Our 11 year old daughter is hosting a Halloween Party this year for about 10 kids. We plan on wearing costumes, trick-or treating and watching movies But what would a Halloween Party be without some Tricks and Treats?
We will be serving some scary food: Apple bites (apple slices with almond teeth), bones and blood (refrigerator bread sticks shaped like bones and pizza dipping sauce), boogers on a stick (pretzel rods dipped in green tinted white chocolate), chocolate covered spiders (chow mein noodles mixed with melted chocolate morsels and dropped on waxed paper to harden), Vampire blood shakers (pink lemonade mixed with a shot of raspberry puree) and cupcakes decorated like bloodshot eyeballs and cat faces. And hot dogs, chips and dip for the faint of heart.
Prior to tick-or treating, the kids will do a scaredy cat scavenger hunt around our yard. Here are the clues which will be attached to beanie baby cats. The clues keep the kids in our yard and off the street for safety reasons.
As you go out on Halloween Eve, Watch out for the Bats and the Witches. For your first clue you'll have to look. At the back of the yard near the ditches! (near stream bed behind out house)
You've found the first clue. You are really quite bright! Look for the next clue under the closest Street Light! (street light in front of house)
Now scamper on down To a bridge o're a stream Watch out for the Ogre and Try not to scream! (bridge over the stream behind our house)
This pumpkin not carved And he is not glowing Look near a tool that is Used for lawn mowing! (near lawn mower in garage)
The crow is in the garden The bats and Ghosts are set to fly Look near the place Where the growing pumpkins lie (pumpkin patch in back yard)
Now to pose for a picture Put on your best face Return to the Kitchen of 1910 Oriole Place! (Our house)
When they return from the scavenger hunt we'll take group pictures each party goer will receive a treat box filled with a few pieces of candy and a Halloween pin.
Post trick-or-treating (dad will tag along to make sure all goblins are kept safe, much to my daughters dismay!) we will watch not so scary movies (Clue, The Goonies) and eat popcorn hands and play flashlight tag in the back yard
Also you could find some oldies online that are used for Halloween parties. this might get you going ! There's more on the right in the "related videos" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMBqHqAaALQ
I too love Halloween as long as it isn't too scary. I love what you did with the "clues."
When I was little, my sister had kids come into our basement, and they would put their "darkened, hardly seeing eyes" into stuff like cold spaghetti noodles.
By the time I was ripe for all of the Halloween fun, it wasn't fun anymore. My grandparents made yummy popcorn balls from scratch, and that's how everyone did it--before all of the scares of razor blades, needles, whatnot.
We always trick-or-treated after dark--not before, and none of us were in danger, although we always started hearing about danger afterwards. Nowdays, everything has to be sent to the emergency room for x-rays before the kids eat anything. Not in my youngest days.
We got a lot of Halloween candy, but we also got a lot of homemade goodies, until I was about 5 years old, when all the scare stories started up.
I now applaud people for having Halloween parties on their own blocks, or with a few friends. It's just not like it used to be. Making up a poem or rhyme is appropriate for the situation, and I don't allow really nasty Halloween movies at all. I'm happy with Disney movies, and Charlie Brown "It's the Great Pumpkin."
When my older sister had kids her age over for the "hand in the cold spaghetti noodles thing," all of the razor blades and needles hadn't shown up yet. It was only a couple of years later, that the razor blades and needles started showing up.
Many people used to give us apples in our Halloween bags:but, because of the razor blades and needles, it wasn't allowed anymore. People no longer made Halloween treats that they used to make (like my grandparents making popcorn balls,) and instead, everyone started buying already made treats, like miniature candy bars. Then, the miniature candy bars started getting needles and razor blades in them, so people stopped letting their kids trick or treat in the neighborhood, and started up their own parties.
As of several years ago, we no longer have any trick-or-treaters. We still like the idea of celebrating Halloween, so we have a little candy for ourselves, but we no longer have trick-or-treaters, and haven't for years now.
When I was little, our neighbor would count how many trick-or-treaters he had, and he would always boast at the amount, compared to other parents in the neighborhood. No longer.
I was part of the generation where trick-or-treating got "dirty" with the razor blades, and needles. I loved trick-or-treating, and it was great fun, until kids started getting hurt.
