Annual Witches Party

I squeezed this in right before Halloween- the kids kept asking and so I set everything else aside and made plans.

I delivered invitations, propped on Witch (or Wizard- for the boys) hats while they were sleeping.

I came down in the morning to various kids wearing their hat and watching cartoons- they love this party.


I used wrapping paper for the runner (thanks Melissa) and made sure each place setting had a glittered treat pail.


We started with a creepy hand tray:


Moved onto dinner- worms and chicken mash with broccoli and bones (breadsticks)






This year I used the Hershey's Snow Ghost Pie story (the Snow Ghost stole a piece of our pie too). My mom used this story when I was little- my sisters and I all seem to remember it.


Spooky music played and Emma and Ryan had been watching Michael Jackson's Thriller video on Youtube- together they had the moves in sync. And so Emma and her Dad danced when it played.


Ryan puts up with this silly party- he makes it fun for the kids and always tells me how grateful he is that we celebrate things as a family.

We moved onto carving pumpkins. That took a few hours, some tears and patience were required.......Tanner did his by himself.

It seems like every year I simplify this thing more and more- paper products and pre-made things and it still holds the same thrill for my kids. As long as Ryan and I act like a Witch and Wizard, our kids eat us up.

Halloween Party 2010

I "mailed" out invitations to our kids. The night of, we made them go outside and knock on the door. They were greeted to us in black robes and witch hats and spooky music.

At our witch feast

skeletons and skulls, pumpkin treat filled pails at each seat

Mummy dogs and pizzas

the goblins hand

Brain Cupcakes

Witchy games- dance with a broomstick, a mummy relay wrap, and build a skeleton.

Spooky Dinner

Tanner has a NO-holiday or party, what-so-ever, school.

Something had to be done.

Invitations were "mailed"

Flying bats and webs and dry ice

Cats and body parts jars and pumpkin treat bags


Witches hats and dance-with-the-broomstick game

Stirring the witches cauldron

Dinner Menu:
Frog Legs Soup (broccoli cheese, of course)
Skeleton Bones (breadsticks shaped like bones)
Decomposed salad (garden salad)
Eggs and Noses (grapes and cut strawberries)
Orange Witch Brew (Sunkist soda)
Brains and Slop (cupcakes and Chocolate Chip Orange Sherbet)

I love my witches

Landon's missing. He was probably in the candy jars.