I hope you had a great Halloween, I certainly did! My sister threw a fabulous fancy dress party, and it was a lot of fun.
Ben and I decided to get masks for each other, and I bought him a really scary pirate head and neck mask and he bought me a scary goblin face mask, with hat – both from Giggle Gadgets. They’re really high quality (mainly) rubber masks and it was such fun scaring the kids with them!
Keith decided that he would rather spend the
evening with his friends and chose not to go to the party (he's at that age), but my other kids
went and had a great time.
Simon was dressed as a vampire pirate. He wore a
lovely blue, white and black pirate costume from Cachet Kids, complete with
pirate hat and sword. And we vamped him up him with some special effects make-up
and fake blood from Giggle Gadgets. He absolutely loved the costume and managed to stay in character most of the evening.
Crissy was
dressed in a witch’s outfit which she and I had made together last year. The outfit comprised: a long black dress with a jagged hemline, a large black pointed hat
and a black haired wig made of wool. It just needed a few alterations for it to fit again this year. We didn’t bother with a paper mache nose this year as last year as it was more trouble than it was worth.
Finally, Sarah was dressed as a Pink Princess in a gorgeous Frilly Milly costume from Cachet Kids. She loves dressing up as a fairly and she looked particularly adorable in her costume.
Anyway, we ate lots of good food, drank lots of
lovely drink and played lots of fun games (as is the norm at our family’s
parties). One of my favourite games has to be ‘inflatable dodgeball’, invented
by Ben (or so he claims). You split into two teams and occupy two sides of a room
with a divider across the middle. (We used some Halloween bunting.) Each team
member is given an inflatable (like an inflatable guitar, hammer, sword, etc) and a balloon.
You can only touch the balloons with your inflatable and the idea is to hit
members of the opposing team anywhere on their bodies with a balloon bashed by
your inflatable. When you get hit you have to sit the game out until all of
your team are similarly out, then the whole team is back in play. Every time a whole team
is knocked out like this the opposing team gets a point and the first team to get to ten
points wins! It’s very tiring but a lot of fun. 