Halloween Suggestion

**Deprived4TooLong** · 10-26-2009, 03:09 PM

I'm going to throw a Halloween Party this year for the first time ever instead of Trick-or-Treating door to door. I remember as a child going to a house that did something like what I'm about to describe. I LOVED it, and still remember it 35 yrs later!

I will wait til there are a couple or more kids to start the "tour", and begin telling a story of a horrific accident of some sort (beats using murder as the reason of death). Then you say the dead body either got 'scattered' all over or he's donating body parts to the local hospital and you've come across them somehow. However you'd like to tell the story.

It'll be dark with (friends helping by) flashing lights to similate lightning, a cd of thunder in the background playing continuously. Maybe even ghoulish ghost sounds too continuously as well. Who knows.

Since I have no real space indoors to speak of, I will hang white bed sheets from trees creating a wall on each side, making kind of a 'hallway' to walk thru. When I was a kid, that house did it in there garage. I don't have one. So, tree hanging sheets is my bag. There will be 4-5 inch holes in the sheets for kids to reach in and feel. (Small enough for items to be felt, not seen by the kid sized hands)

There will be either tables to hold, (or people to hold) a small container or tupperware with 'body parts' for the kids to reach in and feel.

These will be described as you give the kids a 'tour' passed all these hanging sheets.

You can use all sorts of food items, as well as your imagination to be creative and do whatever you'd like at this point.

As they reach in, or prior to that, you tell a scary version of what body part that they are going to be feeling (intestines, brain, toes, heart, maybe even a barbie doll head with hair)

When I was a kid, that house used:
Raw chicken livers
Vienna Sausage (toes)
Cooked oiled spaghetti noodles
Chicken Gizzards
Tomato Sauce on some of the items appears as blood
Sand inside a long tubular balloon, then oiled to make slippery (intestines)

Of course at the end of this tour, you must have a hand washing area complete with soap or hand sanitizer of some sort.

As an adult, my only concern is handling raw meat. Granted, wasting sheets (cutting holes) and throwing out "handled" meats or foods is NOT frugal, but the party would only be a once a year treat, or in my sons case, once in his lifetime since we've not done it before. The cost would be low enough (for me) that I intend to do it and create a lasting memory for him.

Thanks,
Sandi

**mauimagic** · 10-26-2009, 03:12 PM

What fun!! Hope his memories are as good as yours!! We know that you will have a great time!! Take pictures too please!!

**Daisygirl** · 10-26-2009, 03:13 PM

How cool! I wished you lived on our street!

**TigerGirl1226** · 10-26-2009, 03:52 PM

One I went to when I was little had grapes in a bowl with yogurt and they told us they were eyeballs in snot, I remember that all these years later.

**shoiji** · 10-26-2009, 04:03 PM

Sounds like a lot of fun. I remember a haunted house every halloween growing up. It was so scary I never went in. Always like to tell the person who grew up in that house about every halloween. lol

**NewLeaf** · 10-26-2009, 04:44 PM

That is so cool! It reminds me of a halloween sleepover I had when I was 13 yrs old....We told scary stories, stayed up late and went up to the old graveyard to touch a tombstone!

**Contrary Housewife** · 10-26-2009, 04:52 PM

And then afterwards they can have a nice snack of zombie brains...

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**geckoace** · 10-26-2009, 05:26 PM

Corn syrup and red food coloring makes great blood and there I'd a simple slime recipe involving borax you could google it I'm sure.

**Deprived4TooLong** · 10-26-2009, 07:41 PM

Eyeballs in snot, how funny - yet gross!

Cool!

Thanks,

Sandi

**Daisygirl** · 10-26-2009, 08:46 PM

Oh - at one party we filled the non-powdered latex gloves with warm water and tied them up and put them in a bowl of severed hands - VERY gross.

**madhen** · 10-27-2009, 12:10 AM

If you can find an old wig, that can be a scalp.

Found a cool site you might want to check out for ideas:

http://www.schoolcarnivals.com/Games...untedhouse.htm

**madhen** · 10-27-2009, 12:13 AM

Found another one with lots of ideas for body parts.

http://www.recipekitchen.com/Holiday...alloween1.html

**mauimagic** · 10-27-2009, 12:21 AM

WOW - such inspiration. This sounds like something we would all want to attend or at least contribute too.

**nodmicks** · 10-27-2009, 10:47 AM

Sounds fun! I want to share this recipe with you. I'm making it for my 24 year old nieces costume party and some for me teenagers

http://theidearoom.blogspot.com/2009...ood-worms.html

**Deprived4TooLong** · 10-27-2009, 09:07 PM

MadHen and NodMick

Nice websites. Thank you so very much. My party has been canceled unfortunately. Son got in MAJOR trouble at school and is grounded til he dies. Bummed me out too. I was hyped up over this party!

NodMick, Thanks for defending me from being shredded there for a minute, lol.

Madhen, did you see the part about cockroaches? Could you imagine? There parents would (hopefully) make them throw out the halloween treat given to them. I would, lol.
Sandi