Mizz.V
10-27-2007, 10:26 PM
So you wanna have a party to celebrate everything creepy and kookie and altogether ookie? Good call! Few holidays are more party perfect than Halloween! And here's a slew of tips for making your Halloween bash frighteningly cool!!!!
INVITATIONS:
If you're hand delivering the invites, buy mini pumpkins (real ones are available at most supermarkets, and faux ones are available at any craft store) and write the party info write on the pumpkin with a black marker! Place it in a plain plastic baggie or little brown lunch bag and tie with an orange ribbon!
Using cardstock, cut out large candy corn shapes (essentially a triangle with rounded corners), color with orange, yellow and white stripes, add some glitter if you're feeling super fancy, and write the party info on the back.
Edible invites: Take a round lollipop (Tootsie Roll Pops or Blow Pops work best), cover it with a plain white Kleenex-type tissue and tie a piece of black or orange ribbon around the "neck" (where the lolli meets the stick), and draw "eyes" on the "head" with a black pen . . . you have a Ghost Pop! Pass them out to pals, along with info on your party. PS – Make extras; they're so cute, everyone will want one to save and one to munch on!
Having a small gathering of friends for Fright Night fun? Raid a 99 cent store for small black cat stuffed animals. Write or, using your computer, print out small cards with all your party info. Attach the cards to the kitties with orange ribbon for a super cool, super cute, super collectible invite!
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COSTUMES:
Ask your friends to come dressed as their favorite TV or movie character!
Ask everyone to bring several articles of old clothing from their parents' closets (with their parents' permission, natch!) to the party. Once everyone arrives, put all the goodies in a big pile, form a big circle around it and go around the circle taking turns to choose an item. When all the clothes have been chosen, everyone turns to their right and dresses the person next to them with the items they chose!
Ask everyone to be super clever and thrifty with their costumes. Example: take an old t-shirt and draw a giant "P" on it with black marker, and draw a black circle around your eye with eyeliner. Who are you? You're a "Black Eyed Pea," just like the awesome band!
Cheesy/cheap/cute costume idea #2: cut business card-sized blocks of white paper. Using your computer or by hand, print the following on them: Frank N. Stein, Partier. You wear whatever you want to the party, and when someone asks who you're dressed as, simply hand them a card. Frank N. Stein . . . Frankenstein! (Hey, we SAID it was cheap!)
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DECORATIONS
Orange and black streamers and orange and black balloons. Hey, we know it's old school, but sometimes you just can't beat streamers and balloons! Plus, they're super cheapy at 99 cent stores!
Again, check the 99 cent stores, and discounters like Wal-Mart, Target and K-Mart . . . they often have holiday goodies at great prices, like strings of orange or black lights, those plastic pumpkin buckets (use them to hold chips, pretzels and other party munchies!) and orange and black plastic cups and napkins!
Wrap your old dolls and plastic Army men in toilet paper . . . they're mummies! Hang them with fishing line around the room, or place them on the food table for a scary decoration!
Take a head of cauliflower, and have an adult help you cut it in half. Fill a large bowl with water, and place a few drops of red food coloring in it. Place the cauliflower in the bowl . . . you've got a "brain"!
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FOOD:
Everything orange and black! Oranges, orange soda, black licorice, dark grapes, grape juice, macaroni and cheese, cheese curls, orange sherbet, soda,carrot sticks, raisins, orange Jell-O, candy "dirt" (crushed up Oreos) . . . you get the idea!
Make a yummy punch by mixing orange juice with ginger ale or club soda and decorate with those little plastic spiders you can find at party goods stores (CAUTION: make sure your guests know they're not edible! And make sure any younger guests don't accidentally swallow them!!!)
Wanna freak out your friends? Place a bowl of peeled grapes on the food table . . . they taste great, but they LOOK like EYEBALLS!
Pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bread, pumpkin . . . ah, again, you get the idea.
Ask your parents to help you with major cooking projects, but make sure to incorporate the official Halloween food into your party spread in some way. Pumpkin pie is soooo good!
"Punch up" your punch bowl: fill a plastic glove with water, tie it off at the bottom, where your hand would go, and put it in the freezer. Once it's set, take it out, peel away the glove, wash it off and let it float in the punch bowl!
