I'm thinking about having a kid's Halloween party. Any suggestions for food, games and decorations.?

Question

Thanks in advance :-)

Answer 1

The treats should be for the health of the children. Cake squares with bright color does not need much sugar. Use low calorie candy, but never offer too much. You can add food color to popcorn while it pops.to appear as blood. Swinging apples is fun; never have then dip their heads in water, unsafe.

(Other Ideas you can think about)
Give your room an eerie glow with dim lights, soft green light bulbs

Spread some dried bread and pretzels under a rug. When your guests walk across the rug it will sound like crunching bones underfoot!

You can record several scary sounds and play it back during the festivities.

A very large sheet of poster board or sheet metal makes great thunder.

Uncooked rice poured onto a cookie sheet sounds like rain.

Crinkle a handful of cellophane for a roaring fire.

Snap carrots in half for the sound of breaking bones.

Flap a plastic bag in front of the microphone for the sound of bats.

Slowly blow bubbles with a straw into a bowl for that bog sound.

Lighting When you have everything so dimly lit it's a good idea to have some reflective tape over the Exits.

A black light bulb is always a good effect, especially if you are dressed as a skeleton!

Answer 2

Hi smoochies

There aren't many things I like more than organizing Halloween parties for my kids.

You have some great ideas already. Here is an article I wrote recently that may give you some more ideas.

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Walking the streets from home to home trick-or-treating is becoming a thing of the past. This is due to all the bad experiences that children and adults have had to deal with throughout the history of Halloween. Dangers seem to be lurking around every corner. Children and parents run the risk of being hit by a car when crossing streets after dark. The fact that there may be a predator close by waiting for an opportunity to prey on innocent children is a huge concern of all parents, especially on Halloween night.

However, this does not mean that Halloween is a thing of the past. It is still one of the biggest holidays celebrated today. People are just finding better, safer ways to observe this haunted holiday instead of trick or treating. One of the best ways to do this is by providing a Halloween party for children. Start making plans ahead of time. Gather together with other parents in the neighbor and put together a plan. The party can be held at someone’s house or pool your money together and rent out a room at the nearest YMCA or recreation center. What safer place to hold a Halloween party for children.

It is important to have someone who can be in charge of the party that can assign each parent a responsibility. Several people should be in charge of supplying the refreshments, all the great tasting food, and of course lots of candy. Children’s Halloween parties should have plenty of punch, water and other refreshments. Deserts such as pumpkin pies, cakes, apples and other snacks are a necessity. Three or four people can be in charge of the games. Not only to make sure there are plenty of small prizes and treats for the children to enjoy, but to also supervise. There should be games setup for different age groups such as a go fish stand for smaller children and a basketball game for teenagers. Bobbing for apples is a game that can be enjoyed at most any age.

For added enjoyment there should be a costume contest at the end of the night. It would be best if they offer several categories to judge allowing for more than one winner. For instance, you can have a separate contest for the scariest, cutest, most original, and most elegant costume. Have plenty of supervision available, after all safety is the number one concern. When you know your child is enjoying a great Halloween in a safe environment it makes everyone have a better holiday.

Answer 3

Decorate scary, little kids love to be scared. Rubber grinning spiders hanging from the chandeliers, gauzzy see-through ghosts, spooky sound effects and a kids halloween music CD. Hang halloween lights, darken the room lights.Get someone to dress up as a forune teller, and tell fortunes.
check out the local discount retailer for electric moving decorations, one candy dish has a hand that tries to snatch the candy back. Or have adults dress up, and do a walk through, tell about who they are, and give out candy. Cupcakes with either plastic spiders and such, or if you have money or talent, buy or make some with frosting decorations. Make a grab bag with candy and favors, rubber spiders, little skeltons, whatever the party store has. For a nicer gift, a plastic halloween flashlight, some have colored plastic lenses, and halloween cutouts to make spooky shapes with, and they can take them trick-or-treating for safety. A couple bucks at the retail dicount store..
The blindfold the kid, and have him reach in a bowl full of worms(cold spagetti) or eyeballs (grapes) works, especially for little boys. Draw a face or design on the pumpkin works for the older crowd, and the pumpkin goes home with the kid as a favor.
Have a halloween trivia contest, age appropriate, with prizes. Like what is white, see through, and floats? Who has long eye teeth, a black cape, and bites people?
If buget and talent permit, cardboard sceenary like a haunted castle/dungeon are cool.
Check out Martha Stewart, she has had a few halloween shows, bet she has some cool ideas. Check out the question and answers a couple past this one. Great ideas.

