Every year during the month of October, our family gears up for our annual vacation to Disneyland to enjoy all the Halloween festivities the park has to offer. From the spooky-cute attractions and parades to the deliciously spootacular treats, we think it's the best time of year to be in Disneyland.
To ramp up the excitement before our trip, I thought it would be fun to throw a Mickey Mouse themed party before we headed to The Most Magical Place on Earth!
My daughter invited a few of her buddies over for a fun-filled afternoon with lots of yummy treats and activities.
This adorable candy corn inspired Mickey pumpkin was so quick and easy to create. Using aceramic pumpkin, I painted stripes in orange, yellow and white...just like a candy corn! Then I used my Cricut Machine to cut out buttons and Mickey ears. I glued them to the pumpkin and that was it! So cute, right?
Make a festive Minnie and Micky banner using a Cricut Machine(or you could alway trace and hand cut Mickey and Minnie) and string them to baker's twine.
The kids loved this part of the party! I cut out Mickey ears using yellow vinyl and attached them to small plastic jars. I then filled the jars with white, yellow and orange playdough and tiny pumpkin cookie cutters.
The kids loved cutting mini pumpkins out of the playdough and had a ball making their very own little pumpkin patch.
Of course you can't have a party without some yummy treats! Leigh from Baby Gabey Cookies created these adorable Mickey and Minnie sugar cookies and threw in a couple spooky-sweet ghosts and jack-o-lanterns too!
The kids left the party with sweet orange gingham Mickey and Minnie goodie bags filled with Halloween treats and toys.
I hope you enjoyed this Mickey Mouse inspired Halloween party!
Have a Happy Halloween!
For more Halloween inspiration, check out these fun party posts!
Disclosure: As a member of the Oriental Trading Fun Squad, I received compensation and/or products in exchange for my styling and crafting services. Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.
Every year our neighborhood hosts a trunk or treat party and we love seeing all the fun themes and creativity that goes into decorating trunks for the big day. The kids love running from trunk to trunk gathering up all those yummy goodies and the adults love hanging out and visiting each other.
This year our family chose to decorate our trunk with a Willy Wonka inspired theme. From lickable wallpaper to Wonka vision glasses, you're bound to find some fun ideas for your Trunk or Treat party!
Everything from decorations to Halloween handouts in this post are from Oriental Trading so it's easy to find all the supplies you need in one place. They haveTHEbest selection of Halloween Trunk or Treat Supplies. Be sure to enter Oriental Trading's Trick Your Trunk Contestwhere you could win a $50 gift card! Just think of all the trunk or treat supplies you could get with that!
This Wonka inspired Trunk or Treat was so much fun to put together. Check out the rest of the post below to see how to recreate it yourself!
Using my Cricut Explore Air 2, I cut out several golden tickets and paper candies to attach to the garland. I also used my Cricut to cut out the letters to spell Wonka and attached them to the backdrop using glue dots. It all held together great throughout the evening!
Here's our very own little Veruca Salt demanding "I WANT IT NOW" with a golden ticket and swirly lollipop in hand. To create this look, I found the red dress on Amazon and sewed black buttons down the front of the dress. I attached a peter pan style collar around the neck that I cut out of white fabric and then a black ribbontied around the waist finished the costume off.
Let's all sing along!
DADDY! I WANT IT NOOOOOW!
Kids loved picking out these funky Shutter Glassesin a variety of colors. I set a few glasses out and placed some inside a jar with a sign that said Wonka Vision Glasses. It was so fun to see all the kids walking around with their Wonka glasses on!
Candy filled Golden Eggswere a huge hit with the kids and they were all relieved they were "good eggs" when they came by to pick out their treats.
Large Cherry Flavored Swirl Lollipopsturned into Twirly Whirly Wonka Pops and the little trunk or treaters were so excited over these giant rainbow lollipops!
Ok, so this is definitely NOT lickable wallpaper (so be sure to remind the kids!) but I wanted to incorporate the fruity wallpaper into the trunk or treat somehow. So, I came up with the idea of attaching Fruit Slice Puttyto white foam board. I think the kids preferred this idea over lickable wallpaper because they were able to choose a fun fruit slice putty to play with and take home!
