Pizza. Order pizza. and then have candy. They are really only in it for the candy anyway. After three years as room mom, this is the conclusion I have come to. That, and that I need a hiatus from being room mom. So, since we are in a new place I am totally invisible to the PTO.

OR....bring in a cake and inform the little goblins that this is Jenny month, dang it & they get to help celebrate!! If you can't beat 'em., join 'em!

Mini pumpkins are usually cheap and don't they already have black markers to draw faces on with?

I don't know how your doing on the decorations bit but we made bats (flying winged creatures not baseball) with small paper plates, black tempura paint and a silver marker. One plate for the body, another cut in half for the wings...embellish with pointy black construction paper ears & a red construction paper nose, draw on a scary mouth with the silver marker & you've got yourself a bat. Oh, and googly eyes...gotta glue on some googly eyes.

The preschool kids got a kid out of them.

I've been a room mother on too many occasions. Blech.

1. You can have them decorate sugar cookies made in the shape of halloween things.

2. Give everyone a sheet of orange construction paper, and have them tear out the shape of a pumpkin behind their backs. For older kids, make them do the eyes, etc as well.

3. Make jackolantern masks with paper plates. Color, cut out eyes nose mouth, holes in the side threaded with string. Voila.

4. Hot Potato with a mini pumpkin

5. Divide the class into two teams. Each team picks a "mummy". The first team to completely cover (we go by "no clothes showing") their mummy in toilet paper wins.

girl, you have lost your mind. the room mother thing makes my guts clench up. I have a well-defined skill set, but room-mothering is not part of it. you are a better person than I. I usually am the "bad" mother that doesn't sign up for the parties, but then just shows up like the conquering hero at the correct times. haha.

good luck.

I always bring this lovely treat to the kids classes at halloween. Boil a couple dozen eggs. Peel them, cut them longways and take out the yolks (which you can smash up and eat with salt and mayo if you are like me, cause you don't need them for the rest). Lay each white side down, you know, so the hollow is facing up, and fill that hollow with whipped cream cheese. Top that with those green olives with the red pimento for the eye. You can draw on veins with red food coloring and a toothpick if you are total martha, but I never had luck with that. They are even tasty, and look so foul that the kids love it. I think I have a photo, I'll go post it for you. But, most of the teachers at our school kinda frown on the candy thing. Maybe make pumpkin fridge magnets or halloween necklaces with round black orange and white beads. Monster dancing is good, too.

I will offer suggestions AFTER I stop laughing hysterically that they sucked you in. Can't.Breathe. Laughing too hard.

Room Mom Jenny! Bwhahahahaha

Next step: Stepford

Must.Stop.Laughing.

This link will help:
http://familyfun.go.com/parties/holiday/minisite/halloween-main/halloween-main.html

Also: Target has a little package of Halloween foam shapes (spiders and ghosts) and fuzzies (pumpkins) and the little cutouts, googly eyes, etc. you'll need. It's enough to make 24 little whatsits. The kids just need to make sure they have glue (the gel kind works well on the foamies). However, if you are using gel glue or that special foam glue, you have to wait a long time for drying, whereas it's not as long a wait if you have a few adults around armed with hot glue guns. You will also need to precut the green pipe cleaners.

Wait wait wait.
You sent two kids to school and were enjoying the liberation and peace so much that you FOLLOWED THEM THERE?!?!

Are you utterly bat-shit crazy?!

Ooooh, that's a game you should play, "Bat-Shit Crazy".
I don't know the rules, objectives, or whether or not it's fun, but it sounds halloweeny!

Get a disc of Halloween-type music (like the Monster Mash) and play freeze dance.

Make skeleton pictures on black construction paper, using Q-tips for bones.

Need more coffee... that's all I can think of at the moment....

I've used this site website before for craft ideas. Here's the halloween link. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/halloween/

One thing I did one year was make marshmallow spiders. It was a craft and snack rolled into one.

You take a large marshmallow and the little pretzle sticks. They take the pretzle sticks and stick them in the marshmallows. I know this isn't going to win any awards or anything but it's easy.

Get another mom or assign another mom to make cupcakes or cookies. Assign someone else to bring in juice boxes. Get another to hit the dollar store for Halloween plates and napkins. Easy clean up.

Another craft we did was make construction paper pumpkins. Just have lots of orange construction paper and black construction paper. Use the orange for the pumpkin, they can trace and cut out the shape. Use the black for the eyes, nose and mouth. They can trace and cut those shapes. Good way to work on shapes and cutting skills.

