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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Last year we did a Hallowe'en party for my four year old. Had lots of fun. We did all or decorations ourselves.

I made tombstones for the front yard out of the 2" dense panel insulation. Just use a band saw or utility knife to cut the shapes and then use a utility knife to cut in the names, dates, other decorations. Use black paint to fill in the dates and stuff and then grey paint while the black is still a little wet to finish off the entire tombstone. A couple of wooden dowels in the bottom and you can set them up wherever in the yard.

I made paper mache heads and painted them green and strung them in the trees (one I made into a piñata and the kids had a blast whacking it and the rest of the heads out of the trees.

The main decorating inside the house was the sunroom windows which I did a spooky sunset outline by gluing tissue paper from red to orange to yellow to green (from sky to earth) on the outside. Then I used stick tack and stuck up a haunted house outline, some tombstones and some spooky clouds. I used a spotlight in the sunroom to illuminate the whole thing. It ended up working really well.

I also used tin cans and punched holes in them in the shape of spooky faces and then put candles inside as lanterns for the front step. I also used construction paper to make the door look like a giant mouth with big teeth.

Probably not all that scary for teens, but my son and I had a blast doing everything. We even made a couple more tombstones this year.

I will try to dig up some photos tonight.

Thanks, the tombstone idea we can do and it is brilliant !!!

The purpose is not only to have a good party, but foremost to have my kids do the things themselves which I personally think is all the fun and a nice holiday activity, as we are as of yesterday on a 10 day break from school. So we are going to do every day something for the party, which will culminate on the Saturday 31st (obviously). And then.. they'll have to clean on Sunday, which I hope we'll manage to turn into a fun activity too....