Hard to go past Vodka Jelly shots at Halloween served in a skull shot glass.
This year we had a Witch Hansel and Gretel theme party so the jelly was green. We created the jelly toppers for this party and they are available as a free down load.
I make the jelly slightly more liquid than the packet recommends and add 1/4 cup of Vodka per packet.
These are great for a crowd.
Enjoy Julie
Halloween Vodka Jelly Shots
One bowl of punch is never enough for a large halloween party, so this year we had three. One alcoholic and two non alcoholic for the children.
A super nice punch was our Cranberry punch which we served as non-alcoholic but a shot or two of Vodka would work a treat with this punch.
For this party we created a set of free downloadable halloween punch tents so you can create the look at home. You can catch the entire party here.
Enjoy Julie
This year we created a Hansel and Gretel Halloween theme. This party consumed a large part of the house with a full dessert table, working Witch's kitchen and a darker adult take on Hansel and Gretel.
For this post we focus on the dessert table where we used elements of Hansel and Gretel first finding the Candy House through to the nastier side of the Witch. We created a set of printable products to accompany the dessert table, these are available from our shop.
This theme was a lot of fun we hope you enjoy.
Julie
Halloween Hansel and Gretel Dessert Table
Our dessert table used a simple crushed velvet table cloth. On the wall we added a large spooky cardboard cut out tree with a witch peeking around the side. Some large spiders were then added to the wall.
Halloween Hansel and Gretel Dessert table
The cupcakes represented the Witch's candy house. We used a small violet crumble's for the house and licorise all sorts for the roof and door. The house was decorated with tiny trees and candy canes from a christmas sprinkle range.
Halloween Hansel and Gretel Cupcakes
I find layered coloured jelly is always popular with the children, we made the jelly in spooky cups and topped with toppers from our Hansel and Gretel printable range
Halloween with party jelly cups
For cookies we used a witch boot and shoe, we decorated these quite simply with gold and silver couscous balls.
Halloween Witch boot cookies
Halloween Witch Cat Cookies
Colourful candy is a must for this theme, we used small crystal bowls and lots of shapes and colour.
Halloween Hansel and Gretel
Toffee apples are also great for a halloween Witch theme, we used black chopstick and decorated using mini bunting from our printable range.
Halloween Toffee Apples
The cup cakes did take some time to assemble but used simple techniques.
Halloween Witch Cupcakes
LED Lanterns are a great way to add colour and height to a table
Halloween Witch Party
Our printable range includes: Mini bunting, bottle labels, jelly toppers, 2 inch circles and tents
Halloween Hansel and Gretel Printables
I must give my husband credit for jack O'lantern carving, he found a wonderful spooky witch stencil which worked a treat.
Halloween Witch Jack O'Lantern
Please see our shop for full details of our Hansel and Gretel Printable products.
Halloween is perfect for a large bowl of punch or two. This year our Halloween theme was a Hansel and Gretel Witch party so a tipsy witch punch was definitely in order.
For this party we created a set of free downloadable halloween punch tents so you can create the look at home. You can catch the full party here
This was absolutely delicious, but not for the children.
Enjoy Julie
Halloween Punch - Tipsy Witch
Almost time for another halloween season. I really love halloween as I can go totally over the top and totally get away with it.
This year we decided on a Hansel and Gretel Witch party and a large amount of the house was used to create a Witch atmosphere. We created a Witch's Kitchen and included lots of lotions, potions and a large stove. This area kept all the children engaged for hours as they served each other severed fingers, brains and other ghastly morsels.
We created a set of printable tents to label our lotions, potions and body parts. We are offering this range as a free printable to help you create this look.
And yes, I was a very evil green Witch with my youngest children being Hansel and Gretel.
Enjoy Julie
Hansel and Gretel Witch Party
Our kitchen was created by attaching a large amount of crushed velvet to curtains with pegs to form a black background, we then added bookshelves and repurposed an old corner TV unit as an oven.
Halloween Witch Kitchen decorating ideas
We collected a lot of cut glass and crystal bottles to use for potions. These were filled with coloured water and herbs.
Halloween Witch Kitchen decorating ideas
I found a range of skull bottles in a local discount store and used cauliflower for brains,
Halloween Cauliflower Brains
The stove was created using an old corner TV unit, cardboard boxes, lots of black paint and halloween ornaments.
Halloween Witch Oven Decorating Ideas
Wine bottle crates were used to make small shelves around the stove. We included spiders, zombie body parts and very small bottles with dyed water and small pickled onions with a clove stud.
Halloween how to decorate a Witch Kitchen
A large cauldron was filled with bones and an over sized wooden spoon. I used a lot of battery tea lights under the red cellophane which glowed nicely at night.
