ideas for halloween birthday party food

[elmoandella]

my friends twin boys will be having a halloween birthday party. ideas for food please

mini sausgages and sauce for fingers and blood
green gooey jelly with red sweets
smiley faces with peas and sauce dd says, i think we made them into vampire sort of faces..

thanks. will look online when i get a chance to. asda are doing sweet stuff at £1 a pack like fairy cakes and stuff.

make up black icing with food colouring and pour over fairy cakes and put a sweetie pumpkin / bat sweet etc on top!

Make a green jelly, and put jelly worms and insects in it (don't make it too hot though, or they'll melt).

saw this this other day: rice krispie cakes made with marshmallow (so yellow not chocolatey), shaped in to ghosts, rolled in dessicated coconut then 2 raisins for eyes and a cheerio for mouth!

Oranges made in to pumpkins with the flesh scooped out then filled with watermelon balls to give a red glow, then spray cream "hair"

I think these two were in the sainsburys mag...

Monster Face pizzas are ace. Kids can make them, depending on age.

Have also made ghost shaped biscuits which kids decorate with white icing and a tube of black icing.

I did the jelly with snakes in - the colour was sucked out of the jelly snakes and they went a big soggy. Not terribly appetising. (And they were top quality snakes before you ask.)

You can also make/buy chicken goujons and pop bits of red pepper at the ends and call them witch's fingers.

Ear wax sandwiches, sandwiches made with grated orange cheese.

Monsters fingers, sausages with tomato sauce dripped over them.

Pukey pies, pizzas made with breakfast muffins cut in half covered in tom puree and cheese

Monster munch

Dead flies, raisins.

Bugs on a log, celery spread with peanut butter with raisins on.

Snot, green jelly

Cat litter, cover strawberries,bananas etc with melted chocolate, serve in a tray of rice crispies.

Cheery aid, sparkling beetle juice.

Can I hi-jack? DD is having a halloween party for her 4th birthday, so there'll be lots of littlies there. We're trying to do a friendly-non gory/scary themed halloween with cute ghosts and pumpkins and witches etc. I'm making some big decorations for the walls, we've got spiders webs and some pumpkin lanterns to hang but what else can I do as regards to games etc?

I thought they might be too young for bobbing for apples..? I want to do a Halloween story - (Room on the Broom - vaguely halloweeny?) and maybe I'd do some face-painting (if I brush up on my skills in time...)

Also, for the food, I want Halloweeny food but really don't want the mess and fiddly bits - can I buy ghost biscuits and pumpkin cakes and the like anywhere?

THANK YOU! (I don't want a lot do I...?)

bibi - asda have a fantastic selection of cake /treat style halloween theme in the bakery section just now. probably be run out nearer haloween mind.

i like mosnter munch and dead fly cake ideaa.

I saw a great recipe for jelly in cut up oranges - will try and find it....

here

like the eyeballs cakes hifi

It was in the delicious magazine this month - they did a whole spread on halloween food.

saggy, I like your hallowe'en style!

Bibi, I'm not big on ideas but I do find Sainsbury's stuff is much more child friendly than Asda! More happy, cheery 'ghosts' and less amputated arms, iyswim.

An invented game- how about a sheet of paper A3/4 on the floor, scatter raisins on it (say 10 per go) with fly legs and wings felt-tip penned around each one and each child gets a go to eat as many as poss in a given time, by kneeling down, no hands.

Pin the 'tail' on something? Say a 'happy' cartoonish devil? Find the ghost (ping pong ball wrapped in a hanky sized piece of cotton or tissue, OR a small bunch of sweets inside the head)?