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Parties/celebrations

Whether you're planning a birthday or a hen do, you'll find plenty of ideas for your celebration on our Party forum.

Halloween party tomorrow - totally unprepared!

26 replies

dinny · 29/10/2007 12:19

9 x 5 year olds and 3 x 3 year olds - what games will keep them busy for two hours?!

TIA, Dinny

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Plinkyplonk · 29/10/2007 12:21

pin the nose on the pumpkin

teams of 2 and the first person to wrap the other in a full toilet roll is the winner

read a scary story

bucket of guts and eyeballs (overcooked spaghetti and squished grapes) put a bag of goodies in the bottom

Apple bobbling

Musicle statues

Can you tell I'm having a party tonight

dinny · 29/10/2007 12:23

thanks, Plinkyplonk - pin nose on a picture of a pumpkin?

also, what are you bobbing your apples in?

musical bats (stand still like a bat???

ahem, and what food you doing?

ta!

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Plinkyplonk · 29/10/2007 15:16

i'm doing severed fingers (pizza slices)

Snot jelly with icecream covered in blood

Bogie Sandwiches

Green buns with red icing and spiders and spiders webs put on

I'm going to use a shallowish bowl for the apple bobbing as there are some littlies coming

handlemecarefully · 29/10/2007 15:23

bluerrgh at bogie sandwiches

Plinkyplonk · 29/10/2007 15:26

LOL

I'm using lime marmalade.

buns what do you think of the buns?

dinny · 29/10/2007 17:25

wow, excellent buns!

anyone know if Morrisons are doing paper cups/tablecloths?

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Blandmum · 29/10/2007 17:29

Axe mans snax

Cut a finger roll in half and make a hollow in the bun.

Take a frankfurter and frin the last cm off the end, and make a flattened 'nail bed' around 2 mm deep

Make a 'fingernail' out of radish, with the red skin at the end. Put the radish fingerial on the nailbed. And put the 'finger in the bun with a dollup of tomoto sauce

dinny · 29/10/2007 17:32

good one, MB.... am going to have to drive to the 24 hour Asda when dh home and buy everything in peace as am waaaaay behind! due to sick kitten mainly, poor thing.

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Blandmum · 29/10/2007 17:35

Severed hand jelly.

Wash out a disposable rubber glove 9to get rid of the powder. Fill with a peach jelly and alow to set.

peal off the rubber glove when set, and place strawberry laces out of the 'cut' end and blood vessels. You could paint veins and arteries on the surface in food colouring, but that is a bit of a PITA

dinny · 29/10/2007 17:36

oh, that is FANTASTIC! love it!

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LIZS · 29/10/2007 17:39

ASDA Dinny ? - where ?

dinny · 29/10/2007 17:40

oh, yes, LIZS, not that far - on the A217 (Burgh Heath)

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LIZS · 29/10/2007 17:42

ah, still a fair trek though .

IlanaK · 29/10/2007 17:42

We are having a party on Wednesday with a mixture of ages 3-10 though mostly 5 and 6t year olds. I have been plannign it for a while so not sure if my ideas will help or not but this is what we are doing.

Plain paper bags to be decorated by the children with pumkin faces on. Then a treasure hunt where they have to follow clues to various places to get the next clue and a treat. We are using our local shops (as we know the shopkeepers really well) for some of the clue destinations. They will use their paper bags to put the treats in.

I have some halloween stories to read. We are doing pin the stalk on the pumpkin too. My older son has written a halloween puppet show which he and a friend are performing for the rest of the chidren.

I like your idea of musical bats though - might do that too.

Our food is not very halloweeny as lots of hte kids coming have food issues. But we are having pumpkin soup and also mini cakes with halloween decorations on.

Lorayn · 29/10/2007 17:45

I'm doing one on friday and have changed a game I played at an ann summers party

You give each child a marshmallow, which they have to keep in their mouth and say 'halloween', go round the table, keep giving them an extra marsh mallow, making them say halloween each time, when they cant fit anymore in their mouth they have to say 'oooooooh, oooooooooh, ghosty goo' and spit it out. The one who lasts the longest wins. (I know its against every table manner in the book, but oh well.)

Am also doing 'smartie search' smarties in a big pile of flour and have to get the smarties without using their hands.

Erm, pin the nose on the witch, toilet roll mummys, apple bobbing and 'pass the pumpkin'- get a small pumpkin, the children have to pass it to each other under their chins.

For food we have;
-gooey coffin sandwiches (lightly toasted brown bread in coffin shapes with melted cheese inside)
-spider muffins (green muffins with spiders drawn on in black icing pen)
-jack o'lantern pizza (pizza covered with grated carrot to make it orange, with pepperoni face)
-bandaged witches fingers (halves of hot dogs sausages wrapped in tortillas with a bit of ketchup on for blood)

dinny · 29/10/2007 17:45

yeah - but think Asda is Halloween-tastic.

Ilana, your party sounds great - am now really regretting organising it as worried it'll be crap! still suppose if they are all dressed up, have grub and some games they'll be happy (I hope)!

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IlanaK · 29/10/2007 17:56

Just thought I would add something about Asda. We don't have one near us (central london) but my hunsband went to one out of town near a work thing for me and brought back lots of halloween "plastic crap" to use for the treasure hunt. We couldn't use sweets due to food issues and this stuff was cheap - things like packs of 8 glow in the dark fangs, stretchy bugs, halloween straws etc. He also got me cheap paper cups plates etc there.

Today I was in John Lewis and they had tonnes of halloween stuff. Some of it was half price including a hanging bat that flies around (£2.50) and also they had packs of 6 haloween party blowers for £1.50. They had some great witches gloves and skeleton gloves for a pound too.

dinny · 29/10/2007 17:56

some great ideas Lorayn! thanks!

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Blandmum · 29/10/2007 18:00

oh, I forgot, when you make up the jelly, make it extra stong, or the fingers will drop off

IlanaK · 29/10/2007 19:02

Try this site for excellent non-scary free downloads of kids halloween themed songs.

www.kidsmusic.co.uk/acatalog/Free_Halloween_Songs.html

melpomene · 29/10/2007 20:09

We've got some friends coming over for Halloween fun and in addition to some of the above games, we're going to do:

ghost bowling - skittles covered with white kitchen roll with eyes drawn on

treasure hunt in the dark, using torches to hunt for chocolate coins

witch's stew game

We may also have a witch (with a wand) turning the children into frogs, mice etc; they then have to pretend to be the animal in question.

Ditzymumofone · 30/10/2007 18:12

Martin Bishop, do explain, have filled said glove with jelly, sellotaped to fridge to suspend while jelly set, then bang, all collapsed and jelly EVERYWHERE, halloween came early! How on earth do you get it to set???? (Plus poin is I now have a very clean fridge!)

dinny · 30/10/2007 19:44

HURRAH! It's over! Thanks for all the tips - was a bit of a tiring couple of hours but they loved all the games, except made a big mistake giving prize for best costume as a cpl of the feistier girls kicked off!

thanks for all the tips!

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Blandmum · 30/10/2007 19:47

Oh, sorry about the jelly in the fridge incident! Tie off the glove, that is what I did. You have to be careful not to over fill it.

dinny · 30/10/2007 20:21

MB, am thoroughly ashamed to say I didn't even attempt your hand....

I was sooooooo behind as had to go and meet a childminder this am, so was a mad rush job and kind of ad hoc games, but think they enjoyed it! would thoroughly recommend musical bats and guess the ghost.

dd carved her own pumpking beforehand though - was amazing, am soooo proud!

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