so keen to eat fruit).
One slightly more gross idea we found was called, quite simply, cat litter. Take BRAND NEW AND THEREFORE NEVER USED cat litter tray, fill with layer of crushed nuts and have a few strategically placed splodges of melted chocolate. Decided against that one in the end - not sure what horror stories might go home to the other mums.

megsykins

Sorry if anyone's already mentioned this, but Poundland were advertising a 'Halloween CD' in the window, I presume it's just spooky music, but only £1!
Also, you used to be able to get penny sweets shaped like little bones, dunno if they still do them, but worth looking?!

northernlass_2

rinse a tin of lychees, stuff them with tinned strawberries to make them look like bllodshot eyeballs, make green or red jelly and whren set stir to make a slime effect then add the lychee eyeballs. very effective and a good centrepiece and talking point.

vonnie5

squeaky wrote:

What a great graphic! Where on earth do you find them all?

Thanks for the idea of the graphics

I too have a halloween party and as it's the first I've ever done was looking for ideas! Now printed off some scary halloween pictures to cut out and put on various walls!!!!

:dance:

squeaky

It's Allexie who deserves the credit for the graphics - those were the ones I was commenting on

metherer

Well, having read all your fab hallowe'en ideas, I can't wait for it now! :dance:
I'm going to a party at my friends house, and most of us will be big kids though I believe there will be some actual ones there too.

Just trying to decide on my costume now.. Thats got to be the hardest part. Thinking v glam witch, albeit in stripy socs and steel toed doc martens..

Oh, and its BYOB. She keeps telling me it means bring your own bottle :beer: , but I'm certain its bring your own bat.