i need to organize a in class holloween party for 30 4th graders, got any ideas what food to serve and games?

Question

My sons teacher is not big on bringing in cakes and candy. I want to impress the teacher and make the childeren happy. The party is suppose the be the last 2 hours of class on friday the 27. Im scared i wont be able to think of enough games to keep them busy for 2 hours. Please someone help!

Answer 1

Try these!!

Ghost Cookies
Yield: 2 dozen

1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
16-ounce can pre-made vanilla frosting
colored sugars, for decoration
mini-morsels, for decoration
candy sprinkles, for decoration
black or brown decorating frosting, for decoration

Preheat the oven to 375ºF

Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended. Add powdered sugar, egg, and vanilla to butter mixture; beat well. Gradually add flour, cream of tartar, and baking soda, beating well.

Cover and chill dough 1 hour. Roll dough to 1/4-inch thickness, and cut with a 4-inch ghost-shaped cutter. Place cookies 2 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheets. Place a craft stick under each cookie, pressing cookie lightly onto stick.

Bake for 10 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool cookies on baking sheets 5 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Microwave frosting in a 2-quart glass bowl at HIGH 1 minute or until frosting melts. Spread melted frosting over cookies in batches of 3. (Frosting hardens quickly.) Decorate rapidly with desired toppings. .
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Ghost Meringues
(makes 12 ghosts)

3 large egg whites, at room temperature1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) cream of tartar3/4 cup (188 g) one-to-one sugar substitute, such as Louis Sherry One Spoon Sugar Replacement1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) pure vanilla extract24 dried currants

Preheat oven to 200°F (130°C).

Line two large, heavy baking sheets with parchment paper.

Combine egg whites and cream of tartar in a clean, grease-free mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar substitute, 1 tablespoon (15 ml) every 30 seconds until meringue holds very stiff peaks. Beat in vanilla.

Spoon meringue into a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch (1.25 cm) plain tip or spoon into a gallon-size (1 l-size) heavy plastic food bag, then cut off 1 corner to make a 1/2-inch (1.25 cm) wide opening.

Pipe meringue onto prepared baking sheets into ghost shapes, about 3 inches (3.75 cm) wide and 5 inches (6.25 cm) high. Space ghosts about 2 inches (2.5 cm) apart. Press 2 currants into each ghost to form the eyes.

Bake until meringues begin to turn pale gold and are firm to the touch, about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours, switching baking sheet positions half way through the baking time. Turn off oven and leave meringues in closed oven for 2 hours. Cool slightly. When just barely warm, slip each ghost into a plastic sandwich bag and tie tops with pieces of orange and black ribbons
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Ghosts in the Graveyard
Serves: 15 to 18

1 pkg. (16 oz.) chocolate sandwich cookies
3-1/2 cups cold milk
2 pkg. (4-serving size each) JELL-O Chocolate Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling
1 tub (12 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping , thawed

Preparation:
CRUSH cookies in zipper-style plastic bag with rolling pin or in food processor.

POUR cold milk into large bowl. Add pudding mixes. Beat with wire whisk 2 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes. Stir in 3 cups of the whipped topping and 1/2 of the crushed cookies. Spoon into 13x9-inch baking dish. Sprinkle with remaining crushed cookies.

REFRIGERATE 1 hour or until ready to serve. Store leftover dessert in refrigerator.

To Decorate Graveyard: Decorate assorted cookies with decorator icings to make "tombstones." Stand tombstones on top of dessert with candy corn and pumpkins. Drop dollops of remaining whipped topping onto dessert to make "ghosts."

Boo Cups: Layer pudding mixture and remaining crushed cookies in 12 to 16 paper or plastic cups. Decorate as desired
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Graveyard Cups

24 clear 12-oz. plastic cups
2 pkgs. Oreo cookies
2 recipes of chocolate pudding
whipped cream
24 Pepperidge Farms Milano Cookies
brown or black cake decorating gel
24 gummi worms

Crush all Oreos in food processor. In the bottom of each cup, place about 1 Tbsp. of Oreos. Mix remainder of Oreos in pudding mixture, holding out about 2 cups for topping. Then spoon about 2 TBSP Oreo mixture over pudding. Poke one gummi worm down in dirt, still showing on top. On each Milano cookie, write on top half "RIP" with cake decorating gel, and stick them down in the back of the cup. They resemble tombstones.

