HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Unhappily Ever After Party

This idea is ripped straight from the ever-amazing Ghoul Friday and her friends at Halloween Forum. I'm not seeking to claim this idea as my own, just pulling together some recipes and resources to make this idea easyish to execute.

For example, you might want a printable invite (I would recommend using dark red paint and short-bristled toothbrush to do a little bloodsplatter on this after you fill it out, and consider handing these out as scroll invites to play up the 'fairy tale'/fantasy undertones of this theme):


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As the host, consider going as Mother Goose (or make it 'Scary Mother Goose') or the Brothers Grimm (if you have a partner in crime to dress with). Ask your guests to come as their favorite fairy tale characters or scary versions of said characters.

Food
note: food that relies on the cleverness of the title to be 'scary' require that you put cards out to label your foodstuff.

• Three Little Pigs in Blankets (recipe)
• Snow White's Poisoned Apple Slices (apple slices with caramel dip)
• Wicked Witch Fingers (Martha's Ladies Finger Cookies)
• Couldn't Put Humpty Together Again (Deviled Eggs)
• Ginger Bread Houses or Gingerdead Men
• Frog Prince Legs (frog legs or chicken wings)
• Little Red Riding Hood's Picnic basket (get a very traditional looking picnic basket - fill with bread, surround with sandwich making's... just be sure to blood splatter the basket or some such thing to make it creepier)
• The Princess's Peas (I can't think of a single way to make peas scary, other than Martha's Rest in Peas - which doesn't really fit here, I guess)
• This is mixed with Ghoul Friday's decor idea... set the blind mice around a plate of cheese
• Brownies or Cupcakes that say EAT ME (hehehehehehehehehehehehe...hehehe)
• Bottles re-labeled to read DRINK ME
• A big bowl of ominous looking punch, preferably in a cauldron
• (FeeFiFoFum) Blood of an Englishman (blood red punch)
• Bones - for grinding into bread (sweet bones)
  
• Four and Twenty blackbirds baked in a pie (black berry pie, with a raven prop placed next to it)

Decor

• Check out the list over at Ghoul Friday's. I'm not copying anything unless I have notes to add, and you'll find some fantastic ideas there.
• Three blind mice - set these out next to cheese on your food table
• Rapunzel's hair - you can get long, blond wigs at party stores all over around Halloween. Walmart typically has them cheap. I'd probably braid it and use it as a garland
• Witches legs sticking out of the oven - first of all, don't be planning to use your oven. Second, the principles of making witches lets would be the same as here (around step 5) - use striped fabric for the legs, and sew off the tops of the legs - don't attach them to a doll. Increase the size of the template and cloth as needed to make the legs seem "life sized." - a battery-powered candle inside your over could be neat to make it look like the embers are still burning, as long as it doesn't light things up too much
  
• Fake fur throw - if you have such a thing, you could mark it as 'the Beast' from Beauty and the Beast somehow
• Bluebeard's keys (with a spot of blood on them - extra cool if you have a creepy, scary looking door to leave them in)
• the tin soldier (partly melted) and the paper ballerina (partly burnt up)

• the woodsman's axe (blood + a little bit of 'wolf's hair' would be adorable, yes?)
• Artsy Mama shows this adorable witchy hand holding an apple - wouldn't it make an phenomenal accent at this party? If only I had the first clue how to make it...
  

I'm sure you'll all come up with many more creative options. This is a playful idea, so I would recommend a playful Halloween soundtrack. A Disney princess song every so often would be funny to me. :)

Read this for more ideas, or just for entertainment: The Gruesome Story behind Fairy Tales (not totally accurate near as I can tell, but interesting).