Halloween Witch Oven
We used a lot of different colours in our potion bottles.
Halloween Witch Party Decorating Ideas
We did include a couple of scary Witch's scattered through the house.
Halloween Witch Party Hansel and Gretel Theme
Incorporate vingage elements to the theme, I found a vintage silver and glass casserole dish which was filled with eyeballs,
A Witch kitchen isn't complete without a variety of pumpkin and a spell book.
Halloween Witch Kitchen - Pumpkins
Halloween Witch Kitchen - Recipe Books
We did include other items in our Witch's kitchen such as my talking Crystal Ball Witch, a very odd bunny growing horns and some Tru Blood.
Halloween Witch Party decorating ideas
We created printable tents for this party including lot's of lotions, potions and body parts. These are available as a free download. For best results printed the cards on bond 200 card paper.
Halloween Witch Party - Free Printables
Vintage glass spice bottles were used to hold small items.
Halloween Witch Kitchen Decorating Ideas
We hope this post gives you lots of ideas to create a Witch Kitchen.
Happy Halloween
Halloween Punch is just so good. This year we had a Hansel and Gretel Witch Halloween party and had three punch's representing Witches. We called this punch the Melting Witch Punch.
This is a non alcoholic punch which was a favourite with the children..
For this party we created a set of free halloween punch tents so you can create the look at home.
Enjoy Julie
Halloween Punch - Melting Witch
Halloween Free Printables
Finally the first day of October, and the start of Halloween season.
Who says Halloween is just for children, luckily for me I have a number of adult friends who share my enthusiasm for dressing up and partying at Halloween. This year we had a Witch Party with a Hansel and Gretel theme, and while I did allow the dessert table to be child friendly the rest of the house was very dark and defiantly post the Hansel and Gretel Candy House.
The centre piece for this party was a Witch House in the woods and we will post a tutorial on how to create this over the next couple of days.
This was a dark theme but perfect for an adult halloween party, we have created free printables for you to use and enjoy.
Enjoy Julie.
Halloween Hansel and Gretel Witch Party
The House and Forest were the centre piece for this party, we then strategically surrounded the house with Champagne glasses, Glass Punch Bowls and Witch food.
Halloween Hansel and Gretel Witch party
Our Champagne glasses were all individually named with famous or should I say infamous Witches and Wizards these circles are included in our free download.
Halloween Witch and Wizard drink tags
We used a lot of candles to create height for the forest, we also used lollipops to frame the pathway to the Witch's house.
Halloween Witch Party centrepiece
We created three punches for this party, the punch bowls were arranged together with bones, links to the recipes will be posted over the next few days with our free printable punch tents.
Halloween Punch Bowls with bones
My Halloween parties normally have vodka jelly shots and this night was no exception
Halloween Vodka Jelly Shots
The house looked great in the dark, it was full of battery tea lights which emitted an eerie glow through the windows.
Halloween Hansel and Gretel Candy House
We served Witch fingers at the party, these are simple packaged Italian Breadsticks with an almond sliver for a finger nail and green food gel to hold the almond. I tend to use Silver ware and Crystal for food service at Halloween rather than disposable products.
Halloween Witch Fingers
We served a number of simple dips presented in crystal bowls on a silver tray scattered with bones and mice. The bones were from halloween necklaces.
Halloween Witch Party Food Ideas
We included some wasabi peas, Olive mix and Japanese Oisji peanut crackers.
Halloween Witch Party food ideas
A selection of cheeses were included with cheese circles from out free printable range.
Halloween Witch Party Food Ideas
We made three punch's for this party, the recipes are included on our blog in the Halloween section
Halloween Witch Party Punch
Halloween Witch Party Punch
Halloween Witch Party Punch
Our free printable include Witch and Wizard circles, Cheese platter tents and circles, Vodka shots tents and Picks and Punch tents
Halloween Witch party free printable
School Holidays have arrived in Melbourne so time to start baking. Today we made some delightful Chocolate Macarons, these are very sweet but very yummy.
Enjoy Julie
Chocolate Macarons
This term one of my children is learning about natural disasters at school with and we had an assignment of "cooking" a natural disaster. I was really impressed at some of the cakes which arrived at school that day.
For this assignment we opted for decorated cookies depicting natural disasters starting at the Volcano.
To create these cookies I used a Christmas Bell Cookie cutter for the base shape. We than made two shades of brown icing and used red and orange glitter decorating gel for the eruption To add a final touch we added small trees from our Christmas decorating collection.
