Half a Century

For my Mum’s 50^th birthday she’s having a horror themed party and I have allocated myself (due to her over exaggerated ideas that were entirely impossible) as the event planer. Her party is not until February, but already I am planning everything. I’m trying to keep as many things as I can homemade, this means less cost and more fun for me!!

So we’ve come up with practically every idea for our decorations and games ourselves, as we have searched the internet for games for a horror or Halloween party and there were not many games suitable for people over 40.

I’ve started with the simplest decorations first, and that for me is lighting. The idea is to keep the inside of the house as spooky as possible, so more candles instead of actual lights. My first idea was to have some spooky little lanterns that I can hang around the house or place along the walkways.

Spider-wed light

What I used:

- Glass or plastic cup

- Tissues (because I didn’t have tissue paper)

- Spider web cupcake wrapper from http://lehanes.com.au/

- Tea light candle (I used a battery operated tea light candle from http://lehanes.com.au/)

- Sticky tape

- Scissors

What I did:

1. Cut out the spider webs off the cupcake wrapper, cutting out the spiders from a separate cupcake wrapper.

2. Place two little squares of sticky tape on two corners of the web and stick it to the inside of the cup.

3. Once all spider webs desired are inside the cup grab the tissue, or tissue paper, and cut it to size, then wrap it around the glass. Sticking it into place.

4. Once that is done, place a tea light candle inside (I used battery operated for safety) and there you have it, some spooky little lights to light up the hallway, the tables and even around the garden.