Boy's Party Ideas for a Halloween Costume Birthday Party
- If every child gets a prize, no one will feel left out.Jupiterimages/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
Tell all party guests that they will be judged on their costumes. Have certificates already made out beforehand for the different winners. Include a certificate for most creative, scariest, silliest, prettiest, most resourceful, etc. Prizes can include candy or wacky costume accessories like plastic crowns and vampire teeth. - Before guests arrive, fill a clean sandbox or sand table with chocolate cookie crumbs, chocolate graham cracker crumbs (you can buy these in boxes), and crushed Oreo cookies. This should resemble a pit of dirt. Next, hide gummy insects, like worms and other creepy crawlers, in the cookie crumbs. Include some edible rocks just for fun. Give your party guests small beach shovels and have them go digging for bugs, which they can of course eat once they are found.
- Stock up on Halloween molds at your local department store clearance section. You can find gelatin molds that look like brains, spiders, disembodied hands, and other creepy things. Give ordinary food a Halloween connotation, as well. Dip for chips can be labeled Brain Goo, while peeled grapes can be Eyeballs.
- Children will enjoy taking their pumpkins home to show their parents.Jupiterimages/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
Set up a table with several small pumpkins, paints and paintbrushes. Allow each child to paint his own pumpkin to bring home after the party. Include arts-and-crafts supplies -- such as glue, pompoms, glitter, googly eyeballs, and other small objects -- to use to enhance the pumpkin creations.
