HALLOWEEN BIRTHDAY

J-25 It's time to scare yourself by telling yourself that you're not far from already late! The good news is that you know your theme: Halloween.

J-25 always – The choice of cardboard. It's a bit like choosing a candy or a spell! It's choosing! And choosing in September is a bit like shooting yourself in a hole-riddled foot. So DIY cardboard or ready-made cardboard ?

J-25 always – I hesitate, a pop-up origami bat winks at me. I start making a box to measure the time it takes me… On D-25, for some reason I don't know, I still have a crazy ambition. For some reason that I don't know, that ambition wanes as the party approaches.

J-20 I packed all the boxes, two per night! I have to say I'm super proud. I ask the child (my daughter) who is going to celebrate her birthday to get involved a little. The child invests weakly. I put pumpkin, broom, cat stamps under his nose… The child makes lines of stamps on the envelopes and explains to me that he has written sentences in emoji!! I'm freaking out. I suddenly feel overwhelmed. The child is 8 years old. I'm going to fill the boxes, it seems preferable to me if I don't want to find an exquisite corpse there.

J-17 It's time to have a little idea of ​​what you're going to do. If you are on this page, you have decided to do everything yourself and the good news is that the following list is exhaustive and very thoughtful and should allow you to make your own list. . Which should take your mental load down a notch. I love that, the mental load.

J-15 It's time to order or buy what you need depending on the games and workshops you have chosen!

J-10 I'm going to flirt with my baker. Then, once he's won over, I explain to him that I'll need 10 bags of bread for 10 days from now. Of course, I can come and take one a day if it suits him. He says yes. On the strength of this essential success for the smooth running of the party, I go around the neighborhood and I stop at each trader to ask them if Friday evening in 9 days, I could give them candies that the children will come to ask them on Saturday in 10 days then. This paragraph is an enigma, but you will understand later!

J-10 le soir - This is my favorite moment. The moment when I imagine my outfit. Not the child's, but mine! And Halloween is a bit of a field of possibilities. For me, my ultimate reference in terms of Halloween is The Addams Family. And my favorite character is Wednesday. It was important to define my outfit at this stage of the story in relation to my mental load which was not far from overflowing. And then D-10 of the party, I'm in the middle of fashion week so it works for me necessarily.

J-7 Preparing the playlist, printing printables, printing the list of Halloween games...

J-1Evening - on returning from work – In great shape, September is finally over so it's not far from being a party, I'm going to talk to all my traders and I'll leave them a packet of candy for tomorrow! Always the enigma that you will understand in the hard D-Day unfolding.

J-1Evening - in my kitchen – I prepare everything that can be done in advance so as not to scare me tomorrow morning. I make the shortbread dough in double doses (for the shortbread and for my modeling clay workshop), I make my piñata cake, I make my spider cookies. The result is amazing!

J-1- Always in the evening - now in my living room - I do most of my Halloween decorations. I hang cobwebs above the table, I install pennant garlands to create a slightly crazy decor. Tomorrow, I will make a forest of balloons just below, but that will be tomorrow. I don't want my balloons to deflate overnight.

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⏰ D-DAY ⏰

9h - I am ready. Not dressed, not made up, but ready. In all honesty, I could stay like that, since I haven't removed my makeup, I have just the right smoky eye. I feel pretty good. I am very fashion week 2019. Report to my gothic look. I am in phase.

9h05 - I have to concentrate. The child is stamping. The child wants to participate. The child utters cries which vary between the bellow of a wolf and that of the rattle of a ghost at the end of its life. Difficult to be closer to what I hear. I take the treasures out of my box: severed fingers, ghost tattoos, witch noses and a candy box filled with little pumpkins from boo plates! The child is speechless! I make stacks (a candy stack, a gift stack, a sticker stack, a pocket stack) and the child fills the gift bags for his friends.

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10 h - I inflate the balloons (which I chose black, orange and purple, in the shape of a skeleton), I give them to the child who installs them by weighting them with balloon weights (which I chose black in relation to the theme ), I set the table with orange-black-purple crockery and batwing napkins. I do not forget my rosettes in giant cobwebs! The effect is guaranteed! The child makes a decoration with sugar eyes. It's downright hot. The child adds spiders, of all sizes. It's the perfection !

11 h - While the child is making shortbread cookies in the shape of a haunted castle, pumpkin, owl and bat, I read my SHE. Well yes, I remind you that it is Saturday and that there are rituals which it is impossible to derogate from. My horoscope says the start of the week will be amazing. The start of the week for ELLE is Saturday, isn't it? Once the cookies are baked, the child adds sweet eyes to them (the same as those on the table) with edible glue.

