Throwing a Haunted Tea Party for kids
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A Haunted Tea Party for The Record Book

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. Before kids, my husband and I threw a pumpkin carving party annually and went all out with costumes. When Piper was born just 6 days before Halloween we knew the fun Halloween themed parties were bound to continue. Of course, they change quite a bit… fewer drinks and more bobbing for apples type stuff. For Piper’s 6th birthday, she requested a Haunted Tea Party & Costume Party. It turned out so cute!

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Creating a Haunted Tea Party

This might just be the easiest party ever if you already decorate for Halloween! We like to deck our home out in spooky Halloween decor, creating instant party decor for a costume party! The more decorations the better and the best part, you can leave it up for the whole month of October!

The Activities: 

I like to keep things simple for kid’s parties. They like the freedom to just play whatever they want. So we usually stick to 2 activities.

  • Lunch with “tea” (the tea was apple juice and fruit punch)
  • Pumpkin decorating
  • Dessert

On the kid’s menu:

Peanut Butter and Jelly Spider Sandwiches. Use pretzel sticks for the legs and raisins for the eyes. I used peanut butter to stick the eyes in place.

Halloween Party Food - Spider sandwiches

Jack-O-Lantern Cuties (tip: to draw on small oranges you need special paint pens. I tried markers and regular sharpies with no success)

Ghost Cheese Sticks (Not pictured) Just draw 2 eyes on the back of the plastic wrapper with your paint pen.

Extra fruit and crackers in bowls at the table.

A Halloween Charcuterie Board is a perfect appetizer for the party! Read more on how to make it HERE. 

Halloween Charcuterie Board with candles

Skeleton Charcuterie Board

I’m adding this skeleton charcuterie board to our Halloween traditions! We used an old broken skeleton from our Halloween decorations. I gave Mr. Skeleton a bath in the sink and used postal wrapping paper to line the table and then added popcorn, fruit, crackers, cheese, and some wrapped candy to make it a fun spooky spread! Using larger items like popcorn to help fill in space is really helpful!

Skeleton Snack Board for Halloween

For another spooky idea try these Monster Fruit Cups from Daily Momtivity

Hunted Tea Cups for the Tea Party

I bought teacups from The Good Will and drew spiderwebs on them to make “spooky teacups” these were probably my favorite detail at the party.

Haunted tea party DIY Tea Cups You can’t draw on porcelain cups with just any marker. Use these:

 

Want to learn how to draw spiderwebs? Here’s a quick spiderweb drawing tutorial. It’s so easy Piper helped with several of them!

 

Next up. Pick your own pumpkin then decorate it!

A Pumpkin Patch and Pumpkin Decorating.

We went to a local pumpkin patch and bought 20 small pumpkins to make our own pumpkin patch so the guests could pick which one they wanted. All you have to do is group them together and add a hand-drawn “Piper’s Pumpkin Patch” sign and you have a cute personal pumpkin patch!

DIY pumpkin patch

Since Piper was turning 6 we opted for pumpkin decorating instead of pumpkin carving. That way the kids could all just go for it without needing too much help from parents. Plus there was much less mess as pumpkin carving gets messy.

no carve pumpkin decorating

Decorating pumpkins no carveHalloween Party Craft Ideas

Everything you need for decorating pumpkins is linked.

 

For Dessert:

My friend Crystal from Mrs. K Teaches made Piper a really fun spooky cake! All the kids loved it.

DIY Haunted House Cake

Making my girls smile is what I live for! Piper had the best time at her Haunted Tea Costume Party and I can’t wait to see what she comes up with for a party theme this year!

 

Halloween Birthday Costume Party

 

 

I hope you find some ideas for creating your own Haunted Tea Party!

Happy Halloween!

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  • Carrie
    October 1, 2019 at 3:47 pm

    What a fun idea! Keeping it scary and classy!! Love it!

    • Alia Sullivan
      October 8, 2019 at 2:35 pm

      It was such a cute party! I wish I had taken more photos 🙂

  • Gladis Gutierrez
    October 1, 2019 at 11:20 pm

    Great idea can wait to plan this with my daughter and her cousins

    • Alia Sullivan
      October 8, 2019 at 2:35 pm

      If you end up doing it tag me in any photos I’d love to see them! 🙂 @aliajanel on Instagram