"Each year I choose a theme, mummies,
vampires, witches, ghosts and then my family dresses the part. We decorate
one room in the basement to coincide with the theme. When we did mummies we
decorated the room like a tomb complete with a sarcophagus and mummy. We
dressed like Egyptians and had hieroglyphics drawn out on newspaper end
rolls. We even made a pyramid piñata!! We then took the kids from the
party down in small groups and when the mummy came out of the sarcophagus
everyone screamed!"
-- submitted by Leah in
Illinois
"This was for adults only.
Everyone had to come as a SNL skit person. You could do it with someone or
alone. It could be an old or new SNL skit. We had church lady, coffee
talk, Spartan cheerleaders, d**k in the box, Roseanna Roseanna, Sigma Chi
and Tri Delt, Camel toe, Pat, Hans and Frans, Ladies man, Da Bears.
Everyone had to do their characters skit and we gave out 1,2,and 3 prizes.
It was awesome."
-- submitted by
Kolleen in
Colorado
"This is real cute and simple for
a round table. I purchase 2 round plastic white table cloths. 1 table
cloth I use to cover the table. The other cloth I make into a ghost. I
make it so the front is longer than the back. I make a head out of a
plastic bag and newspapers, then I tie with fishing wire or a light string,
then I make a face out of felt and glue them on. I drape the cloth over the
top of the table and the head sits on top of the table. I use this as my
dessert table."
-- submitted by
Anna in
California
"Last year we had a Heaven and
Hell party. We did the upstairs like Heaven and downstairs as Hell. I used
white balloons, and white quilt stuffing as the clouds on the floor
upstairs. I have a glass cabinet I filled with stuffed animals and made it
into Noah's ark. I used blue vinyl table cloth with white paint and shaped
them into clouds and put on the walls. I put blue bulbs in the light
fixtures. Also white Christmas lights. I used window paint markers and
painted Adam and Eve on my large window and put, The Garden of Eden above
it. The kitchen table was in front of it and we made a long winding snake
out of a sub sandwich as the main focus. Then put all the heavenly food
around that. Downstairs was done in red and black with all my great scary
props and a home made devil. With all hot and red food or deviled eggs or
cake and the such. Outside at a certain time we lit two pumpkins on fire.
You can look on the web how to get at 3 to 4 foot flame to shoot out of the
pumpkin using a toilet paper role soaked in kerosene. One looked like a
devil that had carrot horns. Everyone thought it looked great. Of course
we served adult Heaven and hell drinks like Satan's Revenge, Devils Candy
and Piece of Heaven to name a few. There is so much more but this give you
an idea. It takes my husband and I a lot of planning. This year will be
the 5th annual party. Hope you found one good tip in here."
-- submitted by
Lara in South Dakota
"College students, while
notorious for partying, tend to fall short of the mark on Halloween. My
solution is sending out invitations with the stipulation -- Appropriate
attire required. No alcohol served to anyone without costume. I know my
audience, and a classy Halloween cocktail party goes over very well! I
serve Screwdrivers with a dash of grenadine and black licorice stick
stirrers (orange and black) layered cocktails in ice shot glasses dyed
orange and red, and of course the ice cubes feature little plastic spiders.
This is fun with or without a theme, but most college students don't have
time or money to follow specific costume rules, so I provide whatever
thematic links are necessary. This year I'm having a classic cocktail
party, zombie style. Myself and the other hosts are dressing in 30s style
gowns with zombie makeup and our living room will be decked out to the nines
as a classic Hollywood crypt (think Ed Wood films, or anything starring Bela
Lugosi!) with lots of cardstock tombs and good old fashioned fake spiderweb."
-- submitted by
Anne in
New Jersey
"A great Halloween party
idea is to do an "Internet Phenomenon" theme, where everyone comes dressed
as someone from a popular internet video. Such as the kid who freaked out
about Britney Spears, Star Wars Kid, etc. I plan on going as the Ball Girl
from the Gatorade video. You can get the exact jersey and hat she wore from
the Fresno Grizzlies website."
-- submitted by
Stephanie in
California
"One of my favorite party
themes was to choose a letter, "B" for example. Your "character" must start
with this letter; Bee, Bret Michaels, beer, etc. This allows for individual
creativity, without making the theme too narrow and everyone showing up as
the same thing."
-- submitted by
Adam in
California
"One year we made a Mystery
of the Haunted Art Gallery party. We created a bunch of paintings of scary
and silly looking creatures and hung them on the walls. We told a story
about one of the paintings being a spooky spirit that comes to life and does
evil things, and that the guests would have to find and destroy that
painting. Then we had little games or puzzles, and when the guests figured
each one out, they were left with the name of an innocent painting. When
they figured out which ones were innocent, the one that remained was the
guilty one. They then ripped that one up and found it's evil black heart
inside, showing they had chosen the right one. Everyone got a prize for
saving the day."
-- submitted by
Bonnie and Beth in New York
"We are going on the 6th
annual Halloween party. This year the theme is "Hallowstock". - Halloween
Woodstock. We have made large back drops that are tie died & also one
painted a large VW Groovy bus. Skeletons with hippie attire. a Gallery of
pained pics of old rock stars with skeleton faces. We have a tunnel that
guest will walk through to get to the back yard that is black light. Walk
through & you will see glow in the dark piece signs, flowers, hippie
skeletons, smiley faces & much more painted on the walls. Hallowstock is for
everyone we have kids project to make hippie piece necklaces & we have a
family who is our DJ & Karaoke man. We will have 60's songs to sing & much
others. Guest can where any kind of costume. But we have already had them
say they are dressing like Dead hippies, plain hippies or as an old rock
star. John Lennon, Morrison, Hendrix, Sonny & Cher just to name a few. Lots
of fun & we are sure to have a Groovy time."
-- submitted by
Jolene in Texas
As
you know, Party411.com loves to share Halloween party ideas. So we held a
contest to hear
your best ideas for Halloween!