12 h - I ask my husband, who is also my buddy, to take care of the pumpkin and the pumpkin clementines. I give him everything he needs: clementine, pumpkin, food felt, eyes, teeth, knife. I tell myself that in terms of investment, it should be manageable. I'm going to finish my ELLE. Pumpkins, I can't!

13 h - We have lunch on a corner of the table compared to the snack table which is already set up...

14 h - We get dressed, we make up. I am Wednesday. I am perfect. The child is not bad. Nah, I'm joking. The child could have served as a muse for Miyazaki to draw Kiki's Delivery Service. The child has a black cape, a black tutu, high socks, checkered vans and a black pointed hat. The child is amazing!

15 h - They're all here. A horde of ghosts and witches. We present. I explain to them that despite my braids, I am of age and that it is I who will take care of them. Once the formalities are over, the party can begin. On the tone of confidence, you can say what the games will be and what the rule of the afternoon is: we all play together!

15h05 - We start with a Halloween quiz to get your brains working and remember that the party has a theme and that we are going to swear loyalty to it.

15h10 - Shall we warm up? I remind you that in the living dead there are alive! I offer you a One, Two, Three Sun. Yes the game for babies!! Consider that the sun is not the sun, but the moon! You'll be taking steps from werewolves, ghosts, undead, witches, cats, and now pumpkins!

15h15 - We are going to do a first workshop. I have prepared some colored modeling clay for you which is actually shortbread dough! With this dough, I would like you to make monster shortbread! When they are ready, we will put them in the oven. I let you make the most awful figurines in the world!

15h30 - We are now going to make pockets that will allow you to store your monster shortbreads when they are cooked!! To make these covers, we are going to take inspiration from a Djeco game which unfortunately no longer exists. This is Artisti'k. Each of you will choose a shape, draw its imprint. I will roll a dice which will allow us to determine how many ears, arms, noses, feet you will have to make and so should a monster appear!!

15h45 - Shall we stretch a little? You know the musical statues? And in its Halloween version, what does it look like? I would like you to transform into a spider statue! And now as a mummy, a cat, a bat, a skeleton...

15h55 - We're going to make a new workshop! I'm going to ask you to sit on the floor in a circle. I will explain to you what I expect from you. I'll let you chat for a few seconds while you take the shortbread out of the oven! Ok it's done. We are going to make Halloween costumes: monster costumes!!!

16h20 - Your costumes are just crazy! I invite you to come and take pictures! Strike a pose while making scary faces!!

16h35 - Don't take your costumes off!! We're going to have a Halloween parade. We're going to walk down the street looking for sweets! To get candies from strangers, you will have to formulate this sentence: a candy or a spell? Take your pockets to store your loot!

17h05 - It was great !! Want to taste??? Are we eating the monster shortbreads now or do you want to take them home? If you bring them back, come slip them into your pockets! And everyone at the table!

17h20 - Let's do a round. We are going to chain Halloween round games. We start with Funny grimaces.

17h28 - And now let's play The Assassin.

17h36 - Do not move, you know Poor little sick cat?

17h45 - Before you go to your parents. I need to let you in on a secret. I forgot the piñata in my room (if you don't have a piñata, you can hide another object, it also works with the cake, the gift of the musical gift…). You tell me, it's not very serious. But in reality, it's very serious, because the ticklish ogre is hiding there!!

17h55 - And now the opening of gifts!!!

18h00 - Hallelujah!!! I'm more dead than alive! So happy to see the monsters clearing out from my house! And they, too happy to leave with their pockets filled with candy, their disguises and a photo! It's still great to know that everyone is happy!

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Friendly advice (part 1): this count gives pride of place to the dream. This is the ideal birthday snack in my opinion. It doesn't take into account games that are brushed off by kids out of hand, it doesn't take into account kids who huff before you've even finished your sentence, and kids who want to skip over and over to the boss. orchestra. Don't hesitate to click on your child's age and pick games that have not been suggested in this list. There are plenty ! 

Friendly advice (part 2): I specify that these activities and these games also work for a Harry Potter birthday or a Kiki's Delivery Service party.

Friendly advice (part 3): I myself made a Kiki's Delivery Service birthday party for my daughter, Louison. She was 7 years old. The photos and its progress are the subject of a post in the community!