Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin Party

While we watched The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, we had some snacks and did some coloring. 

We used put Nutella on graham crackers and decorated them like a pumpkin patch using candy corn and Brach's pumpkins. We also had "I Got a Rock" donut holes, and pudding cup pumpkin patches. 

I used chocolate covered Oreos for the moon and added a frosting Snoopy and some pumpkin candies. 

 

Blood Drive Care Packages

 

Our National Honor Society hosts a Red Cross Blood Drive a couple of times a year at our school. To help ensure the students eat before they donate, I put these care packages together to give the kids the morning of the drive. There was a mini water bottle, an orange, a granola bar, and an applesauce pouch. I made the tags on Canva: it provided them with the information about filling out their Rapid Pass before coming to the drive. 

Hocus Pocus 2 Party

 

We decided to throw a little Hocus Pocus 2 Party while we watched the movie on Disney Plus. 

We had fun with the photo board I made earlier this week. 

I made book brownies, cat brownies, Billie pretzel rods, and added some fall candy to this board. 

The next board was a sister charcuterie board. I used roast beef, salami, and turkey for the sisters' hair. Because it was hard to draw a face on the humus dips, I covered them with a slice of mozzarella and drew the face on that. 

I saw that butter boards were a new trend, so we made some butter boards to resemble the sisters. That was a little difficult, but it tasted delicious. The top butter board was a sweet board with cinnamon, honey, and sugar sprinkled on top. The middle board had garlic, chives, parmesan cheese, and balsamic vinegar. The third one had orange zest, rosemary, parmesan, and balsamic on the hair. 

We also had coffin taco boats and green gatorade. 

I made some "dead man's toes" out of mini franks and crescent rolls. 

We played a Hocus Pocus board game. 

I colored the flame of a LED candle and we lit the candle and watched the movie. 

Hocus Pocus Photo Board

 We are pretty excited for the release of Hocus Pocus 2 this weekend. I decided to create a photo board to use at our watch party. I started by sketching a design on a tri-fold poster board. Then I outlined the pencil with black Sharpie. I used acrylic paint and paint pens to finish the design. 

Coffee Cup Birthday Cake

 

I formed the cup out of Rice Krispie treats and then covered it with fondant. The coffee beans are made out of fondant as well. I just rolled out fondant balls and pressed them in the shape of a bean. I used my fondant cutter to add a line down the middle. To make the steam, I rolled fondant around a toothpick and stuck it in the top. The handle is also made from Rice Krispie and attached with a toothpick. 

Tea Party for Queen Elizabeth

To celebrate the life of Queen Elizabeth, we researched her afternoon tea menus and put this together. We had cucumber sandwiches, jelly sandwiches, English scones with jam and cream, mini quiche, mini pies, and chocolate brownies. 

 

Detroit Lions Charcuterie Board

 

For the Lions first game, we put together this board to celebrate. The words are made from pie crust. 

Ice Cream Cone Birthday Cake

 

I used a serrated knife to cut ice cream cones in half and placed them around the cake. I put a large marshmallow inside each cone before I added the frosting swirl to the top. 

Tea Party

 

We went to a tea party at our local museum and had an absolute blast, so we decided to have some tea parties at home. We bought a tea party recipe book at Barnes and Noble that provided us with most of these recipes. I got the tablecloth, paper plates, and tiered tray from Walmart. 

The mini pies and quiche were a huge hit. For the pies, I added 1 cup of frozen sweet pitted cherries, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 Tbsp cornstarch, and 1 Tbsp of water in a medium saucepan. Heat on medium heat and cook until thickened (about 5 minutes). Let it cool for about 10 minutes.  I used a 2 1/2 inch circle to cut out pieces of refrigerated pie crust. Spray a mini muffin pan and add the pie crust to the muffin pan. Then fill with the cherry mixture. Any remaining cups I had, I put strawberry and raspberry jam in. Bake the pies at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes. 

Cut another pie crust in 2 1/2 inch circles and add to a sprayed mini muffin pan. You get about 24 muffin cups out of one pie crust. Whisk 3 eggs, 1/3 cup milk, salt, and pepper together in a bowl. Add about a Tbsp of the egg mixture to each muffin tin. Dice up about 1/2 cup of ham pieces. Add some to each muffin tin. Then sprinkle 1/4 cup of cheese across the muffin tins. Bake at 375 for about 25 minutes. 

Back-to-School Charcuterie Board

I made the books out of soft shell tortillas with turkey breast inside. 

 

Tool Birthday Cake

 

The tools and paper are made out of fondant. I found the message sign at Walmart. 

Harry Potter Birthday Party

 For Rachel's 11th birthday, she chose a Harry Potter theme. This is the cake she designed...The bottom is house color fondant. The top is piped with a leaf tip. I used fondant for the eyes and beak. The wand is a chocolate wand I bought and the snitch is made from a Ferrero Rocher. 

The charcuterie board was inspired by the house colors. 

I used edible markers for designing the character marshmallows. 

Under each sugar cone I put house color M&Ms. When a person uncovered their color, they put on the matching house color tie. 

For the ties, I drew a tie shape on a piece of cardstock and then traced the shape on colored felt. I cut them out and hot glued stripes on it and hot glued a safety pin on the back. 

Rachel's acceptance letter was in the bottom envelope. I just used a piece of string to create this fireplace display. 

At the end of the night we practiced our potion making. 

Shark Week Party

We enjoy watching some of the Shark Week specials on Discovery, so we decided to have a little themed food party for the show. 

I found some shark toys from Menards for 99 cents that I used to decorate the platter. We also made Food Network's shark jello pops. 

Ingredients: 

3 1/2 cups of white cranberry juice (I could only find white cranberry peach)

1 cup Kool-Aid Burst Berry Blue

2 Tbsp sugar

4 packages of unflavored gelatin

Pound cake (you will need 8 thin slices)

blue melting candy discs

white sprinkles

rainbow Nerds

gummy sharks

whipped cream

Start by bringing the juice, Kool-aid and sugar to a boil. Remove from heat and slowly whisk in the packages of unflavored gelatin until it is dissolved. Pour in a 9x13 inch baking pan. Refrigerate, stirring every 10 minutes until the gelatin starts to thicken. It took mine 50 minutes. 

Meanwhile, use push-pop molds to cut circles of pound cake to fit in the bottom of the mold. Melt your blue chocolate and dip the top of the mold in the chocolate. Roll the chocolate in the white sprinkles and sit on wax paper. 

Fill the pops with nerds and a gummy shark. Then top with the gelatin. I do not have a pop stand, so I used toilet paper rolls and some cups stuffed with paper towel until the gelatin was fully set. 

Top with whipped cream when serving.