Halloween Party fit for Fun!

Our son, Joe opted for a Halloween Party in lieu of a birthday party so he could get to know his new kindergarten classmates.  It was fun putting together a Halloween Party and our children always have fun prepping for it!

Used my cricut and the carousel cricut lite to create this Trick or Treat sign. 

Used a 40% off Michaels coupon to purchase the Martha Stewart crafts Spider cutouts.  They were all over the house. The children had a lot of fun with placement!

Table cloths are almost always yardage from the thrift store.  Mom's milk glass always a favorite way to display treats.

Monster cookies... These are Aunt Jan's recipe with pretzels, oatmeal and m&m's with Wilton Monster eyes!

Every party has to have cupcakes!  They are always the first to go!

This is the cake I made from a Pinterest photo... the inside was orange with black polka dots!

I LOVE sugar cookies... these were easy peesey! I love this recipe, and then used the cookie cutter to cut the fondant and food markers for fun ghost faces.

Pumpkin sugar cookies.

2 dozen cupcakes!

Michaels crows and owls with our home made sign.

When I saw these owls... I HAD to have them and they were 50% off before Halloween.

90% off tights from the year before... We landed on the witch!  These funky legs greeted our guests!

I use this sign a lot... it was left over bead board that I painted with chalkboard paint and then mounted it to an old for sale sign. 

I use these pinwheels a lot too.  I bought them at Hobby Lobby on clearance and they come in handy for yard decor.   I think they make a festive impression!

Trick or Treat! A Monstrous Halloween!

I am one of those mommies that starts to think about Halloween at the beginning of August!  My kiddos enjoy being part of a theme.  Last year, they were all monsters! I couldn't do all 3 from scratch... so I hit my favorite stores!  At Once Upon a Child in Ballwin, MO... I found the butterfly costume for $6.50 and Sully was $10.00.  I had to have them!  If I were to buy the fabric it would cost way more than that!  We found Cookie Monster at the Thrift Store for $4.00... and there you have it 3 warm costumes for $20.00!

This was the first Halloween that Brooke really understood that she was getting candy at each door! Look at her patiently waiting for our neighbor to answer the door!

I added green claws to "cookie monster", a green striped belly, orange nose, purple horns, 2 white teeth, a puff of blue hair, and one eye!  For "sully" we covered the claws with purple fleece, striped the horns with purple and orange, added 3 teeth, orange nose, and the spikes in the back are purple too!

This one-eyed flower monster cracked me up!  I added blue fleece to the belly, made the pants from scratch and hand-sewed flowers on the pants and top!  The eye had black felt lashes and "blue eye shadow" with 3 rounded teeth!  It was warm on a cool night and tickled my heart. My 3 monsters!  Go find a costume and customize it to your child's liking.  My children had a lot of fun picking out the colors and designing the faces!