Haunted Home Ideas
You don’t have to spend a lot of money in order to create a spooky environment with these simple DIY haunted house ideas. A range of decorations are available to make this party theme stand out. These include anything from gruesome shower curtains in the bathroom to terrifying doll mobiles dangling from the ceiling. Lights and sounds play an important part in this haunted house theme. There are numerous options to choose from for both outdoor and indoor party settings. Outdoor Haunted House Ideas: Set these scenes outdoors with lighting effects for a haunted bedroom, a ghostly graveyard, and a ghost train.
Halloween Seance
When it comes to hosting a truly supernatural party, there’s nothing better than hosting a ghostly seance. As the host, you can summon spirits, communicate with the great beyond, and foretell the future (or hire a real psychic medium). Prepare for a night to remember by lighting candles and using a fishbowl or cloche to serve as your crystal ball for the occasion. Find a Ouija board at antique stores or use an ouija app on your phone. Just be sure you’re sober and calm enough to conjure spirits, because they tend to get all cranky when they’re sleep deprived.
Zombie Prom
With this wacky Halloween theme, you can relive your glory days in high school. Encourage all of your guests to dress in their most ghoulishly glam gowns and suits for the occasion. By dressing up in black masks or raggedy clothes and adorning themselves with fake fangs and bloody, blackened mouths, you can entice ghouls, ghosts, monsters, and even vampires to join in the fun. If you want to add a little more drama to your party food table, center it with a coffin filled with ghoulishly lit “corpses.” Decorations for the table include zombiefied “brain-licking” cupcakes and “corpse juice” punch, which should be served in a dark wine glass.
Murder Mystery Dinner
Incorporating the popular board game Clue into a murder mystery dinner party will ensure that your guests have a murderous good time, and you can be certain that they will. To complete the mission, you’ll need to prepare three different versions of the main course (or, if you’re feeling particularly murderous, all five of the meals that have already been prepared in the game). So, who’s the culprit? Inform your guests that they must figure out whodunnit, who was done in, and how it was done without divulging any details about the murder or crime scene, and then allow your guests to solve the mystery by following the clues that you have laid out for them. Because there is a lot to prepare, this game is best suited for small dinner parties of five to six guests.
Outdoor Movie Night
An outdoor movie night is preferable to a traditional indoor movie night because it is more entertaining and less frightening than the latter. A DIY movie screen made of a white sheet, along with blankets and chairs, should be set up on the lawn for guests to enjoy while they watch the show. A snack table should also be set up for them to enjoy while they watch the show. Party favors can include anything from grab bags to bubbles to glow sticks and more to help bring the evening to a successful conclusion. Keeping the lighting low, bringing an extra blanket or two for guests who might get cold, and making sure there is enough seating for everyone are all good ideas for watching a movie outside.
Halloween Brunch
Is it true that you must wait until the end of the day to enjoy the spookiest season of the year? Consider organizing a gathering of your friends for an afternoon of spooktacular treats, including pumpkin pie mimosas, homemade coffin-shaped Pop-Tarts, and Halloween deviled eggs, among other things. Along the way, you can make your own creamed corn ice cream cones and mini lava cakes, and then relax with a movie while getting ready for your big night out on the town! Wear a costume and play your own spooky-themed board games, or play a few rounds of Uno to celebrate Halloween (just kidding…maybe). Let the good times roll with this creepy, spooky celebration.
DIY Halloween Craft Bash
A DIY craft-making party is a great way to get into the Halloween spirit without scaring the kids too much. It is also a great way to keep them entertained. Crafts for Halloween include a popsicle stick cemetery, paper bag monster puppets, Halloween sugar drawings, eyeball monster lollipops, and cotton ball ghosts, just to name a few suggestions. Even the youngest members of the family can join in the festivities by making their own candy corn jack-o-lanterns or glittering spiderweb finger foods.
Flight Night
Take a night of beer tasting with pumpkin ales and other seasonal beverages, and dress in costume for a frightfully fun night of festivities. Alternatively, throw a wine tasting party complete with flights of red wine and a variety of cheeses for a bloody good time! Showcase the tasting flights with bartender flair when serving a variety of beers; ultra-stylish flight trays are available from bedbathandbeyond.com. At a wine tasting party, you should prepare a variety of different wines and cheeses for your guests to nibble on while discovering new vintages and delights. For a Halloween-themed wine tasting, serve low-sugar wines in the dark to ratchet up the creepiness.