Orange Kids Halloween Dinner

I started out with this great little orange tablecloth, fabric from the clearance bin, only $1.50 metre.

I used some square plates, and these fun Halloween dishes my girls got a few years ago from their Auntie.

For the centre piece I used three orange pumpkins.

One I decorated with orange sequins, held in place with a few straight pins.

The next little pumpkin I decorated with gold thumb tacks. Really easy, and it turned out so cute!

My favourite was the middle pumpkin. I found these house numbers at the dollar store for $1.50 each, then I just used thumb tacks to attach them. I splashed out and bought myself some roses. I just love them in the footed milk glass container -bringing a little elegant to Halloween. 😉

I also used some cute little Jack-o-Lantern candles I’ve had for a few years -also from the dollar store, do you get the feeling it’s my favourite store. 😉

Orange Pom Pom Garland

One of my favourite elements of this little table though, was the pom-pom garland I made.

I found these bags of orange pom-poms with assorted shades in them.

I just strung them randomly on long pieces of thread. And I heart how they turned out. I’m already thinking about making versions in other colours for other holidays and parties.

The Orange Kids Halloween Dinner Menu

Now on to our menu. I wanted to keep all the food orange just for fun.  Here’s what I came up with.   I made roasted carrots, orange cauliflower, and butter chicken with rice and naan bread.

• roasted carrots
• roasted orange cauliflower
• butter chicken
• orange rice
• naan bread

I was pretty excited when I discovered orange cauliflower at the grocery store.

And, after cooking it, it stayed orange.  I also roasted up some carrots.

I  made the butter chicken from a simple jarred sauce, and the naan bread was from the grocery store too. If your kids aren’t into butter chicken like mine are, another idea would be to make mac and cheese. I added a few drops of red and yellow food colouring to the rice water to make orange-ish rice, which by the way the kids thought was weird and Maddie didn’t want to eat. To Halloween up the naan bread, I used a cookie cutter to make it pumpkin shaped.

I also bought a little orange fizzy drink, that I kept thinking would be really good with a shot of Vodka added to it. 😉

Dessert

For dessert I made pumpkin pie cake, or pumpkin dump cake as it’s sometimes called since you basically just dump the ingredients in a baking dish. I got my version of the recipe here at allrecipes.com, but I’ve seen it all over and wanted to try it. It was yummy, and supper easy to make.

With an all orange kids Halloween dinner, life really is a party! 

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