Ideas for a non scary halloween party?

[mummyloveslucy]

Hi, I'm going to have a little Haloween party for my 5 year old daughter and 4 of her friends. They range from 4-6 years old.
I would like some ideas for some haloween party games and party food. It can't be anything scary or messy.
If you know of any games or a good website then please let me know.

[mummyloveslucy]

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[pigleychez]

Make Fairy cakes with green or orange food colouring.
Green jelly with bug sweets in it.
Halloween shaped biscuits.
Jam sandwiches (blood)

I would say just focus on spiders, black cats, pumpkins to be less scary.

Supermarkets have CD's of kids halloween music at the mo and would be full of inspiration for other ideas.

[Acinonyx]

I am planning the very same! I am thinking of ducking for apples using a plastic bowel and picnic blanket - preferably outside. A bit messy but it's only water. Also, maintaining the fruit theme - the passing oranges/apples uner the chin etc. Not exactly Halloween but they sort of go together.

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

Glue the stalk to the pumpkin (made out of paper)
Try to get small sweets (jelly babies, smarteis) out of a tray of flour
Make jelly inside a rubber glove which you can cut off.
Wandering back through the memories of when littlekreecher was easy to please like this.

[mummyloveslucy]

Thank you everyone! Great ideas. Anything to do with food will please my daughter, especially sweet unhealthy food that usually very limmited.

the passing oranges under the chin sounds fun. and the jellie in a rubber glove mould. I'll also look for the C.D.

[curlymama]

What about ring doughnuts on string? The party we went to last year, the Mum had tied a long bit of string between two of her kitchen cupboards and then had bits of string hanging from that with ring dougnuts on the end. The children had to try and eat them with their hands behind their backs. Might be a bit messy, but not too unmanageable.

[Acinonyx]

Sounds good curly - any other suggestions gratelfully received!

I've got dh down to make a pinata (he's American so has some experience, apparently). He's intending to make a pumkin one.

[moajab]

Make a giant spiders web. You need a big ball of wool Everyone stands in a circle with one person holding the ball of wool. They hold onto the end and throw the ball to someone else. The person who catches it passes the wool behind their back and then throw it on to someone else. Keep doing this until everyone has had enough or the wool has run out. By then everyone is trapped in a giant spiders web and can have great fun trying to escape - keep a pair of scissors on hand to cut everyone free if necessary!

[Acinonyx]

I got some wool to make webs - but I hadn't thought of playing with it like that - great idea!

[wukterWOOO]

as kids we used to hang an apple on a string from the door frame and eat it no hands, similar to what curlymama suggests. Dunno if that's allowed nowadays or if it's on a par with the other 70's notions such as smoking in cars with unsecured children in the front.

[hmc]

Divide up children into pairs. Issue each pair with some toilet roll and get one to wrap the other up like a mummy against the clock, prize for the best

[TeeBee]

We do the 'hand of sick'. The kids get to raid the kitchen for all kinds of gung and mix it up in a big bowl and an adult is nominated to stick their hand in it. Also we make a club hell sandwich - kids choose fillings and nominated adult has to take a bite.

[hmc]

Not coming to one of your parties TeeBee!

[Acinonyx]

[DreamTeamGirl]

We did a version of musical statues where they had to stomp during the music then when it stopped they had to pull the scariest monster face/ pose they could and freeze.

We did the jelly in a glove too, but was so hard to get it out. Google for tips on that if I were you.

Pinata is fab fun.

[DreamTeamGirl]

Oh and my mum brought this round from Sainsburys, a white mice graveyard made from biscuits

[DreamTeamGirl]

Oooh and finally, I ended it by reading a 'scary' story. I read When a Monster is Born and it went down well