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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 548782" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>For food try Worms in Blood Sandwiches: Cut hot dogs long ways into thin strips, 9 of them per hot dog. Then lay out a bunch of open hamburger buns. Boil a pot of water and lower the hot dog strips into the water for about 2-3 min, until hot. They will curl up and look like worms. Put them on the bun bottom and add ketchup or barbeque sauce (whatever you like). You can add the top bun or skip it, but they look great.</p><p></p><p>Also, try melting butterscotch chips and chocolate chips together and pouring over chow mein noodles and peanuts. the chow mien noodles will wiggle like worms or similar yucky things. It is really tasty, and creepy looking even if you don't see it being made. But you could set out little bowls of the chow mein noodles, or even disposable cups or plastic souvenir cups to take home (thinking the ones sold 4 for about $1 in the Halloween aisle at Walmart) and add the melted chips to them as the kids watched. Of course you can use any combo of chips you like. Just DO NOT get ANY water into the melted chips.</p><p></p><p>You can cover nutter butter cookies in white frosting or melted white choc chips or almond bark and then put eyes and a mouth on them for fast, easy ghosts. Also if you take refrigerator biscuits or homemade ones and put a layer of ham on the top and then take and cut out a face from a slice of american cheese, and melt the cheese onto the cooked biscuit over the ham, you get jack-o-lantern biscuits (with some protein). I did three dozen of these with homemade biscuits for a church party and they were the first thing gone!</p><p></p><p>If you bake 2 bundt cakes (any kind that you can frost) and make the bottom flat, you can make a big pumpkin cake. Put one bundt cake upside down on a serving platter (rounded side down) and cover the flat surface with icing or filling. Put the other cake on top of that and frost the whole thing like a pumpkin.</p><p></p><p>And EASY way to make pumpkins to decorate is to cut a big circle out of orange fabric or tissue and then put a toilet paper roll in the center. Bring up the fabric around the roll and tuck into the center of the roll. Twist a paper lunch bag or some green paper to make a stem and push into the center. Instant pumpkin to decorate or not. After the party, just put the tissue back into the bathroom to be used. </p><p></p><p>You could fairly easily decorate cheap tshirts. If you get the little 2 oz bottles of acrylic paint and a bottle of textile medium and mix them in equal parts, the paint will last for a long time. Or just use sharpies. You can use the new ones for fabric, but the regular ones work just fine. If the kids have shirts, they can sign each other's shirts for a souvenir of the party that will last for years (much cooler than party favors that are ignored or pitched in 2 hours!).</p><p></p><p>You can easily cut out bats and pumpkins from construction paper and decorate the entire house iwth them for almost no $$.</p><p></p><p>Another fun thing to send home would be homemade playdough (or to play with at the party, whatever). I often mix up the dough and use koolaid powder for color and scent. You can mix the dry ingredients and then put it in a ziploc with instructions and let the parents mix it with water at home. I did this for an entire head start group (four classes) for xmas once and it was the biggest hit around. I was amazed at how many parents raved over it and said it saved their sanity over winter break because the older kids loved it too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 548782, member: 1233"] For food try Worms in Blood Sandwiches: Cut hot dogs long ways into thin strips, 9 of them per hot dog. Then lay out a bunch of open hamburger buns. Boil a pot of water and lower the hot dog strips into the water for about 2-3 min, until hot. They will curl up and look like worms. Put them on the bun bottom and add ketchup or barbeque sauce (whatever you like). You can add the top bun or skip it, but they look great. Also, try melting butterscotch chips and chocolate chips together and pouring over chow mein noodles and peanuts. the chow mien noodles will wiggle like worms or similar yucky things. It is really tasty, and creepy looking even if you don't see it being made. But you could set out little bowls of the chow mein noodles, or even disposable cups or plastic souvenir cups to take home (thinking the ones sold 4 for about $1 in the Halloween aisle at Walmart) and add the melted chips to them as the kids watched. Of course you can use any combo of chips you like. Just DO NOT get ANY water into the melted chips. You can cover nutter butter cookies in white frosting or melted white choc chips or almond bark and then put eyes and a mouth on them for fast, easy ghosts. Also if you take refrigerator biscuits or homemade ones and put a layer of ham on the top and then take and cut out a face from a slice of american cheese, and melt the cheese onto the cooked biscuit over the ham, you get jack-o-lantern biscuits (with some protein). I did three dozen of these with homemade biscuits for a church party and they were the first thing gone! If you bake 2 bundt cakes (any kind that you can frost) and make the bottom flat, you can make a big pumpkin cake. Put one bundt cake upside down on a serving platter (rounded side down) and cover the flat surface with icing or filling. Put the other cake on top of that and frost the whole thing like a pumpkin. And EASY way to make pumpkins to decorate is to cut a big circle out of orange fabric or tissue and then put a toilet paper roll in the center. Bring up the fabric around the roll and tuck into the center of the roll. Twist a paper lunch bag or some green paper to make a stem and push into the center. Instant pumpkin to decorate or not. After the party, just put the tissue back into the bathroom to be used. You could fairly easily decorate cheap tshirts. If you get the little 2 oz bottles of acrylic paint and a bottle of textile medium and mix them in equal parts, the paint will last for a long time. Or just use sharpies. You can use the new ones for fabric, but the regular ones work just fine. If the kids have shirts, they can sign each other's shirts for a souvenir of the party that will last for years (much cooler than party favors that are ignored or pitched in 2 hours!). You can easily cut out bats and pumpkins from construction paper and decorate the entire house iwth them for almost no $$. Another fun thing to send home would be homemade playdough (or to play with at the party, whatever). I often mix up the dough and use koolaid powder for color and scent. You can mix the dry ingredients and then put it in a ziploc with instructions and let the parents mix it with water at home. I did this for an entire head start group (four classes) for xmas once and it was the biggest hit around. I was amazed at how many parents raved over it and said it saved their sanity over winter break because the older kids loved it too. [/QUOTE]
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