I love parents like you that are keeping up the fun tradition of trick-or-treating, and making it safe for your own kids.
I don't have any children of my own, but my sister works constantly with her church, and with their church, they make a "spooky Halloween night" for all of the kids, they go all out, as much as they can, at her church. Everyone contributes, and they have a "fun spooky" Halloween night at their own church, including a "spooky movie" for everyone to watch--but not too spooky.
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RE: Halloween Party Ideas
For home a #10 can of Nacho Cheese Concentrate is about $6 and generic corn chips can be found on sale. Use the slow cooker and let your kids and friends have all the nachos they want. If you have a place you can take a short off road ride, the kids love riding in the back of a pickup truck. Wrapping each other mummystyle with toilet paper is fun. Put some Macarena or Chicken Dance Music on before their TP falls off. Get pictures. Have those pumpkin trash bags available for them to fill after the Toilet Paper Mummy activity. Pick marbles out of a bowl of cold pasta. Relay race with candy corn on a plastic spoon, use a dab of glue for little ones. Bob for apples! (08/30/2005)
By Dana
Halloween Party Ideas
My sister has thrown several Halloween parties (not Halloween night, but in the same week) for her kids down through the years. She said that none were as frightening and spooky for the kids, as the one where she served a red punch with frozen dark grapes (told the kids they were "eyeballs") and also, a black kool-aid served from a plastic black cauldron with dry ice (it put off an eerie steam), along with other Halloween goodies and treats.
It was an outside party, complete with decorations. She ran an extension cord out to keep the crockpot of chili warm. Served everything in paper cups, bowls (for easy cleanup).
They had several outside games as well as a maze, they'd pre-made through the nearby forest, it was guided by some of the parents (so no one could get lost). Fun had by all, both children and attending parents as well. She had many compliments.
(09/28/2005)
By Terri
Editor's Note: I couldn't find one for Black Kool-Aid but here's one for "Ghoul-Ade":
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf94959531.tip.html
RE: Halloween Party Ideas
One of the things that a local school did during their fall party was put up a wall (just out of cardboard) and made fishing poles out of sticks and strings. The kids put the string behind the wall as if they were fishing and someone behind the wall put a small toy or candy on the line. Kids of all ages loved it.
Also they had a duckie pickup, where the kids pick up the duckie and get the prize that is listed on bottom but they used apples instead of duckies and floated them in a tub of water.
(09/28/2005)
By Stephanie
RE: Halloween Party Ideas
Try clothes pin in a bottle, dunking for apples, and pin the hat on the witch. Hope your Halloween is fun.
(09/28/2005)
By Linda from Gretna, LA
RE: Halloween Party Ideas
1st Float small 2-3 inch orange pumpkins and use them for a "duck pond" idea with small prizes on the bottom.
2nd Use a large black witches pot to "go fishin'" with a magnet on a fishing pole.
(09/28/2005)
By Mike
RE: Halloween Party Ideas
I had a Halloween party last year and about 50 small plastic pumpkins from a Michales craft store. They cost about .25 each. I placed the pumpkins through out the back yard and had the kids gather them up. Just like an Easter egg hunt but with pumpkins. Kids had a great time. We did it over and over. (09/28/2005)
By Pauleen
RE: Halloween Party Ideas
To make black KoolAid: Mix together one package of orange KoolAid and one package of grape Koolaid per package instructions. The result is black KoolAid. (09/29/2005)
By Karen in NH
RE: Halloween Party Ideas
I'm a big Halloween person. I love it. I'm only 13 but I can throw some good parties! Every year, I have a Halloween/birthday party and we decorate my basement with many props.(jack o lanterns, skulls, spider webs, wall designers, the grim reaper, and bats!) If you screw in purple lightbulbs in the ceiling, it gives the rooms a spooky effect! Also black and orange lights look pretty cool also! Candy corn, and eatable gummy body parts are also very fun and festive! Having costumes be participant in your party give it a theme for extra fun! (costume contests) Another fun idea that goes over well is having someone sit outside of your house(dressed like a scare crow) and then scare people as they come to the door! My last suggestion is to play Halloween music, from the classic movies, or just new mixes! (:_* (08/01/2007)
