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How to Throw a Fun and Easy Halloween Party for Kids

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With all the goodies and games that go along with this season, Halloween is a fun time of year for children and adults to enjoy time together. Why not throw a Halloween party for your children and their friends? Here are some simple ideas to get you started.

Invitations

You can make your own Halloween invitations with construction paper and glue. Cut out orange pumpkin shapes, and add black triangle for the mouth and eyes of a jack-o-lantern. Then write the party details on the back. You could also cut out large white circles to make an eyeball. Add a black paper pupil in the center and draw lines with a red marker. Use your imagination to make all kinds of shapes.

If you are handing out invitations, create some excitement by placing your paper invitations in a small goodie bag. Add candy and small Halloween toys.

Decorations

Halloween party decorations are as easy as black and orange crepe paper and balloons. You can also add a few skeletons or pumpkins, and a throw a sheet over a clothes hanger to create a ghost. Consider the age of your guests when you decorate. Older kids might love a monster in the corner with glowing eyes while little ones may be afraid.

Many people have animatronic or inflatable Halloween decorations. Ask friends and family to borrow some for your event.

If your party is going to be at night, turn down the overhead lights and hang strands of orange lights on the ceiling, around tables or in an entryway.

A fog machine is easy to use and can make your front door look particularly inviting.

Food

Halloween-themed food can be lots of fun, and you can get as simple or as complicated as you like. Wrap hot dogs in a refrigerated bread dough and add two drops of ketchup as eyes, and you have edible mummies. Push almond slivers into the end of carrot sticks for creepy witch fingers. Make monsters on pizza by artistically arranging toppings like veggies and pepperoni to form creepy faces.

Give other foods a creative flair by renaming them. Potato chips and dip can be dragon scales with pureed monster poop, and spaghetti with meatballs could be sautéed worms topped with balls of brain.

Make your punch bowl scarier by filling plastic gloves with water and freezing for ice shaped like a floating hand. You can also use some dry ice to make things smoky.

For dessert, crunch up some chocolate cookies and mix them into chocolate pudding. Sprinkle gummy worms and bugs on top. Or for a special sweet treat, give them custom chocolate candy.

Activities

Introduce your children to traditional fun with old-school Halloween activities like a costume contest and guessing how many candy corns are in a jar.

Set up a craft table where kids can paint a pumpkin or make their own Halloween-inspired picture frames out of foam shapes found at any craft store.

Turn a small space into a photo booth area with a black sheet or tablecloth as a backdrop, and give kids Halloween signs and props to use. Take everyone’s pictures and either send them digitally after the party or print them for guests to take home.

Hide small, wrapped pieces of candy all over your yard and let kids hunt for them. Have specific areas designated for younger and older kids if you have a mixed group.

You can also turn popular children’s games into Halloween activities by adding a Halloween spin. For example, you might divide guests into pairs and give each team a small pumpkin. Ask the team to toss the pumpkins back and forth, taking a step back each time, to see who can last the longest.

Use orange and black balloons for balloon games, or use Halloween music for a game of musical chairs.

Party Favors

If you are only having a few guests, personalize trick-or-treat bags to let kids take home with them. Fill the bags with candy and lighted items like bracelets for use on Halloween night.

For lots of kids, set up a candy bar and let kids choose their own mix of treats, toys and other small items.

Halloween is a holiday that lends itself to fantastic parties, and it’s also a great time to make childhood memories that will last a lifetime. Use these Halloween party tips to get you started, and you are sure to throw a bash that your kids and their friends will love.

Fun Favors for your Wedding

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Favors are a way of thanking your guests for celebrating your special day with you. They’re also an excellent way to inject your personality and add to the atmosphere of your wedding. Traditional favors are a thing of the past, and that’s no bad thing. The unconventional approach to weddings is becoming more popular, and by putting some thought into your favors, you can impress your guests and put your own spin on the occasion.

