Halloween Party!?

Question

I want to throw a Halloween Party. Most people who will be attending are going to be under the age of 21. I need ideas!! What kind of games should I have? What are some cool themes? What kind of food? It's going to be out in the country at my grandma's house. (She doesn't live there anymore!) Decorations ideas..ANYTHING will be helpful! 10 points to the one who gives me the most/best answer!

Answer 1

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:

Check out

http://allrecipes.com/directory/769.asp

and

http://cooksrecipes.com

Both have great recipe ideas.

Check out this site for more game ideas

http://www.halloween-party-idea.com

I hope you have a great party.

Answer 2

Haunted House!!! Decoreate and make each room a different theme, like a freddy room and a jason room... it'll be fun, make sure people bring their favorite scary movie so you have background noise at the party. Also go and get a couple of pumpkins for by the front door (obviously you should carve them:) ). Sounds fun. Have a good time

Answer 3

Obviously, have costumes.

FOOD: You cna never go wrong w/ candy, but you can also try getting regular/popular foods such as pizza, etc. and have like a little table for food decorated w/ cobwebs and black and orange tablecloth, and label them with scary names, such as "Blood-Eyed Peas".
DECORATIONS: Cobwebs, orange, black...the more stuff you can buy, the better! Just look at any local party shop, and you'll find stuff.
GOODIES: If you wanna give goodies, give them in toy cauldrons.
ACTIVITES: Costume contests, "Scary"oke (Karaoke, which really will be scary if Paris Hilton shows up), dance contest, the usual mature party stuff.
LIGHTING: THe lights should be dark, but not too dark, so you can actually see where you're going. Try making lanterns and covering them w/ black or orange thin paper and glueing figures like bats on them.
INVITES: Instead of R.S.V.P., try R.I.P, and use funny spoofs for them.

I'll add more if I can. Have fun, and odn't forget to send an invite to me!!!!!!

Answer 4

A cool matter of fact the best Halloween theme is Costume party, you can make it interesting and say costumes have to me movie themes. Make everyone dress up in a costume that pertains to a movie. Then for the foods menu you can have things like chicken, devil eggs, pasta salad, fruit platter, meat tray, chip and dip, things that are light so that people won't get sleepy because of a heavy belly.

Answer 5

Go with a Horror Movie theme - let everyone dress as their favorite horror movie character. Check w/ your local video store/movie theatre to see if they have any horror movie poster they will let you have to hang on the walls.

As far as food - Go Simple! - check out the frozen snack isle at your favorite mega-mart and get different heat and serve snacks, tons of chips & dips/salsas. Set up a meat/cheese tray w/ small rolls to make sandwiches. Canned drinks would be the most simple - esp. if you get plain huggies that the guests can write on w/ a sharpie so they know whose is whose, plus its a neat take home thing (you are never too old for party favors!).

Check out www.orientaltrading.com - they have some of the best decorations, candy and stuff around. If you sign up for monthly e-mails, you get free shipping codes, too.

Answer 6

Buy a lot of pumpkins and carve them into spooky faces. Place multi-colored tea lights inside them. As far as themes - uh, I don't know. Try Adam's family, Munsters? What about a punk music theme full of blood and what not. Hire a band to play and they should dress up in costumes with pale faces and blood coming out their mouths...I have no idea...lol!

Food - Orange colored cake, Red Velvet cake, White cake with green food coloring in the mix. Pizza? Finger food covered in fake blood?

Just get wild and crazy and have a good time!

Answer 7

Cool. I'm having one too. My crowd will be all ages but mostly adults. I was looking for ideas and here are some sites that I found interesting.
This one is about games...
http://www.partygameideas.com/halloweengames.htm

This one has good snacks or food ideas and lots more..
http://familyfun.go.com/parties/holiday/specialfeature/halloween_ms_parties/

This one you can use to send free invitatons, pretty cool.....
http://www.rats2u.com/halloween/halloween_recipes.htm

Have fun :)

Answer 8

Excellent I only wish I could give you 10 star instead of 1

Answer 9

have a classic scary movie marathon. Or, break out a ouija board. a good halloween party food is meatballs.

Answer 10

Ask some of the people that will be there what they want to see what they want to do. what food they would like things like that