Paula Ross: Hi! I am Paula and I am from Andys Parties. Today we are telling how to throw a
terrific Halloween party for your kids and their friends at your home.
Right now, we are going to talk about invitations. There are several invitation
options out there to invite your kid’s friends to your house for a great party. You
can go to the party store and you can pick out any number of paper invitations and
those are great to fill in, specially, if you are going to mail. What I am going to
talk about today, if you are planning to hand out your invitation, there are some
really cool things you can do. Especially, to get your kids involved. One of my
favorite is actually using a pumpkin. Pumpkins are around in abundance this time
of the year. So, what I have done with this pumpkin is I have written all of the
details for my daughters Halloween party on the pumpkin. Halloween costume
party at Anna’s House, October 31st and the time and my phone number of
RSVP. If you plan to go this route, remember you have to use a Sharpie or a paint
pen on pumpkins. Washable markers, Felt Tip pens, they will rub right off but a
Sharpie or a paint pen wont.
Then you get your kids involved. Give them some Halloween stickers or some
paint pens of their own, if they are old enough and have them decorate the
pumpkins, with all of those materials. I get the stickers off here, so, they have
made it a little of their own, so all of their friends can come. And then when they
go to school and hand out their invitations, they are going to give everybody their
little pumpkin to take home. Now if you don’t want to go route to pumpkin, and
you want to get something a little more practical to the kids, you could always use
their treat bucket. And you can write all of the details on back of pumpkin treat
bucket and hand them out to all the kids and let them know that they need to bring
their treat buckets back to the party to collect all of their goodies. If you are
planning to mail your invitations and you want something a little more creative,
use a treat sack. A big Halloween treat sack that the kids can take trick-or-
treating. We like this one because its metallic and it shines, its very reflective and
so its a safety element to trick-or-treating. Put a blank white sticker on back and
put all of your details on that party and then you could fold it up very nicely, like
this and flip it in an envelope and mail it just as would a regular package.
Today we have covered some interesting and creative ideas to make some simple
invitations and next we are going to talk about party food.