The One with Prepping for Fox's First Birthday


Monday, September 5, 2011

I feel like I've waited 26 years to throw this party! Ever since I can remember I've loved Halloween to (Reese's) Pieces. Pun intended ;) Last weekend I sat down and started flipping through all my Martha Stewart Halloween magazines, Pinterest, random papers I've collected through the years, the internet, so on and so forth, and pillaged and pilfered my favorite ideas to bring to life. I'm sooooo happy Fox was born in October so I have a major excuse to have a Halloween party! God must have had this in mind when we didn't get pregnant the first couple months ;) I love having an October baby! So, the following is my inspiration, things I want to create, bake, make, and more for Fox's first birthday/Halloween party.

This is the "patch of grass" where the party will take place. I hope I can transform it into how I envision it in my mind's eye!
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It seems like everybody uses e-vites now, but if I were a really ambitious person, I'd love to make these for the invitation:
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Halloween party inspiration:
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Then comes the food! Here's a clean and classic food table:
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Jars filled with candy decorated with cute tags seems easy enough:
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Candy corn pizza! Genius! Start with mozzarella in a circle in the center, followed by a ring of dark cheddar, finished with a ring of lighter cheddar:
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Clear gloves with candy corn in the tips and filled with popcorn:
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Candy shishkabobs:
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These plastic bag/black pipecleaner spiders should be pretty simple and cheap to make:
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Bring on the pumpkin cookies and bread!
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Guacamoldy with Ghoulish Dippers! Fuuuuun! That Martha thinks of everything...
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Oranges gutted and filled with orange sorbet:
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To hold the dark brown, orange, purple, and green colored drinks - a large carved out pumpkin filled with ice:
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Chocolate carmel pretzel rods (but use Halloween colored sprinkles and such) - Alisha - I need your recipe!!!
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Witch's fingers!
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Spiderweb eggs:
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The perfect Halloween sugar cookies:
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If people have to come inside to use the bathroom, they'll have to come to the front porch which I want to look like this:
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Then they'll have to walk up the stairs so the banister should look like this:
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And then maybe they'll see our fireplace, in which case it HAS to look like this :)
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Next: decorations! I want to make spooky gravestones and line them around the patch of grass:
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I'm still debating whether to just make or buy them... here's a great tutorial for making them:
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The table centerpiece: a styrofoam head wrapped like a mummy:
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Dangle "moth-eaten curtains" (aka tattered cheesecloth) from the trees and over the chairs/tables:
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Make dozens of shrunken apple heads and dangle them from the tree and use as decoration:
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Wrap white pumpkins and candles with black lace:
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In addition to the tattered cheesecloth, place fake spider webbing with fake plastic spiders e'erywhere.
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Games to play: Bob for Apples. And that's all I have for now in that department... game suggestions welcome!
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Other: Paint my nails like this:
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And print this:
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Last but certainly not least: this is what I want Fox to be for Halloween (what do you think Dald?) And, I can't decide if the party should be costumed or not? I say YES :) At least for the little kids.
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I am soooo counting down the days until October 15th! (Fox's birthday is on the 14th, but that's a Friday so the hubbies will be in school and there's a Relief Society activity that night. I better send out invites soon eh? Gotta save the date!)

22 comments

  1. my daughter was born on Oct 30. I always wonder, is it cool to have a halloween birthday party, or is it taking away the joy of a plain old birthday party? I mean, for a 1st birthday I guess that doesnt really matter. But she is turning 6 and wants a halloween birthday party this year, so I am struggling with how to add birthday and halloween together...

    but thanks for sharing this, I am totally looking up some of these!

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  2. I have lovedLOVEDloved Halloween forever, but more of the childish type than the scary stuff. So, I'll admit, my stomach turned at a couple of these photos (the mummy centerpiece is gonna stay with me in my nightmares)-- but I still think each of these projects are so cool. Fox will love it.

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  3. bobbing for donuts (powdered sugar ones hanging from a tree limb by some yarn) is pretty fun, too :)

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  4. So much inspiration. Makes me want to celebrate HAlloween even though we don't really do here in Belgium. Lucky Fox (oh I really LOVE that name!)

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  5. Wow. Just wow. Sensory overload. I might have to pin every single one of these images! Amazing!

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  6. Looks like fun! Can't wait to see it all together. I'm sure it will be awesome since you are so creative.

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  7. PS. I think costumes would be fun...especially for the little ones!

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  8. That's awesome Paige. Your party will be fabulous! Great minds think alike....one of my ideas was to have one boy be Clark Kent and the other superman....fox will be darling as that though :)

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  9. OH MY GOOOODNESS---I had no idea you loved Halloween! And so lucky that Fox's bday is that month!!! WHAT inspiration! WOW! I love the invites--that would be super fun to send out! I cannot wait to see how you transform that "patch of grass"! LOOOOOOVE!

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  10. Those spiders remind me of what our G'ma does every Halloween. She gets a bunch of Tootsie Pops and ties a Kleenex over them, then decorates with eyes and mouths so they look like ghosts.

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  11. October is my FAVORITE month!!!

    I can't wait to see what you cook up for Fox's big day!!! :)

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  12. Ah I can't wait to see all your ideas come to life. This is going to be awesome!

    Another simple game the kids can play is pin the spider on the spider web? It's pretty much like pin the tail on the donkey but use spider webs & little cute spiders instead. I don't know.. something I just thought of at the spur of the moment lol.

    I'm sure you'll have much better ideas & suggestions from other readers `=]

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  13. omgosh Paige, I wish I were your neighbor/friend and could help you decorate! This is going to be the party of the year and I cannot wait to see what you come up with, I am sure it will be spooktacular!

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  14. My and both of my son's bdays are in October and I always decorate their party with halloween decorations. I love all your inspirations pics Im sure it will be great! Enjoy those years while you can still pick what they dress up as too ;)

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  15. Wow, so much inspiration! I vote for costumes, and can't wait to see your house all decorated up!

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  16. Yeah! I LOOOOOVE halloween parties too! I threw one for all of our neighborhood kids and it still goes down as the BEST party EVER! SOOO fun to plan! A big hit with the kids was "mummy dogs" Fearless Franks wrapped in crescent rolls to look like mummies and bakes. Leave a bit of space for two tiny mustard eyes after they cool down.
    I can't wait to see what you create!

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  17. Emailing you the recipe now, Paige! It's going to be soooooooooo stinkin' cute!

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  18. this is awesome!! can't wait to see pictures. happy birthday fox!! and my votes for parents wearing costumes too! lol
    Xo

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  19. Paige, it looks amazing... hoping I'll be off bedrest so I can see it! If not I'll have to see it though pictures! How fun!

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  20. FUN! You are so creative! Wow, so many cool ideas! Wish we lived closer :) Well, were you inviting friends or just family? Either way I am JEALOUS!!

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  21. Umm... you know you only have like 5-ish weeks left, right?! ;-)

    Heeeee! Love all your ideas. And that costume is way too cute. :-) I already have Hattie's costume idea in mind. Just need to get her outfit now. Probably tomorrow or the day after... :-) It's SUPER simple, but SUPER cute. Stay tuned. ;-)

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