Halloween Party

Invitations:
Any haunted house.

Decorations:
Black balloons and black crepe paper. 
Any Halloween decorations you may have. 
"Specimen Jars" can be anything that has the potential of looking yucky.  Soak off labels and make new ones with what they would be in your "lab."

Vienna sausages (baby food jar):   Fingers
Shredded red cabbage or sour kraut:   Brains
Hard boil eggs, crack shells and soak in tea, peel:  Eyes.
Tip:  Look down the food isles at the grocery store.

Make an operating table:
Need:
1 plastic skeleton, apart at the waist
1 plastic table cloth
Boiled and oiled spaghetti
Lay skeleton on table and cover with cloth, except head.  Slit area over stomach.   Place pan of spaghetti for guts.  In heart area you can place something that moves.  I used a jumping spider (the kind on a air tube), turned upside down.   The flipper on the bottom would jump when we squeezed the puffer.

Outside Decorations:
Create tombstones,  These can be made from old plywood and spray painted black and silver.  Paint in the words.

Here lies:
Ted N. Buried
U. R. Next
Fester N Rot
Here Lies Good old Fred...A Great Big Rock Fell on His Head

Food and Snacks:
This is really gross but fun.
Need:
1 Cat litter pan
1 Cat litter scoop
1 large box Grape Nuts
1 large sack Tootsie Rolls (unwrapped)
Box powdered sugar
Mix the Grapenuts with the powdered sugar.  Pour into litter box and add Tootsie rolls, stir in.  Set scoop in box.  Let guests help themselves or offer while you sample.

Witches Fingers:
Long chicken strips

Worm Casserole:
6 oz egg noodles and 8 oz spaghetti, cooked.   Mix with 1 Tablespoon butter and 1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese.  Bake until melted.  Sprinkle with bread crumbs (dirt) and bake until toasted.

Ghosts:
Dip nutter butter cookies in melted while chocolate.  Use two mini chocolate chips for eyes-- great ghost-- Stacey

Spiders:
Use Oreo cookies lift top put three strands of licorice across cookie and put top back on.  Use two dots of icing to anchor red hots for eyes.-- Stacey

Games and Activities:
Mystery Boxes
Need boxes with lids with a different "spooky" item in each one.  Decorate the boxes with special effects, spider webs etc.  Inside put...

                bones (fresh carrots or use well cleaned chicken bones)

                brains ( tofu- round off the edges)

eyeballs (P(Peeled grapes or oiled olives)

fingers (hot dogs or cheese sticks)

hair (cut from an old doll, an old wig or saved silk from corn on the cob)

hand (Fill a latex surgical glove with water, drape it over a bowl to give it some shape and freeze it. Just before the party, stick it in a tray of dirt, sand, or rice so your guests has to feel around in the dirt for the "buried hand".) 

intestines ((wet cold spaghetti)

liver (a (half of a canned peach)

skin (oil a soft flour tortilla)

teeth (unpopped popcorn)

Please e-mail me with additional ideas
boardlr@coupeville.net
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