Halloween celebration cake, £6.99
Available from Tesco (0800 505555 or www.tesco.com)
Chocolate traybake, £4.99
Available from Tesco (0800 505555 or www.tesco.com)
Pumpkin mini rolls, £1.09 for five
Available from Tesco (0800 505555 or www.tesco.com)
Bat fairy cakes, £1.55 for 12
Available from Tesco (0800 505555 or www.tesco.com)
Pumpkin and bat bowl, £2
Available from Sainsburys (020 7695 6000 or www.sainsburys.co.uk)
Spooky tray, £2, Trick or treat sign, £3.50, Broomstick sign, £2.50
Available from Sainsburys (020 7695 6000 or www.sainsburys.co.uk)
October 31st is the spookiest time of the year where children and adults alike love dressing up and getting all ghoulish! If you’re thinking of throwing a party for your little ones, here’s how to do it:
- Plan early and make some spooky invitations with the children. They can draw their own spiders, skeletons and scary monsters or cut out shapes and stick them on to a piece of coloured card
- Turn your home into a haunted house by swapping your usual lightbulbs for eerie green and red versions and hanging spiders’ webs from doorframes and ceilings. Cover helium filled balloons with white sheets or pillowcases then tie some white cotton underneath to create a family of floating ghosts
- Make an ‘Enter if you Dare’ sign to hang on the front door
- Most supermarkets have a good range of accessories at great prices but there’s nothing like making them yourself. Cut out scary hairy spider shapes then stick some black wool on top as well as huge bats with sparkly red sequins for eyes
- Don’t forget the pumpkins! Make sure you have at least one in the window with a single candle or tealight inside and make a trail to your front door by lining the path with a row of pumpkins and lanterns
- Spooky games to play include Mummy Madness, where each team has two minutes to wrap their ‘mummy’ up in white toilet paper. The one whose victim looks most like a mummy wins
- Take a cauldron or large bowl and fill with cooked and cooled spaghetti then mix in spooky treats for a scary lucky dip. You could use wrapped up sweets like jelly worms and chocolate eyeballs or little prizes like rubber bats and spiders
- For the party tea, make it a themed spread with blood (jam) sandwiches, fiery fingers (sausages with ketchup), eyeballs (peeled green grapes) and mushy brains (green jelly) for dessert
- Take a Polaroid picture of each guest as well as lots of group photos then put them in goody bags with a piece of scary sponge cake for your little vampires to take home