Bone Chilling Halloween Ice Cream Party

Host a BONE CHILLING skeleton themed ice cream or I-SCREAM Halloween party!

Celebrate Halloween this year with an ice cream party that will make your brain freeze and sure to make you scream...with delight!


Clearly, ice cream is a summer thing, but honestly, who stops eating ice cream just because the weather is cooler?  I know I don't so, throwing a Halloween Ice Cream party will NEVER not be a thing!  Making this party a success was super easy.  I ordered some fun items from Oriental Trading, raided my party stash and dashed to the store to grab a few cartons and cups of ice cream, along with some ghoulish fixins!  The glasses were the inspiration for my overall theme, SKELETONS!  So, I used a lot of skulls, bones and skeletons everywhere for my bone chillin' bash!

I found these Skeleton Hand Glasses and knew they'd be perfect for holding ice cream cones.  I lucked up and found chocolate ones from Walmart!  SCORE!  Be careful with using big cones....once you put your ice cream in them, they are a bit top heavy and TRUST ME you don't want ice cream crashing down all over your pretty party table.......IJS. You can add small plastic skeleton hands to the top of spoons for added creepability!

These cardboard coffins were dollar store finds and I painted them with black chalkboard paint (make sure whenever you paint something that the paint is either non-toxic or protected with a food safe material).  You can fill your containers with whatever toppings you want.  I chose marshmallows, crushed bones,  gummy body parts, peanut butter flavored candy corn (cracked teeth), gummy worms and crushed oreo cookies (hallowed ground).

Realistic snakes slithered around small ice cream cups that I placed on a tiered stand.  I painted a lot of the items I received from Oriental Trading with black paint.....I just wanted a different look.  Remember, when in doubt....paint!  

OH LOOK!  My little 'ghoul' popped up to taste out all the goodies!

We also figured that ice cream could be a 'feast for crows' and dolled up two crows with a little Elizabethan Swag!  These black and white candy treats are great favors and can also go with any spooky soiree!

If you love a party you love a good party favor and these spooky soiree bags can be filled with treats for those who have allergies and filled with toys or other non-food takeaways!  Place them on a pedestal platter flanked by a spooky bird spindle with a decorative chalkboard sign letting guests know they're in for a treat!  I loved the look of this chalkboard sign, but because it was cardboard, the grooves in the material showed through the lettering -- just and FYI.

With all these fun ideas you too can host a fabulous Halloween ice cream party!

Hey - I didn't want to miss another year of fun with my favorite blogger  +Vanessa V  and her annual Halloween Party!  I'm serving up some double-scoop double duty and re-posting this party!

A Fanciful Twist

(“This post is based strictly on my opinion. Others may have a different opinion or experience with the product(S) listed above. I was provided items free of charge by Oriental Trading and I provided my honest opinion. No other type of compensation was received for this review.”) 

Graveyard Halloween Dessert Table

It's Day 6 of the 13 Days of Handmade Halloween on my blog and today Sandra Garth of Sweet Sensations is sharing a ghoulish Graveyard Halloween Dessert Table.


I am super stoked to share my Halloween dessert table at Keisha’s 13 Days of Handmade Halloween round up again this year. Even though our children are grown and gone, I still enjoy this holiday with my granddaughter and sidekick Gabrielle. When our kids were little, we had the same menu every Halloween. Sloppy Joes, ham roll-ups, potato chips, a pumpkin shaped chocolate cake, and sherbet punch. Oh and candy of course.

Halloween is all about the sweet treats and although most of our traditional menu has gone by the wayside, the sweet treats are still in effect. I wish dessert tables had been on my radar back in the day. That way I would have had lots of help eating all of these tasty morsels. Anyways…each time I put together a dessert table keeping it economical as well as tasty is my intention.

Using what’s on hand, applying a few shortcuts, and digging deep into whatever creativity you can grab a hold of us is crucial. Keep in mind that if everything isn’t perfectly placed and evenly spaced it’s not the end of the world. Here are the particulars on my ghastly and ghoulish dessert table.

Graveyard Halloween Dessert Table

• Two-tiered Chocolate Cake - This cake is elevated on a drink dispenser stand. In between each layer of the cake is the same chocolate frosting as the outsides. Ghost suckers are popping out from the top tier. No worries, they’re friendly. I opted for a bottom border of crushed brownies rather than more frosting. The fence that surrounds the cake is gutter covering that came from Big Lots. I leave no section of a store unturned!

• Dollar Dollar Bill Y’all - Underneath the cake is a coffin from the dollar store filled with skulls that I had in my stash, which also came from the $ store. I dug deep into my hoarders bin for the skeletons trying to escape over the fence.
  
  

• Peeps in a Jar - The mercury glass jars at the back of the table were 80% off at Michaels. No way was I leaving those in the store. I pierced some plastic skulls, inserted nylon through, and then attached them to the jars with ribbon. The peeps on a straw were perfectly happy there. Halloween houses from days gone by elevated on Styrofoam platforms flanked each side.
  
  

• Get Ya Drink On - In the center of the table is Swamp juice (aka) Gatorade with themed straws. These little frap bottle have come in handy over the years. I could have easily made this an adult beverage by adding a lil bit of vodka but I decide not too. That doesn’t mean you can’t!

• Potato Sticks - I covered the cans with scrapbook paper to keep things simple. Back in the day, these treats were very popular. I ended up finding them not at my favorite grocery store but the local meat market. Go figure.
  
  

• Sugar Cookies - Served on silver glass trays, lightly frosted, and decorated with a powdered sugar glaze. I have one sugar cookie recipe that I always use. My kids said, “If it ain‘t broke don‘t fix it“.
  

• Candy Corn Marshmallows in round vases embellished with mesh ribbon and a button. Who knew marshmallows came in so many flavors?
  

• RIP Headstones and Bones - Candy melts on a bed of cake crumbs. I always slice the domes off my cakes to make them level. I crumbled the toppings for fake dirt. I waste nothing.
  

Oh and that cute mini ghoul is Gabrielle. Her payment for this photo shoot was all the sugar cookies she could eat. Her parents weren’t too happy about that but oh well!!

 Happy Halloween Y’all! 


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Sandra is just as at home in a thrift store as a high-end retailer. She also realizes that not everyone likes over the top desserts or lavish parties so she frequently offers money saving ideas and simple DIY projects. Her philosophy is that entertaining is as much about attitude as it is about the menu and place settings.


Thank you Miss Sandra Garth for that spooktacular treat!  Looking for more Handmade Halloween treats, view our archives here!