Halloween Party for Toddlers

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I have always loved Halloween; the excuse to dress up and eat lots of sweet treats, and although the boys are still too young to really appreciate it, I decided to throw a little party for them and a few of their friends.  It seemed a great excuse to get them together and a lovely Sunday afternoon activity.

A trip to Tescos for supplies and a few home-made touches, and here are the final results.

I made hanging white ghosts using
A4 sheets of paper.  I drew a snail type shape and cut it out, and hung them around the house with pieces of cotton.

I hung up banners, and paper pumpkins, and had fresh pumpkins around the room.  We left them uncarved, but will be adding some spooky faces before Halloween.

I set out a messy area for the children with glow sticks, plastic bats and spiders and coloured ice pumpkins made using the mold I had bought earlier.  I made sensory bags for the younger children using ziplock sandwich bags, a few spoonfuls of cheap hair gel, some food colouring and some spooky props.  They had fun mixing the colours and pushing the spiders around the bag.  (Make sure the ends are securely taped up as you don't want orange hair gel all over your carpets!)

I covered Dylan's table in a black table cloth and set out a spooky tea.  I used cookie cutters to make spider and bat shaped sandwiches, had a pumpkin bucket full of Organix crisps, left out cartons of juice and Ella's Kitchen organic smoothie pouches and filled a little bowl with tomatoes.

We then had spooky ghost marshmallows (faces drawn on with edible pen), monster biscuits made from rich teas covered in coloured icing, white chocolate button eyes with black icing dots and plenty of sweets and spooky fruits.  The kids loved the ghost bananas and pumpkin oranges!

I made spooky fruit treats using a piece of celery to make a pumpkin stalk in the oranges and raisins to decorate the ghost bananas

The toddlers had great fun and Dylan hasn't stopped pointing out pumpkins (or ponkees as he pronounces it) since.  The party was minimal effort but full of spooky treats for those too little to be enjoying the candy.

 How do you celebrate Halloween with a toddler?