Hope this helps!

Okay, buy those round cookies with the stripes and chocolate on the bottom.

Take Cookie and turn over so chocolate is on top.

Unwrap chocolate kiss.

Unwrap 2nd chocolate kiss because we all know the 1st one was eaten.

Take the orange frosting in a tube and put on bottom of kiss.

stick on top of cookie.

Wahlah! A witch's hat!

www.familyfun.com

the best site: evah!

Ooooh, what were you thinking girl? is right!!!

I'm sure if I sifted through your posts, I could find the age of your children, but I'm too lazy for that, so if these ideas aren't user friendly for their peer group, I apologize.

Get a sh*tload of premade cupcakes with black frosting, a sh*tload more of black pipe cleaners and let the kids make big spiders out of their cupcakes. Find some candy that's appropriate for eyes, and you'll be voted room mother of the year by all the kids!!! (who cares that they'll have black teeth and little sugar buzzes for the bus ride home ~ just part of your evil plan to get out of room-mothering next year.)

Have fun, and check in with us before you go volunteering for something else!

Okay, so maybe to your friend you'll seem like a copy cat, but I remember we used to do the no-handed donut-eating thing in Girl Scouts, and I thought it was a hoot. I sucked at it, but I thought it was funny as hell. Plus, inevitably somebody wound up covered in powdered sugar, which was an excellent excuse to whap at them for the rest of the day.

*whap!*
"Hey!"
"Sorry, you had powdered sugar on your arm. I was just trying to wipe it off...."

Okay, maybe this isn't so helpful.

I love the suggestions that have been made already! Here are some more (y'know, just in case...)

1) Foamies from Michaels, plus lots of glue

2) Put a napkin over a lollypop and tie it with a piece of colored yarn, draw two eyes with black marker = instant ghost

3) Have them take imprints of their feet using white paint on black paper. Turn the paper upside down so the toes point down = instant ghost

4) Do the whole table-of-horrors thing where you set up spaghetti, olives/grapes, chunky soup, and other such things in separate bowls on a table outside of the classroom. Blindfold the kids, and talk them through touching the brains, eyes, guts, etc. that you have collected.

Oh, Jenny. Why have you done this? http://surrenderdorothy.typepad.com/surrender_dorothy/2005/05/moi_a_room_moth.html

But now that you're in deep - how about painting with pudding? Nice and messy, but nontoxic and Spray -n- Wash friendly. Needed: construction paper and much pudding.

Oh, Jenny, karma is a bitch! Did you see what happened to me after I posted my insensitive laughter?

(But for the record, I am still laughing!)

I wouldn't do too many sweets cuz I'm mean that way. Pretzel skeletons: give everyone a little pretzel shaped one and some mini pretzel sticks and let them glue onto black construction paper (cut each one in half--whole sheet is too big) they can eat all the pretzels they want.

I like the no-handed thing, but use string cheese and the kids "bite" the bone. They don't seem to get the giggles over that game the way my husband does...

the toilet paper mummies are good. cheap and fun.

for the sign ups I would ask for raisins, 100% juice, oatmeal cookies, cheese squares and other healthy stuff.
they are going to be eating so much crap as it is, I feel school should be a crap free zone.

but I'm mean...
:-)

Toss the spiders in the cauldron - get some of those cheapie plastic spider rings and a couple of big black tubs. The team that gets the most spiders in wins!

(Burns off some of the sugar rush!)

I love the no-hands donut eating idea - eating donuts like ghosts!

I asked my 3rd grade son, he said the same thing as Kari: cover a tootsie pop with a tissue, tie with yarn/string/small rubber band, draw face with Sharpie=always popular.

If that mom would have come up to me asking what I was going to do I would have either: 1.) Told them that one of the games was to give them Nyquil and Benadryl and see who's the last to fall asleep... Because that kid wins a prize. 2.)Tell her I was going to teach them how to set up their own meth lab and send them home with a "free sample". Or 3.)Shove my boot up that woman's butt.

Because that's alot of work for one person. I would personally keep it as simple as possible. Simple craft and snack and some sort of spelling bee or animal bingo. (Think baby and bridal shower games and tailor to kiddos.)

Like that pretzel skeletons idea. They will be so wound up about Halloween to begin with. WHy add sugar to that?

If that mom would have come up to me asking what I was going to do I would have either: 1.) Told them that one of the games was to give them Nyquil and Benadryl and see who's the last to fall asleep... Because that kid wins a prize. 2.)Tell her I was going to teach them how to set up their own meth lab and send them home with a "free sample". Or 3.)Shove my boot up that woman's butt.