Note: Can also do in a sheet cake pan with lots of tombstones and worms for a home party.
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Jack O' Lantern Cookies
Makes 18 to 20 large cookies

3/4 cup dark molasses
3/4 cup paked brown sugar
1/4 cup water
3 tbsp. butter, melted
3 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. each salt, ground allspice and cinnamon
1/4 tsp. cloves
Orange icing (recipe follows)
2 cups seedless grapes

Preheat the oven to 350ºF

Combine molasses, sugar, water and melted butter and mix well. Combine dry ingredients and mix well. Stir dry ingredients into molasses mixture. Cover and refrigerate 2 hours or longer. Roll dough out to 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick on floured surface. Cut dough into pumpkin shapes, 4 1/2 to 5 - inches in diameter and place on lightly greased cookie sheet.

Bake for10-12 minutes or until firm to a light touch with a finger. Cool. Ice with Orange Icing and decorate with grapes to make faces.

ORANGE ICING

Beat 6 cups icing sugar and about 1/3 cup orange juice until smooth and of spreading consistency.

Tint with 9 drops yellow food colour and 10 drops red food color or to desired orange color.
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Pumpkin Swirl Cheesecake
12 servings

3/4 Cup Graham Cracker Crumbs
2 Tbsp Unsalted Butter, melted
1 (8 oz pkg.) Cream Cheese
1/2 Cup Sugar or Sugar Substitute = 1/2 Cup
1/2 Cup 2% Milk
2 Tsp Vanilla Extract
1/2 Tsp Orange Zest, finely chopped
2 (8 oz pkg.) Cream Cheese
1 (15 oz can) Pumpkin
1 Tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
1 Envelope Unflavored Gelatin
1/4 Cup Orange Juice

Crust: In a medium bowl, conbine the graham cracker crumbs and melted butter; stir until the crumbs are moistened. Press onto the bottom of an 8-inch srpingform pan. Cover and chill.

White Filling: In a food processor, conbine the 1 package cream cheese, 1/4 cup sugar substitute, 1/4 cup milk, vanilla extract, and the orange zest. Cover and process until the mixture is smooth. Transfer to a bowl; set aside.

Pumpkin Filling: In a food processor, conbine the remaining cream cheese, pumpkin, remaining sugar substitute, remaining milk, and the pumpkin pie spice. Cover and process until the mixture is smooth.

In a small saucepan, sprinkle the gelatin over the orange juice and let stand for 5 minutes. Cook and stir over low heat until the gelatin is dissolved.Stir in 1 Tablespoon of the gelatin mixture into the white filling. Stir in remaining gelatin mixture into the pumpkin filling.

Pour the pumpkin filling into the prepared crust. Carefully pour the white filling onto the pumpkin filling. Using a knife to swirl the pumpkin and the white mixtures together. Cover and chill overnight.

To serve: Loosen the cheesecake from the side of the pan with a thin knife, release the clasp of the springform pan and remove the sides. Cut into wedges and serve.

Answer 2

Well a good game for that age group on Halloween is take for example jello in a bowl, cooked spaghetti noodles in another bowl and some other weird feeling foods and turn the lights out in the classroom and make them put their hands in it and guess what it is and at the very end of your line of weird foods put a couple of latex gloves filled with something mushy and they will love it! Great Halloween fun, great for that age too!!! Good luck!

Answer 3

You could play/ do
Pumpkin bowling -- ten pins from a party store and bowl a pumpkin into them
face painting
paint a pumpkin -- either pottery or a little one, see if you could get them donated
pinata -- Oriental Trading has lots of prizes, or check with Dollar Tree, 99 Cent store (or get them donated by other moms or dads)
Color a picture, hang them up and have the kids vote on the best one
Cookie walk -- like a cake walk, but with bags of cookies (2 per bag, and limit it to two bags per kid)
Ask parents to help with food including chips and dips, a vegetable tray, a fruit tray, muffins, little sausages, stuff like that (then two cookies aren't horrible if you have other things to offer).
See what the other parents have to offer. They may have stuff you wouldn't have thought of, but can use. (The pottery pumpkins were donated last year to my daughter's school -- something we wouldn't have known to ask about!)
Make up a bingo game of Halloween pictures and have the kids play bingo.

