Spooktacular

'Fly fly spider' or if you're our resident superman ghost 'spider spider fly'

Devlin had his 6th birthday party on Saturday (last) the 9th of October.
Since having parties at functions seemed to be expensive, this year I decided to host them at home; that and we wanted to do the fun games and things :).

Blythe the zombie 'I heart brains' tip o the hat to plants vs. zombies. Jackkellington.

So we had Blythe's here, which was about twice as much to fund then going out somewhere! We'd already promised Devlin one so I thought 'well, this will be the last for some years then!'. He'd picked out his cake first - a pumpkin with snakes so the theme followed along - the Haunted House and straight after he decided it would be fancy dress and he would be a spider.

Mr creepy crawly himself. Took me about 5 hrs to make it, not sure why.. it was the very first time I'd used a sewing machine - to make the legs - that was fun :). Stuffing them took at least 1 hour, they were so thin, I watched Burn Notice while doing that, and then sewing the joints on the legs and lastly sewing fishing line to the sleeves and the legs so they would wave up and down in unison to the sleeves, that was my proudest feature ;).

I spent many days planning the party to the absolute last detail and 1 and a half day preparing for it! Suffice it to say the hour previous to the party was spent in a manic flurry and the party started while I was still getting stuff done!
The result was half the food didn't get made, I didn't dress up, Mum and the kids did the decorating and I totally forgot the lollies for the loot bags lol.

A rare two faced brain eating clown abbzombie of the cutest kind.

Even so, the party was a big success, we had 13 kids (9 declined the invitation.. that's huge) and some mums stayed in the wings to watch. Because of the rain, the outside activities were cancelled and we all stayed squished in the lounge room.

A big sister with her own awesome costume, Amywitch and a seriously creepy mask, mr Goul.

After 2 hours of yelling and hosting continuous games I was ready to 'go home' :p. I'd run out of games too! I've always had parties for 3 hours before -unlike most others which are 2 hours- not sure what was different this time. We made up some more games and had some food then passed the parcel; had cake and before we knew it the third hour was well and truly up.

Aformentioned musthave cake, eyeball eggs, 'blob' merangues (or failed to stand up ghost merangues lol), chocolate crackle spiders and some brain triffle!

We played 'fly, fly, spider' (duck duck goose); zombie tag (I'd sewn a blindfold inside a monster mask for 'marco polo'); monster mash (statues); monster rely (acting called out monsters), bang charades (wrote down - and drew pictures - of various scary things, put them in blown up balloons [except we didn't have time for that lol, so they were drawn out of a witch hat] and then the child would act out the thing to a chorus of guesses); creepy crawly (hands and feet rely race).....

Lukenstien.

.....mummy hop (in pairs, one would wrap the other with crepe/tissue paper but not their arms and when they finished the roll the other would hop to the finish line); Frankenstien (I'd cut out millions of foam bits for arms, legs, feet, hands, bodies and heads; the kids had to use a straw to carry each foam bit to their paper and then sticky tape them into a frankenstien); scary sets (I'd drawn and cut out 8 types of pictures, stuck them to fabric and tapped the fabric to each child's back; the idea was that they had to collect one of each picture while protecting their backs, unfortunately the fabric wouldn't stay on).


After that we did some thinking on our feet and played murder wink, corners, and more statues this time with 'who can freeze in the scariest of posses or expressions'.


Mum had come and helped me (done most of!) clean on Friday and then after the party had stuck around tidying up for me. After 3 hrs sleep Friday night I was so glad of her help, I just wanted to go to bed. I couldn't stand the floor though, it was like walking on a spider web, it was so sticky. I didn't mind what got done but the floor was vacumned and mopped forth with!

Rebeccarella, a detachable arm vampire and Joshuarrrrrrrrrr.

Everyone had fun and apart from the last hour previous to the party I didn't freak out much heh, and the house got back to normal pretty quick after wards too. I bought the Women's Weekly cake book number 2 this week and don't tell anyone but I'm looking forward to the next party ;).