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Classroom Decoration For a Smashing Halloween Party

  • April 23, 2010 1:21 am
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A fun school Halloween party begins with exciting classroom decorations. The best classroom decoration ideas produce big impact with little effort and expense.

Table Decorating Ideas

If you are serving food, use a bright orange paper table cloth to cover the tables. The solid paper table cloth gives students the option of drawing Halloween designs on it. Create an easy table centerpiece using an arrangement of Halloween balloons in black, orange and white. Tie the balloons together and add Halloween images, lollipops or plastic spiders to fill out the centerpiece.

Simple Streamer Ghosts

No school Halloween party is complete without classroom decorations that hang from the ceiling. For a simple classroom decorating idea, start with a white rectangle of construction paper and tape 2 ends together to make a tube with a fairly large diameter. Then, make long white streamers using crepe paper streamers or cut up white plastic trash bags. Attach the streamers to the bottom underside of the construction paper tube with tape. Complete the ghost by drawing a scary or funny face on one side of the tube. Hang five or more streamer ghosts around the classroom.

The Haunted Corner

If you have enough classroom space, create a haunted corner for younger students to play in during the Halloween party. The haunted corner can be as simple as a lightweight black curtain or piece of fabric hung from ceiling to floor with some spooky items behind it. Fake spider webs hanging down to brush the students’ heads when they step inside or a small table with a bowl full of something gooey are a few ideas for how to decorate the haunted corner.

Halloween Activity Table

Set up a table with fun activity choices for your students. Provide mini pumpkins that students can paint and then take home. A stack of colorful foam sheets can be used to create Halloween decorations that can be re-used year after year. Suggest that the students cut an oval or rectangular background for their decoration and then provide Halloween themed stencils of cats, pumpkins, bats, owls, moons and witches that they can trace, cut out and glue to the background to create a Halloween scene.

Edible Classroom Decorations

For a yummy classroom decoration idea, offer a plate of simple muffins that students can decorate with tubes of colored icing and then eat! Another edible activity is the spider pop. Have the students cover lollipop tops with squares of black tissue paper. Then, show them how to fasten the tissue paper with 4 black pipe cleaners wrapped around once so that 4 legs stick out evenly on either side. They can then glue wiggly eyes in the center of the pipe cleaners to make eyes.

These fun classroom decoration ideas for a Halloween party require little more than the classroom craft supplies on hand. Add a plate of cut veggies with a choice of dips, something to drink and a couple of fun games, and you’ve got the recipe for a smashing classroom Halloween party!

Classroom Decoration For a Smashing Halloween Party

Powerpuff Girls are Saving the World Before Bedtime

  • April 10, 2010 5:21 pm

The Powerpuff Girls – Blossom, Bubble and Buttercup are three kindergarten girls who have a mission – Save the World Before Bedtime. And what better way to help them out than by throwing a Powerpuff Girls party!

Invitations to a Powerpuff Girls party can be made from scratch at home. Start with red, yellow and green colors and invite guests to join Sally Hynek in Townsville to help Blossom, Bubble and Buttercup on their next crusade. Hopefully the girls at your party will not get into the same amount of trouble as the Powerpuff Girls do, but will have an equally good time!

Powerpuff Girls decorations can be kept simple by using the colors of Blossom, Bubble and Buttercup – red, yellow and green. Use these three colors for balloons, crepe paper, streamers and tablecloths to tie the theme into the decorations. Also Mylar Powerpuff Girls balloons are available for purchase and will add to the decorations of the room. Put all the guests name in a bowl and draw a winner for who gets to take the balloon home with them!

Making a Powerpuff Girlsg girls cake is also quite simple. Just use a 9 inch round cake pan as the face of your favorite Powerpuff Girl. There are instructions available online. If there is a time crunch Powerpuff Girls cakes can also be purchased from local bakeries.

No matter how you slice it, the Powerpuff Girls Blossom, Bubble and Buttercup are and adventurous trio known for mischief and saving the world. Use these tips to make your Powerpuff Girls party a super time!

Powerpuff Girls are Saving the World Before Bedtime