| Top tips for a truly haunted halloween? |
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With the spooky season fast approaching, busy mums come under pressure
again from their ‘little devils’ who want to impress their friends with
an especially ghoulish Halloween party. The invitations have gone out,
so where do you begin?
Sarah Sadler at Organised Mum has some fabulously fiendish ideas to help make your little one’s Halloween event one to remember, while ensuring you retain your sanity in the process! Remember, to make the most of little helpers too. • The key to success for any party is planning. Get yourself a planner or a note book where you can record important details and ideas ie guest list, venue, entertainment, food (shopping lists), games etc. • Have a cup of tea and put your feet up. Seriously, this needn’t be hard work (unless you want it to be!). Start planning early and things should come together easily. • Use black sheets of acetate (available in most craft stores) and cut them into Halloween shapes (bats, witches, stars, etc). Use white chalk to draw on bones and put lights behind the decorations so that the bones show up. • For a party game, take five boxes and cut a hole in the front big enough for little hands to go through. Put bowls of various things inside each box like baked beans (monsters brains), jelly (bat droppings), rice pudding (vampire’s blood), bouncy balls or hard-boiled eggs in tomato ketchup (witch’s eyes), put the pretend names over the top and the children have to put their hands in and guess what they are. Have a bowl of water and a towel on hand to clean up. • Give the room an eerie glow by using green light bulbs rather than standard incandescent light bulbs. You can find coloured light bulbs at most supermarkets. • Make your own tape of spooky sounds and music. Tape the sounds of sinister laughter, a dog howling and a door creaking. • Dead man’s fingers – cut the crusts off of white bread, spread with marmite or strawberry jam and roll up into a finger shape and make creases in the finger using a knife. Use almonds for the finger nails and ketchup for blood. Alternatively use a Halloween cookie cutter to make shapes for your sandwiches. •Savoury eye balls – hard boil some eggs slice in half (widthways) scoop out the yolk and mix with grated cheese and salad cream, place the filling back into the egg and top with a raisin. You could even dip a cocktail stick in some ketchup and use this to paint some veins on to the egg whites! • Ghost cakes – use shop-bought mini chocolate rolls and use ready rolled white icing sheets (cut into circles) and cover each cake to give a floating effect. Use an icing pen to draw on some eyes. • Ready bought toffee apples and pumpkin pie always go down a treat too! • Wizard’s Blood drink – the perfect devilish drink for your young guests and its good for them: cranberry juice, sparkling water and blackcurrant squash mixed together in a jug and serve! • Green slime – Lime jelly mashed up with a fork and sprinkled with jelly worm sweets. • Chicken wings in BBQ sauce can be renamed as ‘bat wings’ |