I'm sure by now you are all sick of hearing about Halloween, but I had to share a few more photos of Oscar & Audrey's double birthday party. My friend, Sonja, and I put so much work into it, but it was such a great time! Both of the birthday kids were in Halloween heaven.
I wish I had taken more photos of the decorations! Sonja's house looked awesome - she made several cute felt buntings, including the bats pictured above. There were also decorated lanterns, lots of
bat silhouettes, and a
gigantic yarn spiderweb that covered an entire wall in her hallway.
I made a simple cake (vanilla with blackberry filling and chocolate frosting), and decorated the top with cardstock cutouts (made with my
Silhouette) to look like a haunted house, or "house of spooks" as Oscar called it. Sonja made yummy nutella mini cupcakes, decorated with the
cupcake toppers. Sonja's husband, Jake, cooked up a delicious dinner of pulled pork burritos with all the fixings, and we also had clementines dressed up as jack-o-lanterns, spooky mummy sugar cookies on a stick, cookie bones, and brownies with cute jack-o-lantern wrappers (there was no shortage of treats).
Since the kids were mostly 3-years an under, we kept the activities simple. After handing out the
treat bags Sonja and I made, we sent them on a mini trick-or-treat to the doors inside her house. The kids received stickers, spider rings, a piece of candy, and a pumpkin-wrapped brownie. Afterward, we sent them outside to break open a pinata to fill their bags with a few more treats.
We ended the evening with cake, of course. After Audrey beat Oscar to the punch of blowing out the candles, we re-lit them at least five more times. I hope they got all their wishes in.
You can find many of the ideas and tutorials from projects mentioned above linked on my
Halloween Party Pinterest Board.
