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Hallowe'en
Ideas
Stuck
for things to do this Hallowe'en? Try these food, drink and game suggestions
to make sure the evening goes with a bang, burp and a bump!
Food | Drinks |
Games |
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You can't just have any old food for Halloween parties. Oh no! In order
to get the atmosphere suitably spooky, you have to make sure that the table
is groaning with plenty of gruesome goodies! Why not try to make some of
the following ghoulish recipes to ensure the children have a fiendish evening...
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GHOULISH
GHOST CAKES
Dariole moulds are the ideal shape for these spooky little cakes but
you could cheat and use a mini chocolates Swiss Roll under the white
icing! |
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SKULL
SHAPED PIZZAS
It's easy to cut bought pizza bases into skull and cross bones. They
may look scary but they taste delicious! |
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HANGING
BAT AND GHOST COOKIES
It's fun to make Gingerbread Biscuits with your child for Hallowe'en.
It looks great if you collect some twigs and hang the bats upside
down from the branches! |
All recipes are courtesy of Annabel
Karmel
The
BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites
Of course, everyone is bound to get thirsty at Hallowe'en - and we don't
just mean Vampires or the 'man of the household'! So, to tickle those tastebuds,
we've put together some spinetingly, tasty cocktails, sure to spice up the
night!
Vampire
Broth
Ingredients
Cola
Vanilla ice cream
Fill glasses about two thirds full with the cola, add a scoop of ice cream
and watch it go all frothy.
Green Lemonade
Slime
Ingredients
Green
food colouring
Lemonade
Lime cut into thin slices
Cocktail sticks
Spooky jelly sweets
Fill an ice-cube tray with water mixed with a little food colouring to make
green ice cubes. Pour lemonade into glasses, add the green ice-cubes. Cut
a slit in slices of lime and twirl around a cocktail stick, prop this on
the side of the glass and decorate with a spooky jelly sweet like a spider.
Eyeball Ice Cubes
Half-fill an ice cube tray with water. Add a halved grape to each section
and press a raisin into the centre to make an eyeball, then freeze.
Iced Bugs
Fill an ice cube tray with coloured water (colour the water using a
few drops of edible food colouring) and add edible jelly bugs to each section,
then freeze until solid
Apple Bobbing
A large bowl of water is placed on the floor (a baby bath is ideal for this
if you have one). Without using their hands, they have to try and lift an
apple out of the water using their teeth. Children can wear aprons if you
have them and spread plenty of newspaper over the floor as this can get
quite messy!
Pumpkin Lanterns
To
create a true Halloween atmosphere you really need a pumpkin lantern, put
it near a window or outside your front door or have it as centre piece on
your table. They are easy to make and pumpkins are cheap and plentiful at
this time of year.
• Using
a sharp knife, cut a thick slice off the top of a fairly large pumpkin.
Reserve the top for the lid.
• Scoop
out the seeds using a spoon and discard them along with any fibrous threads.
Carefully cut and spoon out the pumpkin flesh leaving about 2cm flesh
all the way round. You can keep the flesh you remove to make recipes like
pumpkin soup or pumpkin pie.
• Using
a pencil or felt pen, mark out the facial features on the front of the pumpkin.
Then cut around the lines using a small pointed knife, cutting away small
sections at a time.
• Place a night light inside the pumpkin. Light the candle and place
the lid on top.
Dangling Doughnuts
Tie some doughnuts with holes in the centre using a length of elastic or
string and hang them from a pole in a row. Without using their hands, the
children must munch through their doughnut. The first to eat the whole doughnut
is the winner. You
can ice the doughnuts with coloured icing (see icing for Fairy Cakes) and
add a sprinkling of hundreds and thousands.
Watch out - this game can get quite messy!
Witches' Cauldron
Fill
a bowl of cauldron with items that represent different body parts. Put
things like peeled grapes in the box and pretend they are feeling eyeballs,
linked sausages for intestines, cauliflower for brains, a balloon filled
with water for a heart, liquorice laces for veins or jelly for liver.
Get the children to sit blindfolded in a circle and take it in turns to
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