Halloween Party
| This is the PartyOz guide to throwing the perfect Halloween Party with all the ettiquette, ideas, costumes and Halloween party games. |
Celebrate in spooky style with a wicked Halloween Party celebrated on October 31 every year.
Halloween is associated with the colours orange and black. Halloween activities include trick-or-treat, wearing costumes, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, pranking people, reading scary stories and watching horror movies.
Here’s some advice and tips for holding a Halloween Party that your guests will surely love.
Costume Suggestions
For a Halloween party, any costume is fair game. But for a spooky mood have the guests arrive dressed as creepy characters such as ghosts, ghouls, witches and monsters.
Decorations
Dim the lights and fill the house with spooky Halloween decorations. A joke or novelty shop can provide you with many decorations such as fake skeletons, rubber bats and cobwebs.
Carve faces into pumpkins and set candles inside them to sit by the door.
A fun way to make your own bats would be to use black balloons. You can cut out wings to tape to the sides and hang them from the ceiling.
Use wool or thick string to make an enormous spider web in the corner of the yard or room. You can use this web to play a game later on, or just watch your guests have fun pretending they’re caught in the web.
In the yard, make a mock graveyard using fake tombstones made of cardboard or Styrofoam.
A sheet of Styrofoam can easily be given a weathered stone look by spraying it with grey paint. The paint will eat slightly into the foam, giving it a pocked rocky appearance. Be sure to do this outside however, as it can give off fumes.
Food Suggestions
Serve food and lollies in large jars, adding worn labels to make them look like witches ingredients.
Boiled eggs can be Eye of Newt
Chicken wings can be Frog Legs
Frankfurts can be Fingers
Walnuts can be Lizard Brains
To add a creepy touch to boiled eggs, roll them upon a table before peeling them to lightly crack the shell. Soak them in red dye for a short time and they’ll look like large eyeballs.
A blood red punch would be perfect for all the guests. You could surround the punch bowl with dry ice so it looks like a bubbling cauldron.
Games & Activities
Super Spider Egg Snatch
If you’ve made a giant spider web for the party, this is a perfect game to play, similar to the game of Statues.
Make up small bags of treats and gifts for the guests, and scatter them near the web. Have someone play the part of the Spider by standing near the web, facing away from the guests.
The guests have to each sneak up and steal a “spider egg” when the Spider isn’t looking. If the Spider turns around, they have to freeze in that spot. Anyone caught moving goes back to the starting line to begin again.
Unlucky Dip
Make gifts for the guests and wrap them in plastic. Place them in a large box full of something creepy to touch like cold spaghetti.
Witch’s Brew
Have a treasure hunt with a twist by hiding creepy toys about the house and yard such as fake spiders, rubber worms and so on.
Give each guest a recipe for a Witch’s Brew and see if they can find all the ingredients.
Pass The Pumpkins
Have kids sit in a circle and pass small pumpkins or gourds when the music is playing. When the music stops the child without a pumpkin is out continue until there's a winner.
Build A Scarecrow
Form groups and have a variety of old clothes, pillowcases for heads, markers and newspaper. Groups have 20 minutes to create. Give prizes to the scariest or funniest, then place outside.
Deja Blair Witch
Friends with video cameras? Invite friends to create a scary or humorous 5 minute film in the style of Blair Witch, then have a Halloween Film Festival and play the tapes. Ideas could be: A bathroom with no toilet paper, In a mall with no credit cards, Halloween is here and I don't have a costume, have an idea? - So get going
Halloween Candy Hunt
Like an Easter egg hunt: Buy plastic eggs and paint them in halloween colors. put candy in them. then hide them. The prize can be the candy inside or some of the eggs can contain notification of winning a small prize or party favor.
Guess The Ghost - Great for Young Children
Have one child leave the room. Then take a large sheet and have a different (child) stand and hide under the sheet. Mix up the remaining children in the room and then allow the child who left the room to come back inside. That child has to guess who's the ghost, by process of elimination they need to figure out which child is hiding under the sheet. Then that "Ghost" goes out of the room and a different child becomes the new ghost, mix up the remaining children and repeat until all of the children have had a turn being the ghost.
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For inspiration try using the following films, themes and costume ideas:
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Friday the 13th
Halloween
Sleepy Hollow
Headless Horseman
The Wolfman
Dracula
Vampires
Witches
Werewolves
Frankenstein
Bloody Mary
Ghosts
Monsters
Readers Comments
My kids had a great time with these ideas. They wanted to go trick or treating but it was much easier getting them to have a party instead. They loved the spooky decorations and insisted they stay up for a week.
Bill (Melb)
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