Halloween is around the corner and many people have great Halloween party at home! If you are planning one here are some ideas to make to party the best for your budget as well as fun so it will be spook-tacular gathering. We will look at from costume, games, food , music and decorations to make best experience for your guests!
What to wear: Halloween Costume
Halloween costumes are important part of the gathering and lot of fun. We get to be always someone we want to, such as pirate, Super hero, Princess Leia or even Michael Jackson. There are sometimes a great costume that couple can wear together such as Fred & Daphne, or Sonny & Cher.
Halloween is nothing without spooky and fun frolic decorations. Halloween store at amazon has a many great ideas for everything you may want for Halloween decor to costume.
Spooky and delicious cookware to serve food
No party will be fun without food and people. You can make and bake food in fun and whimsical Halloween theme cookware and dishes to serve!
I have old Halloween cookbook that I use to make delicious food, it is called Tricks and Treats Halloween Cookbook, which has a many old fashioned recipes that I love to make.If you can not find that vintage cookbook, there are other Halloween cookbooks may give more ideas for simple and easy recipes.
You can make cookies from mix, using Halloween cookie cutters, they will be surely hit and loved by all. You can use any book you may have or borrow one from a friend to get some ideas for food to share, here are some recipes adapted various recipe site sites as shown.
Crunchy Snacks For Holloween from Cooks.com
In a large bowl (about 4 quarts) Combine popcorn, pretzels, goldfish and Cheerios.
In a microwave, heat butter on high until melted. Drizzle over mixture in bowl while stirring to coat evenly. Sprinkle (lightly) with onion salt, garlic powder and cheese. Toss to coat.
Spread evenly on a buttered cookie sheet in a single layer.
Bake in a preheated 300°F oven for about 20 minutes, or until very lightly toasted, stirring several times. Store in an airtight container.
For Halloween, make up a “Ghost” by placing some of the mixture into the center of a white napkin, then bring up the 4 corners to meet; tie a string or a piece of yarn or raffia around the center, forming a head and allowing the rest of the paper to hang freely for the body. Stick on two black circles or dab some black food coloring for eyes, if desired.
Spooky Eyeball Subs Sandwiches From Recipe Lion
Preparation: Preheat oven to 400°F.
Mash the beans with a fork, potato masher or food processor until completely smooth. Mix with egg replacer, ketchup, apple butter and soy sauce. Mix into the soft tofu using your hands until completely incorporated. Wet your hands with cold water, form 24, 1-1/2-inch balls, and put them on 2 sheet pans leaving plenty of space in between.
Push a green olive ring deeply into the center of each tofuball, with the circular side facing up. Mold the ball around the olive into a football shape so that each meatball looks like an eye. Bake for 10 minutes until the meat is cooked through.
While the eyeballs are cooking heat the tomato sauce in a saucepan until simmering, and keep warm.
Remove eyeballs from the oven. Dab away any juice from the top with a paper towel and insert a piece of black olive into the hole in the center of each green olive giving each eye a dark pupil.
To serve: Spoon 1/4 cup sauce in each roll, top with 2 tablespoons cheese and insert 2 eyeballs side-by-side staring out from each roll.
You can host a pumpkin carving games by buying extra pumpkin from pumpkin patch or ask each guest to bring one and provide Pumpkin Carving Kitat party!
Halloween Pictionary:
If you know how to play Pictionary, this is game is easy enough. Make two teams of gathered people. Use Halloween related words such as candy corn, pumpkin, monster, ghost, and so on. Have a person pick a word given by opposite team, and then the person has to draw it on white board to see if her or his team can guess the word. One person can keep the timer and scores. Whichever teams wins, can be given small and inexpensive Halloween themed gift.
Halloween Charade:
This is similar to game Charade, where person has to mimick the word given by acting and without saying any word. Just like pictionary game above, two teams can play with halloween related words, movies and so on.
Just like the “Name that tune” Television, show host can pick out Halloween related spooky music before, you will need a cd player, horror movie mp3, or itunes, cd and paper to keep the score. Here are some ideas for where to get spooky music from;
FROM MOVIES
Army of Darkness | Beetlejuice | Candyman |
Creepshow | The Exorcist | Fearless Vampire Killers |
Friday the 13th | Halloween | Hocus Pocus |
Mad Monster Party | Night of the Living Dead | Nightmare on Elm Street |
Phantasm | Nightmare Before Christmas | Psycho |
The Fog | The Omen | Sleepy Hollow |
FROM TELEVISION
The Addams Family | Charmed | The X-Files |
The Night Gallery | The Twilight Zone | The Outer Limits |
Dead Like Me | The Munsters | Tales From The Crypt |
Tell Spooky and Scary stories in Dark with Flashlight
One time we shared a spooky stories in candle lights and it was fun and bit scary at the same time. If you have small children at the party, keep the games simple such as Halloween crafts to do.
Watch Scary movie together
You can also watch some scary movies and listen to fun music.It is fun to get scared together…
Have Thriller Dance Party:
One party we had all practiced and did the dance on Micheal Jackson’s thriller. It was so much fun and everyone participated including old uncles and young kids.
You can also have a best carving pumpkin winner choosing and giving a small gift of candle or home made sauce or salsa to take home.
Whatever you decide to do, have fun and stay safe!