Eat, Drink, and Be Scary!

I am a sucker for a good Halloween party. So when time came around for our annual Halloween party, I knew that I just had to do something fun. I looked around the house and found some extra oreos, white chocolate and some lollipop sticks. After doing a bit of thinking I decided on mummy pops! I also stopped by our local grocery store and picked up some Wilton monster eyes and I was all set.

As you can see I dipped the oreos in meltable white chocolate, then set the eyes into the chocolate. I placed the stick with an extra bit of chocolate and then finished off the rest of the 'bandages' using icing. Then I tied on some gauze strips for a bit of fun. Last, I popped them in the fridge to set.

Then, I started thinking about how to display the pops. I figured it would come to me at some point, but I started getting a little nervous as the party drew near. Just when I almost decided just to put them in bags to hand out, I came across this:

I found this wooden Halloween box, foam core, and washi tape at my local Daiso store and I was in love. The foam was a little shy of the box dimensions, so I wrapped the foam in gauze and then made some starter holes so the pops would stand upright. The box needed a bit of dressing up so I added the black tape for a bit of fun and texture (it had this great sculptural feel to it). All said and done the pops were done in about an hour and the box in 15 minutes. Perfect for this busy mom!  Here is a look at the finished product:

Spook-tacular! And they were super yummy and nut allergy friendly (a very important thing for our party guests). Here is a quick look at some of our other food...

I started with a eat drink and be scary sign and then had all of my other fabulously talented neighbors and friends bring whatever they wished. Some of the hits that brought peals of laughter were spider crackers, witches hats, freshly exhumed green jello brains, spooky 7 layer dip, monster spoon pops, jello eyeballs, lychee eyeball punch,  mummy piggies in a bandages, and graveyard cupcakes. For flatware, we rolled it as usual and then added vampire teeth as napkin rings. We also played ghost bowling before going off to trick or treat. To entice the adults, we had them vote on whose door decorations were most impressive. The winner loved her bottle of wine (7 Deadly Zins of course!). In terms of other decor we had all of the usual suspects- halloween bunting, witches fingers, spider rings, dry ice in the fountain, spider webs, creepy petri dishes, potion bottles with cool labels, rats, bones, and such. Even an old cape, dress form, witch shoe covers, and broom were re-purposed into a scary witch.  Soo fun to watch the kids check out the phantom witch!

Our neighbors are always super generous with their candy (more than our kid-lings could ever eat!) so all of the additional candy was donated to a local hospital for the kids to enjoy. The kids had a great time and dare I say the adults too. A great spook-tacular time!