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Tips For Cool Halloween Birthday Party Invitations

  • June 29, 2010 11:52 am
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Tips For Cool Halloween Birthday Party Invitations

Looking for the coolest Halloween birthday party invitations?

Sometimes, you want your guests to know that your Halloween party is also a birthday party, but it’s hard to find commercial invitations for both.

Here are a few terrific ideas for Halloween party invitations!

Monster Party Cards

These Halloween birthday party invitations are fun, attractive and easy, and they’re a great way to recycle!

1. Start with some blank gift cards, or use sturdy paper or thin cardboard from old cereal or cracker boxes, cut and folded into the shape of a card.

2. Collect several types of handmade paper, decorative paper and gift-wrap in orange, black, gray and gold. Glue the decorative paper to both the insides and outsides of your invitations. Don’t use just one type of paper on each card – be creative!

3. Photocopy some pictures of scary Halloween monsters. Frankenstein’s monster, the Wolfman and Dracula make great images, and you can also use pictures of gargoyles, skeletons, skulls and ghosts. Glue these photocopied images to the front of your Halloween birthday party invitations.

4. Collect some old birthday cards, invitations, gift-wrap and decorations. Cut out the colorful birthday images: party hats, noisemakers, birthday cakes, bunches of balloons, brightly decorated presents and birthday banners make great birthday cut-outs.

5. Glue your birthday cutouts to appropriate places in your scary monster pictures. Make Frankenstein’s monster wear a party hat, or have the Wolfman hold a present or a bunch of balloons. You get the picture!

6. Write your party information on the inside of each invitation. Be sure to include the date, time and place of your party!

Simple Stamped Scroll Invitations

These are great Halloween birthday party invitations that you can hand-deliver to your guests!

1. Use sheets of good quality, legal sized paper in off-white or cream for your invitation scroll. You will also need craft foam (available at most craft and dollar stores), glue, thick cardboard, scissors, tempera paints, paintbrushes, twine or colored ribbon.

2. Draw simple designs on the foam and cut them out. You want a combination of a few Halloween designs and a few birthday designs. Try bats, pumpkins, crescent moons or ghosts for Halloween designs, and birthday cakes, balloons, presents, party hats or noisemakers for birthday designs. Glue each piece of foam to a piece of thick cardboard. These are your stamps!

3. Stamp festive borders around your Halloween birthday party invitations. Use a paintbrush to apply thin layers of paint to the stamps, and press them onto the outside edges of your invitations, alternating between the birthday and Halloween themed stamps. Use orange and black paint for Halloween stamps, and two bright primary colors for birthday stamps. For classy adult invitations, use silver and gold paints instead.

4. Once the paint dries, write out your invitations. In keeping with the scroll theme, write your invitation using old-time or official language. Start with something like “We, the inhabitants of 555 Elm Street do hereby invite you…” or something in a similar vein. Be sure to include the date, time and address of your party.

5. Once your invitations are written, roll them up like scrolls and secure them with pieces of twine – or use ribbons of the same colors as your stamped borders. They’re ready to deliver!

Have fun in making your own Halloween birthday party invitations!

Qing Gu is a party planning expert, freelancer, and owner of a few websites about celebrating holidays and special occasions. Here he shares with you more creative ideas for birthday party invitations and free Halloween party ideas.

Does anyone have any ideas for a halloween birthday cake for a baby’s first birthday?

  • June 26, 2010 5:51 am

Question by purplehippo: Does anyone have any ideas for a halloween birthday cake for a baby’s first birthday?

Best answer:

Answer by rltouhe
The biggest complaint that my husband had was that he didn’t get a regular birthday cake like everyone else because he was born in October. Please rethink this for your child.

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Ideas for the center of a Betty Crocker Bake-N-Fill Halloween birthday cake?

  • June 16, 2010 11:51 am

Question by ~Jessika~: Ideas for the center of a Betty Crocker Bake-N-Fill Halloween birthday cake?
Okay I am taking ideas for the cake itself, I was thinking of doing a pumpkin and I also would lke some ideas to put in the center of the cake? I want it to be a surprise to everyone that eats it, lol…. but I WANT them to WANT to eat it too.
Halloween is one of my friends birthday and she will be working that day so I am bringing it to work.
I have the Betty Crocker Bake-N-Fill cake pan I am planning on using.
Thanks!

Best answer:

Answer by memi o cara
yo naum sabo

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Twilight Party Ideas For Halloween, Birthday and Movie Parties

  • June 14, 2010 12:06 pm

Twilight Party Ideas For Halloween, Birthday and Movie Parties

Edward Cullen and the rest of the vampires in the Cullen Family along with Bella Swan have created quite a “Twilight Storm” across the country…in fact in many countries around the world.  Twilight has even created a new party theme of the same name.  Twilight party ideas are hot!  Whether it’s for a birthday, Valentine’s Day, or Halloween…a Twilight party is the way to go.

