Halloween decorations/games?

Question

Im planning to have a halloween party at my house. I want it to be a haunted house sort of thing. I need ideas.
What kind of games, food?
And I dont want any little decorations that people arent goin to see, what are some good decorations that I can put up. It's going to be in my backyard and in my house.

Please all of your ideas will be great THANKS

Answer 1

I've been posting this quite a bit, might be of help to you

"" If you can find it, try getting a copy of the DVD "How to... Haunt Your House." It's all about props and creating the right atmosphere. It also provides blueprints for some of the props. Ideas off the DVD include

"Axe in log." Real easy, all you do is take a take a log like you'd split for regular firewood and take one nice swing at one end with the axe (make sure the axe only has the blade on one end, as you'll see why in a moment). You want the swing to be good enough for the axe to actually get stuck so that if you let go it's not likely to fall out in a minute or so. Then to make sure kids can't pull it out, you take a hammer and hammer the blade in a few times to really getit good and stuck. Now to make it scary you take a can of red paint and pour a littlearound the axe and on one side.

The idea is for the paint to look like blood that has run after chopping off somone's head or a body part. Put a head basket (just a general wicker basket) on the side where the most paint is, maybe even with some of the paint on the basket. For a final touch, you can put a fake limb on the log beside the axe and maybe a fake head in the basket (a plastic skull in a mask could work for the head.

"Bleeding skull." Ok, for this one you really wanna gather your supplies. A wicker basket (make certain the basket you use, if not wicker, can't hold water), a plaster skull, a rubber tube, a saw, a bucket (at least the bottom half of a five gallon bucket, and spray it black), fake blood, a five gallon can (or any large can) with one end gone, and a fish tank or garden pond pump.

Take and drill a hole large enough for the tube to pass through (but only just barely) through the top of the skull skull, bottom of the basket, and top (actually bottom of the can. Take the saw and saw a little ways in to the skull, making sure you saw down from the top of the skull and across hole. The saw has to go far enough to stick in place later. Remove the saw and insert the tube so that one end is even with the top of the skull while the rest trails below it. Glue the tube in place.

Cut at least a couple of notches in the bottom of the can (be careful as they'll be sharp and could cut you), one is for the pump's cord and at least one will allow water to pass through. The notches should not be on the end that still is unopened.

Glue the water pump down down so the bottom of the pump is on the bucket but can still draw water. Now pass the tube first through the basket, then the can (making sure the end with the notches is on the bottom), and attach it to the pump. Place the can over the pump (with any excess tubing in the can), the basket on the can, and the skull in the basket. Place the saw back through where you placed it earlier, cutting a slit in the tube to do so. Make certain the tube doesn't crimp as you want the water to flow.

Now your all set the decoration and the last step can be done just before the haunted house opens. All you do is pour water into the bucket (say maybe half the bucket worth) and pour in half a bottle or so of fake blood. Plug the pump in so the water-fake blood mixture circulates throught the pump and tube. If done right, the skull's gonna look like it's bleeding from the saw wound. "

To ideas like these, try adding things like steaming cauldrons and misting tombstones. True, you can get some dry ice to make a steaming cauldron, but the steaming cauldrons you can get in the store are a bit safer to use. Plus their LEDs can really give a good, creepy look to the steam rising off of them. Misting tombstones are basically the same thing. The big thing with both you'll need to pay attention to throughout the night is water level, the element that causes them to create steam (mist is actually a better term as there's no real heat to the steam) can over heat if not submerged in water and it causes the water it's in to evaporate in order to cause the steam/mist effect.

Fog machines are also a good idea to use. There are some good ideas for using fog machines in some of the sites listed below. Among these is to have the fog pouring out of a jack-o-lantern. And you can get a timer for a fog machine so you don't have to trip it yourself.

Then there's black lights and a lovely little device called a Thunder Machine or a Lighting FX. Very lovely setup, used it the last couple of halloweens for my ghost in the tree decoration. You plug a lamp or some other light source into the machine and set up it's sensitivity. Then you set it next to a sound source. The machine will cause the light or lights plugged into it to flicker based on it's sensitivity. The more sensitive it is, the more likel;y even a soft sound with cause it to flicker. And loud and soft sounds will alter the brightness of the light when it flickers. I like to use a black light to get a lightning effect, but you can use a regular light as well to give the idea of a failing lamp.

Finally, for music look at some of the CDs put out with Halloween party music. Things like "Monster Mash," "Werewolves of London," "Ghostbusters," ect. Also, sound effects CDs are a good idea to have, especially with the Lighting FX machine mentioned above. If you have more than one stereo, you may want to have one playing music to dance to and the other playing sound effects for the lights to flicker by. I like to use the CD "Scary Sounds" for attracting trick or treaters. It's around seventy-four or seventy-five minutes long with seventy sound effects and sixteen ochestrations. "

Beyond that, try the following sites

Answer 2

-you may in no way pass incorrect with spider webs, you may make a maze applying chairs. you'll be able to desire to tell them to take off their sheos and positioned slime on the floor yet to no longer plenty you do no longer choose for them to slide. you'll be able to desire to place some candles on the climate of the chairs to grant them some gentle each few feet. you'll be able to desire to place a internet close to the cieling and enable it dangle low perhaps so low they had ought to pass slowly throughout the full maze. -you'll be able to desire to raffle off spider rings,pumpkins,pumpkin pie, candy,pretend blood,you may make a grand prize winner a fairy costumes or some thing of the types,you'll be able to desire to sell the raffle tickets seperately like for the grand prize winner you pay 2 money,spider rings you'll be able to desire to grant out for unfastened while they purchase a cost tag,carved pumpkin you'll be able to desire to tell them to pay 50 cents or a a million$. candy and pretend blood could desire to be gained for contests like a pumpkin carving contest who ever makes the perfect pumpkin. -you will possibly have a opposition who gets the main factors for while your bowling because of the fact that its a bowling alley, yet cause them to pay a pair of greenbacks. you'll be able to desire to get some hay and scatter candy in there and supply them one minute to locate all the candy they are able to. you will possibly have a small basketball hoop the place they are able to objective to toss it interior the basket and get some candy while they win or a glow stick. you will possibly have lollipop toss and toss a hoop onto a lollipop and get a lollipop once you get a hoop onto it. you'll be able to desire to value them a cost for all those video games like 2-5$ and that they are able to objective infinite cases. you need to positioned hotdogs and burgers and salds,ect. foodstuff interior the party to. have exciting

Answer 3

i think you should put a scary ride to the back yard.

Answer 4

games
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art5888.asp

recipes
http://www.britta.com/HW/HWr.html

props
http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/