Need party ideas for 8 yr first Halloween party?

My Halloween baby is 13. We have had a bash every year. Cakes- a grave yard cake. Plain 9X13 cake with social tea cookies as the grave stones . Oreo crumbs as dirt. Gummy worms etc. Cupcakes with spider web icing. Let the kids do their own, or ice them orange (like pumpkins) and let them make jack-o-lantern faces with candies. Punch, we called this grog..Lime sherbet, 7-up, lemonade and water. Add the sherbet last and it makes a fuzzy film on the top/ Peel green grapes on the top for eyeballs if desired. Food wise, we have had "witches fingers' (chicken fingers), bat wings,(chicken wings), Frank-n-furters (Hot dogs. We get the green ketchup and make cool faces. I make sugar cookies in the shape of fingers and dye the dough green. I put an almond on the end to look like a fingernail, and call them troll fingers. Just be creative...You'll have a blast. I covered the furniture in white sheets (saves on dirt too), and used the cob web stuff from the dollar store to decorate. Let the kids do as much as they can. Have a Blast!!

maybe you could get the other parents involved and have trick or treating in the house, have a different parent in each room with the door closed so they have to knock, maybe even decorate all the rooms differently. (when i was a kid my parents did this when there was too much snow on the ground). you could have a costume party and give out awards, but make sure there is a catagory each kid would win, so do it as you go kind of thing. then for the award go to a local party place and get little baggies full of like pencils, erasures, candies, party favors etc. you could have a pumpkin painting in the back yard, and again could have awards. if you have the knack maybe a haunted house. bobbing for apples is always fun.

for food and beverage, i'd say give apple cider a try with a bit of cinnamon. i know birthdays call for a cake, but maybe because it's halloween and there'll be lots of candy, you could possibly skip that. i'm guessing your daughter already had one anyway. pizza is an easy choice if all else fails, so don't rule that out. maybe don't order the pizza but get some of those premade crusts and let the kids decorate thier own 1/4 of a pizza. just sauce them yourself. pizza is pretty easy to make just follow the directions on the crust package. maybe you could do hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill (if the weather is nice) and have chips and fruit. or you could do taco's, again easy to make. or maybe even have like a loose meat and cheese tray so everyone can make their own sandwichs and chips and fruit.

good luck, i bet they'll all have a blast!

We use to have halloween b-day parties every year. But my Halloween baby will be 18 this year...says she's too old for this stuff anymore :(

lol

Bobbing for apples is always a big hit

Use a mini pumpkin as a hot potato (pass it around game)

Musical chairs with "the monster mash" song

Ghost story, each child makes up 1 sentence. Go around in a circle, in the dark with a flashlight.

Decorating their own mini pumpkins

Guessing how many candy corn are in a jar

Pin the nose on the jack-o-lantern

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Mini pizzas (english muffins)

Salsa (served in a hollowed out pumpkin) & chips

Sweet & sour meatballs/eyeballs

Vegetable platter & "gut" dip -veggie dip throw in a couple gummy worms for effect

Bloody Punch bottle of 7 up, a can of Hawaiian Punch and scoops of raspberry sherbert

Carmel/candy apples & popcorn balls

Add rubber bugs & snakes to your buffet table

Black lights/strobe lights

White sheets on furniture

Halloween music

Have fun!

You could make cupcake spiders. Use licorice as the legs coming out of the cupcakes. When I had my daughters Halloween party, I took a piece of poster board and drew a big witches face on it, then I cut out pieces of green construction paper in the shape of warts. The kids had to pin the wart on the nose of the witch. You blindfold them and spin them around just like pin the tail on the donkey.

If you have a fire pit or fire place, you can have them make their own spider dogs. At both ends of the hot dog cut in a cross section in quarters thru the hot dog about 3rd of the way down and then again on the other side, put a stick or a skewer in the middle and hold it over a fire and roast the dogs the ends will curl up and it will look like a spider with eight legs

Games get meat balls(eyes) and other food that could be made into something gross and have the kids be blind folded and have them reach into the bowl and try to guess what they are and dont' let them look.

Food get Oreo and crumble them up and stick the gummy worms in them (worms in dirt).

Games try hanging Carmel apples from string and see which kid can eat the most in a certain amount of time.

For my lil brother's halloween b-day, my mom had a special cake made. They had a special frosting that looks like goo, that they colored green. They poured that over the cake to make it look slimy. Then using cookie crumbs and chocolate frosting, made a "dirt mound" in the middle with gummi worms and plastic spiders crawling out. The kids were thrilled!

dark lighting. a blinking light from wal-mart. Fake spider webs.halloween scary sounds. Have a friend who is a tall large man dressed up in dirty cloth with ketchup stains for blood in the middle of the party he comes out with a fake nife or saw and scare the kids in the dark.

its not the decoration its the fun he/she wants.

afterwards loud party music so they can dance and playfully beat up the dude that scard them. (PLAYFULLY BEAT UP)

.....take them to a church halloween function too...