Here's how to have a good time decorating from the crypt
- Sweet but spooky Halloween table setting ideas:
- Use icing gel to "glue plastic spiders to the dessert plates for a creepy
effect. (Do NOT serve to kids under 4 years.) Icing gel will also give your
glasses a creepy look when you affix icing gel or white frosting to the back
of gummy eyeballs. - Wrap black licorice vines into napkin rings on orange or purple napkins.
- Sprinkle candy corn like confetti on the tables.
- Creepy yet cool Halloween flower arrangement ideas:
- Buy white carnations and spray paint them black. Strip the leaves off the
stems. Next, cut the ends off black licorice sticks and thread the stems
through the licorice and bundle with an orange ribbon and insert into a
clear vase with water. - Nestle a small clear glass vase inside a larger glass vase. Fill the gap with
candy corn. Fill the small vase with water and insert your favorite
arrangement.
- Download eerie sounds on Amazon. Send them giggling with silly Halloween Witch
farts and other fun Halloween MP3 and CD finds:
Howling Good Halloween Recipes
Drinks
Cookies and desserts
Snacks
More scary treats
Halloween Party Favor Ideas
Halloween invitation ideas:
Involve the kids in making and distributing the Halloween party invitations.
Halloween Theme Party Ideas:
Planning a Halloween party and don't know "witch" way to go? Here's how to give a lift
to the traditional Halloween theme parties:
Drinks
- Punch from the black lagoon: Mix grape Kool-Aid and Orange Kool-Aid together
and you'll get an eerie black color, yet keeps the familiar fruity flavor. Add a dash
of lemon-lime carbonated beverage for a bubbling brew they'll surely remember.
This creepy concoction looks even more scary when served in a black cauldron.
Cookies and desserts
- Creepy cookie from the crypt: Use your finger as a stencil for sugar cookie shape,
then decorate with an almond slice for fingernail and a few strokes to make the
lines of the joints. Bake on a wooden popsicle stick. (Soak the stick in water
prior to baking). Make an edible "finger" puppet.
- Bone-a-fid treat. Skewer up two mini marshmallows on a pretzel stick, dip in
white chocolate and allow to harden. Make no bones about it, "dem" bones is
good and frightfully easy.
- Here's a hair brained idea. Make a melon brain centerpiece for your dessert or
appetizer table.
- Eyes Cream for Halloween! Glue lifesavers to plates with white frosting layered
with an M&M center and a dab of black gel. Serve cake and ice cream.
Snacks
- See also our green party foods.
More scary treats
- The kids will flip for this Halloween food, including Kitty Litter cake. boogers on a
stick, strained eyeballs and more.
- For more frightful Halloween recipes, see the Family Fun Fright Site. Our
favorites? Freaky Cheese Fingers (they look like Frankenstein's fingers). Try also
salty bones, Monster toes, and
Halloween Party Favor Ideas
- Buy an orange paper bag, draw a pumpkin face, fill it with favors, puff it up, then
use masking tape for stem to seal the bag.
Halloween invitation ideas:
Involve the kids in making and distributing the Halloween party invitations.
- Older kids will love to present friends with witch finger in a box. Start with a
small cotton filled jewelry gift box, available at The Container Store. Poke a hole
through the bottom of the box and the cotton bottom, slip on a witch finger and
close the box. Kids approach their friends and ask, "You want to know what's in
this box? My mom dug up a real witch finger in our garden! Want to see it? Don't
faint! Ready?" Then slowly open the box and pop out the finger and watch kids
wriggle and giggle. Then tuck the invitation details in the box and hand deliver
with the finger. Alternatively, wrap gauze around the finger and have a mummy
tale from the crypt.
- For another three dimensional invitation, try the "open if you dare" box, which
has a toy rat surprise. (Oh, rats! We spoiled the surprise.) This is an invitation
you could also mail in a padded envelope, or leave at the doorstep.
- Halloween invitation wording ideas:
- You're invited to hob-nob with the hobgoblins
- Haunted House: 123 Main Street
- RSVP: Resident Witch Jenny or Jenny's Mummy at 867-5309
- P.S. Come as you aren't!
Halloween Theme Party Ideas:
Planning a Halloween party and don't know "witch" way to go? Here's how to give a lift
to the traditional Halloween theme parties:
Halloween Party games
Forget bobbing for apples, moms prefer safer activities. For ghoulish giggles, consider
these fiendishly fun ideas:
Forget bobbing for apples, moms prefer safer activities. For ghoulish giggles, consider
these fiendishly fun ideas:
- Play "Wheel of misfortune:" Make your own Wheel of fortune game board and
modify it for the Wheel of Misfortune game. The idea with this game is that kids
spin and must eat an "unfortunate" food item they spin, which adds a fear factor
to the party. Don't force kids to eat anything, but allow the brave ones to have
at the fun and steer clear of food allergens. The key is to make food that's edible
and entertaining, tasty and fun. Don't discloses to guests what they are about
to eat. Unveil each food item as the game ensues. It also helps if adults chime
in. For example "Oh no! Don't make him eat the "earth worm!" Here are some
ideas of foods creative foods you can prepare in advance of the party:
- an "earth worm" (roll a gummy worm in cocoa powder and serve it with
chopsticks, be sure to jiggle it several times to spook the kids) - Igor's dog food (cocoa puffs cereal in a new doggie dish or Kooky Chews
candy, pictured right) - a plate of "ants" (have kids lick the chocolate jimmies from the plate clean)
- rat droppings (raisins)
- alien slime (jello)
- an "eyeball" (carrot round stump with an olive set by cream cheese)
- eye of newt (a peeled grape presented on a spoon)
- diluted vampire's blood (a beaker or test tube of Kool-Aid).
- You may choose some simple recipes below for this game, as well, such as
salty bones or boogers on a stick.
- Have an eyeball hunt. You'll find that there are a variety of candies and favors
devoted to eyeballs that will make this event fun and in substitute of a pinata.
Here are some eyeball novelties and favor ideas to get you started:
Halloween Party Resources
- See the Halloween Online Magazine for tips on everything from Dry Ice to setting
up displays for your party and more.
Halloween Party
Wickedly easy ideas for a ghoulishly good Halloween gathering!
Not sure "witch" way to go for a Halloween Party? Then"Velcome" to our Halloween
party pages (we'll lead you down an enchanted path)! If you're planning to hob nob
with the little hobgoblins, you'll want to serve up the fiendish fun with our home
made horrors, creepy concoctions, and freaky foods made easy for "mummies" and
daddies. "Ve" also have some ghoulish games to play. Happy Halloween!
Wickedly easy ideas for a ghoulishly good Halloween gathering!
Not sure "witch" way to go for a Halloween Party? Then"Velcome" to our Halloween
party pages (we'll lead you down an enchanted path)! If you're planning to hob nob
with the little hobgoblins, you'll want to serve up the fiendish fun with our home
made horrors, creepy concoctions, and freaky foods made easy for "mummies" and
daddies. "Ve" also have some ghoulish games to play. Happy Halloween!
Kids party ideas:
Guide to kids theme parties.
Guide to kids theme parties.
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