Our toddler Halloween party was a success. The kids ran around and played, there were screaming, laughter, and a lot of running.

However, the party turned out to be completely different from what I posted before. I had too much to do and a very short time so I compromised and did something simpler but with same amount of fun.

Here is the simpler version:

Instead of make it yourself pizza they had Mac and cheese with hotdogs.

Instead of foam door hangers, they decorated lunch bags with Halloween theme foam stickers to make their own goody bag.

They made pumpkin faces out of paper plat (colored in orange) and cuts of black paper in the shape of eyes and mouths. They had so much fun working with glue and get to create all different kinds of faces and they got to take the crafts home. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Halloween, halloween party, Halloween toddler game, Halloween treat, toddler, toddlers

This is something I couldn’t resist posting. I just used 8 black pipe cleaners. I wrapped the ends to make a base for the pumpkin to sit on. I shaped the legs, then painted eyes and made lips with a red pipe cleaner.

This was the centerpiece for the kids Halloween party.

Happy Halloween

I made this for my son’s Halloween party. I’m not a fan of pudding specially a chocolate one, but the kids loved it and thanked me for it, even a few days after.

It is very simple, you need:

Clear disposable cups

Chocolate pudding

Chocolate cooking crumbs

Melted chocolate

Oval shape cookies

Halloween candy

Worm gummies

White writing icing in tube

Direction:

Very simple, make the pudding as per package; fill the cups with layers of pudding and chocolate cookie crumbs. Dip the cookies in chocolate and let it set for a minute. On the top one third of the cookie write “RIP” with the white icing. Place the cookie in the pudding so that almost bottom one third of the cookie is in, decorate with Halloween candy and worm gummy. I had skull and bone candies.

I had one of the kids saying with excitement: “ I’m a monster, I’m eating bones and skulls!!”

The whole thing took about 20 minutes. This was a surprise but this can be a fun thing to do with toddlers.

Happy Halloween

Tags: Halloween, Halloween decoration, halloween party, Halloween toddler game, Halloween treat, recipe, toddler

My son(4.5 years old) is obsessed with Halloween. He is been preparing since Labor Day weekend. We are crossing each day on the calendar now to make sure we are getting closer to Halloween!!  He had a special secret Halloween sometime in September and since then he can’t stop thinking or talking about it.

I know he can’t handle waiting for Halloween, it is too much for him, so I agreed to throw a Halloween party for him and two of his bodies from preschool. This Sunday we will have our SPECIAL Halloween party. We are going to have bouncing bats from door frames, spider and spider webs where ever possible inside and outside the house, and of course pumpkins, and ….

For party games, we will have balloons with prize inside for each kid to pop and get the prize. I was thinking of finding creepy objects in dim light. Another game would be shape your pumpkin face. I have bought an orange, and a black felt fabric, to cut out a pumpkin, and different shapes of eyes and mouth for them to create their own pumpkin face in turns. I’m going to take a photo of each creation and print it for them to take home.

For craft, they will have door hanger and foam Halloween stickers to decorate and take home.  I think one craft is enough for boys, but I will have salt dough and cookie cutter in case they were interested.

Here comes the fun part, treats, they will have made it yourself pizza. I’m thinking to add orange food coloring to the pizza dough and make eye and mouth with vegetables and pepperoni and let them create their own pumpkin pizza. For desert, they are going to have chocolate pudding in cup with a tombstone cookie.

I’m all set for kids it’s the moms I don’t know how to serve. I’ll manage something.

Until later,

Tags: Halloween, Halloween toddler craft, Halloween toddler game, Halloween treat, prize, pumpkin, toddler, toddler craft

Canadian Thanksgiving is around the corner and caught me off guarded for two reasons. First that I’m taking an online course which I thought is going to be very casual but ended up being very serious with lots of deadlines and assignments, it’s college long distance course what was I thinking, so I’m busy catching up with my assignments. The second and wonderful reason is that we are blessed with wonderful weather this fall, weather wise we are nowhere close to Thanksgiving.

Canadian Thanksgiving has a special meaning for me, we (Zoroastrians) have an ancient harvest festival, called Mehregan that falls on Oct 2^nd, in old times they would celebrate it for seven days. The last day of celebrations will fall on Canadian Thanksgiving, most of the times, as the thanksgiving is second weekend of October and variable on date.  The basic concept is almost the same, same type of food, they usually roasted lamb instead of turkey, but the rest is almost the same. Every year I get to celebrate both Mehregan and Thanksgiving at the same time with family and friends.

This Thanksgiving we will have about twelve adults and five kids for Sunday lunch. If I wasn’t caught off guard I would have invited my guests around the end of September and decided on my menu and decoration a while ago. This year I invited them couple of days ago, and I’m still working on the menu and recipes. I was working on decoration ideas at bed time last night which I have to try and picture it again . The only thing that is done is my turkey that is bought and in fridge ready to roast.

Goof thing about having American Thanksgiving in November is that I get to post all my decoration and Thanksgiving recipes with pictures, in time for then.

Until later,

Tags: Holidays, Mehregan, thanksgiving