Halloween Birthday Party

The day before Halloween, I helped my nephew celebrate his 6th birthday with a Halloween theme birthday party. As the kids arrived, there were all sorts of mask and costumes for them to play dress up with. They had a lot of fun trying on all the different costumes. Thankfully my mom took advantage of the clearance isle last year and got lots of them for cheap. We had a great time at the party with a total of 8 kids. It took me hours looking for ideas online, here is what we came up with.

Activities

Decorate treat bags to use for ghost hunt

Pin the nose on the pumpkin

Ghost Hunt

Cake and Presents

Play until it was time to go home!

Once we were ready to 'start' the party I had all the kids sit at the table to color and decorate treat bags that we would use later. They didn't know why we were decorating them they were just happy to do it. All the stickers were found at the dollar store.

There were around 50 suckers, candy, and other little toys to look like ghost and put them all over the backyard. They were made with tissue and a little white ribbon. I told all the kids that on Halloween a lot of people like to go on a ghost hunt. And since Halloween was the next day we would too. They grabbed their treat bags that they decorated, lined up behind the birthday boy and we went walking. We started in the front yard looking up and down, walking in circles, almost like follow the leader. Then we made our way to the backyard. As soon as Gage say the first one all the kids took off running and the search was on! They all searched for them like it was an Easter egg hunt. It was a lot of fun and it was everyone's favorite part.

Food
Spider Web 7 Layer Dip

Candy Corn pretzels

Ghost Marshmallows

Mummy Dogs

Witch Fingernails

Witch Hat Cookies

Birthday Cupcakes

Mummy Fingers

Slime Punch

 Candy Corn Pretzels

 Put Hershey Kiss on top of pretzels and line in rows on a cookie sheet. Put in oven for a few minutes until the chocolate is soft. Add candy corn and let cool. These were my favorite out of everything we had!

Ghost Marshmallows We found the extra large marshmallows and used food color pens to draw their faces. Super cutie!

Mummy Dogs

Cut hot dogs in half and crescent rolls into thin strips. Wrap around dogs and bake according to package.

Witch Fingers

These are plain Bugles but since then I have discovered the Carmel ones. They are to die for! (Considering its a Halloween party, no pun intended.) 

Witch Hat Cookies
Put colored frosting on the bottom on a Hershey Kiss and place on top of an upside down Kebblers Fudge Cookie.

Mummy Finger

Cut string cheese in half and use knife to add indention for knuckles and and an almond half for fingernail. 

Birthday Cupcakes

These are just store bought cupcakes with rings on top. I didn't have time to make the cake so this was great alternative.

Here are a few of the displays of food we used.  I love this little green guy!

Here's a snack tip*
If you mix candy corn and peanuts together it taste just like a Payday!

Slime Punch
Lemon Lime drink
Pineapple Juice
Lime Sherbert


This is a great punch, you can use different sherberts and it turns the punch different colors.