Planning your Halloween Party!
Spooky Season is here, so we are sharing our tips on how to plan the best Halloween Party!
Remember to register for your Trick or Treat party pack here
Select your date, time and venue:
- Send out your invites – you can download a digital invite from our downloads section
- If it’s relevant, put up posters, you’ll get one in your party pack or you can
download them from our page
Food & Drink:
- You can bake or buy some goodies – muffins, cookies, fruit punch, sweets etc. We have some spooky recipes below or some tasty ideas for your pumpkins on our Pumpkin Blog page.
- Ask your guests to bring something small along so you have lots of variety
Set your party theme:
Here are some spooky party game ideas:
- Pin the spider on the web – pick up a spider from the shop, blindfold the guests and get them to pin the spider to a web (you can draw this very easily on a piece of paper). You can also pin the hat on the witch or the eyes on the skeleton or anything equally funny
- Set up some plastic bottles and use a small round pumpkin to play bowling
- Bobbing for apples – an oldie but a goodie
- Tie some donuts to a string and try to take bites with no hands – make sure you assign one donut to one person to avoid sharing the nasty germs!!!
- Use some little bean bags, cut a hole in a pumpkin and use it as a target
- Get some table tennis balls and paint eyes on them. Set up 3 paper cups. You have to bounce the ball on the table and try and get it to land in a cup
- You can set up a ‘crafty’ table where the kids can make their own monsters or carve out their pumpkins. You can download the make your own monsters with all their parts from our website
- You can have some dancing – put on a spooky playlist and get people to play along or play ‘Creepy Chairs’ just like musical chairs
- Little competitions are always good – best fancy dress or hat, best make up, funniest monster created, best pumpkin and so on. Maybe make up some little gift bags or buy some small pre-made ones
- Have a movie themed Halloween night – put on some appropriate movies for your audience, turn off the lights and every now and again you can play some surprise scary tricks on them – watch the popcorn fly!
Just make sure you and your guests have lots of fun!
There really is no right or wrong way to hold a Trick or Treat for Sick Children Party! Why not share your party plans on our Trick or Treat Facebook group we love seeing everyone’s spooky parties!
Halloween Treats for your party:
Creepy Chocolate Eyeballs – courtesy of Donal Skehan
What’s creepier than a bowl full of eyeballs!! The fab Donal Skehan has shared with us his creepy Chocolate Eyeball recipe that not only looks creepy but is super easy to make!
Method
1. Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
2. Whizz the biscuits in a food processor until you have small crumbs. Tip the biscuit crumbs into a bowl and add in the cream cheese, mix with a wooden spoon until a dough comes together.
3. Using your hands roll 30 little balls and place them on a baking tray and pop in the fridge while you melt the chocolate.
4. Melt the chocolate in a large bowl sitting over a pot of gently simmering water until it’s smooth. Remove from the heat.
5. Toss the balls in the melted white chocolate until they are completely covered then lift out using a fork and place on a lined baking tray. Allow to set in fridge and then carefully decorate the eyeballs with food coloring.
6. Allow to dry and then place in a large jar. The eyeballs will keep for about a week in the fridge.
Ingredients
400g of bourbon biscuits (any chocolate sandwich cookie will work)
300g of white chocolate
115g of cream cheese
Red, green and black food coloring
Time: 20mins
Serves: Makes 30 Eyeballs
Chocolate Pumpkin and Peacan Brownies– courtesy of Donal Skehan
Some say a party isn’t a party with some kind of chocolate cake! Donal’s Chocolate Pumpkin Brownies are so tasty they will scare you!
Recipe Donal Skehan
Ingredients
Makes 30 eyeballs
For the pumpkin mixture:
25g butter
75g cream cheese
100g caster sugar
1 egg
100ml pumpkin purée
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp ground ginger
75g plain flour
For the chocolate mixture:
200g unsalted butter
200g dark chocolate, chopped
3 large eggs
300g granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
125g plain flour
Pinch of salt
100g pecans, roughly chopped
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line a rectangular baking tin, approximately 20cm x 30cm (8-12in) and 3-4cm (1 1/4-1 1/2in) deep, with greaseproof or parchment paper.
2. To make the pumpkin mixture, beat all the ingredients together until smooth. Keep to one side. For the chocolate mixture, melt the butter and chocolate together, either in a bowl over a pan of simmering water or gently in the microwave.
3. In a separate bowl, beat together the eggs, sugar and vanilla extract with an electric hand whisk until thick and creamy. Mix in the melted chocolate and butter. Finally, stir in the flour, salt and pecans.
4. Pour the chocolate mixture into the lined baking tin and level off the surface. Using a tablespoon, drop dollops of the pumpkin mixture all over the top, and then, using the back of a table knife, loosely swirl it into the chocolate mixture.
5. Place in the oven and cook for about 25 minutes, until the top is cracking and the centre is just set. Leave to cool in the tin for 40-45 minutes before cutting into bite-sized squares. Enjoy!
Simple ones are always best and often easiest –
- Melt some marshmallows and butter for a few minutes and then add some popcorn into them. You can add some food colouring if you wish. Put a little oil on your hands make the mixtures into little balls – they look like brains!!!
- You can hard boil some eggs, peel them and then drop them into beetroot juice. They turn purple and are very scary