Because that's alot of work for one person. I would personally keep it as simple as possible. Simple craft and snack and some sort of spelling bee or animal bingo. (Think baby and bridal shower games and tailor to kiddos.)

Like that pretzel skeletons idea. They will be so wound up about Halloween to begin with. WHy add sugar to that?

Your interpretive dance to the Monster Mash would get some of that wild energy out of the kids. They would probably have alot of fun. Get copies of an outline of Frankenstein or a witch and have them design shirt, shoes, pants, and whatnot as they draw. Or go around the room to make up a scarey story with each child contributing a sentence or two. Write on the board.... Those are my REAL ideas. :-)

Good luck. You are so very, very brave....

They always LOVE the TP Mummy thing. They usually all want to have a turn at being wrapped up.
Bake cupcakes and bring frosting and various toppings. Let them each decorate their own cupcake.

We do an art project for my son's class every other week, last week we had the kids paint mini pumpkins (sometimes you can get them donated) with glue, and sprinkle glitter all over them...they were fabulous. I made a giant caterpillar for last year's party by "gluing" chocolate cookies together with frosting (lay them on their sides) in a long caterpillar shape, stick licorice legs in, and make feelers with the licorice. Use gummy peach rings or apple rings for eyes and a mouth. OR (yeah, I know, ramble on martha) you can get chocolate wafers, squirt on frosting, stick on licorice legs(shoe string licorice) and put another cookie on top...then stick on mini m*&m's for eyes...spiders. Heh.

Clothespin spiders
for each child you will need:
one wooden clothespin
3 fuzzy poms (black)
1 pipe cleaner (any color)
2 googlie eyes
scissors (for cutting pipe cleaner)
an adult nearby with a hot glue gun

Cut the pipe cleaner into four pieces. Glue one pom onto a clothespin, then two pipe cleaner pieces (with ends hanging over) to make four legs, pom, four legs, pom. Then hot glue the two eyes on the pom at the clamping end of the clothespin. Easy stuff. If the kids are too little to cut pipe cleaners, you'll need to precut them the night before.

Good luck!

Hi Jenny

I think you are mad. What you do girl is hide when they want a mutt to volunteer. Tell them you have religous objectionsn to the pagansim of your Halloween but then someone will suggest you organise an alterate party them so that probably won't work.
What about some of the crafts from the Mexican day of the dead and a pinata.

If you are particulary fed up take the kids out to the local cemetery on the day and decorate the graves, I suspect you won't be asked to do that job next year as the other parents will think you peculiar. I am so thankful that we have not yet got into your Halloween customs here in Australia

Do you have another mother in the class who is crafty, get her on on the bandwagon as some of them can make things out of string and baling wire. Then you can concentrate on organising the catering and allocate what each kid is to bring

okay, here's the advice. Nothing too sucky, cause then the kids hate you all year long and your kids are embarrased. (Maybe that's just my mom-of-a preteen experience.) Nothing too great, cause then next year, it's "Oh last year was SO wonderful. You have such a knack for the class party that we've nominated you Room Mother For Life!" (Yes, that's snickering you hear from the mothers that said on Tuesday, "Oh my gosh, I totally forgot about the class party! What a ditz!") If this smacks of real life experience...it is and yeah, I'm a little bitter yet!

Michael's the craft store has a bucket of foam bookmarks with all the fixins for like $8. There are 24. Let them make bookmarks!!

buy black and orange balloons and tie one balloon around each child's ankle. use about 12 inches of string to connect the child to the balloon. have everyone REMOVE THEIR SHOES, join hands, and form a circle. on the count of three have the kids let go of one another and run around like crazy people trying to smash each other's balloons. they only get 60 seconds, or two minutes, or some other short period of time. whoever still has their balloon intact "wins." WARNING: this is probably going to fall into the category of one of those games no longer considered politically correct. like dodge ball. but hey. i'm a child psychologist and i say it's still a heluva lot of fun if properly supervised. the key to the success of the game is to a) not let it drag on too long; b)contain the space the kids are allowed to run around in. use masking tape to tape off a part of the room if that's possible and c)make SURE the kids take off their shoes.

If there is to be food at this occasion, you'd be soooo cool to have dry ice and punch in a witch's cauldron. I first saw this when I was 9 years old and thought it was the coolest of all cool things. Needless to say, it was hit at that Halloween party.

Here's a link to a website that'll tell you all about it: http://www.dryiceinfo.com/fog.htm.

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