I have twenty dollars to spend on a halloween party for my nine year old son and i need some ideas. thanks.?

Question

i want to have it outside in our front yard which we live in a trailor park and limited to a small space.thanks.

Answer 1

TIPS!:

-Shop at Dollar Stores for decorations – You don’t have to go to expensive party stores to get all that you will need to throw a Halloween party. You can find paper goods, like plates, napkins and table covers, invitations, thank you notes, streamers, and many other thematic holiday decorations for $1! The party favors and candy you use for game prizes can also be found there for a fraction of what you would pay for them elsewhere.

-Have a Halloween Treasure Hunt party – In the big, plastic Jack-O-Lantern buckets you can purchase for $0.50, place candy, stickers, bags of fruit snacks and party favors. Now, create a map that you can copy on a copy machine, showing where all the buckets are hidden. Give the kids plenty of time to find all the buckets and grab one (or several) of each of the prizes.

-Have all the guests bring a Halloween treat to share – Cookie swaps are very popular, so you can have the adults bring cookies to share with all the kids! No parents mind bringing a food item to share, so ask for fruit and veggie trays, popcorn, Chex Mix , Goldfish and other popular snacks with kids. As the person throwing the party, you can furnish the drinks and cake.

- Look for games that don’t require purchasing supplies – Musical Chairs, “(Child’s Name) May I?”, and Hot Pumpkin (instead of “Hot Potato”).

CRAFTS!:

-Mini Jack-O-Lanterns

    * What You'll Need: One small pumpkin for each guest, Markers, Googly Eyes, Glue

   1. Set up a station with pumpkins, markers, googly eyes and glue.

   2. Give each child a pumpkin to decorate with markers. It's like making a Jack-O-Lantern without the carving.

-  Spider Bracelet

    * What You'll Need: Black Construction Paper, Googly Eyes, Scissors, Tape, White Crayon, Glue, Pencil

   1. Fold a piece of black construction paper in half.

   2. Have the child lay his or her palm down along the folded edge of the paper.

   3. Trace the child's four fingers with the white crayon.

   4. Cut around the fingers, and unfold the paper. You have your spider.

   5. Glue googly eyes onto your spider.

   6. Roll the spider's legs around a pencil to make the legs curl under.

   7. Attach a strip of black paper from the remaining scraps to the underside of the spider with tape.

   8. Tape the ends of the strip together to form the bracelet.

   9. Place the spider bracelet on the child's wrist.



- Creep-a-licious Cupcakes

    * What You'll Need: Cupcakes with frosting, Assorted Candies (gumdrops, licorice, candy corns, M&Ms, etc.), Bowls

   1. Set up a station with a cupcake for each child.

   2. Place bowls filled with the various candies at the station.

   3. Allow the kids to decorate their own cupcakes.

GAMES! :

- Mummy Wrap:

    * What You'll Need: 2-4 Rolls of Toilet Paper

   1. Divide the children into teams of three or four.

   2. Have each team select a teammate to be the mummy.

   3. When you say "go," each team races to wrap their mummy with the toilet paper. (No wrapping eyes, noses or mouths!)

   4. The first team to use all of the toilet paper wins.



-Jack-O-Lantern Skee-Ball

    * What You'll Need: 4 Plastic Jack-O-Lantern Buckets, 1 Marker, Bag of Marshmallows

   1. Label the buckets 5, 10, 15 and 20.

   2. Place the buckets in a line, spaced a foot or so away from each other with the numbers getting larger the further away they are from the kids.

   3. Indicate a line for the kids to throw from with a piece of masking tape or string.

   4. Have the kids take turns throwing marshmallows into the buckets.

   5. Keep track of their scores. After everyone's had a couple of chances to throw, the highest total score wins.



-Costume Parade

    * What You'll Need: An inexpensive novelty prize for every child, Halloween-themed music (optional)

   1. Line the kids up.

   2. Play some Halloween-themed music.

   3. Have the kids conduct a parade around the neighborhood or around the house.

   4. Take pictures!

   5. Give each child a different award - prettiest princess, rootin'-tootin'-est cowboy, super-est Superman.

TREATS:

Spooky Serving Containers: Serve chips out of plastic cauldrons and jack-o-lantern buckets. Both are available in the Halloween aisle of your local Wal-Mart or Target.

Icky Ice Cubes: Put plastic spiders in ice trays and fill with water. Now everyone's got a Halloween visitor in their drink cup.

Oreo Witch Hats: Put a Hersey's kiss on top of an Oreo cookie, pipe orange frosting around the kiss to make hat.

Halloween Hand: Fill a latex glove with ginger ale, tie it at the wrist and freeze it. Let the frozen hand float in your punch bowl. Green or blue Kool-Aid ups the spooky factor.

Worm Cupcakes: Top cupcakes with gummy worms and Oreo cookie crumbles for the dirt.

Ghost Sandwiches: Use ghost, witch hat or other seasonal cookie cutters to cut soft sandwiches like PB&J into themed snacks.

hope i could help, and good luck!

Answer 2

Just serve dessert (Halloween cookies or cupcakes and apple juice);  make some popcorn balls for favors;  Have some dishes of gummy spiders & worms. Bob for Apples;  have a costume parade and contest (get prizes at a Dollar store - Silly String, fake body tattoo decals; super balls) ...  You might be able to find, or make, a pinata, and fill it with a big bag of cheap Halloween candy...  Have a scavenger hunt.... You can also find Halloween decorations at a dollar store....

Answer 3

I don't know how many kids are invited.  But nine year olds are real easy.

Grilled hotdogs, Baked beans.  Fruit on a stick. Microwave or oven s'mores.

If you are going to do it outside. Get a few of those fake battery candles.  Make a ring of stones on the ground, put some twigs and sticks in the ring and place the candles in with the sticks.  Safe campfire.

Sit in a circle around the campfire and tell ghost stories.

Here are some real gross things to serve.  It might stretch your twenty but some are doable.  Boys like the grossest things.

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