Party Like a MonSTAR

Welcome Halloween 2020.  Now what to do?  Let the kids sit with you in the car while you get some drive-by candy (hours in the car with my kids does make me think of doom)?  Risk house to house? Sit at home?

orrrr

Party like a MonSTAR!  

  

After much debate and last minute planning, I decided to host my own small, intimate soiree for the family this year.  

The soiree- like me.  

Waiting until the day of to set up- unlike me.  

I have never in all my life worked as hard as I did to get things ready this year.  By the end of the night, all I could do was fall asleep with my skeleton pants on and orange, glitter glue shadow stuck to my eyes.  Today my muscles hurt from head to toe and I can barely move.   I've already asked D. to go out for more Tylenol.  Sometimes my ADHD forgets I'm over 40!!  

If it wasn't for my two kids, there is NO WAY we would have pulled it off.  We actually made pretty good memories before the party.  Of course there were some unexpected hitches:  me racing across the yard to secure scavenger hunt items, making an ice glove for the punch bowl only for it to melt into my freezer and stay permanently stuck there,

goal

reality

or my favorite when Connor and I were setting up the Autopsy Table and we forgot to tape the witches hands down- yes those are hands! 🤣

And I didn't even take a picture of Carlee and me trying to put on fake purple eyelashes....disaster.  We looked like we had caterpillars stuck to our eyes.  

Somehow, it all came together even though I was still "setting up" as our goblin guests arrived.  While I didn't get to sit down from 7am to 10pm, the event brought me a lot of joy and we had Fang-tastic Time!

Join us for our 

MonStar Mash

The Scavenger Hunt:

This was a lot of fun and you can put the whole thing together with 1.00 tree items.

I was a little extra with TONS of candy but we had real food too.

Graveyard Crackers 

(you can write RIP on the crackers with an edible ink pen... found on Amazon)

Blood Bags?  Alien Blood? Zombie Juice?

Pizza

My Favorite

Are you willing to take the Skittle Challenge?

There is ONE "Rotten Zombie" flavor in each bag and I understand it is disgusting!

Glow in the Dark Slime

The Mummy Challenge

Web Challenge:

Yarn & Strobe Light 

Make Up & Selfie Station:

I tried to make this a game but I made the checklist too long.  At this time I was just too tired to structure it.

Make Up Station

Glow in the Dark Tattoos 

Selfie Area

Basement of Doom 

w/ Fog Machine

Oobleck and Pumpkin Station

(just put in gummy snakes, eye balls, and bugs and let them feel around)

We are not big fans of horror but I made an Autopsy Table for that one time I took care of a "sassy teen".  There were bags filled with brains (noodles), eyes (raspberries),  heart (canned tomato), etc.

Connor's friend dressed up as the boy from Up-

I loved it! She was adorable. 

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Happy Halloween