I must be mad as every year I organise a Halloween do for my daughter and her friends. It comes from when my mum threw Halloween parties for me, to counteract people not being able to attend my birthday parties. Christmas Eve is ALWAYS an inconvenient time, no matter who you are, and only half the class ever got the invites or turned up ... Birthdays during school holidays are a nuisance.
This year was no exception, but I decided to limit it to four guests. My daughter is very active and her friends are the same. I worry about breakages after the spooky goings-on. I had a second TV aerial put in and a TV and DVD player put in daughter's room in case they wanted to go in
This year she was away at an activity week, so I decided to get the kids to come along on the Friday after. I made a mixture of porridge and food colouring and hid treats inside. For added hideousness I put pieces of garlic inside. Look!
I decided to dress up as well, so more food colouring made 'blood spatters' on my apron, I was a murderous cook. Unfortunately, the blood spatters also made it up the wall, and began to drip down. Very realistic. I'll be redecorating there...
I loved the costumes that arrived, too, mostly skeletons, although we opted for spooky vampire at this end. My mum was the strange button woman from Coraline.
Spooky eyeballs, a green brain-mould jelly, weird sweets and pizza was all they ate.
The games were so exhausting. There was a treasure hunt with cryptic clues, along with the bobbing for apples, and a scary film... We chose The Corpse Bride as fewest had already seen that one.
This is the final year for this sort of event. We know that it will be all dances from next year, when she's at secondary school. We tried to ease in with flashing lights and Kisstory playing in the background so they could all have a bit of a dance in between games.
I was completely out of it when it was over. I know I wasn't alone as my mum lost her bank card on the journey home and blamed tiredness on not checking she'd put it away properly.
Next year I say, I will have to organise more in advance, because I made around four trips that morning to the supermarket for extras. I say this every year, mind you. Everyone seems to love the parties. The tidying up is always epic, too.
I shall miss these when I don't do them any more. Perhaps I could start hiring myself out...
This year was no exception, but I decided to limit it to four guests. My daughter is very active and her friends are the same. I worry about breakages after the spooky goings-on. I had a second TV aerial put in and a TV and DVD player put in daughter's room in case they wanted to go in
This year she was away at an activity week, so I decided to get the kids to come along on the Friday after. I made a mixture of porridge and food colouring and hid treats inside. For added hideousness I put pieces of garlic inside. Look!
I decided to dress up as well, so more food colouring made 'blood spatters' on my apron, I was a murderous cook. Unfortunately, the blood spatters also made it up the wall, and began to drip down. Very realistic. I'll be redecorating there...
I loved the costumes that arrived, too, mostly skeletons, although we opted for spooky vampire at this end. My mum was the strange button woman from Coraline.
Spooky eyeballs, a green brain-mould jelly, weird sweets and pizza was all they ate.
The games were so exhausting. There was a treasure hunt with cryptic clues, along with the bobbing for apples, and a scary film... We chose The Corpse Bride as fewest had already seen that one.
This is the final year for this sort of event. We know that it will be all dances from next year, when she's at secondary school. We tried to ease in with flashing lights and Kisstory playing in the background so they could all have a bit of a dance in between games.
I was completely out of it when it was over. I know I wasn't alone as my mum lost her bank card on the journey home and blamed tiredness on not checking she'd put it away properly.
Next year I say, I will have to organise more in advance, because I made around four trips that morning to the supermarket for extras. I say this every year, mind you. Everyone seems to love the parties. The tidying up is always epic, too.
I shall miss these when I don't do them any more. Perhaps I could start hiring myself out...
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