You want to prepare a perfect and above all scary Halloween celebration together with your loved ones?
We have a few tips for you on how you can make Halloween really scary and beautiful with your children.
The decoration is the be-all and end-all
Without pumpkins, spider webs and ghostly faces, something is missing! So get out your scissors and let your little ones show you what they can do. The classic is, of course, pumpkin carving. First hollow it out, then draw a scary gap-toothed laugh on it and carve it in. For the creepy mood just put a candle inside. The darkness will do the rest.
But your children are still too small for carving? No problem! How about self-painted ghost bags? Or a garland with Halloween spooky motifs. For example spiders, bats or witches. You can find templates for these on the Internet. And colouring in is fun for every child
The right costume
Dressing up is simply part of the fun. Even if you spend Halloween at home in your own haunted castle. It's usually not that difficult to make a costume yourself. We have the vampire: in black trousers and a black T-shirt. Preferably with a dark cape. Just paint the blood drop in the corner of the mouth with red paint and you're done!
If you have gauze bandages or linen cloths at home, you can turn your little darling into a mummy. Simply soak the cloths in diluted coffee for the right colour. When everything is dry, you can glue the cloths with hot glue on a light-coloured top and trousers. Leave a few strips for the head, though.
The coziest costume is probably the pumpkin. Take: a big orange t-shirt, green leggings, a small pillow and a dark textile pen. First paint the t-shirt in a pumpkin look. Then tuck the pillow underneath and tape the T-shirt waistband to your little pumpkin's hip with painter's tape. That way it can't slip out.
Even the smallest ghost gets hungry sometimes.
And that's when it's best to have the creepy buffet already prepared. For example, almost everyone likes pizza. So why not just swap the boring round shape for little ghosts? Prepare a pizza dough together with your kids and let them cut out ghosts with a cookie cutter. Then top it, put it in the oven and in the evening you'll have delicious pizza ghosts.
For the sweet tooths, you can make banana mummies or spider muffins. But if you don't have the time, bake a simple cake with your candy monsters and then use a homemade Halloween stencil to give your cake the right motif with icing sugar.
So when do you go trick-or-treating?
This year at spooky Halloween games. Whoever wins gets to fill up their candy bag. For example, the feel box is especially spooky. Take a shoebox, cut a hole in the front and then put different objects inside. Then you have to feel the object with your fingers. Or have you ever heard of mummy wrapping? Two teams have to transform a player into a mummy with toilet paper as quickly as possible. And if there is not enough movement, then nothing stands in the way of the ghost dance.
And there you have it, a spooky Halloween celebration with the whole family!
KOKADI wishes you and the ghosts, pumpkins or vampires a spooky Halloween!
KOKADI connects! ♥