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Halloween Party Bits and Pieces

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Halloween Party bits and pieces for a great spooky get together!  We wanted to have a Halloween party for Peakles but not make it too scary.  Some of the more commercial pieces were just not appropriate for  a small child and her friends.  So with a limited budget and time we set to work making this party a ‘spooktacular’ one!

No time to carve!  We had very little time to carve lots of pumpkins so we decided to buy one large and some small pumpkins plus some oranges.  With the large pumpkin Peakles added some features by sticking on cut out black card eyes, nose and smile.

Pumpkin head

Pumpkin head

With the smaller pumpkins we drew on some friendly ‘scary’ faces and arranged them in a group.  We also found a ‘cute’ orange pepper (capsicum) and put a face on that too! ( We had seen this earlier in the week at Danya Banya!)

Happy pumpkins and friends!

Happy pumpkins and friends!

some alternative orange friends

some alternative orange friends

NO witches party costume or centre piece is complete without a broomstick and this is a simple craft  that can be made in minutes.  Take a larger inner cardboard tube from an aluminium foil pack (the turkey foil is better as it is larger).  Then take a roll of brown or black crepe paper (newspaper will do if you are limited for resources or time) Using a pair of scissors cut down the roll until about the middle.

broomstick

broomstick

Repeat to make a ‘straw’ like effect.  Then using masking tape or brown parcel tape attach to the cardboard tube.  Spread out the paper straw to make a witches broomstick!

Teddy on his broomstick

Teddy on his broomstick

Ghosts and pumpkins are a must at any Halloween party!  Using white or orange balloons and a marker pen Peakles and I carefully added some eyes and mouths to make some bobbing balloons!

Home made scary balloons

Home made scary balloons

For a more ghostly effect we added a sheet of crepe paper around the balloon so it looked like a more traditional cartoon type ghost.

ghost on a stick

ghost on a stick

Our balloons were fixed onto balloon sticks so they could be taken away at the end of the party.  If the balloons are filled with helium it can make the ghosts look like they are really floating.  Remember to tie the balloon to the centre piece or by adding a weight to stop them floating away!

Bat balloon

Bat balloon

For our bat balloon we used a black balloon, some white stickers and some wings cut out of black card.   Peakles stuck the wings on and added the stickers as eyes and teeth.

Some simple ideas for you and your little ones to make Halloween more fun and not too scary!

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