Sep 30 2008
A Bring-a-Friend Party
This speaks for itself but is a good idea, for instance, on a new housing estate.
For very small children the ‘friend’ could be a Teddy or doll, with a warm welcome for each.
A Pirate Party
Tell your friends to come dressed as pirates. This needs nothing elaborate: a black patch fixed over one eye with elastic or sticking plaster, a coloured scarf tied rakishly on the head, huge rings dangling from ears, T-shirt and jeans, with another scarf round the waist — and cardboard or wooden swords and cutlasses painted silver, or covered in silver paper.
Divide guests into two teams, each with a different-coloured skull and crossbones flag. Give each team the name of a ship and let them compete against each other in games.
This party can include Shipwrecks, and is fun indoors or out.
A Hallowe’en Party
This should be on October 31. In the old Celtic calendar it was the last day of the year, when witches and warlocks held their revels. Your invitations could show a witch on a broomstick, and decorations should be as spooky as possible: dangling spiders, black cats, a skeleton or two, an evil eye perhaps. A log fire is ideal, with the room lit only by night-lights firmly fixed in large, hollowed-out swedes or turnips, on which grotesque faces are painted (your family will have to eat a lot of mashed swede to use up what you cut out!) Apple Bobbing is a traditional game, followed by roasting chestnuts in the fire, and baked potatoes should form part of the meal.
Best of all, as you sit round the fire, someone should tell or read a really creepy ghost story. Perhaps you could contrive a few ‘noises off’ at the end of this : some eerie howls, clanking of chains, a baying dog. And you can buy some very realistic snakes to produce at the right moment!
If you and your friends want to dress up, old white sheets or dust-sheets make good ghost costumes, and anything black or dark makes cloaks for witches and warlocks. Tall hats for both are easy to make with cardboard, gum and black paint or paper. Those for witches have brims, those for warlocks should be dotted with cut-out stars, moons and other shapes.
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