Ideal for a 4 years old bday party on Halloween, Tuesday?

I would have the party on Saturday but instead of having the kids dress up and having a haunted house try this. Go to your local dollar store and buy cheap dress-up things, face paint, masks wigs, etc. Let the children play around and make their own costumes. Then set up stations in the back yard:

Make sure you get music to dance to like the Monster Mash.

Painting pumpkins get tape/glue, feathers, sequins, balloons, stickers, markers, tempera, etc.

Have a cupcake station with sprinkles, different colored frosting, m$ms, and Twizzlers pull-n-peel for legs and antennae.

Have a poster station with stamps (make them your self with sponges, and potatoes and finger paints.)

For games try bobbing for apples but instead of a bucket of water tie a string to the stem and hang it from the porch. Then they have to get it with out their hands.

Pumpkin bowling. get some plastic pins and use a pumpkin to roll and knock them over. * this works best on an incline like a driveway

Wart on the Witch buy witch decoration, hang on a board. buy some rubber cement and make into warts. The children each have a chance to put the wart on the witch.

buy lots of Halloween candy for rewards and make sure every kid wins first for something.

For a good treat make Witch's Brew. Get a punch bowl (in the shape of a kettle if you can find one) then mix lime sherbet with sprite. It foams up and looks gross but is quite tasty. you can add things like spider rings and eyeballs if you want but be careful none get served to a little one.

Why do you tie the two events together by just having a witches and wizards party. You could tie in themes like Harry Potter, Witches by Roald dahl. Or you could have a monster party. You could have a magic show, have a treasure hunt.

If you don't want the party at home, what about taking them to a play centre, you know the ones with rope ladders and ball pools. Usually the centres do birthdays and during the week aswell. If you take them to a play centre, the parents could take them trick or treating afterwards.

It takes no time at all to dress a child in a halloween costume. Don't worry about it.

Alternatively you could hold your party on the saturday.

I would try to do some game type activities that you can set up before the day of the party!

Why don't you do it at the house, and order pizza in...

Play some games like - FIND THE PUMPKIN - go to a grocery store and buy the small minature pumpkins. Then, before you go to work, hide them all around the house (either inside or outside - depending on weather and what you want to do).... make it like an Easter Egg hunt. You could also do this same "game" with pieces of appropriate candy - for 4 year olds. They love looking and finding stuff!

Another game you could play... pretty easy, pin the stem (or face pieces) on the pumpkin.... you could get very inexpensive felt orange, black and brown at Wal*mart and make that game.... if you did the face, each child could try with more than once pieces... I would even attach VELCRO to the pieces attaching, so you don't have to worry about anyone getting "stuck."

Crafts - are always fun too. You could get several blank pages of Halloween type pictures to color... You don't have to get very messy and crayons are pretty inexpensive.

Remember... this is STILL a birthday party. Get a cake - even if it does not follow the theme of the party - for her! If your daughter wants to make the party / cake or both princesses... follow her lead! If you want to do a Halloween party and she doesn't - do both - if you have the time!

Good luck!

I would just have the party on saturday afternoon if you wanted to do the pizza thing. Or chuckie cheeses is always an awsome time for kids. A birthday there would be great. Another idea, if you do not live in a cold weather state is let your child pick a few close friends and take them to an adventure park for the day on the weekend. Ask your child what kind of party he/she would like and go with that. As its probably the first birthday he/she will remember, its a good idea to get them involved in the planning.

How about do take out Pizza Hut, rent an age appropriate Halloween movie, have Halloween snacks, and see if someone you know can come over and do Halloween face painting. That way kids wont' have to dress up, but can get their favorite Halloween image painted on their face. Or get some Halloween 'tattooes' (with parental permission of course) or Halloween stickers for kids to wear. Have fun! :)

I don't think it's a big deal for parents to dress the kids up again. It only takes a few minutes.

Don't have the party on Tuesday if you do, just have games, a hayride, bobbig for apples, and cake. Can you have it the following saturday???