Posted by kindarana on 2004-10-05 19:51:42
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If you know anyone in Chemistry try and get your hands on some dry ice. Then you can put that in the punch and it gets all witchy. Yum!
I know a lot more about kids' Halloween parties, not sure what adults do, I haven't had one since I was little. But make them dress up because otherwise it's just lame.
Posted by Becky65301 on 2004-10-22 07:30:05
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Charlie- For the past couple of years, I have made the kids Halloween costumes based off of sweats or long johns. That way afterwards I can disassemble them and we still have something for the kids to wear. You can do alot with them- one year we had a Transformer (blue pants, red top, metallic fabric accents sewn on), one year it was a skeleton (wierd rubber bone pieces I found, sewn on), you can do all different sorts of bugs and animals (sewing strips of fabric on the body, and adding wings or a tail or whatever), just things you can add on. It doesn't seem like so much of a waste, if you can use it afterwards.
When oldest DS was 3 I spent a whole lotta money and a whole lotta time making him a Buzz Lightyear costume. It was beautiful. The week before Halloween we happened to pass a Disney Store. DS, cause he was 3 and could say it, sees the Buzz costume and says "look Mommy it's the Buzz costume JUST LIKE the one we have at home". I tried to explain that his actually was better cause Mommy had made it. Then I looked at the price of the Disney store one, and I had spent as much in fabric as what their whole costume cost. I learned a very valuable lesson that day. Bless his heart, he couldn't tell the difference.
I lucked out this year, oldest DS wants to be a ghost (can you believe I got that lucky??), just a regular sheet-with-holes ghost. Youngest DS wants to be a mummy. (that's a sweats costume there- just buy him white sweats and sew some strips onto it) This is about the luckiest I've been with Halloween.
