Festive and Fun Halloween Tea With Poetry ~ The Organized Homeschooler

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Tea with poetry is a regular occurrence at my house, but sometimes it just needs a little something extra. Every October, we like to host a Halloween tea with poetry. My kids are going to be excited about everything Halloween-related anyway, so I might as well capitalize on that enthusiasm with a fun literacy-based tea party.

The basic requirements for a tea with poetry don’t really change with the seasons. At the core, you just need snacks and kid-friendly poetry. We can transform it into a Halloween tea with poetry with the addition of themed decorations, festive food, and spooky poems.

Halloween Tea with Poetry

Halloween Tea with Poetry Decorations

Decorations do not need to be expensive or complicated. We are decorating for our children, not the royal family.

My kids like to help make the Halloween tea with poetry decorations. My kids like to get crafty, so I just grab a few of their Halloween projects to sit upon our jack-o’-lantern tablecloth.

This year our decorations consisted of Michael’s craft kits. The spooky cookie house was a huge hit and seems like a fitting decoration for a Halloween tea with poetry.

I adore my wedding china, so we use it for almost every tea with poetry. I want my kids to have memories of actually using the fancy china, not just looking at it stored away in the curio cabinet. This is definitely a personal choice though! If you are not comfortable with your kids using formal china or just don’t want the extra hand washing, Halloween paper plates are just as festive.

Halloween Snacks

Trick-or-treating produces tons of candy, so I didn’t want to offer too many sugary treats during our Halloween tea with poetry. The sugar was limited to two Reese’s pumpkins and ghosts and a bit of whipped cream. Everything else was naturally sweetened.

Candy corn fruit parfaits are a Halloween tradition in my house because they are reasonably healthy, festive, and delicious. All About Learning has the complete recipe, but I make one small alteration. I swap the yogurt for whipped cream.

table setting for Halloween tea with poetry includes candy corn parfait, pumpkin bread, haunted gingerbread house, and minecraft creeper

My baking time has been pretty limited lately, so I pulled a loaf of pumpkin bread from my freezer. I baked this a few weeks ago when I did my Once a Month Meals cooking session. The bread thawed on the counter the night before and was ready to go on Tea with Poetry Day.

A Halloween veggie and fruit tray is another healthy snack option. A little black icing and candy eyes can turn fruits and veggies into cute little monsters.