Our family tradition for Halloween is to take family zombie pictures. We look forward to this every year and if the make-up wasn't so labor intensive, we would probably do more during the year.
Looking back at 10 family photos!
2009 Graveyard
Zombie dog too! We were going to recreate this but our beloved Rolo passed away in March.
2010 Dinner Time
2011 Bath Time
Even the rubber ducky is a zombie. This is my personal favorite.
Sometimes I miss class parties with fun games and treats. ALWAYS being the classroom Mom it's a hard habit to break. I'm still planning and thinking of cute ideas even with my boys both in high school. This year especially since we are not throwing our annual Halloween party.
We volunteer everything Sunday calling bingo at our local retirement residence and usually decorate and bring fun treats during or on holidays. Not only did we decorate this year but we change to themed bingo cards!!!
The theme this year was spiders.
My decorating crew.
I used the little magnetic spiders I made for the office last year.
Such a quick decorating idea. Make at home and up within minute.
We started with spider web in the center of each table with either a glitter skull or pumpkin. Added little spiders in the web and mini cauldrons I found at Target.
I counted out enough candy to fill each cauldron to make them the same.
Added cups of candy corn for covering the cards.
For the bingo cards, I looked online and was having the hardest time finding a full set of cards that was free to download. I did find one with numbers but realized AFTER I printed them that they didn't follow a true bingo board with the number for each letter. :(
B- 1-15
I - 16-30
N - 31-45
G - 46-60
O - 61-75
I still needed to use our bingo ball cage with the balls. Changing it up too much would just confuse everyone. Plus they would need to search the entire card for the number instead of just that letter. They play three cards at a time!!!
PLAN B! Make my own!
I created 30 different cards.
They used candy corn to cover the numbers called.
You could also use little plastic spiders.
The residents absolutely loved the cards. We joked that they could eat the bingo chips. Lol!
ALL FREE AND DOWNLOADABLE
Sized to print on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper or card stock. I used card stock to make them a little more sturdy.
Click links below and right click and save.
JPG file - Easy to print.
Last card is a caller card to cross off the numbers randomly selected as you go.
If you plan multiple games just use a different symbol to cross off the numbers - diagonal for the first game and another diagonal making a X for the second game, horizontal line, vertical line, or circle the number for each game after. You could also use colored sharpies.
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This was a trial run and I absolutely LOVE how they turned out! So cool! So creepy!
I originally made these for our Halloween party last year. Made the test run and then tried to make them look like zombie eyes but it was a total FAIL! I wanted the white part green and the food color looked green in the pot I was soaking them in but they actually came out more blueish. Reminded me of something from SpongeBob. Lol!
I wish I had made HUMAN EYES or test run the color prior to a party.