Enjoy
Volcano Cookies
This year was my daughters 9th Birthday so we decided it was time for a tropical theme and settled on a Hawaiian Luau Party. Hawaiian Luau parties are a lot of fun, you can go slightly crazy with the theme because most items are very easy to source and not very expensive.
The key elements of this party include a Dessert table, Palm Tree favour bags, Games including a scavenger Hunt, lots of decorating ideas and a custom range of printable products.
Enjoy Julie
Hawaiian Luau Dessert Table
Our Desert table was the focus of the party, a dessert table must be both appealing to the eye and totally delicious.
Iced Cookies are a great way to brighten this table, for this party I used Dolphins, Flamingos and Palm trees. I do all the decorating myself so I keep the icing simple but they still brighten up the table and we never have any left over.
Dolphin and Palm Tree Cookies
Dolphin and Flamingo Cookies
I just love these Pina Colada Cake Pops, they were easy to make and look great dressed with a hibiscus skirt and topped with a cocktail umbrella. The cake pops sat in a stryfoam circle mould which I covered in a paper Tiki wrap and used shells and flowers to disguise the foam base.
We used fruit shaped candy and topped the candy jar with a small grass skirt. Cup cakes are a must for a dessert table we used a simple butter icing and 2 inch circles from our printable range.
Hawaiian Luau Candy
Hawaiian Luau Cup Cakes
Fresh Fruit Skewers were placed in a watermelon basket carved to look like Waves, this looks very effective and the fruit is a great counter balance to the sugar.
Fruit Skewers in a Watermelon Wave basket
We used simple cup cakes with a butter icing. The cup cakes were topped with printable circles from our Hawaiian Luau printable range.
You can find lots of good Pina Colada tutorials on line, these were very effective on the dessert table.
Pina Colada Cake Pops
This was a fun cake to make, the elements are all simple. I used plastic trees from my local cake decorating shop which is also where I found the edible flowers. The ocean is edible jel also from my local cake decorating shop, the towels were made from strips of coloured icing and I used liquorice for shark fins.
The luau Party sing is paper and a part of our printable range..
The Dessert Table was created using a number of easy to find elements. We used cardboard Tiki Poles to frame our table and used a wonderful window image as a central focus. We then added a long table skirt to the dessert table and a shorter table skirt was used to frame the window. Fresh Singapore orchids were used on the table as was our printable range of products.
Hawaiian Luau Dessert Table Ideas
We used helium balloons in bright colours and hung tiki lights to brighten the ceiling. This is a great way to add a lot of colour in a simple way.
We used plastic images to add a lot of colour and fun - the children loved the bathroom image.
Hawaiian Luau Party Decorating Ideas
We decorated the tables with some colourful Tiki's and tropical birds.
Hawaiian Luau Decorating ideas
Paper Pineapples, Singapore Orchids and grass skirts are all easy ways to brighten you rhome and add to the theme.
Hawaiian Luau Decorating Ideas
Why use store bought plastic bags when you can create a personalised favour bag in the party theme. These were simple to make, but did take quite a few hours to complete the set. We added party Thank You Cards from our printable range.
A tutorial will shortly be posted on our blog.
Hawaiian Luau Party Favour Bags
Hawaiian Luau Party Favour Bags
Hawaiian Luau Party Favour Bags
We played lots of Theme Based Games at this party including:
The object of Limbo is to pass under the bar leaning backwards without knocking the bar from the poles. If you knock the bar from its position you are out. Continue to lower the bar until you have a winner.
Limbo Game
Limbo Printable Sign
A scavenger hunt is always a hit at my parties, I've created a set of printable cards and a printable wallet. The Cards are hidden throughout the house and garden and the children race to find all the pieces. Don't make this too easy as the children love a challenge.
Hawaiian Luau Scavenger Hunt - www.chicpartyideas.com
Hawaiian Luau Scavenger Hunt Game
Hawaiian Luau Scavenger Hunt Game
Traditional Hawaiian Dancing is a lot of fun, make sure you have enough grass shirts, Lays and hair clips and a good sound track.
Hawaiian Lays and Hair Clips
Hawaiian Skirts
The Birthday Girl - Practicing a Swim dance
Chloe's 9th Hawaiian Luau party
We have created a number of items to compliment this party. Most of the range has been included in the photos above, but we have also produced a customised invitation and banner. These items will soon be available in our shop.;
Hawaiian Party Invitation
Hawaiian Luau Printable Bottle label
Hawaiian Luau Printable Tent
Our Printable Range will soon be available from out on-line shop. The range Includes:
Hawaiian Luau Printable Happy Birthday Banner
Many elements in this theme easily move to a pool or beach party, this theme is also great for an Adult parties. Store all your props in plastic containers for future use.
