So I have always always always wanted to have a Halloween party but with Josey's birthday being in October it was just not going to happen. But then two things happened. First Joseph decided to wait until November to have his birthday party so he would be able to have a firetruck come (it wasn't working out for October). Then one of his friends (and her mom) asked me if I could do a Halloween party. Um yeah!

So here tis'.....(hopefully with more pictures to come)

First they made a science goggle craft.

Then we had pizza and drinks while watching The Nightmare Before Christmas (which is the very best Christmas movie ever by the way).

Then a wee walk through the "Creepy Kitchen" -

In case you're curious - spaghetti & jelly = guts, cauliflower soaked in water and smeared with jelly = brain, peeled grapes smeared in jelly = eyeballs, two peeled roma tomatoes smeared in jelly = lungs, pebbles in liquid starch = teeth in spit, cornsilk = hair

After Creepy Kitchen they each got a sack and two glow bracelets to go through the maze. Inside the maze were 5 spots that they had to stop and pick up 6 different little glow in the dark critters (snakes, scorpions, ants, centipedes, etc.) from before they could exit.

Unfortunately I found this cage the day AFTER the party

The right hand is a glove so I could grab their hand when they reached in it to get a bug

Amy was also in there chasing them around with a freaky alien costume. Jacob did not like the maze. I played the X-files theme song for it and even just that creeped him out.

But onto the games....

The first game was Spider Web - They had to start on one end and move their spider ring through the web to the other end where it was attatched to their goody bags

Then they sat in a circle and played Love Potion #9. They passed around 4 little jars of ingrediants - Wax of ears, Tongue of Snake, Feather of Vulture, and Eye of Newt. When the music stopped anyone that had an ingrediant got to add it to their bottle. First one to complete their potion (John) won a mask. Everyone got little Love Potion #9 tape gum.
Next was Pass the Pumpkin - really simple one, when the music stops whoever has the pumpkin opens it up, picks out a Halloween eraser, then goes and sits on the step, the last person left (Josey) won a little grim reaper candy head thingy

Then they split up into two groups.

One group played Build Blood - Each jar already had plasma (light corn syrup). They had to follow the poster and add with tweezers 10 red blood cells (hot tamales), 5 white blood cells (mini marshmallows) and 10 platelets (sprinkles). The winner got a vampire rubber ducky.

The other group played two shorter games - Straw-o-lantern where they had to pick up the different parts of the jack-o-lanterns face with a straw and place them on the right spot. Everyone got to keep their straw and the winner got a jack-o-lantern rubber ducky.

Then Macaroni and Teeth where they had to find three of their color of teeth in the colored macaroni. Everyone got gummy Pirate's Choppers. After both groups played both games the two winners from Mac & Teeth (John and Gracey) played each other to win a vampire sucker.

Pick a Duck - they picked I think 3 ducks and added up the numbers to see how many candies they got to pick from the Candy Drawer. If they got a duck that said Prize they won a pencil

Here's the candy drawer post party - clearly they are not big fans of banana laffy taffy

Rats in Trash - They got one candy for each rat they found in the trash before the timer went off. The winner (Ben) got to keep the big white rat and then everyone found one rat to keep.

Eyeball Toss - For each point they got to pick one piece of candyfrom the drawer and the one with the most points (Avery) got to keep the ball

Next were the three blindfolded games.

Digging for G0ld - I cut off little chunks of red, blue, green, and gold crayons and mixed them in with some nice lil snotty slimey goo. They got different points depending on the color.

Pin the Brain on Jane - Everyone got to get a skull sucker from Ned's Head and the winner (Gracey) got a squishy skull

Everyone got to pick a skull sucker out of Ned's Head

Can ya Catch a Pumpkin? - Whatever number was on the pumpkins they caught were how many candies they got to pick out from the drawer

Then there was the Knock 'em Down which Jake and Emily kind of made up one day. I set the witch up on the rail trying to decide where to put her and one of them threw something at her and knocked her down. Add a few more things beside her and there ya go, another game.

The last game was Assemble the Assistant - there was one rhyming clue for each kiddo to find two hands, a head, two eyes, and a heart. They added each part to the "body" on the couch/lab bed and then went outside to flip the switch. So of course whiles they were outside Adam put on the gloves and mask and such and replaced the body. We turned on creepy breathing on the mp3 player, uncovered him, he jumped up....and Ben for one totally freaked out. He went running screaming back and forth in the maze, till I grabbed him and said It's Daddy. "Oh".

Assistant Assembled it was time to go outside to the Laboratory -

Being the Nutty Professor or whatever and all I took zero pictures of the experiments. Adam was my designated picture taker but he was inside putting Jakers to bed so I'm hoping someone at the party maybe took some they'll send me. We shall see...

Here is the list of the experiments at least (most with Steve Spangler video links)...

Safety/Do Not Open bottle - poke holes in bottle, fill up with water and close, write DO NOT OPEN on bottle, water stays in bottle until you open the top, I did my whole lil you have to listen, don't do anything I say not to do, etc., then said I was thirsty, should I drink it? http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/content/science-video/do-not-open

Lava Lamps - http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/content/science-video/bubbling-potions

Runaway Pepper - this one you just sprinkle pepper over a bowl of water, stick your finger in and nothing happens but when I stick my (dipped in dish soap) finger in the pepper "runs away"

Nutty Balloons - aka screaming balloons http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/content/science-video/screaming-balloon-demo-video

Diaper Science - This one was by far my favorite. First just like in the video I had 3 cups (one had the polymer in it) pour water in one, move them all around, ask which has the water, you turn them all upside down and nothing comes out of any of them because the polymer powder has turned the water into gel, the look of total confusion on some of their faces was great but even better was the diaper. I showed them my measuring cup with nothing but water in it, let them watch me add the yellow food coloring into it before I poured it into the diaper but still a couple of them would not even touch the thing. I thought it was hilarious. http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/content/science-video/the-baby-diaper-secret

Oobleck - just the classic cornstarch and water, feels solid then liquid

Goo Jiggly - kind of slime then turns more into a gooey jiggly ball

Gas Bags - Put a small ziploc of vinegar in a big ziploc with baking soda in it, pop open the vinegar bag, shake and the bag poofs right up http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/content/experiment/puff-pop-how-to-make-a-co2-sandwich

Blow up Balloons - vinegar and baking soda again, vinegar in the bottle, baking soda in the balloon, attatch the balloon to top of bottle, pour in baking soda, watch the balloon blow up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmzBf3XGsOE&feature=fvw

Alka Seltzer Rockets - can't believe how simple this one was, 3/4 full of water film canister, add 1/2 tablet of alka seltzer, put on lid, shake, set down, move back, watch top pop off http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/content/experiment/00000068

Volcanoes - the classic vinegar and baking soda experiment, I had my big one that the boys and I made over the summer, and they each had their own mini volcanoe

Mentos/Diet Coke Geysers - short but sweet http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/content/science-video/mentos-fountain

Ze end (in weird mad scientisty voice of course)

Oh and pictures of the boys in costumes are here: fentrio.blogspot.com (my ramble-free (for the most part) photo blog, because two blogs is better then one..or something)