Veronica's Birthday Party - Halloween Party

For some of the guests, this was the first Halloween party ever. We had lots of fun sharing American traditions with our new Norwegian friends. There are photos of almost all the guests on the left in this blog. Lots of children get dressed up for Halloween here and go 'trick or treat' (in Norwegian: Knask eller Knep), but you don't find the cute, adorable costumes. They are all scary, dark and bloody. Barbara and Veronica decided long time ago to be babies for Halloween, and nobody had seen that before here. We ended up with 5 babies at the party and one was a dead baby.

We made a few decorations and hung up around the house. The main attraction was the spider in the ceiling in the living room.

Bobbing for apples was popular; almost everyone did that (Veronica in the photo).

Next, we did 'find the treasure in a bowl of worm'. Marte is in this photo, and she was very startled when she put her hands into the bowl. The kids had to find an object in the spaghetti and say the name in English. Veronica also created a 'Spider Toss' game where the kids had to add up point to find the winner.

Thanks to Mary Ann Askins, we had lots of fun American items to give the children; also, rat poison, red blood and such. Bottles of apple juice received a drop of food color for the perfect colors of rat poison and blood. The kids' favorite drink was the rat poison.

Who would dear to eat such treat? The kids did, and they were delicious bloody witches fingers. Even my parents enjoyed eating these.

Mud cups with worms, bloody witches finger, pumpkin looking chocolate cake and fruit cups were treats for the kids.

The goody bags are now seen all over the place, used for gym bag, swim bag, book bags and so on.

Party time.....almost everyone gathered for a photo (Axel was missing).

At the very end of the party, with only candles lit, we made up a ghost story together