Monster Mash Halloween Bash

Get your Halloween party invitations out for this festive Halloween season.  A Monster mash party is a perfect celebration to throw and the monsters can be cute (not scary!) too!

Invite all of the little ghouls to your Monster Mash by creating a Monster Invitation Card.  Using heavy card stock in green and orange colors, cut out into various shapes of monster heads.  Outline the shapes with furry trim and use pom poms, google eyes, and other craft materials to create a monster face.  It’s up to you to make them happy or scary.  On the reverse side, provide all of the party details.

For some easy decorations, place a path of Monster footprints that lead to your front door and place a sign there that says, “Warning: Monsters Inside! Enter At Your Own Risk!”

Choose thematic colors for balloons, streamers, confetti, and tableware.

Cover the party room with cobwebs and plastic spiders.

At this party, make sure the kids go Monster Bowling!  Have the kids decorate old milk jugs as monsters and then line them up and let the kids bowl those monsters over.  A great party decoration, craft and activity all in one!

Hang up a Monster Piñata and let the kids strike it down for fun!

Hire a teenager to paint the kids’ faces into their own funny monsters when the guests arrive.

Play Monster Seek.  Give one child a flashlight and ask all of the other guests to hide.  As the child shines the flashlight on each hidden guest, be becomes a Monster.  Last child to be found wins.

Make Marshmallow Ghouls.  Purchase a bag of large marshmallows.  Let the children stack them and then place purchased fondant layers over the marshmallows.  Decorate with chocolate eyes.  A yummy snack!

Make some kooky witches using a ready-made cheesecake mix for the top of the hat, fudge-striped cookies for the rim of the hat, a scoop of lime sherbet for the head.  Use nuts, small candies, and shredded coconut to let the kids concoct their faces!

Have small pumpkins available and let the kids create a gauzy Jack-o-Lantern.  Using cheesecloth strips, have the kids wrap up their pumpkins! Have an adult paint on a glow-in-the-dark coating to bring this pumpkin to life when nighttime falls!  A fun goody to take home too!

Put on Monster Music and let the kids do the Monster Mash.  Loads of fun!

Pre-bake a batch of cupcakes and tint vanilla frosting green with food coloring.  Let the kids ice their own cupcakes and add a gummy eyeball in the center. 

Make sure to serve Green Slime Punch (lemon lime soda, lemonade, and a packet of green Kool Aid mix).  Make sure to add in lots of gummy worms and other bugs to appeal to your monsters!

Have a fun time planning your Monster Mash this Halloween season.  Loads of fun for the little ghouls.

Article Submitted by Lisa Kothari

Lisa Kothari is the Founder and President of Peppers and Pollywogs, a kids’ party planning company.  Visit our experts page to read more about Lisa Kothari and our party planning experts.