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How to Throw a Halloween Party for Kids

By eHow Holidays & Celebrations Editor

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There are tons of fun Halloween activities that kids look forward to all year, so get creative and plan a festive party the kids will love.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Spider Webbing
Invitations
Halloween Decorations
Halloween Light Sets
Jack-o'-lanterns
Trick Or Treat Bags
Washtubs
Apples
Party Food
Pumpkins
Halloween Music And Sounds
Balloons
Halloween Party Packs
Halloween Stickers
Kids' Costumes
Witchs' Cauldrons

Step1

Send out invitations, inviting all children to come in costume. Put both a starting and ending time on the invitation.

Step2

Decorate with orange and black crepe paper streamers, balloons, jack-o'-lanterns and fun Halloween novelties.

Step3

Play games. Make your own "pin the witch on the broom" game, bob for apples, play musical chairs using Halloween music, or bowl with a pumpkin and try to knock down apples set up like bowling pins. Give Halloween novelty prizes to the winners.

Step4

Serve festive Halloween drinks. Punch should be served in a plastic witch's cauldron. Remember that mixing a yellow beverage with blue Kool-Aid makes a nice green color for Halloween.

Step5

Serve Halloween cupcakes, cookies or Rice Krispie treats. Put out candy corn, Gummi worms or rats, and black licorice.

Step6

Take pictures.

Step7

Send kids home with a healthy mix of Halloween treats: popcorn, raisins and candy corn mixed together and put into individual treat bags. Or, using a plastic glove, put candy corn at the tips of the fingers for fingernails, and fill the rest of the glove with popcorn. Tie at the wrist with an orange or black ribbon and give out as favors.

Tips & Warnings

You may wish to have a Halloween party in lieu of trick-or-treating.
Have the party in the daytime, and keep in mind that two hours is long enough for a simple children's party.
Other activities kids enjoy are decorating Halloween cookies, making egg-carton spiders, decorating their own treat bags, painting pumpkins, or having a costume parade.
Younger kids are more interested in having fun than in being scared. Avoid scary props, dark rooms or frightening sounds.

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frostedpumpkin said

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on 9/15/2008 Here are some great kid-safe Halloween music suggestions:

Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
It's A Hip Hop Halloween Night - The Halloween Freaks
Witch Doctor - The Chipmunks

Anonymous said

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on 11/22/2005 Get a halloween cd with songs like "Monster Mash" and others like it. Have a contest on who can dance the funniest, or the weirdest. Award prizes to the winners, it's great for the kids, and a lot of fun for the adults to watch.

Anonymous said

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on 11/22/2005 During a children's Halloween Party we set the table up with all the 'supplies' needed to make a take-home Spooky Haunted House that is fully edible. (Along the same lines as a Gingerbread House)

Each child is given a styrofoam base that is covered with tin foil.

Then each child is given an individual bowl of mixed dark-color candies, like black licorice pieces, orange and brown Smarties or M & Ms, little candy coke bottles, orange, green & black jube jubes, candy corn, and raisins, etc.

Each child also gets a bowl of 'glue' made of royal icing and green food coloring. A popsicle stick is used to spread the 'glue' and connect the pieces of the haunted house.

The building blocks for the Haunted House - chocolate ice wafer cookies, chocolate covered marshmellow cookies, and a few white marshmallows (ghosts)are shared by all and kept in the centre of the table.

The children will 'build' their houses and decorate them however they like. Take pictures of the creations, because they don't last long. (They get eaten!)

Anonymous said

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on 11/22/2005 THIS IS FUN FOR ANY AGE. WE TIE A ROPE BETWEEN OUR TWO TREES IN OUR FRONT YARD, THEN TIE STRINGS THAT HANG STRAIGHT DOWN FROM THAT ROPE, TIE A GLAZED DONUT TO THE STRING, EACH CHILD HAS TO PUT THEIR HANDS BEHIND THEIR BACKS AND TRY TO EAT THE DONUT ....IT IS SO MUCH FUN AND KIND OF MESSY..THE KIDS LIKE THAT!!! WE HAVE BEEN LUCKY TO HAVE GREAT WEATHER EVERY YEAR FOR THIS. WE HAVE ALSO DONE ALL THE OTHER SUGGESTIONS AT OUR PARTIES AND THEY HAVE BEEN ALOT OF FUN.

Anonymous said

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on 11/22/2005 This game is the traditional blackboard version of "hangman," only instead of drawing the hangman, you purchase a jointed cardboard skeleton and take the joints apart. Choose a Halloween-related word and for each guess.