DIY Goosebumps Cups

Materials:
*Paper cups in green or purple
*Cardstock in green or purple (whichever color you didn't choose for your cups)
*Silhouette CAMEO (or scissors and a pencil)
*All purpose adhesive

Directions:

*Resize the template given below to your desired size, either in Silhouette Studio if you're using the CAMEO or in a word document if you're tracing by hand.

*Cut out as many slime logo shapes as you need using your desired method of either tracing and cutting out with scissors or using the CAMEO.

*Glue one half of the logo to a paper cups.

*Align the other half along the cup and glue down.

*Let cups dry completely before handling.

Oozing Steps

Materials:

*Green cardstock
*Pencil
*Glue or double sided tape
*Packing tape
*Scissors

Warning: If you have painted steps, tape may feel off the paint.  Adhere at your own risk.

Directions:

*Sketch slime drip shapes onto pieces of cardstock, making sure that the end of one sheet overlaps with the beginning of the next.  The number of sheets needed will vary based on the width of your steps.

*Cut out the slime shapes and connect them using glue or double sided tape.

*Adhere the slime to your steps using packing tape.  Make sure your steps are relatively clean first, or else the tape won't stick.  If you have concrete steps like I do, you may want to place some tape over the area you are planning to stick your slime to and peel it off to remove any excess dirt.  If you have painted steps, you may want to try using some sort of adhesive that won't damage paint instead of packing tape to hold up the slime.

Goosebumps Purple Peanut Butter

     Purple peanut butter appears in the Give Yourself Goosebumps book Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter.  I thought it would be fun to recreate this snack for my Goosebumps party and it worked out better than I expected.  In the book, the purple peanut butter tastes like peanut butter and jelly, so you could try adding some grape jelly to your purple peanut butter if you want a snack that's more true to the book.  I'm not a jelly fan and neither we're a few of my guests, so I didn't add jelly, but if you try making it with jelly, I'd be interested to know how it comes out.

Ingredients:

*Peanut butter of your choice
*Purple gel food coloring
*Pink gel food coloring

Directions:

*Place the desired amount of peanut butter in a mixing bowl.

*Alternate adding purple and pink food coloring until you reach your desired shade of purple.  The pink is really important to this process.  If you try using just purple, you'll end up with a black-brown color.

*Serve on crackers, in sandwiches, or however you wish.

Mock Goosebumps Cover Design Contest

     Looking for a fun, easy activity for your Goosebumps themed party?  Host a cover design contest.  Print out copies of the template given below and hand them out to your guests along with some colored pencils and then sit back and watch the creativity flow.

Template

     Note that if you print this template at the size of an actual Goosebumps cover, it will come out a little pixelated.  Scholastic used to offer a free, printable template on their website, but when I went there while I was planning my party, I couldn't find it anymore.  I threw this together and even though it's a little fuzzy, that pixelation didn't seem to detract from the activity any.

Sample Covers

     These are the cover designs my guests came up with.  When it came time for us to vote, many of us had trouble ranking them because they were all so good.  Katie's Cat Got Your Tongue (pictured at the top of the post) scored a very narrow victory.