Seeking Ideas on a Halloween Themed Birthday Party...

A gross activity is to have peeled grapes (eye balls) cooked spagetti (worms) baby carrots in ketchup (bloody fingers) whole canned tomatos warmed (hearts) and either blind fold the kids or have some kind of box with a flap to hide what is really there. This may be too gross but I remember some of these from a haunted house from when I was about that age. Good luck!

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For food ideas try www.kraftfoods.com or www.pillsbury.com - that's where I got a bunch of ideas for my Halloween party last year. I also picked up a magazine I saw in the check out line- one was like Good Housekeeping and the other was this mini magazine with only Halloween stuff in it. Have fun =)

Hi J. here something i did for my daughters a while back ago... You can take a glove pref no laytex fill it with water tie it up tight and freeze. Make a punch with grape and orange cool aid so it will be pretty much black. take your frozen hand out of the glove and put in punch when you put the punch on the table...
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Hey J.,
Today is my little girls 3rd birthday party and we also chose the Halloween theme. I found some really awesome ideas on FamilyFun.com. They have great food ideas, costume ideas, decorations, and how to videos. I also purchased some Halloween magazines. Hope this helps some.

look in the check out line at kroger about this time every year pillsburry puts out a little book that has great easy to make ideas... i have a few of the books around here if you cant find them and want some ideas write me back and i can scan in some pictures for you!
i just read one of the responses after i typed this DO NOT do bobbing for apples unless you make a single thing. like one bowl per kid this is the best way to get everyone sick ive seen it first hand!

You could make dry ice drinks those are always a hit.

If you look at a bookstore you may be able to find a book similar to what I had as a kid. It was a cookbook designed for kids where all the food, appetizers, main courses, and desserts had a gross theme. It had step by step instructions and detailed pics on how to make everything. The ingredients held kid appeal nothing a normal kid wouldn't eat. There was things like "rotted tongue" and "old brains" on the menu.

Go on line and see if you can find things that can be put in a dish and feel like body parts. Then you can blindfold them and let them tell you what it is. Bobbing for apples is good too, and trying to eat the donut off the string is good. Have fun!

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Dirt pudding with worms. Chocolate pudding with a crushed oreo cookie layer on top with gummi worms sticking out.

Here's a recipe for 'Gross Mucus'! Heat 1/2 cup water to a boil and remove from heat, add 3 envelopes of unflavored gelatin, wait a few minutes then stir with a fork. Add corn syrup until it makes a full cup and stir. Lifting it up it should make long strands and be stringy and gross. You could also add a few drops of food coloring to the water to make it a different color, and you may need to add a spoonful of water as it cools. You can also make a bowl full of corn syrup, red food coloring and grape jelly for blood. Also, you can make boxes covered in black paper with a hole cut in the top to put your hand in. Underneath the boxes have different bowls full of gross stuff like peeled grapes for eye balls, spaghetti noodles and other cooked pasta for guts, peeled bananas and or other fruit for various organs, like a peeled grapefruit for a 'monkey brains'. Label the boxes and have the kids stick their hands into them and feel around. You can also do plain cupcakes and have the kids decorate them with different icing and candies. Black licorice can make a cupcake into a spider too. Also google halloween party ideas and you can probably find LOADS of ideas! Good luck, hope it's a blast!

I just bought a really cool mini book at the grocery store checkout. It's called HALLOWEEN Food, Fun & Crafts. It will be on display shelves until Oct. 27 and has a website so check it out if you like:

www.pilcookbooks.com

Back in the day I went to a church retreat thing where we did some sort of "scary" halloween game. One of the leaders told us a story, and we were all sitting in a room, lights turned out,he told us a story as he passed around different bowls, I think he walked around the room with the bowl and had us feel what was in the different bowls.

The two things that I can remember that he used were:
Wet cold long noodles - brains or intestines
peeled grapes - eye balls

You could use all sort of kitchen food to create your story try:
mashed bananas - brain
slices of pear - tongue
asparagus - fingers

All of this I think should be cold to give it more a real feel to it

I'm sure you can google some other ideas to something fun like this. Wish I could remember more to what we used back then! But I just remembered being grossed out but laughing hysterically at how silly but fun it was.

Good luck.

One more thing....you could look into purchasing a block of dry ice and being careful, put it in a big pot or better yet one of those styrofoam boxes and find a neat yummy punch recipe and create a punch that you can serve from another container above the dry ice and it looks like your drink is brewing in the cloud of spooky smoke coming from the dry ice. I saw Sandra Lee, semi home made make it on Food TV if you're interested.

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ooo, have an area that is dark or blindfold the kids to go through your "Laboratory". have a bowls full of Brains (spaghetti noodles), eyeballs (Peeled grapes), and other squishy things (worms etc). Let the kids put their hands in the bowls without looking/seeing what's actually in there. Get lots of squishy things - noodles, pudding, jello, grapes, fruits, peas, etc.

My uncle also made a meatloaf in the shape of a person with spaghetti inside the head for brains, cheese sticks for bones, ketchup for blood. So from the outside, it just looked like a person, but then you start hacking into it and get all sorts of surprises :)

for food, serve the man-meatloaf, gummy worms, eyeballs (Olives), bones dipped in blood (Cheese dipped in marinara), boogers (stirred up jello), spider webs (cotton candy), bugs (raisins)