Rhinestone Beagle: HTTC - Scooby Doo House

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

HTTC - Scooby Doo House

Scooby Doo is big in our house. Saturday we are having our second Scooby Doo birthday party. String Beane had a Scooby party when he turned 3 and Butter Beane is having a Scooby party for his 3rd birthday Saturday.

I have made another candy Haunted House this year as it was a huge hit last time. It is so simple to make and such a show stopper. It is really worth the time to make it and the theme can be customized to your event.

Supplies:

2 Cardboard boxes

Piece of Styrofoam for base

Duct tape

Chocolate frosting

Tons of candy

The house is made of a cardboard box duck taped to a piece of styro foam. Tape it on the styro foam open end up.
Trim the short side flaps at an angle. Then you take a second card board box and cut it apart and use two sections to fold in to a peak for the roof. Duct tape the roof on to the house.
Then cut a small hole in the roof and use a strip of the cardboard box to fold into a square tube for the chimney. Duct tape it down.
Now that you have the frame it is time to decorate. Since I was doing a Scooby theme I tried to make it look like a haunted house.
Use canned chocolate frosting and spread it over the cardboard. You'll use this like glue to add all your candy too.

Line the roof with graham crackers for the shingles and use red hots for the chimney bricks.
Hershey bars are great for doors with Skittle knobs.
Make your windows from more Hershey bars and add graham cracker shutters.
I used gum drops and pixie sticks to make a fence and oreos for the walk way.
I also bought a Mystery Machine candy car and put it in the driveway.
Use Halloween suckers for the trees and Halloween peeps for the door decorations.

For the party, I put everyone's name in a bag. I drew out a name and that child got to pick a candy from the house. I went through until all of the children had a turn and then it was a free for all. They loved it!