Weeks of planning and designing=one fun Nancy Drew Halloween party! The local AZ Sleuths wanted to see my Nancy Drew collection, so we decided to have a Halloween party on Friday, October 30. The theme was the 21st Nancy Drew book, The Secret in the Old Attic. I tried to recreate the attic on the front porch complete with items mentioned from the book: trunk, wardrobe with skeleton, cobwebs, spiders, old bottles, sheet music, an old table, hat boxes, a Currier & Ives print and so forth. The Nancy Drew silhouette is featured prominently in the front window.
Inside in the dining room, we had tables set up with vintage Halloween party collectibles and lots of goodies. Take a moment to weed through all the photos from our party from the set up of the porch to the end result and the party festivities plus my Old Attic goodies I gave out the next evening on Halloween to all the trick or treaters!
Inside in the dining room, we had tables set up with vintage Halloween party collectibles and lots of goodies. Take a moment to weed through all the photos from our party from the set up of the porch to the end result and the party festivities plus my Old Attic goodies I gave out the next evening on Halloween to all the trick or treaters!
Dede, Gail, and Judy brought me this neat
Halloween/Nancy Drew decorated pail shown above and below:
Halloween/Nancy Drew decorated pail shown above and below:
I made nearly 200 goody bags for the kids featuring Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys stickers - And ran out of them! Normally we have around 130 to 150 kids, this year over 200! WOW! Or as George would say, HYPERS!
Older kids got candy, spiders, stretchy skeletons, googly eye rings,
and girls got bookmarks. Hardy Boys Skull Mountain sticker pictured above
and girls got bookmarks. Hardy Boys Skull Mountain sticker pictured above
Inexpensive Jack O' Lantern buckets lit up with battery
operated tea-lights make the perfect lanterns to line your walkway!
operated tea-lights make the perfect lanterns to line your walkway!
Just before dark, the scene becomes more spooky!
This Halloween was lots of fun and using the Old Attic theme was easy to do. Maybe this will inspire you to decorate your homes next year with a Nancy Drew theme! The kids squealed and were delighted with the theme and the goody bags. When I was a kid, I loved getting the treat sacks, so I like to do that for the kids at Halloween!
Jenn:)
Jenn:)
7 comments:
Wow Jenn, if I'm ever in America, I'm coming to your house for Halloween!!!!
You really go all out. We don't really get into it here in Aus, so we didn't even have kids going around our neighbourhood.
OH my goodness! I am so impressed! I wish I lived in Arizona! Lori
Thanks guys :) The party was so much fun in planning and having, and over so quick before I knew it! I kept the wardrobe to use again at a future event.
Jenn:)
It looks like it was the best Halloween party ever!
It was a lot of fun. I'm exhausted after the convention planning and then getting this togther right after, and now the holidays are about to hit :) But it's fun! Thanks!
Jenn:)
Awesome! The Secret in the Old Attic is my favorite Nancy Drew book.
Thanks for sharing the pictures!
HI! that was a great ND Theme decoration You did, I wish I was invited to a party like this. ;)
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