Greetings!

HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS, ABOVE-THE-PIPES

WITCHES, FOR IT IS WITCHOWEEN TIME! GRAB
YOUR JAM JAR BAGS AND BEJEWELLED DRESSES,
BREW YOUR CLUTTERBUCKS COCKTAILS AND
COME ON DOWN, BECAUSE THE WITCH WARS
PARTY IS JUST ABOUT TO BEGIN!*
* There will be a place to leave your cat, should you wish to bring it.

Planning Your Party

A good witch is always prepared! Here are some top tips to plan your party.
INVITE GUESTS
Create perfect party invites and ask guests to your Witch Wars Witchoween party!
DECORATE YOUR SPACE
Create your own witch bunting using the step-by-step instructions on page 5.
PREPARE YOUR ACTIVITIES
Make a rough schedule for each of the elements of your party to help it all go smoothly on the
day. Photocopy the activities in this pack, and stock up on pencils, scissors and any additional
materials you might need.

Witches! You may need an adult to help you with some of the activities in this party pack!
How to Make Perfect Party Invites, Toad Magazine–Style
Don’t forget to send these out at least a week before your party! Include a letter
home to above-the-pipe parents and guests to let them know the details of your
party and any party preparation that they might need to help you with.

HOW TO MAKE THEM:

1. Cut a piece of card to invite size and
fold in half.
2. Cut two parallel slits on the folded WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
side of the card. • Coloured card
3. Fold up the tab and crease it. • Scissors
4. Open up the card and pop the tab so • Envelopes
it’s popped up on the inside of the card.
• Colouring pens
5. Design the inside of the card, writing • Possibly a picture
all the important information: who
you’re inviting, where it is, explain of your face
there will be cake and you really like
presents (or don’t. Apparently this is
OK if you’re a witch, but not as OK if
you’re a human).
6. It’s also tradition to make up a secret code to get into your party. Previous
examples from Melinda Zing’s Witchoween parties include ‘wuddleup’, ‘TOES’ and
‘ni emoc nac uoy sey’, which is ‘yes you can come in’ backwards.
7. Next, get a cool picture, or a
picture of your face, and attach
it to the popped-up tab with
some glue. Now whoever opens
the card will be greeted with a
pop-up picture of your face!*
* This party invitation idea was
brought to you by Fran, who really
likes her face.

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 How to Dress as the Witch Wars Characters
No Witchoween party would be complete without a Witch Wars costume!

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• The following items, depending on who
you want to be:

FLUFFANORA:
1. A long skirt.
2. To make it puffy, wear an underskirt underneath.
3. A glamorous hat – you can decorate it yourself, like
Fluffanora. She likes to wrap beaded necklaces around her hat.
You can also glue white feathers to it for special occasions.
4. Some cool shoes and spotted or striped tights.
5. Dark sunglasses for when you want to walk down the street
without one of the Toad reporters spotting you.
6. Bracelets – Fluffanora likes to mix and match bracelets,
especially ones she’s beaded herself.

TIGA:
1. A spotted skirt.
2. Striped tights.
3. Silver braces (these are optional, but they’re Tiga’s
favourite thing in her wardrobe at the moment).
4. A striped top with long sleeves.
5. A glamorous black hat.
6. A slug with a beehive of hair.
7. Some really cool boots. Tiga likes to change the
laces, mixing and matching different colours so the left
bootlace clashes with the right bootlace. Very cool.
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 LIZZIE BEAST:
1. A really long wig (unless you’ve been growing your hair for
a really long time).
2. A cool grey hat.
3. A long simple grey skirt (school skirts work really well).
4. Flat sandals.
5. Striped tights.
6. Lizzie Beast really likes
brooches – cool vintage
ones she borrows from her
grandmother. She likes to
pin them to her jumper.
7. Add a choker – she likes to wear these on special
occasions.

FRAN: WASHY CAT:

1. Wings. 1. Washing-up gloves.
2. Glittery dust. 2. Whiskers (these can be drawn on).
3. A sparkly skirt. 3. Cat ears.
4. A beehive hairstyle. 4. Hairy cat arms.
5. A star hairband. 5. A boiler suit or dungarees, and a
black T-shirt.
6. Excellent shoes.
More Witch Wars characters to inspire you!

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 How to Make Splat Cakes
Splat cakes are the perfect treat to have at your Witchoween party!

