What is my favorite thing about Halloween?
Parties, Decorations, and my yearly Dinner Party!
It's Spook-tacular Dinner Party for my (adult) children and grandchildren.
Each year there is a different theme. I Igo old-school, emailing invitations with the menu.
My first dinner featured “Deadman over Worms” (meatloaf in person-form with a fork in the chest) served over wheat pasta with snips of parsley, bleeding cemetery cake, with a side of eyeballs, and witches-fingers.
The next year it was hot dogs carved to look like bloody fingers served in a bun, punch with ice-cube eyeballs, dip that looked like slime, veggies arranged to look like a skeleton, chocolates shaped like mice served over the cake with chopped and crushed candy to resemble graveyard dirt.
Of course, everyone dresses up, we play spooky music, and play games. All these events are very tame and especially for preschoolers. Everyone goes home clutching a goodie bag and toy (flying bats, wax teeth, a blinking necklace).
The planning and selected theme are discussed throughout the year. As the children matured, they helped prepare the meal. Painting the bloody fingers with ketchup, smashing the ghosts (mashed potatoes), and taste-testing the cemetery dirt were the most popular.
Each year there is a different theme. I Igo old-school, emailing invitations with the menu.
My first dinner featured “Deadman over Worms” (meatloaf in person-form with a fork in the chest) served over wheat pasta with snips of parsley, bleeding cemetery cake, with a side of eyeballs, and witches-fingers.
The next year it was hot dogs carved to look like bloody fingers served in a bun, punch with ice-cube eyeballs, dip that looked like slime, veggies arranged to look like a skeleton, chocolates shaped like mice served over the cake with chopped and crushed candy to resemble graveyard dirt.
Of course, everyone dresses up, we play spooky music, and play games. All these events are very tame and especially for preschoolers. Everyone goes home clutching a goodie bag and toy (flying bats, wax teeth, a blinking necklace).
The planning and selected theme are discussed throughout the year. As the children matured, they helped prepare the meal. Painting the bloody fingers with ketchup, smashing the ghosts (mashed potatoes), and taste-testing the cemetery dirt were the most popular.
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Sweet and Sour Bat Wings, Vampire Punch, or Spooky Grilled Cheese Sandwiches!
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Connie
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