Halloween Party Planning..

[thepinkp]

Looking for ideas and suggestions please.. my sons 7th birthday party coming up! Halloween 31st 👻 .. we did hire a church/chapel/venue last year in this old spooky building which was a blast and here we are again! Same venue booked - bigger room at the back of the building.

I'm looking for your ideas of what makes a good kids Halloween party? 30/40 kids I predict. Parents to.. some of which were total good sports and dressed up last year and eager to do the same again this year.

I'm looking for party game ideas and eco friendly goody bag ideas. Thank you x

I love halloween... we do a bunch of smaller.games... mainly variants on the old classics: bobbing for Apple's, ring doughnuts hanging from strings, eyeball and spoon races, toilet paper bowling with ghost faces drawn on, pin the nose on the witch, pass the pumpkin (parcel).

@falcon5 oooh pass the pumpkin parcel - love that!

Ooh following! My son is 6 at the end of October so we're having a Halloween theme party on the Sunday before.

I have made invites that just need to be printed, from an online template... I'll find a link :)

www.greetingsisland.com/preview/invitations/monster-cake/537-18537

I ordered 30 green envelopes form eBay for £2 ish, and printed these :)

Thank you @PepsiLola that's handy! Haven't got as far as sorting out the invites yet 😱

I was in home bargains yesterday, get in early with decorations..! The place was jam packed with fun stuff.

I've been to home bargains today, got to say it makes it so easy having a Halloween theme!

B&M were great too but some of the decorations I figured would be too scary for 5/6 year olds.

I ordered some stickers off eBay for a couple of quid which are pumpkins and say "thank you for coming to X party" going to stick them on the party bags.

Amazon seemed ridiculously cheap for party bag contents. 50 glow in the dark vampire teeth for £3.50, spider rings, Halloween themed tattoos etc.

My friend did a trick or treat lucky dip...which was basically a load of cardboard boxes covered in black and orange crepe paper with spiders webs etc stuck on them...she cut a hole in the top and each child had to file past at the end of the party with a bag and choose one item from each box.

I think she did about 8 boxes and there were simple things inside like chocolate bars in one, wrapped Halloween lollipops in another, and the last one had wrapped up individual things like rubber skeletons or the like inside it.

She had to stay there so some kids didn't take more than one from each box but they loved it! Better than just handing them a party bag and they had the trick or treat experience because she was dressed up as a witch and she's a bit mad and did the whole act "Oooh so you want a TREAT do youuuu!??? Well! Better not pick the TRICK from the box!! HA ha HA!'

Type stuff. It was great!

@HennyPennyHorror lol that sounds fun I have a witches outfit to!

We have a party invite list, a songs to play (for the DJ list) and I have decided on making my own party bags from recycled materials and non-plastic. Hobby craft is my new friend 😂

At this age DS and his friends loved the Mummy game . Children in pairs - I toilet roll
Per pair - 1 child wraps their partner up as a mummy

I remember my DD going to a party and the food was all labelled. I remember flaked skin (crisps) and bloody fingers (hotdogs with ketchup dipped on one end).
They also did pin the nose on the witch.
I guess you could also do sleeping skeletons!

Pick a theme - cute ghosts, witches and wizards, haunted old cobwebby mansion, zombie horror etc. Saves you buying loads of decorations that don't match.

We do loads of games. Wrap the mummy - loo roll, timer one mummy one wrapper . Google will help.