{"id":1227,"date":"2014-10-27T10:13:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T10:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.sosgarde.ca\/blog\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2023-04-15T18:51:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T18:51:48","slug":"skip-the-trick-and-treat-yourselves-to-a-family-party-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/nanny\/skip-the-trick-and-treat-yourselves-to-a-family-party-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Skip the Trick and TREAT yourselves to a family party instead!"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/string-cheese.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1228\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"string cheese\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/string-cheese-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A Halloween party at home can be a memory your kids and friends never forget! And what are the ingredients for a great party? You will need to make your own guest list and decide on costumes but here are great and easy ideas for the rest:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Halloween Decorations: <\/em> Decorate the front door as your favourite monster like Frankenstein; Create Glowing Eyes in the bushes by cutting eyes into toilet paper rolls and putting glow sticks inside; white sheets over helium balloons create Floating Ghosts; Bats can be cut out of construction paper and hung around the house or off of branches from the yard for a great table center piece; and orange and white balloons with scary faces painted on them (with fat felt-tipped pens!) create scary ghouls!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Healthy Halloween Food:<\/em> Witches Broom Sticks (pretzel sticks and string cheese tied with a chive); Skull and Cross Bones veggie dip (skull<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/deviled-eggs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1229\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"deviled eggs\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/deviled-eggs-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>made from cauliflower with red radish eyes and celery cross bones); Devil Eyeballs (devil eggs with ketchup or hot sauce for red eyeball lines and an olive circle for the iris); Mummies in a blanket (pigs in a blanket with the pastry pulled down to allow you to dot the sausage with mustard to make eyes); and Pumpkin and Ghosts Fruit Deserts (banana ghosts with small chocolate chips for eyes and larger chips for open mouths; peeled clementines with thin celery stalks).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pin-wart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1230\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"pin wart\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pin-wart-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pin-wart-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pin-wart.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><em>Halloween Games:<\/em> Most games can have a Halloween twist \u2013 like \u2018pin the wart on the witch\u2019 instead of on the donkey or musical pumpkin (passing a small pumpkin) instead of musical chairs. So think of your favourite party games and put a Halloween twist on it. But don\u2019t forget those just for Halloween \u2013 pumpkin carving contests, guess how many candy corns are in the jar and the classic, bobbing for apples!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If the parents want to have a little fun too, hire some extra babysitters to help with the games and all the excited goblins and ghouls (the kids!). <a href=\"https:\/\/sossitter.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.SOSsitter.ca<\/a> can help you find the extra help you might need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Halloween party at home can be a memory your kids and friends never forget! And what are the ingredients for a great party? You will need to make your own guest list and decide on costumes but here are great and easy ideas for the rest:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[8,363,364,365],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanny","tag-family","tag-halloween-party","tag-halloween-party-food","tag-halloween-party-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}