halloween drinks

Here are the two other drinks from Martha Stewart that I was considering using for the Teen Halloween Party. This one would be super easy and you could do the inside chocolate painting the day before.

I liked this one because of the rim dipped in green stuff. Very gross looking.

I didn't find this idea until last night, but I think this would be pretty easy to do too. And you could also carve the apple heads the day before. Anyone else remember making shrunken heads in school with an apple and a glass soda pop bottle?

Find the recipes and instructions here.

teen halloween party: day #10 the menu key

I hope that I've shown you how easy it can be to throw a fun teen party. A little imagination can go a long way.

At last, the key to the Halloween Mixed-up Mystery Menu.

1. Fork: Witches’ Broom

2. Knife: Devilish Dagger

3. Spoon: Skeleton Shovel

4. Sauce: Bat’s Blood

5. Garlic Bread: Vampire Venom

6. Parmesan Cheese: Moldy Bones

7. Spaghetti:  Mummy Brains

8. Green Salad: Goblin Guts

9. Drink: Wormy Juice

10. Fruit w/ Spider Toothpick: Spider Slime

11. Cupcake: Head of Hedwig

12. Vanilla Ice Cream w/Fly: Ghostly Goo

teen halloween party: day #9 put your helpers to work

I'm not sure if I've explained the whole concept of this party fully. This was a three course meal where each guest filled out a menu themselves, picking what they would eat for each course. No two dinner were served up the same. The fun part is that the drink, utensils, and food, all have different names--scary, spooky names. So no one really knows what they are ordering. Then each course is brought out separately and they might get all utensils and no food, or a cupcake and spaghetti sauce. It's a fun, wacky way to celebrate Halloween.

This is my party suggestion: have a few friends on hand to help. Also, set up food stations where you can find each menu item. I had silverware in one spot, the drinks in another, the pasta and sauce on the stove, etc. And I had a decoding menu "key" in a central location so that we could figure out what to serve up. Each of my helpers and myself were assigned to different kids. For the person we were assigned to, we filled their order for that course, we took their food out to them, and we cleared their plates. This kept everything running smoothly and we could make sure that every teen got their food and wasn't waiting.

teen halloween party: day #8 decorate

I totally cheated on this one. The party was held at the home of a woman who decorates her house insanely cute for every holiday, including Halloween. I wish you could see all of the cool stuff she had.

teen halloween party: day #7 find a game to play

The kids actually ate the whole dinner really quickly, in about an hour. After they were done we played The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow. I really like this game for a crowd. Everyone is given a card--some are townspeople and some are werewolves. The townspeople have to figure out who the werewolves are without getting themselves eliminated from the game. And it's a good ice breaker for awkward teens who don't always know how to interact with the opposite sex, know what I mean?

teen halloween party: day #6 get your dishes ready

For this party I used several different dishes to lessen the confusion when we were serving up the food. It was all part of my mastermind scheme: orange for the salad, white for the pasta, glass bowls for the fruit, etc. For your party please, please don't give in and use paper plates. Remember to keep your Halloween Green. I know what you're thinking, "But Brittany you have a lot more dishes than I do." No, I have a lot more pink and blue dishes than you do. It was hard for me to come up with Halloween colored dishes too. But you can make it work, just use a little creativity.

teen halloween party: day #5 make your mixed-up menu

Now comes the fun part. Take your menu and rename the food with spooky or silly names. Include the utensils and the drink with the menu items for extra fun. The party guests will fill out their dinner "order" for three courses. Who knows what they will get served up and in what order. For example, you could order spaghetti noodles for one course and spaghetti sauce for a different course, but you won't know since the food has all been renamed somethng different. It's all part of the mystery. I used 12 items including the utensils and drink. I'll post the menu "key" later.

teen halloween party: day #4 the drink

I made a very simple and inexpensive drink. First, I made gummy worm ice cubes. You don't need to use a heart shaped ice cube tray, it's just what I had on hand.

Fill the tray with gummy worms then add water.

All frozen.

I filled each cup with gummy worm ice cubes and Sprite. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

teen halloween party: day #3 pick the food

Make a list of the food that you want to serve at your mixed-up mystery dinner. Here is my menu: spaghetti noodles, spaghetti sauce, Parmesan cheese, french bread, green salad, fruit salad, cupcakes, ice cream, and a drink. This is a dinner party where the guests will choose their food for three courses, only the food will be named different names so that they can't recogize what they are ordering. But more about that later. For now just start pulling an easy menu together and aim for 9 items. Oh, and a little tip: 12 year old girls don't eat very much when seated with 12 year old boys. Don't plan on a ton of food.

teen halloween party: day #2 order a darling dessert

I would recommend splurging on a cute dessert made by someone else. You will stress yourself out trying to make invitations, plan a menu, decorate your house and organize a whole party. You don't need the added complication of making an unfamiliar creation. Especially because these tend to go horrifically wrong. Horrifically. Wrong. And all at the last minute. Leaving you in tears. No, don't say it. I don't want to hear that you are the exception. You know a bride wouldn't make her own wedding cake. Just trust me here. I ordered these organic custom owl cupcakes from Sugared Magnolia.

teen halloween party: day #1 make your own invites

I made these invitations very inexpensively using some pre-cut cardstock from Bazzill Paper. I photocopied the party info and chandelier, used a scallop punch to cut out the chandelier, used a circle punch for the color behind it, and tied some coordinating ribbon on the bottom. I bought the downloadable chandelier image on Etsy from Monique Chvatal for only $2.00. Orange invites for the boys and black invites for the girls.

sneek peek: teen halloween party

Last week I put together a mixed-up mystery dinner for a local church youth group of 12 & 13 year olds. It was so fun and kids that age are very entertaining to watch. (I forgot about all of the peer pressure that they are surrounded by.) I think this will be an easy and inexpensive party for you to recreate. So over the next two weeks I'll be posting the 10 steps I used to create this party and it will all wrap up in plenty of time for Halloween. Please forgive the photography of the party, I took the pictures myself.