Thirty kids, one classroom, one afternoon. Here is the whole party for less than a Friday night out.
Most of this is under twenty kuai, the decorations go back in the drawer for next October, and none of it needs you to stay late. Sticky things first.
Dress the room in ten minutes
Sticky things, hanging things, one backdrop for the photos. Done before the bell.
Black bats that stick to the wall and peel off clean at the end of term. Cluster them around the door so the kids walk in under a swarm.
¥18.72
The bunting for above the board, dangly spiders included. Under twelve kuai, and it goes back in the drawer for next October.
¥11.82
Black witch hats on fishing line, hung from the ceiling so they float over the desks. The single most effective thirty kuai you will spend this month.
¥33.67
A printed Halloween backdrop with the balloons to go round it. This is the class photo sorted, and the parents' group chat sorted with it.
¥59.20
Little orange pumpkins that light up, several sizes in the pack. Line the windowsill and switch the classroom lights off for the story.
¥14.12
You have to join in
Three cheap ways to look like you made an effort without sweating through a full suit.
Full witch: purple dress, hat, wig and broom for under thirty kuai. Goes on over your work clothes in the staff room and off again before the bus.
¥26.78
Full white beard and long hair in one piece. Add the robe below and you are Dumbledore for the day, which the older kids will respect more than a witch.
¥26.78
Star-covered robe and hat that go over whatever you taught in that morning. Wizard, magician, headmaster of a suspicious school, your call.
¥26.78
Wobbling eyeballs on springs. For the teacher who refuses a costume but can be talked into a headband, and honestly it gets the bigger laugh.
¥12.97
Cheap enough to hand out
For the kids who turn up in uniform because nobody read the notice.
Hooded robe, glowing skull mask, plastic scythe, fourteen kuai. Buy five and keep them in the cupboard for whoever forgot, every single year.
¥14.12
White cape with the face on it, throw it over anything. The kindergarten ghost that has worked since forever and still gets a scream from the little ones.
¥47.70
Purple, black or orange gauze capes with a hat and a wand each. Cheap enough to get one per table, and the wands will be confiscated by two o'clock.
¥65.50
One page, three costumes. Pumpkin for the loud kid, ghost for the shy one, cat for the one who insists on being a cat every year.
¥59.20
Trick or treat, sorted
The candy is your budget. The bits around it are not.
Orange pumpkin pails with handles, the ones the kids carry round the room collecting sweets from each other. Eight kuai, and they double as pen pots after.
¥8.43
Themed straws for the juice. Tiny detail, weirdly big effect, and the kind of thing the kids photograph before they drink.
¥15.27
Not a treat, a child dressed as one. The wearable slice of cake for the kid who wants to be funny rather than scary, and the kind of thing only Baopals turns up.
¥47.70
**That is the class party sorted.** Room decorated, teacher in costume, spares in the cupboard. Add the sweets and you are done. [More Halloween Finds](https://www.baopals.com/search?q=halloween&smartSearch=true)