Instead of fizzy lifting drinks, I thought fizzy lifting bubbles would be just as fun and what kid doesn't love blowing bubbles? Bubbles filled the air at our trunk or treat festivities and were a huge hit with the little ones!
I hope you enjoyed this Willy Wonka inspired Trunk or Treat idea! I'm sure Mr. Wonka himself would feel right at home surround by all these colorful treats and goodies!
Disclosure: As a member of the Oriental Trading Fun Squad, I received compensation and/or products in exchange for my styling and crafting services. Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.
Do you "boo" your neighbors? This is such a fun tradition that our family looks forward to each year and we can't wait to do it again in a few days!
Not sure how to "boo"? It's simple! You choose two neighbors, leave a basket of Halloween goodies on their doorstep, ring the doorbell and RUUUUUN! Inside the baskets are treats, little Halloween gifts and instructions for the neighbors to keep the "boo" going. Get the entire neighborhood in on the fun with this You've Been Booed gift basket idea!
You don't need to spend a lot of time and money on these spooktacular surprises. Oriental Trading has a TON of awesome Halloween suppliesto make booing fun and easy! Check out the rest of the post below and grab your free You've Been Booed printable!
Print out the You've Been Booed sign, We've Been Booed sign and the instruction sheet.
Can we talk about how adorable these Halloween Squishiesare? Kids are obsessed with them and they make the perfect little Halloween gifts for the Boo Kits!
Next, tuck all the goodies inside the basket. I glued the "You've Been Booed" sign to a stick and placed it inside the basket. You don't need to do this but I liked that it helped the sign stand out a bit more.
You're now ready to surprise and delight your neighbors! How fun to open the door and see these Halloween cuties smiling back at you? So adorable!
So if your neighborhood hasn't caught onto the Halloween Booing craze, start the boo-tastic tradition yourself and spread some ghostly cheer throughout your block!
Thanks for stopping by and have a Happy Halloween!
Disclosure: As a member of the Oriental Trading Fun Squad, I received compensation and/or products in exchange for my styling and crafting services. Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. Prepare for a wicked good time at your Halloween party with these5 Halloween Activities for Kidson the Oriental Trading FUN365 site! From a good old fashioned candy jar guessing game, to hands on creative crafts, you're bound to find an activity kids of all ages will enjoy!
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Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.
Prepare for all of those spooktacular Halloween parties with these out-of-the box invite ideas! Check out my 5 Unique Halloween Party Inviteson the Oriental Trading FUN365 site!
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With Halloween right around the corner, why not host a fang-tastic Vampirina slumber party?!
Have your girls gather all their best ghoulfriends for a night of spooktacular fun!
Slumber parties are all about doing each other's nails and hair, right? TownleyGirlmakes it so easy to put together an adorable ghouls night in with all their fabulous Vampirina Party Favors.
Set the theme for the slumber party by handing out these fang-tastic invitations. When you receive a unique invite, you KNOW it's going to be a fun party! You can download the free printable invite at the bottom of this post. Simply cut bat wings out of paper, attach them to the invite using glue and you're all set!
I set up a little area for the girls to "shop" for their spa supplies. The girls loved picking out their favorite colors of nail polish, lip balms and glosses. It's so fun to how excited they got over all the colors and sparkles!
Each guest received a friendly little bat favor bag that I cut out using my Cricut machine.
After all that "shopping", it was time to take a break with some yummy bat juice ( grape juice) and sink our fangs into some delicious pink cupcakes.
One of the girls' favorite things to do at the party was applying these funVampirina Press-On Nails. They also loved painting their toenails with the 3 Pack Nail Polish Setand placing the fun Vampirina stickers that come in the set on their toenails.
These coffin shaped nail polishesare so perfect for a Halloween party and they were also the perfect size to fit inside these spook-tacular bat favors I made out of felt using my Cricut Maker.
I also placed a few hair clips and lip glossesinside the bat favors and the girls absolutely loved them!
Each little ghoul received a boo-tiful headband and a resuable bat-tastic canvas bag filled with Townley Girl Vampirinaproducts that they were head over heels in love with!
The little ghouls had a fang-tastic time at the slumber party and loved playing with all their fabulous TownleyGirlgoodies!
I think it's safe to say no one got any sleep at the slumber party but they had the time of their lives giggling, painting nails and having a blast!
