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Celebrate Halloween with a fun and spooky party. Keep the spook factor low for younger children, but gear it up for older children. Vist our sister site Halloween Kid Fun for more Halloween fun.
Fun Invitations for a Halloween Party include:
- shape of jack-o-lantern, ghost, spider or tombstone
- with plastic spider and fake cob webs attached
- ask guests to come in costume
More Invitation ideas and tips!
Fun Decorations for a Halloween Party include:
- balloon ghosts (balloons covered with white cloth, netting or garbage bags)
- cardboard or plastic skeletons
- spider webs
- old tree branches and dead leaves to create abandoned house look
- some combination of orange, black, green, purple, and silver balloons
- play a music CD of scary sounds or Halloween songs
Note: if you use dry ice to create a foggy effect, be sure the ice is out of the reach of children and do not put dry ice in a punch bowl or beverage glasses (dry ice burns!)
More Decoration Ideas and Tips!
Fun Games & Activities for a Halloween Party include:
- pin the wart on the witch
- gross out box - put pudding in a plastic bag (a heart), potato chips (scabs), dried apricots (ears), peeled grapes (eye balls), tapioca (frog eggs) inside a box for kids to feel
- hoola hoop toss (toss hoops over large pumpkins or jack-o'-lanterns)
- bean bag ghost (paint ghost shape on large box and cut out holes for mouth and eyes)
- hot pumpkin (like hot potato, but with small pumpkin)
- tell or read scary stories (pass around props to trigger ideas)
- watch a Goose Bumps video
- neighborhood trick-or-treating or costume parade around block (set-up a few neighbors with candy or favor items to distribute if it's not Halloween Night)
- pinata
Fun Arts & Crafts for a Halloween
- decorate a trick-or-treat bag
- decorate small pumpkins with markers, stickers and glitter glue
- modeling clay monsters and goblins
- pipecleaner spiders
Fun Foods for a Halloween Party include:
- spaghetti
- salad (serve dressing in carved out pumpkin)
- cream cheese stuffed olives (eyeballs)
- bread sticks
- cupcakes with plastic spiders or gummy candy worms
- or spider web brownie (draw spiral on pan of brownies or individual brownies with white icing and pull tooth pick through design to create web effect, garnish with gummy candy spider or plastic spider)
- Haunted House cake
- worm cupcakes
- Jack-o-Lantern Cake
- Spider cupcakes
- serve red fruit punch in a caldron (do not put dry ice IN the caldron)
Fun Party Favors for a Halloween Party include:
- stickers
- tattoos
- glow sticks
- flashlights
- finger cuffs
- vampire teeth
Special Resources for a Halloween Party include:
- Halloween Kid Fun
- Halloween Costumes
- Celebrate Express
- Shindigz.com
- Kids' Party Fun Directory (entertainment, rentals, and places)
- FamilyFun Costume Ideas
- Halloween coloring pages
- More coloring pages
- Halloween riddles
- Halloween word search
- Halloween clip art
- Halloween craft ideas
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