Answer 4

Is it the sugar of the cakes and candy or some other reason she doesnt want them. 4th graders like icky stuff expecially the boys how about something like

Boogers on a Stick
1 cup Cheese Whiz
60 pretzel sticks
green food coloring

heat up cheese whiz in microwave.
add food coloring enough to the color of booger green you would like.
dip the tip of the pretzel sticks in
put on wax paper lined cookie sheet, then put in the fridge until hardened.
Repeat until the boogers are as big as you want them.

recipezaar.com has tons of halloween food as for games how about deocrating tiny little pumpkins with markers and paper cutouts. Pin the body parts on a paper skeleton or have a scavanger hunt for fall or halloween items. Hope you have tons of fun I love holidays with my little monsters.

Answer 5

well here is some great ideas that are healthy and will impress the kids and the teacher....take apples divide them up into quarters and take little m and ms and use them for eyes making like little bugs..they still get chocolate as well as some fruit....also use little gummy worms and stuff them into marshmallows all the way through .....first of course use food coloring on the marshmallows...as far as games boil some spaghetti and stick balls of mellons inside and have them close their eyes and feel for the different things..also a bucket some water and alot of apples make for a lot of fun.........

Answer 6

Here's a really easy nacho dip that tastes awesome! 1 package Velveeta mexican chese (you can do spicy or mild) 1 can Hormel chili +/- green onions Melt it in an oven-safe bowl in the Microwave or oven (for however long it takes to be all melted) stirring occasionally, and eat it with tortilla chips. It's awesome!!

Answer 7

fish for the apples in a pool of water but green
treats are good like rice krispy treats, ask the parents for any ideas also some parents may want to bring someone things that less sweet but still good, trail mix is great with carrot stredds.

Answer 8

You should bring in pumpkin or witch shaped cookies...for the games...get Halloween bingo or if you're allowed to go outside do a candy corn scavenger hunt

Answer 9

bring lasagna, cupcakes,cookies,pizza,drinks, chips...y'all should play hang man, heads up seven up,all around the world, uno(a card game) genga(a block game) you dont want to bring any board games because that can get very messy and most of them might not know how to play them.

Answer 10

here are my suggestions.............tell a scary story with halloween music playing in background.............try to get a copy of the song Monster Mash..............and do a cake walk with the winner getting a treat to take home......not for classroom consumption...........a simple craft would be to provide tootsie ro;; pops and a square of white tissue paper......place over candy and tie off with orange/black ribbon.......paint on a face with marker.......................another take home treat...............a ghostly idea.........serve meatballs from a crockpot (list on your menu as eyeballs and blood(spaghetti sauce) you can serve hotdogs and call them dead man's fingers..........make a pasta salad using spaghetti and call it GUTS...............you can make jello in a bowl lined with gummy worms and call it BRAINS ..just unmold it on a plate ............you can have a monster walk based on your decorations too(black cat, ghost, witch, pumpkin, etc.........have it at the end of the party and whoever is on or closest to the X on the floor gets to take the decoration home when the music stops................when doing your activities dont rush at the beginning hour.........when you get past that you will have a better judgement of time needed to complete............Have the kids tell a story or a time that they were scared.................let the kids vote on who were scared the most..........have a certificate made up for them FOR BEING THE BEST STORYTELLER..........make candy apples...........the kids will love that too...........take a old white sheet and draw 2 big ghost eyes on it......................put it over the kids and take their picture...........or them holding a pumpkin.................or with a witch's hat..............hope these ideas get you started.............kids really like to take things home to show their friends and family.......so i would focus on that................plus they will always remember you for your effort.......................happy halloween

Answer 11

Halloween cup cakes and punch with plastic spiders in it,the kids will love it..