How to throw a Halloween Party

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How to throw a Halloween Party

Invitations:

Write your party details on the back of a small pumpkin and draw a funny or scary face on the front. Drop them off at each guest’s door, ring the bell (or knock), and run!

Buy (or make) the plain masks that only cover the eyes and nose. Attach them to a orange/black card with your party details. Ask your guests to decorate them and wear them to your party.

Design a newspaper ad or poster, with your party details on it. You can find numerous reviews and posters to draw inspiration from.

You definitely want your guests to come in costume. You can have a free for all or use on of these ideas:

Dress in styles specific to a certain ere-’40s, ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, etc.

Come as your favorite monster.

Dress in pairs so each couple can match each other some way. This is great if you have an even number of guests. It is a great way to encourage mingling by mixing up and assigning random guests a part of a couple. For example: Spoon and Fork, Sonny and Cher, Milk and Cookies, Sun and Moon, Day and Night, Cat and Dog, etc.

Come as your mentor, hero, or heroine.

Come as a book or movie. Either as a character or a certain aspect of the movie.

Dress as your favorite singer. Ask each guest to bring a cd/tape and have a lip-sync contest.

Come as a famous cartoon character.

Dress as if you were 80 years old. Or even as a child.

Decorations:

Since you have the whole house and yard for the party…

Does your grandmother’s place have a pasture or small wooded area? The reason I am asking because if she does you could have a “horror walk”. Simply mark off a path through the wooded area for your guests to walk. Simply place scary things along the walk.

I did this at one party and we placed skeletons along the path with them pointing in the way to go. We draped spiderwebs from the trees with giant styrofoam spiders. We also made a huge snake simply by sewing together 2 long pieces of fabric in a “snakey” print.

We simply glued large plastic beads for it’s eyes. and draped it through trees over a part of the path. People freaked when the light hit the beads and the eyes glittered.

We also made a graveyard for our guests to discover. We used square blocks of styrofoam. We cut them into headstone shapes and sprayed them lightly with spraypaint. The spraypaint gave them a nice weather-beaten look.

We also found some angel statues at a resale shop. We spraypainted those to look like stone too, and placed them in our “graveyard”. We also had a few ghosts strategically “haunting” the path.

Hang orange/black streamers in every doorway so your guests have to brush them aside as they walk through.

Make a couply scary characters to greet your guests. Stuff two sets of clothes (one men’s and one women’s) to look like real bodies. Place two chairs on either side of your doorway.and set your “bodies” in them. You can place tall tables behind the chairs and place a jack-o-latern on each one for the heads. Or you can buy a couple masks and stuff them for the heads.

Have a cd/tape playing of scary sounds. You can also find some soundtracks of scary movies to play.

Games:

Creepy Quotes: Read aloud a line from a horror movie and ask you guests to name what movie it is from. You can either have them divide into teams, just call out the answers, or write them down.

Charades: Simply divide guests into teams and have them act out different horror movies and words associated with Halloween.

Have a pumpkin carving contest. Award prizes for the creepiest, ugliest, best, etc.

Food:

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