The Stephanie Meyer’s books have created quite a stir around Forks, Washington and the rest of the world.  With over 40 million books sold in 40 countries Twilight is the Tween/Teen hit of the year.  The second book in the Twilight Saga…New Moon…is going to be filmed this year and is due for a Nov. 2009 release date.  This should keep the momentum moving right along at a brisk pace.

The cast of the New Moon Movie is still not decided and all us Twihards wait with breathless anticipation to see who else will join Dakota Fanning, who was cast as the Volturi Vampire, Jane.  Noor Seear has been cast as Heidi and Caius will be played by Jamie Campbell-Bower.   Several of the Werewolves have been cast too.  The Quileute Wolf Pack will be played in part by Chaske Spencer, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Tyson Houseman.  

With the release of the Twilight DVD a couple months ago, our Twi-obssession was sated for awhile…but once again,we need our Twilight fix, and right now, there’s not much to keep us in good supply other than the casting leaks from New Moon.

Look for a rush of Twilight movie parties in the near future, along with Trivia games and then come October look again for the Twilight  Halloween Party Ideas to rear their  little heads again.  This is a great Halloween party theme since it has both Werewolves and Vampires, both good and bad…two of our favorite Halloween monster types! 

The Twilight Saga has everything we mere humans get passionate about…The Undead, The bad Undead vs. The good Undead.  The sensitive undead…the forbidden unstoppable romance between the undead and the living…there’s even a love triangle!  Take all the battles from within the star struck teen lovers to the outside influences that shape their daily lives…and you’ve got a hit on your hands.  It’s a phenomena that isn’t often seen, and when it is, you’ve got to stop and appreciate it.

The amount of web sites that have sprung up to shower kudos on Twilight is uncountable.  There are forums, reviews and even cake decorating ideas for this topic.
 Even if you don’t understand what the big deal is, you have to admit that author Stephanie Meyer has started something.  We all just have to wait now and see where it ends.  If it ends.  And I, like every other Obsessed Twilight Fan, hopes it never does!

Jillian Gallo is a freelance writer who loves parties and thinks finding good party ideas, fun party games and cheap party supplies is fun! Be sure to visit http://www.partyideasparade.com/”>Party Ideas Parade to get all the latest party ideas, supplies and party recipes you need. Find Twilight party ideas at http://www.partyideasparade.com/twilght-party-ideas.html

Halloween or Monster Birthday Party Theme Tips

  • June 11, 2010 11:51 am

Halloween or Monster Birthday Party Theme Tips

Step 1: Halloween Party Invitations

Make sure your Monster party is planned for the appropriate age group. Design or buy your invitations cards with a graveyard background for a spooky invitation to the party. Do not forget to include the date,address,  start and finish time

Step 2: Halloween Party Decorations

If your party is being held indoors you may want to hang fake spiderwebs and skeletons if it is outdoors you can add head stones, play coffins or jack o lanterns. Make sure to have some kind of venue marker like a banner or balloons so that it is easy for your guests to find you.

Step 3 : Halloween Party Activities

For activities for your child and party guests to enjoy you should have them all dress up as their favorite monsters such as vampires,mummy’s or werewolves or even have them make up their own characters.  Face painting can be a way of furthering the monstrous fun.

Step 4: Halloween Party Games

For party games you can take normal party games and give them a monstrous twist to fit the rest of your child’s birthday theme such as monster tag or monster hide n seek were the kids could even hide in play coffins.

Step 5: Halloween Party Entertainment

For a monster themed birthday party you may want to book someone who will do face painting for the kids to look more like monsters, any Family Fun entertainment will add charm and excitement to your event. You can also rent  a monster jump house.

Step 6: Halloween Party Food

Labeling food to fit the theme is always a winner.  something as simple as spaghetti can be turned into brains and worms to fit the theme. Rice pudding with raisins could be flies in your bowl. Flies in your fries. The possibilities are endless.

Step 7: Halloween Party Cake

For your birthday cake for a monster themed party you may want to have the cake shaped like
a jack o lantern,tombstone or your child’s favorite monster.

Step 8: Halloween Party Favors

Well it’s almost time to end the fun. It is always nice to hand out party favors and send the guests home happy good party favors for a monster party would be having little candies or whatever you decide to include in a jack o lantern. You could even have the kids trick or treat as they head for the door to say goodbye.

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