Hellllooo!!! I hope you are all having a fun-filled Halloween weekend! Sorry I haven’t been around much this week. I have been super busy getting ready for the kids’ Halloween parties. We had one On Friday for Connor and one again on Saturday for Matthew. {Note to self: Do not have two parties in a row again!} I know these ideas aren’t particularly helpful for this year but it is never too early to start planning for next year!
INVITATIONS
INVITATIONS
I love coming up with fun invitations and think that it really helps to get the kids excited for the party! Here are Matthew’s coffin invitations.
And I made little Frankenstein invitations for Connor’s party. The hair folds up for the party details.
DECORATIONS
I didn’t do anything too fancy for the decorations other than move around some of my Halloween decorations to add to the tables. I bought the felt treat bags from Target and filled them up with some Halloween goodies. Ghosts for Matthew…
And Frankensteins and Pumpkins for Connor.
I made this tiered stand and planned to make a cheese spread with some crackers. Since I ran out of time, I just plopped in some pumpkins and added some pumpkin candies. My favorite little yarn spiders guarded the pumpkins.
For the cups, I added some vinyl to jazz them up a bit.
I love these striped paper straws and added a cute ribbon bat to the top {idea from Lisa Storms}.
FOOD
Food is definitely one of the most important elements in a Halloween party and there are no shortages of fun food ideas out there! The food was a little different for each party but I basically used the same decor items for both.
Witches’ Brew
This is my kids’ all time favorite drink! Just mix together raspberry sherbet and some cranberry pop {or you could do some cranberry juice with 7Up}. It fizzes up fabulously and looks just like a witches’ brew. I put it in a witches’ cauldron and dished it out with a black ladle.
Witches’ Hats
Using some icing, place a Hershey Kiss on the middle of a chocolate covered digestive cookie, pipe some icing around the kiss, and add some sprinkles. Super quick and easy!
Mummy Cookie Pops
Cover oreo cookies with white chocolate, add some eyes, and pipe white chocolate overtop. And isn’t everything always more fun when it is on a stick? {idea from How Does She?}
Witches’ Eyeballs
I found these little witches’ cauldrons at Michaels and filled them with grapes. To make them a little more tempting to my junk food loving goblins, I added a peeps ghost on a stick.
Chocolate Dipped Marshmallows
Dip some marshmallows in melting chocolate and add some fun sprinkles. Place in a mini cupcake holder and add a stick.
Worms In Dirt
Again, another fast and simple dessert that is a big hit with the kiddies! {I even remember having these when I was little!} Fill clear cups with chocolate pudding and add some crushed oreo cookies on top. I just added one worm to the top but you can also layer your worms into the pudding.
Veggie Plate
I always try to have some kind of veggie plate on hand at the kids’ parties. Usually it is just the carrots that end up getting eaten anyways so this pumpkin plate works out great. I did stack a few cucumbers on each of the eyes as Connor loves cucumber {and I think he was the only one that had any}
Ghost Sandwiches
Use Halloween cookie cutters to cut out fun shapes for the sandwiches. I was planning on adding a little detail to the faces but, again, ran out of time!
CRAFTS
I always try to do a craft or two at our parties for a {somewhat} quiet activity. It’s always a little more challenging with the little guys but worked great for Matthew’s friends.
We bought some mini pumpkins for the kids to paint and found some glow in the dark paint {which the kids loved}. We also made these really easy paper plate ghosts.
You just need to glue the streamers and some arms onto the back of a paper plate, glue another plate over the back of the first paper plate to cover up all the mess, and add a face. For the younger kids, you can cut out the eyes and mouth from black cardstock and just have them glue them on. Older kids can cut out or draw on their own faces. You can also do a face on both the front and back of your ghost depending on where you are going to be hanging it.
GAMES
I didn’t end up playing any games at the little kids party as they were having more fun just playing on their own. We did three games for Matthew’s party to burn off some of that crazy “7 year old boy” energy {this was definitely needed!!}
Pumpkin on a Spoon Relay
We used the mini pumpkins that we were going to paint as our pumpkins and used some large mixing spoons to place them on. We set up a little obstacle course in the yard that the kids had to run around without letting their pumpkin fall off the spoon. Lots of fun to watch!
Toilet Paper Mummy Race
We divided the kids up into two teams – one child was the mummy and the rest got a toilet paper roll. Be prepared for some toilet paper fights afterwards!
Spider Web Bulls Eye
From my little goblins to yours, I hope you all have a fun-filled and safe Halloween tomorrow night!
Jenn! LOVE all the decor and food ideas you pulled together! WOW! I seriously do not understand where you get your time or ENERGY for that matter! You my dear never cease to amaze me!! AWESOME PARTY! xoxo
WOW! you are so good!!!!! love all the little details that make it special. You are a super MOM!!!
OMG! This party looks amazing! I totally want to have one when the kiddos are older.
So many great ideas!! Thanks for sharing!
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I love your Halloween post. I have shared your paper plate ghost project on examiner.com with two backlinks to your wonderful blog! I can hardly wait to make this with my son this afternoon! Thanks!
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The project is shared at: Halloween Paper Plate Ghost http://shar.es/uYXlA
I found you via Pinterest!
I love your decor ideas for this party! I wanted to let you know I used your idea of the paper plate ghost for some Halloween decor around our house. We also made a pumpkin, witch, and spider. I linked the idea for the ghost back here.
If have time please come check it out at
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You did an amazing job on this party. I love all the fun activites as well as the details in the food, especially the veggie plate and sandwiched. I just had to add your post to my Halloween Playdate Ideas blog post. Thanks for sharing.
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