Answer 4

It depends on the ages of the kids. Pizza is always a big hit at any kids party and easy too. In my experience, kids just dont care about food presentation at all. Keep decorations simple..use lots of black and orange balloons and black and orange streamers. Use fake spider webs and fake spiders. Pick up a few Halloween music CD's too.

The one game I can think of for Halloween is the mummy wrap. Google it for the rules.

Answer 5

I did this two years ago and it was a blast. I made from just construction paper a big orange pumpkin. Then i cut all the pieces you would use to decorate the pumpkin. (funny eyes, ears hat, nose, anything you want) Then we played like pin the tail on the donkey accept it was decorate your pumpkin. The kids loved it and they all signed it when they were done. I didn't even have to go buy anything for it all you need is constuction paper, tape and a pen (oh don't forget the blindfold , scarf will work.) have fun

Answer 6

Oh how cool. Love those.
Food:
-cupcakes that look like spiders... (chocolate frosting with licorice as legs and m & m's for eyes)
-spaghetti (that's like brains or worms)
-worms in dirt ice cream... (cookies 'n cream ice cream with gummy worms and oreo bits)
-pizza, hotdogs, burgers (at least they'll eat this...)
-cookies (shaped like pumpkins, ghosts, witches)
-red punch (blood kinda looking)
Games:
-do a freeze dance game ( the kids dance and when you stop the music they all should stop and if they don't they lose. last one standing wins.)
-have a costume contest
-see you can make the scariest face
-tell ghost stories
-not really a game but... make a haunted house
-tag is always fun
Decorations:
-put up black construction paper
-get black lights
-a fog mister
-glow in the dark star stickers
-jack-o-lanterns

Answer 7

Decorations-Just get some construction paper, glue, pipe cleaners, some paint, and paperplates. You can make a spider out of a paper plate painted black w/ pipe cleaners and some of those gogglie eyes. Also can make a Jackolantern with a paperplate, orange paint and yellow paint, and green contruction paper for the stem. You could also make some fall or halloween garland by taking small strips of construction paper and gluing it together to make a ring then you take a different colored strip and put it through the ring and glue together to make another ring and so on till your garland reaches the length you want.

Games- bobbling for apples, telling spooky stores, doing that thing were they close their eyes and pretend to touch the witches hair( cold spaghetti) her eyes ( peeled grappes) etc.

Food- apples candied, dipped in caramel &nut or just plain, smores, pumpkin flavored cookies, Hot cider, popcorn balls, Pumpkin seeds,

Answer 8

We always make "eyeball" cookies which are really just any flat round cookie spread with a white icing and then a red dot in the middle - some even get blood shot marks!

We also make "finger" sandwiches. Make any kind of sandwich you like on regular square bread. Cut the bread into 3 long "fingers". Use a knife to round the ends to make them more finger like. Lastly, add a half of an almond on the end to make a finger nail.

These things are good food but the kids (and adults) find the presentation creepy, but adorable.

BTW, we also usually have a pumpking carving contest.

Good Luck!

Answer 9

So many great ideas already. Here's one last one to add to the list and the kids can help prepare it. Get some plastic gloves, like the kind used when coloring hair. Place a piece of candy corn at end of each finger to look like fingernail, then fill the hand with popped popcorn. Slip a plastic spider or pumpkin ring on one of the fingers, tie off with twist tie with ribbon over it. Great to have sticking out of a basket, box or pumpkin for the kids to enjoy or pass them out when they are leaving to go home.

oooooooooooooo have a spooktacular time!

Answer 10

Make your house a haunted house. Make it dark, scary Halloween noises, lights flashing, cats meowing at randoms points, decorations!

I once made a punch for Halloween and put dry ice in it, it made it smoke and it was pretty cool! You could do that but don't let anyone touch the dry ice of course! Have someone take the chain off a chain saw and turn it on! That'll freak the kids out!

A good game for a dark spooky place is hide-'n'-go-seek.