Halloween Ideas

We had a halloween party once and we got some hot dog cut them into four pieces length wise. Piled them on plate and they represented worms. You can also make cupcakes and decorate them as big eyes. That is a really easy one. Hope you have a good party.

We had a halloween party. I got plastic spiders to lay on most of the food and plastic eye balls to put in the dip. We shredded black garbage bags into strips to hang form the doorways. The best was the old man we made. We took a pair of jeans, old shirt, and an old man mask and stuffed them all and put them together. Then we mounted the man to back of the toilet. He sat on the tank with his legs spread. SO you had to sit between his legs to go to the toilet. It was pretty funny. We moved some of our furniture upstairs and replaced it with bails of straw. Got spider web and stappled it to the ceiling all threw the house. It had tons of spiders in it as well. Of course the kids hung all their regular stuff. An we had a strobe light in the living room. I hope that helps some. I'm sure you could search and find some really good ideas on-line someplace.

Grapes make Great eyeballs -especially in clear jello :)

www.familyfun.com has lots of neat ideas.

Hey K.
We had a Halloween party for my daughter's class when she was in 2nd grade and it was a blast. People loved it because it was not a birthday party, just a fun time. We cleared everything out of our living room so when you went in the front door, you had to go through a little haunted house. The kids got blind-folded and let around the room; they had to stick their hands in various things and we told them it was braing, eyeballs, etc. They loved being grossed out. You can use melon balls for eyeballs, jello for "guts" cold cooked spaghetti for brains, etc. Might be too babyish for 9 year olds?
GAMES: relay, each team gets a bowl of eyeballs (draw on ping pong balls) they have to transfer the eyeballs from one bowl to the other across the room first team to complete wins.

Straw suck: use cut-outs of bats, ghosts, pumpkins. lay them flat on the table and the kids have to pick them up but suctioning them to the bottom of a straw, keep them attached and transfer them to a bowl (or witch's hat!) first to finish wins

donut contest; You use a rope or ribbon and string it across your room wall-to wall attach it securely with tacks or nails. Then tie long strings that hang down about every 15-20 inches. They should hang down to about the height of the average kid's face. Then you tie a donut onto the end of each string. you line up the kids and tie their hands behind their backs; then they race to eat the hanging donut with no hands it is a LOT harder than it looks and they scream and yell and have a lot of fun with it.

FOOD: make a bisquick dough that is not too sticky and color with green food color. cut up hot dogs to about 2 inch pieces. Wrap the green dough around to cover the dog, and on one end put half of a black olive. they are supposed to look like Frankenstein's toes. The kids loved them

You can make a red punch (Vampire's blood)and freeze plastic spiders an stuff in ice cubes and float them in the punch

Google the Food Network and look up Halloween Party Food they have a bunch of fun ideas.

We also did a pinata which was really fun; we did it outside.

Last but not least the thing I think they liked the best was dancing; we used the empty living room and turned up the music and they just went crazy, the whole house was shaking. Anyway hope these ideas help and hope you have a great time.

A bowl of jello with grapes in it can be eye-ball soup!

Where in Italy are you moving to?

Unfortunately i don't have any halloween ideas as I am not the most creative person in the world but I am writing to ask about Aviano. We just got back yesterday from a weeklong honeymoon (nine years after getting married) in Venice and LOVED LOVED LOVED every minute. I know from traveling to London years ago that I loved London but don't care for living in England (we are at RAF Fairford)so I didn't know if the same thing would happen in Italy. We loved the Italian way of life but didn't know if actually living there is good. We love to travel but as you know living among a culture can be different or difficult. What are your thoughts? Where were you in England? Did you like it? We have two years left. Thanks in advance.

Nikki

When I was a kid we would go to the neighbors house and they would have these bags that we would stick our hands in. Inside they had the spaghetti for brains and stuff like that. Peeled grapes for eyes,boiled soggy rice as maggets; anything slimy and gross that kids can put their hands in. Kids love the apple bob. Dry ice for smoke. Big plastic bags filled and hanging for bogy bags (not sure if age appropriate for you or not).We used take kids on a tour through the house and have spooky things around corners, people jumping out. There is allrecipes.com has great recipes for holidays like chocolate dipped marshmallows with pretzels legs for spiders. If you would like I have a few friends that throw serious halloween parties I can get ideas from them and pass on to you. Just need to know what tone you are wanting to set.

I just tried this recipe for cheeseburgers, they are eacy to make and my picky eaters loved them.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Jack-O-Lantern-Burgers/Detai...

There are many Halloween ideas in magazines and on web sights throughout the internet. I have done many kids Halloween parties and I'll throw just a couple of ideas that come to mind quickly. Make pigs in a blanket with the hot dog sticking out of one side a bit, put dot mustard eyes and a mouth on it and you have Mummies to eat. Game/Activity - Put some spaghetti in a large bowl with two marbles. Then have the kids use their bare feet to dig into the "monster brains" and retreive the "eyeballs" with their toes. Hundreds of ideas out there. Look and you will find ones that appeal to you.