Give a "hand" to popcorn: again, buy disposable plastic gloves (the kind they use in cafeterias). Put a red jelly bean into each finger, and then fill the glove with popped popcorn and tie the bottom closed. It looks like a hand with painted fingernails, and makes a yummy snack! Bonus idea: buy some cheapy fake rings at a party goods store and put 'em on the, ahem, finger food!
Make caramel apples.
Serve small cups of tomato soup, but call it "Blood Soup." Gross, huh?
Make a variety of sandwiches – cheese, PB&J, bologna, etc. – and use a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter to cut the sammies into a cool shape!
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PARTY FUN:
Ask your 'rents for help and have a pumpkin carving evening with your buds!
Put the treats in "trick or treat": plan your party for the night kids in your neighborhood go trick-or-treating and volunteer with your friends to be the ones passing out candy to the kiddies. They get great treats and you get to see them in their cute little costumes!
Have younger siblings? Why not make YOUR party activities revolve around helping THEM celebrate the holiday? Gather your friends to help your little sib and his or her friends make costumes, decorate pumpkins, play party games, and, of course, round up a bag of candy!
Bobbin' for apples. Yes, we know, it's silly, but that's the point! So fill up a tub with water, drop lots of yummy fresh apples (washed ahead of time, of course) into the water, and, without using their heads, give everyone a turn to "catch" their fruit.
Play Halloween Charades: you and your friends act out your favorite scary movie characters for each other!
______________________________________________
PARTY FAVORS:
Ask for permission to use your 'rents digital camera and make sure everyone gets a thank you note – with pics! – after the party!
Set up a candy buffet, with bowls full of individually wrapped candies all along the table, and cute plastic treat bags, mini plastic orange buckets or even plain little brown bags at one end. Form a line and let each partygoer go down the table, filling their bag or bucket full of treats. Tie each with a piece of orange and black ribbon and, voila, personally picked treat bags!
Halloween PEZ dispensers! Bonus idea: use them as party table decorations and then let guests take them home as favors!
Most of all, have fun,be safe,play great music,serve tasty food and enjoy your party! THAT'S the real key to make a great party come alive!
~See You In VMK!~
Mizz.V:icon_mickey_hallowe
INVITATIONS:
If you're hand delivering the invites, buy mini pumpkins (real ones are available at most supermarkets, and faux ones are available at any craft store) and write the party info write on the pumpkin with a black marker! Place it in a plain plastic baggie or little brown lunch bag and tie with an orange ribbon!
Using cardstock, cut out large candy corn shapes (essentially a triangle with rounded corners), color with orange, yellow and white stripes, add some glitter if you're feeling super fancy, and write the party info on the back.
Edible invites: Take a round lollipop (Tootsie Roll Pops or Blow Pops work best), cover it with a plain white Kleenex-type tissue and tie a piece of black or orange ribbon around the "neck" (where the lolli meets the stick), and draw "eyes" on the "head" with a black pen . . . you have a Ghost Pop! Pass them out to pals, along with info on your party. PS – Make extras; they're so cute, everyone will want one to save and one to munch on!
Having a small gathering of friends for Fright Night fun? Raid a 99 cent store for small black cat stuffed animals. Write or, using your computer, print out small cards with all your party info. Attach the cards to the kitties with orange ribbon for a super cool, super cute, super collectible invite!
__________________________________________________ ___
COSTUMES:
Ask your friends to come dressed as their favorite TV or movie character!
Ask everyone to bring several articles of old clothing from their parents' closets (with their parents' permission, natch!) to the party. Once everyone arrives, put all the goodies in a big pile, form a big circle around it and go around the circle taking turns to choose an item. When all the clothes have been chosen, everyone turns to their right and dresses the person next to them with the items they chose!
Ask everyone to be super clever and thrifty with their costumes. Example: take an old t-shirt and draw a giant "P" on it with black marker, and draw a black circle around your eye with eyeliner. Who are you? You're a "Black Eyed Pea," just like the awesome band!
Cheesy/cheap/cute costume idea #2: cut business card-sized blocks of white paper. Using your computer or by hand, print the following on them: Frank N. Stein, Partier. You wear whatever you want to the party, and when someone asks who you're dressed as, simply hand them a card. Frank N. Stein . . . Frankenstein! (Hey, we SAID it was cheap!)
