Halloween
Digital invitation for a Halloween garden tea, ages 3-6
A digital invitation for a Halloween tea in the garden, ages 3 to 6: what to write, which photo to use, and how to say 'costume plus a change of clothes' once, properly
Send The Joy · October 19, 2026 · 3 min read

It's 4:40 in the afternoon. The carved pumpkins are already on the low table in the garden, the lanterns are still in their box, and eleven parents are asking the same three questions in the group chat: what time, what do the kids wear, and do we stay. A digital invitation answers all three before you light a single candle. You pick a design from the catalogue, drop in your own photo of the pumpkins, and send one link today.
This is the practical guide to a 5:30 pm tea in the garden with children aged three to six: what to write, which photo to use, and where the costume note belongs. Short answer to the last one: not in the group chat.
Digital invitation for a Halloween tea in the garden, ages 3 to 6
By 5:30 in October the light is already going, and that is free decoration. Walk the route before you buy anything: the low table with the carved pumpkins, a corner with dark fabric thrown over two chairs, a bucket of water by the door for whoever starts running. The invitation should show that same picture in miniature. A parent who can see the table already knows what kind of party this is.
- A vertical photo of the carved pumpkins on the garden table, taken in late afternoon light.
- Start 5:30 pm, pick-up 7:00 pm, both written in the same line of text.
- The line "come in costume and bring a change of clothes in a bag with your name on it", copied exactly.
- One lantern per confirmed child, so you don't end up short or with half a box left over.
How to create digital invitations for a kids' Halloween tea
Five fields do the work: heading, the child's name, date, one line and place. The character counter warns you before you publish, not after. For a 5:30 tea the line can be as plain as "pumpkins in the garden, tea at half five" — short, concrete, and no full programme.
You can use up to six of your own photos, mark one as the cover and swap any of them later; they frame themselves. Guests open the link in a browser on their phone, install nothing, and confirm on the same page, so the answers land in one ordered list inside the invitation instead of trickling through messages. If rain moves the tea into the kitchen, you edit the invitation and the link stays the same. The site is available in seven languages, and the invitation content can be set per language when half the guest list reads in German and half in English.

A Halloween tea for small children is won on three details: the time, the table, and one clear sentence about the change of clothes.
The costume note and the change of clothes belong on the invitation
Write it the way you would say it out loud: "come in costume and bring a change of clothes in a bag with your name on it." In a group of twelve adults that sentence is gone in two hours; on the invitation it stays where people can find it. Add a confirmation question if you want to know whether the small one arrives as a ghost or as a pumpkin, and put one line in the text saying that adults stay in the garden. Then light the candles. Start your digital invitation today: try it free, put your own pumpkins on the cover, and share the link when it looks right.



