Halloween Parties For Children

Food

Snack-O-Lanterns – Hollow out an orange, carve a jack-o-lantern face on one side and fill with fruit salad
Franken (cheese) fingers – Use mozzarella string cheese sticks to carve finger shapes and attach red or green pepper pieces (using a bit of cream cheese) for the finger nails.
Hot Dog Mummies – wrap thin strips of phyllo dough around a hot dog and bake.
Ginger Bread Skeleton Cookies – Use Halloween cookie cutters to make fun shapes and decorate.
Cupcakes with orange colored frosting
Fun size candy bars

Rotten Apple Punch – Apple Cider with a few drops of red and blue food coloring. Serve with gummy worms.
Pumpkin Milkshakes – banana, orange juice, pumpkin puree and vanilla frozen yogurt.
Orange soda
Orange and grape soda mixed so it will appear black
Red punch with some dark red food coloring to make it look bloody-looking

Pin the tail on the cat
Pumpkin or other ghoulish piñata
Pumpkin Hunt: Hide the pumpkin somewhere in the house or outside and have the kids search for it. Winner gets to keep the pumpkin and receives extra candy
Harry Potter Scene It DVD Game
Noises in the Night: One child sits alone in a room near the door and one party guest at a time makes a howl. If the child in the room identifies the correct howler, he is released and the guest identified is the new child chosen to sit in the room.
Face Painting
Bobbing for apples
Mini-Pumpkin Decorating – Give the kids a bunch of stickers, finger paint, Mr Potato Head pieces, washable markers, or any other item that doesn’t involve cutting or sharp objects and let them decorate the mini-pumpkins.
Ghost Stories – Let the children tell each other ghost stories, and coordinate with a friend or neighbor to scream and pound on the window during the story telling.