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MONSTER MASH HALLOWEEN BASH
Celebrate Halloween with a creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky party, guaranteed to delight minus the fright.
THE INVITATIONS
Let all the little ghouls and boils know about your Monster Mash with a monster of an invitation. Using heavy card stock in green and orange colors, cut out various shapes of monster heads. Outline the shapes with furry trim and use pom-poms, googly eyes and other craft materials to create a monster face. It’s up to you to make them happy or scary. On the reverse side, provide all the party details.
THE DECORATIONS
For some easy decorations, place a path of monster footprints that lead to your front door and place a sign there that says, “Warning: Monsters Inside! Enter at Your Own Risk!”
Choose Halloween-themed colors like orange and black for balloons, streamers, confetti and tableware.
Cover the party room with cobwebs and plastic spiders.
THE ACTIVITIES
Bowl ’em over with a rousing game of monster bowling. Have the kids decorate old milk jugs as monsters and then line them up and let the kids knock ’em down. This one is a great party decoration, craft and activity, all in one!
Hang up a monster piñata.
Hire a teenager to paint the kids’ faces.
Play “Hide and Go Monster Seek.” Give one child a flashlight and ask all the other guests to hide. As the child shines the flashlight on each hidden guest, he becomes a monster. Last child to be found wins.
Have small pumpkins available and let the kids create a gauzy jack-o-lantern. Using cheesecloth strips, have the kids wrap up their pumpkins. Have an adult paint on a glow-in-the-dark coating to bring this pumpkin to life when nighttime falls. The pumpkin doubles as a fun goody for your guests to take home.
Put on monster music so the kids can boogie, man.
THE MENU
Make marshmallow ghouls. Purchase a bag of large marshmallows. Let the children stack them and then place purchased fondant layers over the marshmallows. Decorate with chocolate eyes for a yummy treat.
Make some kooky witches using a ready-made cheesecake mix for the top of the hat, fudge-striped cookies for the rim of the hat and a scoop of lime sherbet for the head. Use nuts, small candies and shredded coconut to let the kids concoct their faces.
Pre-bake a batch of cupcakes and tint vanilla frosting green with food coloring. Let the kids ice their own cupcakes and add a gummy eyeball in the center.
Serve Green Slime Punch (lemon-lime soda, lemonade and a packet of green Kool-Aid mix). Make sure to add in lots of gummy worms and other bugs to appeal to your monsters!
This party is probably as much fun to plan as it is to attend, so don’t hesitate to get your monster on. Just boo it!
Lisa Kothari is the founder and president of Peppers and Pollywogs (www.peppersandpollywogs.com),
a kids’ party-planning company that provides parents with ideas, entertainers and interesting web-based tools (customized rhymes and cards for your invitations!) to make kids’ party planning easy. She has recently written and published Dear Peppers and Pollywogs… What Parents Want to Know About Planning Their Kids’ Parties, which is available at www.amazon.com and www.peppersandpollywogs.com.
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