Halloween Party Idea

Black Light Party

This party is cool anytime but especially around Halloween.

Buy some black light bulbs and replace all the light bulbs in the rooms where you will be holding the party. Use black or navy blue tablecloths or sheets to cover the table where you will put the food. Use plates, white plastic cutlery and white napkins – it will look like they are floating in the dark! Get transparent plastic cups and serve mountain dew – it glows in the dark! You can also add some neon straws for bright color.

To decorate the walls, get some black velvet posters or doodle velvet pictures to put up. You can also make some cool decorations yourself – get some black poster paper and paint on white or neon colors to make cool graffiti sayings or party designs (For Halloween put ghosts, pumpkins, spiders, bats, etc.) (For birthdays make stars, balloons, birthday person’s name, etc.) You can use a disco ball or fog machine for extra effect near the dance area.

For guests, get some glow in the dark necklaces, bracelets & anklets. They look really cool when you are dancing around in the dark! Best stuff to wear: dark clothes with some white or glow in dark writing/stripes/accents.

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Scary Halloween Baking for Kids

Fall has officially started and Halloween is around the corner. My kids and I love Halloween and I must have at least 3 storage bins full of spooky decorations, Halloween crafts and decorative Jack O Lanterns. My bins also include muffin tins and cake pans in various pumpkin, scarecrow and ghost shapes. I have promised my kids that we can pull it all out on October 1st.

Kids need some fun activities to lead up to Halloween since the actual trick or treat time goes by so quickly. I have found that Halloween baking is always a great activity resulting in edible art. There are so many wonderful baking products for spooky Halloween themes. I am particularly fond of sparkle gel in black and orange. Chocolate cookie crumbs can be used for dirt or mud on your creations. Thin black licorice can look like snakes or shaped into a spider's web on an orange or white iced cake.

Special food colors are available in bright Halloween orange, purple and green. (Making dark colors is very difficult and tedius with your standard grocery store 4 pack of colors.) Candies can be cut and arranged to look like bugs. With Halloween baking - scary, gooey or gross are your best kid pleasers.

I am posting a cute video on making pumpkin cupcakes that are fun and easy for all ages. More Halloween fun coming soon!

Decorating Wilton Haunted House Halloween baking kits

If you buy a pre-baked Wilton Haunted House cookie kit (left), please see my article on how to assemble it, or watch the video on this blog. This post only deals with decorating the house. If you are intimidated by assembling the house yourself, pre-assembled kits are available (on the right). Decorating really is the fun part.

Step 1: Prepare your icing. The icing for decorating does not need to be as thick as for assembling. You do want it to stay where you put it and be thick enough to hold the weight of the candies. Make up the icing colors that come with the kit. You can also use additional piping gels or icing colors. Wilton now makes a line of sparkle gels that are wonderful for gingerbread houses. We use the black gel in the video. You can use any gels or icing colors you happen to have to supplement your decorating.

Step 2: Put the icing into prepared icing bags. You can get different effects by using different icing tips. For instance, you can make raised shapes, line edges or build up borders. Cut approx. 2 cm off the tip of your plastic icing bag. Insert the tip you want to use for that color. Put icing in the bag and squeeze it down – getting rid of air bubbles as you go. Twist the top of the bag to keep icing from coming out the top. Keep the tip covered in plastic or a moist cloth to prevent clogging.

Step 3: Get candies ready. Lay out the candies that come in the kit. Check your pantry or candy stash for extra ones you may want to use. You can also add some sprinkles or sparkles to your gingerbread house. Large candies can be cut in half – glue the flat half to the haunted house. Candies can be cut into different shapes, or made smaller to fit smaller areas. You can also add coconut – but I would suggest tinting it for Halloween. Place some shredded coconut in a small plastic baggie. Add a couple of drops of food color and knead until the color is how you want it. Remove the coconut and let it dry on waxed paper.

Step 4: Start decorating your Haunted Halloween cookie house. To use the icing bag, hold it at a 45 degree angle. Use one hand to steer the bag and the other hand to slowly and consistently press the icing down and through the hole. Place the tip where you want to start applying the icing. Squeeze so icing comes out and guide tip along the surface you want to cover. Stop squeezing, touch tip to surface, and pull up and away when you are done. Do not move along too quickly or you will break your line. If too much icing comes out, it is either runny; the tip is too large; or you are squeezing too hard. If little or no icing comes out, the tip is clogged, the icing is too thick, or you are not squeezing hard enough.

Use the icing as glue to attach the candies. You can also decorate the
cardboard surface. Make icicles hanging from the house by holding the bag
perpendicular to the roof edge. Squeeze to make a blob on the roof edge,
then pull the tip down – easing pressure as you go so the icing goes to a
point. To make zigzags, squeeze evenly with one hand as your guiding hand
moves in a tight side-to-side motion at a 45 degree angle. You can do
scallops and straight lines the same way. Dots are cute – especially in a
line. Just hold the bag perpendicular the house and place the tip where
you want the dot. Squeeze out some icing then press the tip to the
surface, release pressure and pull the tip back.

For more on these Halloween Houses including a complete step by step instructional video, see Halloween Gingerbread House Kits.

Edible art is fun to make and eat. Have fun with your creation. Worse comes to worse, scrape the icing off any sections you are not happy with – and try again.

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Ethical Kids Scavenger Hunt

More kids and teens are having ethical parties where they forgo gifts in lieu of donations for a charity, fundraiser or social cause. This great trend is likely to increase if kids have lots of fun while doing good deeds.

Since kids love scavenger hunts, this food bank fun scavenger hunt is a great party challenge while kids raise supplies for the local food bank. Definitely a win-win type of party! See my Ethical Kids Scavenger Hunts Article for more.

Swimming Pool Party Games

Now that summer is winding down, kids are getting bored with summer activities. You probably couldn't get them out of the pool in June, but now they don't feel like getting wet. Getting them back in the water just requires a little more planning and organization now. With the right incentive, your kids will soon be back in - getting exercise and having a blast. Here is my article on swimming pool party games and pool party themes.

Kids Halloween Games - Girls Halloween Games and Activities-Holloween

Halloween is one of my favorite times of year. You are lucky if you live in a country where Halloween is celebrated, since the majority of countries do not celebrate it. Kids love to do Halloween activities and crafts. Trick or Treating is a major event for kids, but it goes by really quickly - it is over in a couple of hours. Making decorations, preparing costumes, hosting parties, baking special treats is all part of the fun. I will be posting several spooktacular ideas to do with kids or students over the coming weeks.

In the mean time, I found a good package of Halloween activities and games you can print at home.

You don't need to spend hours searching the internet, looking for what you want and you don't need to spend your precious time making your own activities.

Best of all these are educational Halloween activities and educational Halloween games so while kids have fun they are also learning.

Just Print and Play

In a matter of minutes you can be printing all of the worksheets for Halloween and Halloween games that you want for your kids or your students.

These are electronic books (e-books) that are downloaded to your computer in a flash. Which means you can be reading them and printing activities in as little as 5 minutes. Check them out & keep checking back on the blog for more halloween ideas.



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