Halloween Party

[mindyd]

My daughter decided to do a Halloween Theme for her Birthday Party so I am looking for lots of cute food, decoration and game ideas.

Thanks!

 

[smacky1]

My favorite from our party last year are the mini caramel apples. They were a huge hit with both kids and adults. We used melted peanut butter chips. Be sure to dry the apples really well so the peanut butter chips will stick to the white part of the apple. For toppings on the apples we used colored sprinkles, crushed peanuts, and coconut. Just like regular caramel apples.
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50565

 

[mindyd]

Thank you those are adorable!

 

[meway]

We're doing the same thing this year! I can't say I've done a lot of internet research just yet, but in the past I've had good luck "googling" my party theme and finding lots of great ideas out there.

I did see some cute Halloween dessert & finger foods on the Family Fun website as well.

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/specialfeature/halloween_ms_food/

I like the pizza mummies!

I'm planning on visiting the library to see if they have any Halloween party/craft/recipe books available.

I'll post if I find anything cute.

Good luck!

 

[Bren's Mom]

I made those caramel apples (with white choc instead of pb chips) and they were adorable!

But I'd like to suggest, depending on the age group, a 'candy apple bar'. Wedges of apple (dipped in lemon juice so they don't turn brown), warm caramel and/or chocolate in a fondue or crock pot dipper, a bunch of different candy choices to dip in after the choc/caramel. I think that would be loads of fun for older kids.

I've made the mummy hot dogs, with crescent rolls. Those are fun and my kids get a kick out of them. ('Crescent Mummy Dogs' at pillsbury.com)

I just bought one of those little Halloween food magazines at Walmart. In it I saw a great idea for 'candy corn pizza'.

http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/candy-corn-by-the-slice-recipe.htm

At pillsbury.com type halloween into the recipe search box, you'll get LOTS of great, easy ideas. The 'garden garbage dip' can be adapted, I love the 'fingers' if it's older kids that won't get scared. And I like the 'RIP Banana PB&J' sandwiches. 'Witches Brew Punch' and specifically the 'hand' ice cube is fun.

Have a great time!

There are also lots of ideas at kraftfoods.com.

 

[cirquelovers]

I know that Paula Deen, over on foodnetwork has a lot of fun ideas for Halloween. You should check them out!

 

[Tink-n-MrIncredible]

For games you can let the children wrap each other up in toilet paper to make themselves a mummy's. Get a poster of a witch and let the children put a wart (give each child a piece of gum to chew) on her nose (like put the tail on the donkey). If you do this put extra plastic on the wall to cover a nice area. Get a pinata fill with body part candy. Thought about bobbing for apples but not too sanitary. Make halloween shaped cookies or make muffins and let the kids decorate it themselves.

What ever drink you serve take the label off of the bottle and make your own, ghost sweat, frog juice, squid ink, etc.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

 

[semo233]

How old is your daughter? We have had MANY Halloween birthday parties. This year, she is 13 and has decided again, to have a halloween party!

 

[mindyd]

My Daughter is turning 9. Thanks everyone for all the great ideas!

 

[marynpaul]

I write little truth or dare questions and fold up the piece of paper real small and stuff it in a balloon. Then each guest has to pop the balloon and do either the truth or dare. (My daughter is having friends over 13yr -14yr olds)

 

[meway]

Just bumping up to see if anyone has any more budget Halloween-themed party ideas!

 

[WDWHo]

My son is yoru daughters age, we did at his last halloween

Spooky Whisper Down the Lane.

Played just like we did when we were kids but the sentences should be spooky like:

The Wacky Witch Walked to Walmart.

Six Silly Skeletons Sat Silently.

The kids really laughed alot and they messed them up all the time.

 

[Soon2B4]

HGTV had a halloween show on last night. Check out their website for some of the ideas. They had cute cupcakes that looked like spider webs. They also had patterns for pumpkins.

 

[frannn]

HGTV had a halloween show on last night. Check out their website for some of the ideas. They had cute cupcakes that looked like spider webs. They also had patterns for pumpkins.

They had a few different houses that were decorated for Halloween in different themes, with a party at each one. The treats at each house went alone with the chosen theme. I believe the themes were Haunted Mansion, Witches House (decorated like in the Hansel & Gretel tale), and Sleepy Hollow. One of the house had treats that you had to reach into a cage to get (like a birdcage). There were cemetary headstones made from what looked like sandwiches with the bread cut & shaped. The Witches House had a really cool table with different jars with labels of scary ingredients, with a large frog in the middle. Wish I had paid more attention when it was on. It was called something like Halloween Block Party. Bet it'll be on again.

 

[crazed'boutmaryP]

We are doing a Halloween Party for our son's 11th bday and I got a lot of ideas from family fun and halloweenforum.com.

Dollar Tree has great goblets in different colors and design for 1.00. Oriental Trading is having free shipping on any order and a lot of their halloween items are on sale.

Favors-we are making a halloween cd for each child and giving them a eyeball bouncy ball and glow in dark light necklaces

Games-Mummy Wrap

Scavenger Hunt-hiding rats, bones, skulls, chains etc..

