A Few Halloween Ideas

I absolutely love Halloween, love getting dressed up, taking Alyssa trick or treating, carving pumpkins, having parties and everything that there is to do around Halloween especially haunted houses. People know I absolutely love Halloween and I've had a few people ask me different things about what kind of stuff to have at a Halloween party and what kind of activities to do so I thought I would do a blog with a few different Halloween ideas for parties and things to do around Halloween.

What to do Around Halloween

•Pumpkin Carving- Kids and adults both love to carve pumpkins. If you're child is still too young to carve you can always paint pumpkins.

•Haunted Houses- I am one of those weird people that loves to have the life scared out of me so I love haunted houses. There's many around this time of year.

•Hay Rides- Kids absolutely love going on a hay rides.

•Costume parties- It's always fun to have an excuse to play dress up.

•Halloween/Fall festivals- There's always festivals going on with a lot of different things for kids and adults to do at them.

•Trick or Treating- Can't forget the best part for the kids and for the parents who sneak some of their kids candy.

Activities for a Halloween Party

•Costume Contest- You could do the scariest, prettiest, most creative, funniest ect.

•Door Prizes- Give out raffle tickets as guest come in. You could give out one big prize or several smaller ones.

•Bobbing for Apples- I don't care how old you are this game never gets old.

•Guess the body part- You can get spaghetti and peeled grapes, have people put their hand in it and guess what it is (eyeballs and brains). Mash cauliflower to feel like mashed brains or peel a tomato to make it feel like a heart.

•Pumpkin Bowling- use 10, 2 liter bottles filled with water and get 3 or 4 small pumpkins to use as bowling balls. You can decorate the pumpkins and bottles for even more fun.

•Have a Whodunit Party- It's life size Clue. You have one person be the murder, one the victim, one the rich homeowner and so on. Each guest has a role and they spend the night trying to figure out who did it and what they did it with. It takes a lot of time but it's so worth it, murder mystery parties are always fun.

•Have a scavenger hunt- They're not just for kids, adults love them too. If you plan on having alcohol at the party then don't make things too hard to find.

Halloween Party Foods

•Frankenstein Finger Dip- Make your favorite dip for chips and then add carrot "fingers" to it. Cut 4 long carrots and one short carrot (the thumb) and place a dab of cream cheese on the end of each. Then place an almond sliver on the end making it look like fingernails. Place in dip so it looks like a hand.

•Mummy pizzas- Make small individual sized pizzas, spread sauce on them and arrange the cheese so it looks like a mummy wrap then add two sliced olives for the eyes.

•Jello Brain- Get a brain mold from your local superstore and fill it with whatever type of Jello you prefer. You can dress up the plate to make it look like blood and guts that the brain is sitting on.

•Caramel Apples- Always a favorite among people

•Witches Brew- Mix up your favorite punch and then add things like gummy worms and peeled grapes that like eyeballs to the punch. You can also serve it a plastic witches caldron.

•Halloween Cupcakes- You can decorate however you want. Make them look like pumpkins, witch hats, spiders, whatever fits your party theme.

Decorations

No Halloween party is complete without some spooky decorations.

•Spider web- Get the fake spider web at a local store and string it across chairs, cabinets, lights and so on.

• Fake skulls and body parts- Have them hanging from different places and laying around.

•Music- It's essential to any successful party. Whether its a live band or a cd, you have to have music.

•Caution Tape- They always have caution tape with creative Halloween sayings on them in any store.

•Get creative and make whatever you think would make your party a success. You don't have to have a ton of decorations but some are the key to a Halloween party. After all, without the decorations it's just a party with adults playing dress up.


Make it a fun party and just have a good time at it. After all, you don't get the chance to dress up and act like someone else every day.