For the icing

WHAT YOU’LL NEED: 140 g butter
280 g icing sugar
For the batter 1 tbsp milk
110 g butter Black food colouring
110 g caster sugar Chocolate sprinkles
2 free-range eggs Chocolate balls
1 tsp vanilla extract Chocolate buttons
110 g self-raising flour Edible glitter

HOW TO MAKE THEM:

Cake bit Icing bit

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4. 1. Beat the butter in a large bowl until soft.
2. Cream the butter and sugar together in a 2. Add half the icing sugar and beat until
bowl. Beat in the eggs and stir in the vanilla smooth.
extract.
3. Add the rest of the icing sugar with the
3. Fold in the flour. milk (add more if necessary).
4. Spoon the mixture into paper cases. 4. Add a couple of drops of black food
colouring.
5. Bake in the oven for 10–15 minutes, or
until golden-brown on top.
6. Set aside to cool.

Cake assembly bit

1. Now scrunch up your fist and – SPLAT. Squash the cakes.
2. Spoon some icing on to each of them.
3. Add chocolate sprinkles and round chocolate balls and buttons (so it looks
a little like rocky ground), and finish with edible glitter.
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 How to Make Witch Bunting
Make no mistake: witch bunting is very different from human bunting – mostly
because it is ninety per cent edible. The more edible things you put on witch
bunting, the better your bunting will be.

HOW TO MAKE IT:

1. Cut the coloured card
into triangles and decorate. WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
Favourite witchy bunting
themes include cats, witches’
• You’ll need to be a witch
hats, mermaid tails, stars, • Your witch hat
Fran’s face.
• String
2. Pierce little holes in the • Large soft sweets (jelly ones
top of the triangles with the
skewer, and thread through work well) – preferably in
the string. dark purple and orange
3. Also pierce the sweets with • Black , white and orange card
the skewer and thread these
too, creating your own design.
• Pens
4. String it up all over the • Skewer
place. Bite at it whenever
you’re peckish.

How to Write a Song for your Party

The host of the Witchoween party should fill in the blanks, along with three other
guests, and everyone sings:

It’s Witchoween! It’s Witchoween! And we are here

to say that we love [INSERT FAVOURITE FOOD] and
[INSERT FAVOURITE PLACE YOU’VE BEEN TO ON HOLIDAY]
and [INSERT FAVOURITE PET’S NAME]!
(Sing the host’s version first, then guest one, then guest two, then guest three, then
finish with the host’s version again – but this time shout it.)

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How to Make a Witchoween Drawing Wall and Party Pen
Every good Witchoween party features a large piece of paper on the wall. Guests are
encouraged to draw fun things (or just write notes and their names). Witches often
write why they think their fellow witches are fabulous, while some draw pineapples.

So stick a piece of paper to the wall, and then spruce up your pen to make it extra
Witchoweeny.

HOW TO MAKE IT:

1. Add a bit of glue at one end of the
WHAT YOU’LL NEED: pen, and fix the thinner fabric strip to
• A pen it. Wrap it around, gluing as you go.
The pen should now be covered in the
• Two fabric strips – fabric.
one about an inch 2. Fold over the second piece of fabric
thick , the other and cut a fringe into the open side.
twice as thick 3. With the needle and thread, stitch
• Glue (glue guns are along the closed side using a running
stitch (or ask an adult to help you.
best) They make good servants). Now pull
• Scissors it together and it should bunch and
• Needle and thread make a crazy pom-pom.
4. Glue the crazy pom-pom to the top
of the pen.

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 Colour in Tiga Whicabim
No Witchoween party is complete without some colouring in fun!

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 How to Make a Jam Jar Party Bag
Every Witchoween party guest should leave with a jam jar party bag in hand!

HOW TO MAKE IT:

1. Take the jam jar lid and ask an adult to pierce
two holes in it (they don’t need to be a witch, WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
but a magic adult human will do it a lot more
quickly than a normal adult, who will probably • An empty jam jar
have to use scissors and skewers and things like with a lid
that). • Ribbon
2. Thread the ribbon through the holes and tie • Glue pen
together on the underside of the lid so it makes
a ribbon handle. • Glitter
3. Take the glue pen and draw cool patterns on • Bowl
the outside of the jar.
4. Pour glitter into a bowl.
5. Gently roll the jam jar in the glitter so it sticks to your glue drawings.
6. Leave the jar to dry overnight.
7. Fill with fun things for your guests – sweets, little funny notes, anything!
8. Screw on the lid and swing it by the handle – it’s ready to go!

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 How to Play Pin the Tooth on the Tiga
1. Print out a picture of Tiga’s face (or you can use a photo of a family member).
2. Draw a bunch of teeth (one for each of your guests), and carefully cut them out.
3. Add something to help them stick (a strip of sticky tape, for example).
4. Guests are then blindfolded one at a time and have to stick the tooth as close to
Tiga’s mouth as possible.
5. The winner gets a prize. It is customary at Witchoween parties that the winners of
any games get to put their faces in the largest cake. These days witches tend to prefer
just an extra-large slice.

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