So once you’ve changed your light bulbs to glowing black light bulbs and enveloped the room in black and orange decorations, what’s next? You’ll need to include all the traditional elements of a super scary Halloween night.
Setting the STAGE…
Dripping Candles
Put glowing drip stick candles in candelabras or use candles that “bleed” as they melt.
Ghosts & Ghouls
Use scissors to round the corners of a 6-in. piece of gauze or cheesecloth. Dip the gauze or cheesecloth into a bowl of liquid starch. (For colorful ghosts, add food coloring to the starch.) Drape the wet cloth over an empty soap or beverage bottle and let it dry for 24 hours. Glue on wiggly eyes. Make a bunch and hang the ghosts throughout the party site.
Mix and Mingle!
Blood & Guts
Make boiling blood drinks. Heat cranberry juice over the stove. Pour into a black cauldron. Serve with black licorice “straws” by cutting off the ends of the licorice. Put a moving hand next to the cauldron.
Body Parts
Separate Oreo cookies (the Halloween kind with orange icing), insert a rubber finger or other creepy item, and reassemble the cookie. Make sure the item is sticking out so the guests can see it - you don’t really want them eating it!
Vampires
Use glow-in-the-dark fangs tied around with black ribbon as napkin rings.
Weapons
Place fake knives and other toy weapons, such as pitchforks and plastic machetes, on the table to use as serving utensils.
Witches
Have selected guests dress as witches in long gray wigs, black dresses, black fingernails and blacked out teeth. Have them stir a wet noodle and red Jell-O-filled cauldron with a broomstick for effect.
Halloween Party FUN!
Pumpkin Carving!
Give everyone a real pumpkin and have each one create a scary face with a carving tool. Award prizes for the ugliest, funniest, scariest and best look-a-like. If you prefer, have the guests decorate the pumpkins instead of carving them, using stickers, vegetables or felt-tip pens.
Moans & Groans
Play scary movie themes and haunting sounds from Scream, Psycho, X-Files, Godzilla, The Exorcist, Halloween, The Shining, Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street or classics like Rock Lobster, Monster Mash and Ghost Busters.
Monsters & Zombies
Have a costumed creature enter, steal all the candy, make some scary noises and disappear. After the players have calmed down, have them answer a series of questions about what happened, since they were eyewitnesses to the crime of candy stealing. You might ask: What was the creature wearing? How tall was he? What kinds of noises did he make? Who’s candy did he steal first?
Mummies
Play the “Mummy Wrap Game.” Have teams try to completely wrap up a player in toilet paper, except for the nose, eyes, and mouth. The team that completes the Mummy Wrap first wins a prize. It’s more challenging than it sounds, because the toilet paper keeps tearing!
FUN for the Kids (and the Adults!)
Loot Bags!
Send guests home with skulls filled with gruesome goodies, like gummy worms, baked pumpkin seeds, bouncing eyeballs, rubber snakes and scary tattoos.
Papergoods
Invitations
Balloons
Product seen here is seasonal. Selection varies by store. Call store for details.
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