A Mom Not a Professional Nor a Perfectionist: FUN Kid Friendly Halloween Party Ideas

I love to have fun with paper, food, paint, music and events and just being creative in all of it. However, I don't feel the need to be a perfectionist nor a professional in any of my creations. I wish I could have a blog JUST about the art of cooking, photography, sewing, art, mothering, jewelry making, card making, dancing, gardening, deep spiritual thoughts, decorating, poetry, party planning, baking.... and the list goes on but I can't. I don't think I was created with the ability to focus on one task. I like all of these hobbies layed out before me and the freedom to pick whatever I choose depending on the mood or time I have.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

FUN Kid Friendly Halloween Party Ideas

A Halloween/Harvest Party has been a tradition in our family. Here in this country they do Day of the Dead which is mostly a religious holiday celebrated by Catholics. It is very different from the fun, light hearted celebrations we have so we have stuck to our simple, "let's celebrate fall and eat lots of goodies" type of party.

In the past I have tried to be innovative in my decorating to come up with some kid friendly fun ideas because our boys are young and blood and guts scare them. These are some of the kid friendly Halloween party ideas I have come up with and others are from BHG. Last year, I went with the purple, orange and black theme and the year before it was a Pumpkin Patch theme lots of pumpkin and hay.

KID CRAFT:

Use a melon baller and cut an insert in the middle big enough for a tea candle. Glue wiggly eyes to the pumpkin and ahead of time make 4 small holes on the bottom to insert pipe cleaners for the legs.

FOOD:

Apple wedges sandwiched with caramel and marshmallows for teeth

Store bought Orange Punch and with a sharpie made pumpkin faces

Worm Juice- Gummy worms on the edges of the punch bowl. I taped to the outside of the bowl eyes.

Lolipops covered in orange tissue paper and pumpkin faces drawn on.

Hotdogs wrapped in frozen biscuit dough or dinner roll, crescent rolls also works and then bake.

healthy snack- mandarines pumpkins

Pumpkin cupcakes using choco. chips for the face and green fondant for the stem.

Bundt cake pumpkin cake

ACTIVITIES

Hang a picture frame from the ceiling and add lots of props for fun pictures

Decorate your pumpkin station. We had markers, feathers, tissue paper, pipe cleaners and paint out on the table for kids to do whatever they wished with their pumpkins

Lovely!

PARTY FAVORS

Orange Rice Krispie balls

If you go to http://search.bhg.com/search/s?q=halloween+party+ideas it has a list of different themed Halloween parties and free printables. The large professional looking pictures posted above are also from BHG.