{"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":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

\"\"<\/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

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

Healthy Halloween Food:<\/em> Witches Broom Sticks (pretzel sticks and string cheese tied with a chive); Skull and Cross Bones veggie dip (skull\"\"<\/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

\"\"<\/a>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

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!). www.SOSsitter.ca<\/a> can help you find the extra help you might need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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