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Halloween ice cream party

Soxgirl07Soxgirl07 member
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I'm running a Halloween party for elementary kids Wednesday and we're doing a last minute change to 1 of our stations.

We're thinking of doing a create your own monster sundae station. What do you think of the idea and what toppings would you provide?

Thanks!
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Re: Halloween ice cream party

  • klondikebarklondikebar member

    Our elementary school does this for the winter party. The PTO provides the ice cream and parents send in toppings. It's surprisingly never become a mess.

    candy eyeballs, pretzel sticks for arms, starburst candy corn for teeth, sprinkles, jimmies for hair and fur, syrup

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  • Spin313Spin313 member
    How old are the kids...? I'd be afraid they'd drip ice cream all over their costumes. IMO, bad idea!
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  • Soxgirl07Soxgirl07 member
    It's young elementary, and they are wearing costumes. Their parents supervise them, with my high school students running the activities. I love all the topping ideas.

    I'm not at all worried about the mess in my end, but pp saying they might drip on costumes has a good point. As a parent, would lots of napkins and the suggestion to use them as bibs help allay this fear? I don't want the parents to hate us, but we're doing away with another messy food activity (donuts on a string) this year and wanted to replace it with something else sugary and fun.
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  • Spin313Spin313 member
    @Soxgirl07 ...what about a decorate your own cupcake? It's still fun but less mess than ice cream.

    TBH, I'd be kinda ticked if my kid ruined his costume right before ToTing.
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  • virgin4lyfevirgin4lyfe member
    Spin313 said:
    @Soxgirl07 ...what about a decorate your own cupcake? It's still fun but less mess than ice cream. TBH, I'd be kinda ticked if my kid ruined his costume right before ToTing.
    We just had a decorate your cookie bar for the younger kids at the craft fest - we had red and green frosting and candy corns and brown m&ms to make lizards and ladybugs but you could easily expand frosting colors and make pumpkin and ghost faces and such.

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  • Soxgirl07Soxgirl07 member
    Hm. I hear what you're saying, but it's ice cream or nothing. We usually get at least 200 kids. I'm not making that many cupcakes.
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  • Spin313Spin313 member
    Mini cupcakes...? I'd choose to skip the ice cream, but that's me.
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