school party ideas - - halloween

i get so many great ideas for holiday decorating

from blogs and pinterest,

but wish i could find more

unique ideas for classroom parties.

i hope to find some more good ones to use in a few weeks, 

but i thought i'd share what i did last year.

for my daughter's class party we decided one of

the activities would be a craft/snack.

 the kids made these cute spiders.

i had seen the idea on a blog but for the original,

a lot of melted chocolate was used.

that wouldn't work for a classroom project,

so here is how i tweaked it.

 

you need:

brownie bites

pretzel sticks

mini marshmallows

nerds

 you use the marshmallows as "joints" to join

2 pretzels together making a leg

 repeat for the rest of the legs.
{we only had 4 legs}

 tear a marshmallow in half.

{the sticky part attaches to the brownie}

and

 stick 2 nerds into the marshmallows.

 fun right?

fun snacks

i wanted to use cupcake toppers that

i had made, but didn't want to bring cupcakes.

so i stuck them into cubes of cheese.

all the kids wanted the toppers so they picked the cheese

even though there were tons of other sweats!

{they still ate the other sweats...but they ate cheese too!}

 aren't these witch hats cute??

just take a hershey kiss

dip in melted chocolate {or melt the bottom of the kiss}

stick to the flip side of a chocolate striped cookie.

the example i saw had a piped bow, but i don't pipe...

so i used 2 pumpkin sprinkles & 2 orange jimmies!

{healthy candy corn}

white ~ bananas

yellow ~ yellow peppers

orange ~ carrots

now lets hope that this guy has a better halloween this year!