Posts Tagged ‘Halloween Decorations’
So, I decided last year that plain old trick-or-treating just isn’t enough for my little ones on Halloween. I thought, instead, add pre-party to the fun and this year we will have a house full of 20 kids, and their parents, all 5 and under to celebrate before we head out around the neighborhood. Here are some simple things you can do to throw a Halloween party for your ghouls and goblins:
Entertainment:
An fun idea for the kids is to let them decorate their own sugar cookies. Set up a table (we are putting ours outside to avoid a mess) and place sugar cookie cutouts, along with bowls of different colored icings, plastic utensils, and fun sprinkles out. The kids will have a blast making and eating their own creations.
On the same table we will be making marshmallow spiders…a couple marshmallows for the body, pretzel sticks for the legs, and some chocolate chips for the eyes!
Decorations:
‘Haunt’ your house without making it too scary for the little ones…One of the best Ideas I’ve found is using black trash bags to make ‘haunted curtains’!
Another easy and inexpensive idea is spiderwebs! Instead of the usual putting them on the front porch, this year I brought them inside as well. I put them on everything! Every picture and wall hanging is covered!
The last of the main decorations I have used is Halloween Garland…banasters, book shelves, doorways, drape it everywhere! I found this cute pumpkin one at Target
Add some balck streamers to the ceiling and a couple black lights to floor and table lamps and you are ready to go!
I’ll let you know how the party turns out!
One of our good friends and neighbors was putting up a scarecrow as one of her Halloween decorations. We always did this as kids too, but I hadn’t gotten around to putting one up for Peyton, yet. Well when she hear that Jayden was going to have a scarecrow, of course she wanted to make one too!
So this is what we did…and it was fun and inexpensive!
We didn’t have any old ‘scarecrow’ clothes to stuff so I went to the thrift store on post and found a pair of Oshkosh overall’s for $3 and an orange plaid shirt for $1.75. We also had to come up with a head so I thought instead of buying something, let’s make one!
We did paper mache over a balloon to make the shape. This is so fun and easy and all you need is a few household items:
Balloon
Strips of newspaper
flour
water
To make the paste for paper mache you should use 1 part flour to 2 parts water. You want your mixture to be the consistency of glue but not so thick that it is like paste. Once we had our bowl of ‘glue’ I let Peyton go to town! She had so much fun dipping the strips in the glue and picking the perfect places to lay it out on the balloon!
Once the paper mache was dry we decided it would be very ‘Halloween’ to paint it like a Jack-o-lantern. If your children are older, you may choose to use a Halloween mask to cover the head but with the little one’s I’m not a fan of making it scary. I bought orange and black washable paint at the craft store for about $2 each.
Next was one of Peyton’s favorite parts; gathering leaves to stuff the scarecrow. We went into the ‘forest’ (I use quotations here because that’s what Peyton calls the wooded area by our house) and filled up plastic grocery bags with leaves to use as the scarecrow’s stuffing.
Once we had our scarecrow stuffed we sat him on the front porch and topped off his outfit with a dollar store cowboy hat!
Preston with his Scarecrow Buddy
