Halloween Party Time!

I don’t know what we did before Pinterest.  This year I was determined to try some of the hundreds of food pins that I have accumulated for this year’s Halloween festivities.

Since we were going to have about 20 kids, I had to try to make Mummy Dogs.  My oldest nephew loves hotdogs wrapped in crescent rolls so I figured it should be a good food choice.  They super easy to make and a hit with the under (and over) 48″ crowd.

I also made this pumpkin face veggie platter, using ranch dressing in small ramekins for the eyes and nose and sliced cucumber for the mouth.

I tried to make these apple smiles, but decided against them due to lack of time.  Maybe I’ll try them next year.

Appetizers included vomit guacamole and chips,

finger lickin’ good hummus with plastic fingers and all,

bone chilling charcuterie with assorted cold cuts and cheeses,

a boo-tiful spinach and artichoke dip,

dracula’s blood (salsa),

The main course included bat wings, ribs, eerie meatballs and slimey, slithering spaghetti, a graveyard pasta salad and a tossed salad.

For beverages we served Love Potion #9

and a psychedelic punch, along with seasonal beers and wine (with cute labels for the wine bottles).

Dessert was an assortment of cookies, brownies, cupcakes and other delicious and insanely fattening pastries.

Decorations were easy – fake spider webs on just about anything, silhouettes of mice, bats flying up the stairs, black crows watching from above, LED candles illuminating the rooms, caution tape and so much more!

I planned to play a bunch of games with the kids.

1. Witch hat ring toss – Target had a super cute version of this
2. Eyeball balancing race – you have to weave through cones while holding a plastic eyeball on a spoon in your mouthI think they did a few, but they were having so much fun playing amongst themselves that some games didn’t make it out of the packaging.
3. Ghost darts
4. Pin the spider on the web
5. Bobbing for apples
6. Pumpkin bean bag toss
7. Mummy bowling – another great find from Target

Overall, I think the party was a great success.  Now I need to find something new to plan…