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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

Halloween Party How To – Eerie But Easy Halloween Magic

  • April 7, 2010 5:21 pm

A safe Halloween can mean having a house party instead of going door to door for tricks and treats. Simple and inexpensive decorations and quick and easy sweet desserts can be the answer to a fun Halloween party.

A haunted house with scarily clever touches will stop partygoers dead in their tracks. Use candlelight to create dark shadows in the corners of your rooms. Put ghostly white tapers in a flea market candleabra to enhance the creepiness of cobwebs and flying bats that can be found at most local dollar stores. Flea markets, garage sales, secondhand stores, and dollar stores are great places to use your imagination to find props for your haunted house effects. You can also trick out your jack-o-lanterns with bewitching handmade halloween masks that you cut out from black felt or construction paper.

Give “dressed to kill” a whole new meaning with a pumpkin headed specter. Here’s how: Carve a grimacing jack-o-lantern, then carefully attach it to the top of an old dressmakers dummy, or something similar. Drape the “mannequin” with tattered looking two ply cheesecloth or torn up old white sheets, and position it in the foyer to greet your guests. If you are willing to spend a little more, you can purchase a smoke/mist machine that gives a really eerie atmosphere to your other decor. I have seen them retail for about $60 at some stores.

Try these easy ideas for a fright fest- conjure up a devilish looking dessert by frosting slice and bake sugar cookies with white icing. Then, starting at the cookie’s center, pipe circles of black icing. Create creepy cobwebs by alternately dragging a toothpick from the center to the edge and from the edge to the center of the cookie. Scooped out mini pumpkins can become spidery votives thanks to tealights and pipe cleaners. After scooping out the pumpkin, make spider legs out of black pipe cleaners and place a tea light in the hollow of the gourd.

Adults and children alike can have a spooktacular time at a Hallowen house party. Let your imagination soar!

Halloween Party How To – Eerie But Easy Halloween Magic