Food & Party Planning Ideas
Give Vincent Price a Run for His Candy!
Wilton Gives Parents Frightfully Fun Recipes and Party Ideas for Halloween
Don't let weekday curfews and neighborhood trick-or-treating restrictions put a damper on Halloween festivities this year. In the "spirit" of Hallow's Eve, Wilton Enterprises offers ghoulish recipes, games and crafts that no one on the block will forget!
"When trick-or-treating is finished, why not continue the party at a neighborhood gathering filled with hair-raising games, crafts and most importantly – homemade candies and cookies," said Nancy Siler, consumer affairs director for Wilton Enterprises, the nation's leading supplier of cake and entertaining supplies.
Creepy Crawly Candies
Whether you pass it out at the door or make it for a party treat, homemade
candy is always a favorite. Use Wilton's Halloween
Pretzel Mold and Candy Melts™
to create wickedly fun chocolate or vanilla covered pretzels or breadsticks.
Try Wilton's Candy Color
Sets or purchase Candy Melts
in various fall colors to make vivid orange pumpkins and green leaves for a
decorative touch.
Wilton's solid chocolate and vanilla flavored candies and lollipops are wonderful to make and eat! Pick from an assortment of new Mini Ghost & Pumpkin, Dancing Skeletons Lollipop, Mummies Lollipop or Tombstone Candy Molds. In addition, Wilton's Fright Night Lollipops with tombstones, scary witches, blood-sucking vampires, flying bats, jack-o-lanterns and ghosts are great party gifts that can be easily packaged in Wilton's Dancing Skeletons Treat Boxes and Bags!
Horrific Haunted House Sugar Cookie
Summon the spirits this Halloween with an eerie sugar cookie in Wilton's
new Haunted House Pan. This
terrifying dessert is decorated with Wilton's Tube Decorating Icings, Wilton's Pumpkin Face and Petite
Spider & Bat Icing Decorations and an assortment of chocolate candy
pieces. Stop the ghosts in the cookie's windows from wreaking havoc on
the party by adding chocolate wafer cookie shutters to keep them inside!
Frightening Festivities
When the sun goes down and the autumn moon fills the sky, gather the
kids and their friends for a party fit for the undead! Give the party a "Boo-st"
by turning your front yard into a graveyard with cardboard tombstones and fake
hands reaching up from the ground. Or transform your kitchen into a laboratory
with beakers and test tubes filled with green Jell-O‘, plastic skeletons
in lab coats and dim lighting. Rent a smoke machine for a night that would send
Dr. Frankenstein running in fear!
The children's stomachs will growl like werewolves with a few laps around the block in a wickedly fun costume parade. End the parade with a feast of cookies, cake and candies fit for a goblin king.
Ghastly Ghostly Games
- Witchy Wart: Find a large picture of an ugly Halloween witch and hang it on any wall or door. Have the children chew a piece of gum, blindfold them, spin them around and have them put the wad of gum on the witch. Put the wart on her nose and win!
- Musical Tombstones: Put as many paper tombstones as there are children on the floor in a circle. While playing Halloween tunes, have the children walk around the tombstones like menacing zombies. When the music stops, they have to lay down with their head on a tombstone. Each time the music plays – take away a tombstone until a single winner is left in the graveyard!
- Miss Mummy USA Pageant: Give a group of children two rolls of toilet paper. Each group has to transform a willing "victim" into a bloodcurdling mummy in two minutes. May the best mummy win!
- Pumpkin Bowling: Cover 2-liter bottles with white handkerchiefs and decorate them like scary ghosts. Then fill the bottles with a small amount of water to weigh them down and place them together in your backyard. Each child will attempt to knock the ghostly pins down by rolling a pumpkin at them. The child that knocks the most over wins!
Chilling Crazy Crafts
- Spooky Art: Cover a wall in your basement or garage with paper or old newspapers. Then give the children water-based fluorescent paint and let them paint the wall with their favorite Halloween drawings. Turn off the lights and turn on a black light for an eerie and extremely cool effect everyone will enjoy.
- Pumpkin Carving: Traditional, but always fun! Give a small group of children a pumpkin, pipe cleaners, felt, glitter and markers and watch them transform produce into terrifying creations.
Creepy Crawly Candies
Horrific Haunted House Sugar Cookie
