Planning a Halloween party can be a spooktacular way to celebrate Halloween. Whether you are spending it with coworkers at an office, your kids at home or an adults-only evening out, the options for costumes, decorations, food and fun are endless. Continue reading below to discover some ways to make your Halloween party the best one yet!
Party Invitations
When planning your party, keep in mind the importance of a party invitation. Choose from snail mail, e-mail or text invites depending on your recipients and what works best for you and your crew. Sending out a cute fall themed pumpkin invitation for a children’s party is appropriate while designing a spooky invitation is more suitable for older kids and adults. Including details for your party like the date, time, location and dress code is important while adding a request for an RSVP so you can have an accurate headcount of attendees for your event.
How to Decorate for a Halloween Party
Decorating for a Halloween party can really set the mood for your event. Aligning with your theme, think about halloween friendly decor that you and your guests will love. Cobwebs, spiders, skeletons and huge pumpkins make for a classic Halloween event, while a monster themed party could include Dracula, Frankenstein and mummy decorations. Lighting, wall and ceiling decor, table decorations and music can make for the best party yet. Here are a few specifics on how to decorate with your Halloween decor.
How to Decorate a Door for Halloween
Decorating a door for halloween is a fun way to entertain neighbors and passersby as well as guests as they arrive at your party. Hanging wreaths with black ribbons and faux spiders is an easy and classic style. Embellishing wreaths with dark flowers, skulls, bats and other large Halloween decorations also makes for a dramatic effect. In addition to wreaths, using spooky fabric with a graveyard scene, haunted house or printed pumpkins is an easy way to cover your door.
Door mats, large plastic pumpkins and creepy welcome signs like “Enter if you Dare” can make for a fun surprise.
How to Decorate House for Halloween Party
Decorating your house for a halloween party is a sure way to get into the spooky spirit of the holiday. Think about focal points of your house or where guests will be spending most of their time and use the most decorations there. Stretching synthetic spider webs across walls, adding some freshly carved jack-o-lanterns and hanging bats and spiders from the ceiling are a classic go to. If you have a specific theme like celebrities or athletes, grab some cut out silhouettes to display.
Adding the element of lighting including infinity lights and dim lamps or battery operated candles can provide a spooky glow. To create a more playful ambiance, opt for orange, purple and green lights or pass out glow in the dark glow sticks for your guests.
How to Decorate a Garage for a Halloween Party
Decorating a garage for a Halloween party offers a lot of creative freedom and can be the ultimate location for a party venue. With huge Halloween props you can transform the space into a haunted house, a spooky lounge, or a frightful fun zone.
Setting up an area for food and drink, dancing, lounging and diy projects and games can be a fun way to enhance the space. Arrange the garage so there is a flow for the guests to experience all of the areas. Don’t forget the fog machine and Halloween music to complete the vibe!
How to Decorate a Table for Halloween Party
Setting a table for your halloween party can be fun and make a big impression on your event. Choose tablecloths and linens that go with your theme as well as napkins. Arranging a centerpiece with pumpkins, candles, skulls and bones can add a bit of drama to your table. Vary the heights of your decor for high impact. Use halloween themed or colored table settings for your plates and cups with cutlery to match. Paper and plastic are an easy go to for parties, making clean up quick and easy for the host.
What to Wear to Halloween Party
Choosing what to wear to a Halloween party can be exciting and fun. There are a variety of costumes to choose from including classic styles, pop culture references and creative diy ideas. When deciding what costume to wear, consider if there is a theme to the party so you can stay on trend. One party may be super hero inspired while another may be a celebrity, historical figure or classic halloween focused event where costumes including witches, vampires and zombies would be fit. Aligning your costume with the theme and being comfortable are two tips when planning your look. Whether the ease of a store bought costume is the way to go or a weekend spent doing a DIY costume is more your speed, finding the best Halloween costume is a must to get ready for your party!
What to Serve at a Halloween Party
Food
Serving Halloween themed foods is a sure way your guests will enjoy your party. Making creepy- crawly nachos with plastic spiders atop or “mummy hotdogs” made from hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls are simple finger food ideas. You can even shape a cheese into a ball and add a pretzel stick as a stem for a “pumpkin ball” or bake a pizza in the shape of a ghost with olives for the eyes. Bone-appetit!
Drinks
Serving witches brew made from lime sherbet and lemon lime soda adorned with gummy worms and candy eyeballs is an exciting upgrade from traditional sodas. Stirring up a vampire blood punch made from cranberry juice and seltzer water is also an option. Try adding floating “eyeballs" of peeled grapes or lychees for an extra pop!
Halloween Party Music
A Halloween party wouldn’t be complete without some themed music. Picking your favorite Halloween music or spooky instrumental songs is a great way to add a scary sound. Creaking doors, ghostly whispers and howling winds can be subtle and make a statement. If you want your guests to dance, include Halloween classics that they can groove to amongst a fog machine.
Halloween Party games
If you want to take your party to the next level, planning some fun activities for your guests is a must. Have a costume contest for your guests including, best costume, cutest costume or spookiest costume depending on your theme. For kids, include an area to decorate their own pumpkins to take home and adults can have a carving station. Setting up a spooky scavenger hunt or having a photo booth with Halloween themed props and backdrops is another way to entertain your guests and capture fun moments of the event, while giving guests a fun photo memory to take home.
We hope you love our ideas of how to plan your next pumpkin season party. Witching you a Happy Halloween!