Should your wedding include a lot of big drinkers, consider giving your guests a hangover kit. You don’t have to leave them at the table on their dinner plates, but you can have them delivered to the hotels beforehand, in preparation. Include some aspirin, mints or gum, an eye mask, tissues, an instant coffee sachet, mouthwash, a bottle of water and a granola bar. A hangover kit is as customizable as you want and something all your guests can appreciate after your big bash.

If you’re looking to throw the party of a lifetime, give your guests reception accessories as their favor. For raves, glow sticks that you can wave around or make jewelry out of will light up any wedding. For a fun, festival atmosphere, give out oversized glasses, wigs or silly hats. Whether or not the favors last the night, they’ll last as a memory and you’ll see them over and over in your photographs.

Though weddings are practically synonymous with eating, having edible candy favors is never a bad idea. Tasty takeaways like a cookie or candy buffet, with bags for the guests to fill now and enjoy later, always go down well. If you want to be more traditional and have something at the table, consider edible name tags like cake pops. It’ll give your guests something to eat while waiting through the speeches or during down time. These kinds of favors are quickly gone but not forgotten. They’re often favorites among wedding guests and require as little or as much thought as you want to put into them.

Wedding favors are a chance to show your guests you appreciate them. Think about the other messages you want to send with your favors, what sort of atmosphere you want to project and the kind of wedding you want to have. They’re an easy way to have some fun with your theme and with your guests. Make your favor something that they’ll appreciate and it’ll add that extra something to your wedding day.

New! Ghirardelli Chocolate Squares Photo Favors

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Add your full photo to the front along with your names and wedding date to the back of this delicious party favor. Change the solid color background and font style to match your whimsical or outdoorsy wedding theme. 

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6 Tips for Planning a Kid Friendly Wedding

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Some people see weddings as grown-up affairs. If children are invited, they want them to be as unobtrusive as possible. Others love the idea of having kids at weddings so much, they will plan their wedding around their needs. The second choice does make sense. If you are going to have children at a wedding, you would want to keep them happy. Not only is the happiness of the children about a desire to see them enjoy themselves, it’s also about how they are unlikely to be quiet if they are unhappy.

Plan your wedding in the morning or around noon

Children quickly get tired, and often need a nap after a few hours of activity. An early wedding around noon can make childcare work easy for parents. Children are likely to feel fresh and energetic around this time, as well, and are likely to enjoy everything happening around them.

Ask the venue about a children’s menu

Many wedding venues offer a choice of menu items that children, even picky ones, are likely to appreciate. Even when the venue doesn’t serve up such a menu, it’s always possible to have the children specially catered to. You only need to ask the venue about bringing in outside food. Fun, entertaining food is likely to put children in a good mood, making them great to have around all through the day. Adding a special, fun, chocolate treat, such as a custom wedding candy bars will appeal to your young wedding guests.

Rethink the place card plan

People often think of children no differently than they think of adults. If they set place cards at tables where adults are to sit, they do the same thing for children. Children hate to sit still, however. It would be a good idea to set a separate area aside for the children. Once the children get in there, there should be fun activities for them. In most cases, board games and coloring books are more than enough.

Make sure that you hire babysitters

Whatever activities children may enjoy in the children’s area, parents wouldn’t be comfortable having them play there if they couldn’t keep an eye on them. To make sure that all guests can have a good time at the wedding, you’ll need babysitters who make sure that everyone stays safe. In general, hiring one babysitter for every three children is a rule to go by.

The DJ or band needs to be child friendly

Children tend to have musical tastes that are different from those of adults. A selection that doesn’t please them can result in a great deal of resentment. The only way out is to consider their tastes. DJs can plan playlists just to make the children in the audience happy.

Make children a part of the wedding plan

It can be a lot of fun to make children responsible for various little things. From ring bearers to flower girls, to handing out wedding favors, kids can bring a lot of fun and character to weddings. Children can feel special at being included in the plans, too. It’s important to think of ways to make the children a part of everything.

Finally, make sure that you talk to the venue about your plan to make a kid-friendly wedding. The venue may be able to help. For instance, they may have a room that you can turn into a children’s area. It’s important to realize that it’s when the children at a wedding have fun that the parents have fun, too.