Scary party!

This year (as like many other years) Brekyn wanted to have a Halloween party for her birthday. I guess that makes it easy for me especially in the decorating department. It's already done! She loves dressing up as much as I do so we always make it a costume party. I have learned over the years, that simple is better. One year, I worked my butt off making mummy dogs, eyeballs, finger sticks, and some other weird concoctions that all of the kids REFUSED to eat because of what they were called. I mean for hecks sake, I had pickles and told them they were witches noses so none of the tots would eat them. Really??? So this year I made it easy (well with a little help from Little Caesars!) I did have to sneak in some witches fingers. You know the bread sticks with red almonds for the nails. They were still a little deceiving to the imagination for 9 year old so the adults enjoyed most of them.

I was very brave this year. I let the kids decorate their own caramel apples. I had fun ingredients labeled like raisins were dead spiders, chocolate sprinkles were ants, chocolate chips were bat droppings, crushed up pretzels were broken bones, and we even had some gummy worms in there. The kids had a lot of fun and the best part, I wrapped them up and sent them home with them. This was the goody bag.

We also played a game that has become very popular in our house, FIND THE BODY PARTS! I take a pumpkin, leave in all of the guts, add some cooked spaghetti with a little oil in it, and add in the key ingredient, body parts. You know the severed fingers, and eyeballs that they sell around Halloween. Perfect! It is so funny how grossed out the BOYS get! The girls are great with the stuff.

Next the kids got to feed "Elmer" He is my monster that made with a science project board. I put a face on him and cut out holes and they had points on them. My mom found these balls that were shaped like brains, a heart, and an eyeball. The kids had a lot of fun throwing the body parts into Elmers mouth and eyes! (he even had nose holes)

After the games were over, we had cake and ice cream and then opened presents. I gave the kids their apples and they watched "The Corpse Bride" until their parents came to get them. All in all it was a fun party.