Ideas for a Halloween (Birthday) Party for Toddlers

Posted by Sheri Reed

on October 8, 2009 at 7:00 AM

Photo by AshBayGrammy

A Halloween-themed birthday party is surely in my future — since my son Leo's birthday is on October 29th.

Not this year, but I'm collecting good ideas for a kid-friendly Halloween party.

Here are some great Halloween-themed party for toddlers from CafeMoms:

What to Eat:

Hollow out a pumpkin to use for dip and chips and make pumpkin cookies (suggestion by ohwrite)
Tombstone desserts: prepare chocolate pudding in clear plastic cups. Stick a vanilla wafer “gravestone” in each cup, with one half beneath the pudding surface and the other half sticking up and draw an outline of the grave in decorating gel (suggestion by Fate31307)
Make a pumpkin-shaped cake with two bundt cakes stuck together bottom to bottom. (suggestion by branda32)
Serve Cheesy Fingers, Chocolate Ghost Suckers, and Frightfully Easy Ghost Cookies (as seen in CafeMom's Food & Party Buzz)

What to Do:

Have a costume party....the adults can dress up too (suggestion by ILuvkaykay)
Decorate pumpkins: use crayola paints, markers, glue, and anything you can find to embellish them: feathers, googly eyes, sequins. (suggestion by branda32)
Build a skeleton: cut out large skeletons bones from construction paper in different colors. Group teams by color, and the first team to find their color bones and put their skeleton together wins. (suggestion by jewjewbee)
"Bob" for donuts: tie donuts on strings and let the kids try to bite the donuts. (suggestion by jewjewbee)
Play pin the leaf on the tree. (suggestion by lilmomma20; I really love this type of simple, eco-friendly game)
Miniature pumpkins as party favors: paint the kids' names on them to make them personal. (suggestion from me!)

What fun ideas do you have for a toddler Halloween party — birthday or non?

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About the author Sheri Reed

is a writer and the Entertainment, News & Sports editor for The Stir. She loves a good film, watches lots of good TV and follows Ryan Gosling's every move because she has to -- for work.

Filed Under: activities, birthdays, food, halloween

Comments (5)

cozycabinmom

on Oct 8, 2009 at 8:37 AM

what a great photo!

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athenax3

on Oct 8, 2009 at 9:13 AM

Cool thanks so much for posting, I'll have to keep these things in mind as we are due at the end of October, and I'm sure Halloween birthday parties will likely come into play, and I've been wondering about them. I also really love that picture, super cute!

Ems629

on Oct 8, 2009 at 3:22 PM

Thanks so much! DD's B'day is the 30th, and she'll be two. I've been wracking my poor addled brain for toddler friendly party ideas they'll enjoy. We're doing chocolate cupcakes filled with pumpkin ice cream, topped with colored whipped cream. That's as far as I'd got.LOL

CourtnieR

on Oct 14, 2009 at 11:51 AM

do you think that iam havin my daughters party 2 soon if she was born on nov 11. i want 2 have th party the weekend b 4

MommaTasha1003

on Oct 15, 2009 at 11:43 PM

DD was also born on halloween..its great! Especially since we have been huge fans of halloween since before dd was thought of..

also my maiden name is very wicked -- to bad we couldnt keep my name! (doom)...

This year halloween is on a saturday & i dont think it will come again until dd is 10! so im guessing her 10th bday party will be a blowout bash!

I do worry as a mom to a girl.. that one day she may try walking out of the house with something on that resembles something a lil more than her bday suit *screams* for halloween!