DIY: Cute Halloween Party Ideas & Megan’s Jello Worm Tutorial!

Can you believe it? Halloween is ONE week away! If you happen to be are looking for some great last minute DIY ideas for party decor or just a good old slimy treat, then you’ve come to the right place!

Here are five awesome ideas, including a tutorial on how to create realistic Jello worms:

Pumpkin Beverage Cooler

Having a pumpkin carving party for the dudes? Cool. Serve up the brewskis in a pumpkin that you carved into a cooler. This cooler will keep the brew cold, will look cool and when the party is over, and you don’t need to wash it out and store it in the basement on November 1st. [You can find the tutorial on how to create this one-of-a-kind cooler here]

DIY Tangled Webs

Set glitter webs on your table and under snack bowls to serve as trivets and sparkly decorations, all in one. Tape 2 sheets of wax paper together and lay them flat. Begin drawing your spider web with Elmer’s glue (refrigerate for a few hours first so it’s less runny). Continue until the web is the size you want. Pour glitter on top of glue web and let it sit overnight. Shake off excess glitter and let the web sit for another two days to completely dry and harden. Using a spatula, gently peel the web off the wax paper.

[Source: Redbook]

Glowing Ghosts

These apparitions may seem friendly at first, but in the darkness their scary side comes out. To summon a ghost, snap one or two green eight-hour light sticks so they glow, and insert them into a white balloon. Inflate the balloon and tie it closed. Use a black marker to draw a wide-eyed visage. Repeat to make more, then affix ghosts to a wall with transparent tape and lower the lights. [Tutorial & Image from MarthaStewart]

Handy Treat

Okay I came up with the pun for this cute Halloween treat, but it would make for nice party favors. Using surgical gloves (which can be purchased at drugstores), put Smarties in the fingers of the gloves. Then fill the rest of the gloves with whatever you wish. Close the gloves with a bow and add a spider ring for decoration. [Source: TheQueensCardCastle]

And of course, I wanted to save the best for last. I found a recipe to make realistic worms out of Jello. It’s been floating around Pinterest for awhile now and I’ve heard a lot of mixed reviews on if it actually works or not so gave the idea a shot. I can say it worked, but wasn’t exactly easy. There are varying recipes out there but I used the one from Instructables as a guide and modified it a bit.

Here’s a list of the ingredients I used:

Flexible Straws (40 pack)
A tall glass to hold the straws
Wilton Colored Gel (I used this only because I had it – it’s similar to food coloring)
1 1/2 cups of boiling water
1/4 Cup of Heavy Whipping Cream
1 packet of Unflavored Gelatin
1 package (3 oz) Raspberry Jello

Directions:

Combine gelatin with boiling water.

Let the gelatin mix cool then add the heavy whipping cream and your food coloring.

Gather your flexed-out straws and put them in the tall glass. It’s important that the straws have a tight fit so the Jello stays in the straws.

Add the gelatin mixture to the straw-filled container and let it set until firm. This was where I had the most problems. The gelatin kept running out of the straws. So I put the Jello mixture in the fridge for 15 minutes to help cool it down and firm it up. It will fill up around the cup as well. That was a whole separate battle! Ha.

Allow your cup of straws and Jello to set overnight in the fridge. Once you start taking the straws out of the Jello mix, it’s going to look a little like this:

To get the Jello out of the straws, you can use a rolling pin or run warm water over the straws to loosen the Jello, which is what I did. I can’t say it was the easiest thing, but they did turn out to be really neat looking and of course, fun to eat!

DIY: Cute Halloween Party Ideas & Megan’s Jello Worm Tutorial!

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