Make a Skeleton-I bought 2 different cololred carboard skeletons and will take them apart, hide bones, 2 teams will find the bones and they have to put him back together (1.00 each at dollar tree)

Mr. Kreeps-You read a story and have boxes with food items that simulate body parts, the kids have to guess what they are by sticking their hands in the hole in the box

Making slime

Guess How Much a Pumpkin Weighs

Guess How Many-different sized jars will be filled with items such as green spaghetti, reeses pieces, gummy worms

Donut on A String-hang donuts by yarn, hold above kids, blindfold they have to eat them

Candy Corn Toss-1 member from each team puts a bathing cap on
you cover it with shaving cream and the other team members turns throwing candy corn at it, the team with the most stuck on wins

Draw a Witch- With eyes closed, give them directions ie:draw face,then hat, wart, hair on chin

Burst the Balloon- relay race where they run to the chair and have to pop the balloon by sitting on it


Food-punch with dry ice, and ice cubes with gummy worms stuck in them
Tomato soup with ice mold hand in it (for display)
White chocolate popcorn with "blood" drizzled on
Brain jello mold
Mummy wrapped hot dogs
Maybe the pizza with bat shaped cheese
Soda bottles with halloween labels ie..Witches Brew
Macaroni and Cheese
Eyeball Cake
Mini caramel apples(thanks for the idea-love it)
Need some more

Decorations-carboard tombstones, huge spider from oriental trading, the food and guess how many jars, little skulls and hand bones(dollar tree), plastic bugs and worms,, spider webbing, ghosts in trees. Extra glasses can be wrapped in gauze and secured with a black safety pin (halloweenforum.com)

I am not creative and this has been very easy to put together and I think it will be a lot of fun. Open for new ideas also

Happy Planning

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

We did this at our cub scout party last year. Line up a couple of tables with several boxes on them with a hole cut into each so you can fit your hand through it, but not able to see into it. Cover and drape tablecloths or decorate the boxes. Inside each box is an item that the kid has to reach in and hold, then guess what it is. We had entrails (spaghetti), eyeballs (large peeled grapes), brain (cauliflower), jello (blood clots), small unpeeled carrots (fingers), a wig, then at the very end the last box actually is a real hand attached to the person sitting under the table reaching up through a hole or space between the tables. Everyone has to be told to not say things out loud, there will be lots of screaming, but lots of fun. Maybe have the last box in another room so as not to ruin the surprise for those who come after.

 

[summerrluvv]

We just had a 3 hour halloween party over the weekend for my son and his classmates (5th grade). The biggest hit of the party was a scavenger hunt. I printed the clues from the site below and I got most of the things needed at Dollar Tree. We did two teams, boys vs. girls. The prize at the end in the kitchen was a sweets table I put together. I made chocolate covered oreos, pretzels and lollipops and bought the other things. Of course both teams got the sweets, but the first team got first dibs (girls won). They LOVED the sweets!

http://www.scavenger-hunt-fun.com/halloween-clue-hunt.html

Another great game was the skeleton relay race. I bought 3 plastic jointed skeletons at Dollar Tree in 3 different colors. I broke them apart and burried them in straw in a blow up pool. Each team was assigned a color and one person from each team ran to the find a piece from the straw, brought it back to the team, then the next person found another, etc. Then the they had to put their skeleton together and the first team won a prize.

We played musical tombstones. I enlarged clip art of a tombstone and printed one on each page. It's like musical chairs except they sit on the tombstone.

We also did bingo and I printed the halloween cards from this site:

http://www.internetfamilyfun.com/holidays/halloween/halloweenbingo.htm

We also did the toilet paper mummy wrap game, limbo, pass the jumbo pumpkin, the girls decorated little halloween ornaments from Michaels while the boys played tag outside, and they danced a lot to Cha Cha Slide, Cotton Eye Joe, Chicken Dance, Thriller, Monster Mash, Macarena, etc.

It was a really fun party and the kids loved it!! All the prizes I got at Dollar Tree and they were a bunch of glow things (hats, wands, swords, necklaces, etc.)

As far as food, I didn't go crazy since the kids don't eat food LOL. We had pizza and I set out cheese balls, cheese and crackers and chips and dip. One year we did mummy dogs, those were cute.


Here are a few pics:

Caldroun w/ drinks

This is last years cake and goody table (we do a halloween party every year). Each child got a bag and filled it up with the stuff from the table. The slap bracelets and woopie cushions were a huge hit lol

 

[smacky1]

I just read this on msn.com and thougth it was a great idea. Get glow in the dark paint (I found it at Home Depot for $7) and use it to paint plastic easter eggs. Put treats in the easter eggs and hide them outside for a nighttime treat hunt.

 

[GC&S]

One of the cutest treats I made for dd's party were nutter butter ghosts. You dip nutter butter cookies in melted white chocolate. Lay them on wax paper to set and use 2 mini chocolate chips for the eyes. They were so easy and so darn cute.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

Another treat that is fun is what my friend makes for the kids at her annual HP. She takes Moon Pies and decorates them by "gluing"(with hardening frosting) candy cake decorations and candy corn and ghost peeps, then skewers them with a chopstick to make a giant "lollipop", then wraps them in a clear candy bag. She puts them in a vase with marbles to display them.


Summerluv, your treat tables look great! And I wanted to add that kids just love filling their own goodie bags, so that is a great idea.