Kids’ Halloween Party With Budget Friendly Decorations
It’s spooky month, friends! Let’s have some fun!
I enjoy all aspects of Halloween decor. The vintage, the new, the spooky, creepy, and fun. Each year I make sure to do something specifically kid friendly for my son. This year I put together a snack party. It was fun, with some yummy treats. The whole look was done using a mixture of budget friendly and DIY items. Here’s how to recreate this look for yourself.
Fill Negative Space
Paper bats make a big statement, and fill negative space, such as empty walls, providing a great backdrop to your party.
DIY: If crafting is your thing, making these bats yourself is as easy as cutting out the shape and folding the wings to your liking. There are tons of tutorials on how to do this online, if you need a little help.
Budget Friendly: If you’d rather buy them, you can get more than one hundred bats for under ten dollars these days. Amazing!
DIY Party Decoration
DIY: For this party I created these cute ghost pics to dress up the popcorn baskets. It was as easy as printing out the images on paper (kraft paper here), cutting the images out and attaching them to cocktail pics with some tape. If you draw well, you could also draw an image on kraft paper for a more unique look.
I found a few more spooky-fun images to use throughout the rest of the space, and ended up printing them out and creating paper coasters for the place settings. Same process, of printing, and cutting the images out. Again, so cute, so easy, and budget friendly. I even took a few of the smaller bats from the set I purchased, and used them to adorn the paper cups. If you’d like something less 3-D, you could always draw an image onto the cup too.
Budget Friendly: Luckily the availability of these types of picks has come a long way, and you can find them premade with many different characters for a fair price.
Snack Board
DIY/Budget Friendly: This part was so simple. Fill a serving board with your preferred treats. Here we used Oreo’s dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with Halloween themed sprinkles. Pretzels, candy, and cute marshmallow ghosts made by snipping the bottoms with scissors, and attaching googly-eyed sprinkles to the “face”, help make this a Halloween specific display.
Place Setting
Budget Friendly: Bamboo paper plate holders worked great as a base to our Halloween themed paper plates. I found these adorable ghost shaped plates and skeleton themed napkins at HomeGoods, and displayed them on the bamboo plates. With kids, paper plates are a sure bet, but if you’d like something more substantial there are plenty of melamine, or ceramic Halloween themed plate out there at a good price.
Curated for You
So you see, it’s possible to get that social media worthy look on a budget, and I encourage you to try your hand at DIY if you have the time. It’s so much fun to see your efforts enjoyed!
