I was pretty excited about our costumes this year: Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts, Alice and White Rabbit.
Sadly Spence was sleeping half the night, so didn’t get a picture with all of us.
We had a cool and scary bunch including:
….Mr. Last Minute Costume (ha;) & Mrs. This is My Costume Pumpkin
Lions and Tigers and bears AND ‘OH MY!’ (So clever!)
Tony Romo
Jason and White Witch (gorgeous dress!)
Jem, Batman, Superman, IncrediWoman, Captain America, Princess and …Supergirl? (can’t remember ha)
Not pictured in Photo Op- {BUMMER!} Ring master with circus family; Black eyed- peas, Minnie Mouse and Kitty; James bond, Batman & Police Officer.
After photo op, I had everyone walk in one by one down the “Red Carpet” {Red plastic tablecloth taped on floor down entryway} to Rockin’ Halloween music while I announced everyone through a microphone. So much fun to show off everyone’s creativity!
For the food this year, I thought it would be fun to incorporate a touch of Wonderland (the theme of our costumes) into the Halloween mix. It turned out really fun!
Everyone brought something to share- and ALL of it was SO delicious!! Thanks again guys!!
We provided:
Main meal was BOOsghetti with eyeballs {meatballs with delicious sauce}
Playing cards garlic bread {I got mini pepperoni’s and pinched them to look like hearts :)}
Cheshire Cat Cheeseball {My Fav of it all!}
Alice’s Shrinking Potion {I mixed a blue drink with yellow lemonade to get pretty aqua color}
Witches Brew in mini Cauldrons for Kids topped with witches hats!
Queen of Heart tarts {My other very Fav! I used my favorite turnover recipe and mini heart cookie cutter to make them.} They went fast!
Mad Hatter mushroom cupcakes {Made paper pinwheels and glued to striped straws then stuck into styrofoam base which was kinda hid with cheesecloth draped across.
Roll the Dice marshmallows. {used a sucker stick, dipped in black food coloring and pressed dots onto marshmallows.} There was a hidden Trick in this Treat…unbeknownst to the kids, after eating the whole plate they had black lips and mouth! HA!
For the favors (which I forgot to hand out AGAIN, arg), Alice’s “Eat Me” Cookies packaged in baggies.
I thought it would be fun to pull out Halloween photos from previous Halloween parties, so made up a Wall of Fame with 6 years of Halloween fun! Can’t believe we’ve been doing it for 6 years!!
These little cookies are not what you’re used to… first of all, they’re paper :) and they are MISfortune cookies. I had everyone write a misfortune on a slip of paper and slip it into a paper cookie. I then mixed them up, passed it around and everyone read theirs. It was pretty funny to hear them. Mine said something about having gas for 20 years from eating the meatballs that night… haha
This game I got the idea from a jewelry party I went to, everyone seemed to enjoy it as much as I did. I wrapped a prize (gift cards work great) up in layers of paper, duct tape, etc.. you wear gloves and try to rip open the package before someone else rolls doubles with the dice. (Use jumbo fuzzy dice. Made mine with photo cubes covered with felt.)
Meanwhile, the kids were keeping busy with games like Witch Pitch, Ghostie bowling, Don’t Eat Frank and cookie decorating, collecting many much prizes along the way.
Awards were given after everyone wrote down their votes. Each dressed Skelly came with a gift card as the prize! And the winners were:
Prettiest- White Witch
Most Original: Jem
Best Couple: Super Man & IncrediWoman
Scariest: Mad Hatter
Funniest: Mr. Last Minute Costume
This is the Paper Bag game. We played this a lot growing up. My dad would always win because he learned how to squat really low while in Thailand on his mission. This time, my brother Paul was so good it was disgusting. He’s extremely flexible like Gumbi. Everyone did awesome, it was fun to watch them! I am not flexible, mostly cuz of my back.
Here we have a game wearing nylons on your head with a ball in one side, racing to knock down water bottles. It ended up being more fun than we thought. So funny to see them with their getup :) The guys were totally whomping the gals on this one!
Last but not least, good ol’ Karaoke fun. I always have fun with this. There’s some awesome talent! :)
Random partying fun :)
I had such a blast with everyone, definitely lots of fun!!! Makes it even more fun when everyone breaks lose and participates!
