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You know I'm obsessive-compulsive (insert collective "no shit" here) so the kid having a Halloween party will be no different.
Here's the invite (I bought a spooky font to print the invites, too, of course)...
Amber & Lisa Hooper’s
“Spook-tacular”
Halloween Party
The werewolves will howl (but so rarely bite),
and witches will fly high on Halloween night
A pre-celebration we’ll hold in our home,
Where ghosts, bats and vampires eagerly roam
Please come to our party; that is if you dare
But do be prepared if you easily scare!
For the house is quite “spirited”, our ghosts love to haunt
And near Halloween our dear guests they do taunt!
Please don’t be too frightened, on spooking they thrive
But our “residents” promised to let you survive!
So come celebrate Halloween with your hosts
Amber and Lisa (and perhaps a few ghosts!)
I'm going to run my ideas by you and if you could let me know if you have any suggestions to add or any ideas
Also, for the most part I am trying to discourage parents from staying and definitely not inviting siblings for two reasons: There is no room in my house (small 2/2) and I won't have enough room for too many kids with my activities as well as some younger kids may be completely spooked out.
Do you think that will offend anyone? I hope not. I'm already at full capacity and having a bunch of parents around that I don't know trying to find a place to sit... They'll be sitting out in the backyard alone rain or shine. Not really a fun day.
So my friend suggested what her karate studio does when they have their Halloween event and write PARENTS DAY OUT to let them know, hey, drop the kids and go shopping!! ;-). I even made a little poem for them, too, about going out to shop or get hair done, instead.
I will need a few people to help and be actors. I'm not even telling my own kids what's being done because I want it all to be a surprise.
OK, first idea I need a creative person to help me with. Also a volunteer to be inside the box
I want to do a large cardboard box with a hole cut in the center and have an "actor" sit on a small chair underneath. Their head pokes through a hole, you fit a large plate around the neck and it's like a head on a plate. A talking one, actually.
I also need someone to dress up and act as a fortune teller who can act like a gypsy and tell funny fortunes. Nothing spooky because it's going to take place in a dark tent. I will put a black light in the tent and cover the top with cool cloths so it looks more like a gypsy tent at a carnival than a KOA!
Which reminds me, my tent is freaking packed in the attic, too! DARN IT!! AHHHHH!
I'm looking for a round clear fish bowl that I can turn upside down and use as the crystal ball.
The main activity will be a story that I can't tell you about, but the kids will be blindfolded so I will need some helpers to guide the kids through the haunted house blindfolded.
I'll tell you more about that later once I write the script. But it's interactive and they are told they are walking through cobwebs and it's really yarn dangling, etc.
Since I haven't seen all of the guests in a Halloween setting, I want to provide for those who are easily spooked. I am setting up my own bedroom as a "safe room". They will have a television, computer, DVD player, and their own bathroom so that they can have a little party away from the spooky stuff (aka, "the story"). There will be no spooky decorations and I hope to have someone who will man the safe room (if there is a need) to make sure those kids are having fun. I have some leftover Halloween crafts I had purchased for the aftercare and classrooms last year that they can make.
I'm going to check with a butcher to see if I can get some free bones to boil and bleach out in the sun for props for the yard, too. If dogs don't steal them, anyway!
For us there is no school the day after the party, so any child permitted who wishes to stay after the party is invited to sit back and enjoy a showing of my daughter's favorite Halloween flick, "CORPSE BRIDE" (which happen s to be her costume this year, as well!).
I'll, of course, have bpbbing for apples, a bat pinata, maybe make a pin the hat on the witch, I bought little plastic trophies so the kids can judge a costume contest, and I am also doing the mummy wrap game which you do in pairs and use really cheap dollar store toilet paper. Whoever can wrap their friend as a mummy first wins! (good to get a short partner!)
So I am pretty excited. I just need to get my ass moving and get my house ready so I can concentrate on the fun stuff. When I have too much else going on in my head I can't focus on things.
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You are way cool super mom............ you make me want to do something fun for Halloween but than i remember my kids and their friends don't get along and with the age difference...OH Well they can go get me free candy...wait wait i mean them,them free candy. It does sound like alot of fun and i like the idea of a safe room PICTURES!!!!you better get PICTURES!!!! |
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I will definitely take photos!!
And if you really want one you can always have separate parties. Like this year you have one for David and send the little ones to grandmas for the weekend or the day or whatever. Or send them out for a few hours with daddy if you don't need his help.
Then when the little ones get older in a few years or so they can have their party while David is with his dad or at grandmas or something.
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