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<\/a>Funky Moose offer a great range of ready-made fancy dress costumes, such as wizards<\/a>, witches<\/a>, monsters<\/a> and pumpkin princesses<\/a>.\u00a0 But simple costumes can easily be made at home; grab a purple cloak or a long length of purple fabric, stick on some stars cut from silver and gold card, and a wizard cloak you have.\u00a0 Make and decorate a simple paper cone hat in the same way and paint a length of dowel black for the perfect magic wand, and the costume is complete.\u00a0 (One year, we even made some ‘Harry Potter-esque’ specs out of pipe cleaners for one of our little ones, which were excellent – but he now wears the real thing, so alas no pipe cleaners required this year).\nFor a witch, anything blank and long (one of Mums skirts with a big belt perhaps) is perfect or grab some black fabric to make a swishy cloak, grab a toy black cat and a long warty nose and away you go.
\nWe all hid under white sheets as kids pretending to be ghosts, so make sure they choose an old sheet, help them cut a few eye holes (outline them in black felt pen for additional affect) and there you have it, an outfit (and a classic and fabulously fun outfit at that) in minutes.<\/p>\n
Party Games<\/strong> Party Food<\/strong> Oh and one last thing, have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every little child loves parties, and so do most of their parents, and Halloween combines the opportunity for a fun party and the irresistible chance to dress up to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funkymoose.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funkymoose.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funkymoose.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funkymoose.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funkymoose.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.funkymoose.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.funkymoose.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funkymoose.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funkymoose.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funkymoose.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>One of our favourites, albeit perhaps just as much fun for the grown ups (particularly after some Halloween punch) is Wrap the Mummy.\u00a0 All you need is some willing volunteers and several rolls of loo paper.\u00a0 The winning team is the one that wraps their ‘Mummy’ in full first.
\nSpooky Shadows can be a real hoot too …… all it takes is a white sheet hung on one wall and a lamp placed on a table on the opposite side of the room.\u00a0 One person sits down facing the wall (with the sheet) while someone else walks between them and the lamp … the result is a shadow cast on the sheet and the person sat down has to guess whose shadow it is. Some very interesting walks and poses are sure to follow in an attempt to disguise ones identity.
\nWitch’s Cauldron is another simple and enjoyable game.\u00a0 Place ten items into a large hollowed out pumpkin or bowl, cover with a cloth, turn off the main lights and each child then takes it in turn to put their hand in, feel the contents and guess what each item is.\u00a0 The winner is the child with the most correct guesses.\u00a0 Go to town with items for the pumpkin, some suggestions might be toy hairy spider (of course), witches nose, ping pong ball, large marshmallow, dice, tooth brush, apple …..<\/p>\n
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<\/a>In a word, Orange.\u00a0\u00a0 Amaze your guests with an entire feast in Orange…… sweet potato wedges, sliced carrot and orange pepper, chicken with a breadcrumb (with paprika if liked) crust or honeyed chicken drumsticks, cheesy puffs (!) jelly boats (oranges 1\/4ed, flesh scooped out and filled with jelly), all washed down with orange and mango juice punch in a large bowl (add some ping pong balls with eyes drawn on them for ‘decoration’ …. fabulous).
\nMake some spooky ghost cakes by covering simple fairy cakes with a circle of white icing and draw on some eyes and noses with black writing icing.\u00a0 (Not orange I know, but great fun).\u00a0 Or make bat chocolate cup cakes (image when we were little and we cut off the tops of fairy cakes to make butterfly wings .. well ‘bat-ify’ it).\u00a0 Use one of our orange cup cake stands<\/a> to hold and display them all your spooky creations.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.funkymoose.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rosieflo1-150x150.jpg\" "\\"rosie")
<\/a>Party Prep<\/strong>
\nIf you are sending out invitations, take some squares of white cotton (hankie sized), write the party details around the edge.\u00a0 Pop the centre of the cotton square over a lollipop and tie at the top of the stick (making the head of the lollipop into the head of a ghost), draw some black eyes onto the head of the ghost and hand out to all the invitees …. sure to get them into the Halloween mood.
\nNeeding to take presents to a party, how about a spooky library bag<\/a>, a Rosie Flo night-time colouring book<\/a> or a spooky Shiver-Stone Castle game<\/a>.<\/p>\n