Have a Fangtastic Halloween with Tesco

We love Halloween - sweets galore, a chance to dress up and a day of fun as a family. What's not to like? We have hosted many parties over the years, inviting the Mini Mes' friends along too, and with everything from spooky costumes, treats and tableware, Tesco is the place to visit this October.

We popped along to our local branch in Daventry and despite being quite a small store in comparison to some, the shelves were stocked with all of the essentials and more!

The first item we purchased was this rather cool doorbell (£7) to transform our home into a haunted house ready for those Trick or Treaters. Jamster jumped out of his skin when he tested it, which we all found hilarious, and he was eager to shock guests in the same way. The eyes light up, a snake pops out and it says several phrases once pressed so it's ideal for the front of your property.

Magical Family Fun for Halloween

Gross Magic is a much sought after favourite of tricksters everywhere! This set features props and ideas for more than forty revolting magic tricks and illusions so your little ones can impress their audience (or should we say victims) this Halloween with the practised use of a ‘clean to dirty’ toilet and ‘poo paper’, hatching cockroach eggs, slime in a dustbin, jumping and vanishing bogies, pretend veins and a squidgy telepathic brain, to name but a few.

These conjuring feats are guaranteed, with a bit of preparation, to produce groans of nausea from friends and family.

Piñata Tombstone Treats - Halloween Party Food

We've been making a lot of spooky goodies during the past few days in preparation for our second favourite event of the year, Halloween, and these Tombstone Pinata Biscuits are the latest recipe for our party food collection. The three layers of cookie are glued together with sticky icing and filled with sour apple flavoured sweets to provide a tasty little surprise! 

Ingredients

225g butter

150g caster sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 medium egg

WIN Misfortune Cookies for Halloween Fun

Halloween is nearly here and what better way to end the fancy dress fun and fangtastic food than with Misfortune Cookies!

A world first, MISFORTUNE COOKIES take a warts-and-all look at reality – in a witty and cruel way. With humorous, wicked sayings encased in delicious biscuit and finished in a quirky design; fun is guaranteed with MISFORTUNE COOKIES – jet black, creative and tasty. They are perfect for Halloween, New Year’s Eve, stocking fillers, dinner parties or just to round off a miserable day.

Halloween Party Food - Brain Bites

No Halloween is complete without some spooky treats to enjoy and these popcorn and marshmallow 'brains' are strangely delicious yet vile in appearance. Perfect for any party! They are quick and easy to make so you could do them last minute if necessary and you can alter the ingredients to suit your taste - you can use rice puffs or another cereal too. 

Ingredients

IDel Events Halloween Party Parcel (PLUS Your Chance To Win)

Hoping to host a spooktacular Halloween party this year? You can pick up all of the tableware essentials from IDel Events this October in their party parcel! 

This beautiful set contains everything to serve your fangtastic feast in traditional black and orange shades.

Halloween Lighting From Partylite (PLUS Your Chance To Win)

When the colder weather draws in and the evenings are spent wrapped up in blankets while sipping hot chocolates overflowing with marshmallows, I love to light a few scented candles. It helps to create a cosy atmosphere while providing a warming scent and this lovely selection from Partylite is ideal for Halloween! 

I'd not tried the Partylite range until I was sent this collection but I'd certainly purchase them in the near future as I was really quite impressed with the quality in both design and fragrance, even in comparison to the great brands I predominantly use. This range is based upon Mexico's Day of the Dead and it features lots of neon brights and skulls - perfect for when it gets dark earlier throughout autumn and winter.