______________________________________________
DECORATIONS
Orange and black streamers and orange and black balloons. Hey, we know it's old school, but sometimes you just can't beat streamers and balloons! Plus, they're super cheapy at 99 cent stores!
Again, check the 99 cent stores, and discounters like Wal-Mart, Target and K-Mart . . . they often have holiday goodies at great prices, like strings of orange or black lights, those plastic pumpkin buckets (use them to hold chips, pretzels and other party munchies!) and orange and black plastic cups and napkins!
Wrap your old dolls and plastic Army men in toilet paper . . . they're mummies! Hang them with fishing line around the room, or place them on the food table for a scary decoration!
Take a head of cauliflower, and have an adult help you cut it in half. Fill a large bowl with water, and place a few drops of red food coloring in it. Place the cauliflower in the bowl . . . you've got a "brain"!
______________________________________________
FOOD:
Everything orange and black! Oranges, orange soda, black licorice, dark grapes, grape juice, macaroni and cheese, cheese curls, orange sherbet, soda,carrot sticks, raisins, orange Jell-O, candy "dirt" (crushed up Oreos) . . . you get the idea!
Make a yummy punch by mixing orange juice with ginger ale or club soda and decorate with those little plastic spiders you can find at party goods stores (CAUTION: make sure your guests know they're not edible! And make sure any younger guests don't accidentally swallow them!!!)
Wanna freak out your friends? Place a bowl of peeled grapes on the food table . . . they taste great, but they LOOK like EYEBALLS!
Pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bread, pumpkin . . . ah, again, you get the idea.
Ask your parents to help you with major cooking projects, but make sure to incorporate the official Halloween food into your party spread in some way. Pumpkin pie is soooo good!
"Punch up" your punch bowl: fill a plastic glove with water, tie it off at the bottom, where your hand would go, and put it in the freezer. Once it's set, take it out, peel away the glove, wash it off and let it float in the punch bowl!
Give a "hand" to popcorn: again, buy disposable plastic gloves (the kind they use in cafeterias). Put a red jelly bean into each finger, and then fill the glove with popped popcorn and tie the bottom closed. It looks like a hand with painted fingernails, and makes a yummy snack! Bonus idea: buy some cheapy fake rings at a party goods store and put 'em on the, ahem, finger food!
Make caramel apples.
Serve small cups of tomato soup, but call it "Blood Soup." Gross, huh?
Make a variety of sandwiches – cheese, PB&J, bologna, etc. – and use a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter to cut the sammies into a cool shape!
______________________________________________
PARTY FUN:
Ask your 'rents for help and have a pumpkin carving evening with your buds!
Put the treats in "trick or treat": plan your party for the night kids in your neighborhood go trick-or-treating and volunteer with your friends to be the ones passing out candy to the kiddies. They get great treats and you get to see them in their cute little costumes!
Have younger siblings? Why not make YOUR party activities revolve around helping THEM celebrate the holiday? Gather your friends to help your little sib and his or her friends make costumes, decorate pumpkins, play party games, and, of course, round up a bag of candy!
Bobbin' for apples. Yes, we know, it's silly, but that's the point! So fill up a tub with water, drop lots of yummy fresh apples (washed ahead of time, of course) into the water, and, without using their heads, give everyone a turn to "catch" their fruit.
Play Halloween Charades: you and your friends act out your favorite scary movie characters for each other!
______________________________________________
PARTY FAVORS:
Ask for permission to use your 'rents digital camera and make sure everyone gets a thank you note – with pics! – after the party!
Set up a candy buffet, with bowls full of individually wrapped candies all along the table, and cute plastic treat bags, mini plastic orange buckets or even plain little brown bags at one end. Form a line and let each partygoer go down the table, filling their bag or bucket full of treats. Tie each with a piece of orange and black ribbon and, voila, personally picked treat bags!
Halloween PEZ dispensers! Bonus idea: use them as party table decorations and then let guests take them home as favors!
Most of all, have fun,be safe,play great music,serve tasty food and enjoy your party! THAT'S the real key to make a great party come alive!
~See You In VMK!~
Mizz.V:icon_mickey_hallowe