For my daughter's 2nd birthday party I decided to have a Pumpkin Party since her birthday is the week after Halloween. I printed out invitations with a haunted house and pumpkins that read on the front" Booo...Kendel is Turning 2" on the inside I wrote: "An invitation just for you. Please come to a Pumpkin Party for our little Kendel who is turning 2! Kids wear costumes...adults if you dare. Lunch, tricks and treats we'll share. October xx is the date, from 11:30am to 2:00pm, don't be late. xxx Drive is where the party will come alive!   I then bought a hay bale and 20 mini pumpkins that I made a mini pumpkin patch in the front yard under our large oak tree. I also made a little graveyard with headstones. I printed out Halloween color pages for the younger children (avg. age 4-5) and some maze and word scramble pages for the older children (ages 6-8). As the children arrived, they sat at a table and colored their activity pages. When all the children were there I had them each pick a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch (after a group picture) and they brought those back to the table to paint with poster paint. We set them aside to dry.  They were then ready to play games. We played Pass the Hot Pumpkin with two of the mini pumpkins. Have kids get in a circle and pass pumpkins to music (we used the "Monster Mash" and "Purple People Eater"). As the music stops the kids left holding the pumpkins are out and the game continues until the last two. We kept playing until the kids were tired of the game (we did not play winners or losers).   Next was the Mummy Wrap. We gave each of the older children rolls of toilet paper and divided the younger children in lines. The older children were in charge of decorating the younger ones. They thought it was funny and the younger kids loved having the older ones do the wrapping. As a twist the adults then took the paper and wrapped the older kids. Then they all zombie marched to the graveyard and mummy danced to the song "Deadman's Party". They laughed hysterically and the dance ended when all the paper eventually fell off the kids.   Everyone was now hungry. I served only food that was black and orange. this consisted of Hamburgers not quite black but close enough) with american cheese, carrot-raisin salad, black bean salad, a tray of oranges, cantaloupe wedges and black grapes, a tray of carrot slices and black olives with ranch dip, cheese puffs and nacho cheese doritos. Then I served Tang orange drink.  After the kids were fed, they were ready for more games. I bought Peeps (marshmallow candies) in the shapes of pumpkins and tied a string to each one of them. These we tied to a pole at mouth length for the kids. Then with hands behind their backs they attempted to eat the Peeps off the strings. This was a lot of fun and unlike donuts they stay put until completely eaten.  We had a pinata as well. This was a donkey pinata that was not broken at a previous party. I simply covered him in toilet paper and said that he was a mummy for Halloween. This got big laughs from the kids. I know that there are pinatas available for Halloween that would work great too. Each child got a bag with there name on it to retrieve candy. I also had extra candy put aside to make sure those with lighter bags could be filled to capacity as well.  The cake was a pumpkin made out of two bundt cakes put together with a green ice cream cone for the stem. I also had ice cream already scooped in halloween cupcake holders.  For goodie bags, I found Halloween baggies at the Dollar Store and Wal-Mart along with a bunch of Halloween trinkets and pumpkin suckers. (I made them light on candy in lieu of the pinata). Every child then left with their painted pumpkins, activity pages, candy bag and goodie bags. I probably had as much fun coordinating the party as the kids had attending it. later thank you notes with pumpkin clip art were sent to each child both thanking them for attending the party and for their gifts to Kendel.