How to Throw a Halloween Party for Teens

Most teens have outgrown trick-or-treating, but still love Halloween. It's the time of the year when teenagers can get away walking out of the house wearing almost anything, or nothing, and still get away with it. If you want to keep your teenagers under your supervision for Halloween you better pull out all the stops.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Tarot Cards
• Halloween Invitations
• Halloween Candles
• Halloween Decorations
• Halloween Light Sets
• Cauldrons And Foggers
• Fog Machines
• Jack-o'-lanterns
• Trick Or Treat Bags
• Pumpkins Seeds
• Halloween Sound Effects CD
• Halloween Music And Sounds
• Coffins
• Halloween Stickers
• Ouija Boards

1. Plan the party and decide on whether you want to have a theme.

2. Invite all teens to come in costume. Put both a start time and an ending time on invitations.

3. Decorate with anything from streamers and balloons to a full-scale haunted house.

4. Start a mixer as soon as teens begin arriving. Pin the name of a famous monster or Halloween character on each person's back and have them ask yes/no questions until they guess their identity.

5. Play games, especially team games. Try a pumpkin relay with a small pumpkin tucked under each runner's chin or a pumpkin seed necklace relay in which each team member gets a turn with a needle, thread and slippery pumpkin seeds. The team with the most pumpkin seeds on the string at the end wins. Give Halloween novelties or candy as prizes.

6. Consider games with a spooky Halloween flavor - bring out the Ouija board and the tarot cards.

7. Serve pizza, mixing 6 tbps. of parmesan cheese with ten drops each red, green and yellow food coloring and put over pizza for a "moldy" look. Also serve punch in a witch's cauldron with dry ice, and dessert, such as pumpkin pie or pumpkin ice cream with candy corn sprinkled on top.

8. Take pictures.

9. Turn lights up and let kids know it's time to leave. Send them home with treat bags, Halloween novelties or party favors.

Tips & Warnings

• Have each teen bring a 12-oz. can of soda and pour it into a punchbowl for a strange tasting punch.
• Other games include a pumpkin-pie-eating contest, bobbing for apples or a scavenger hunt for Halloween items.
• Always provide plenty of adult supervision.

[TheOneWho133ts]

on 10/24/2008 Pin the names of famous monsters and tarot cards?
What the hell kind of party are you planining?
It almost seems like your getting kindergardners to become wicken or something.
I feel deep sympathy for your kids if you even have any.
What did you even think the ages you were planing were?
10 at the oldest could pass...But seriously, If any parents are reading this, DON'T ABIDE TO THIS!
Not unless you want your child to be laughed at for the rest of their high school life.

[kaligirl]

on 10/14/2008 Tarot cards and Ouija Boards scary, spooky, mysterious, and down right creepy why not include them in the Halloween fun?

[rhiannan93]

on 10/13/2008 I think it is disrespectful to tell people to use tarot cards at a party. Tarot cards are meant to be used as a spiritual tool, not a a party game. I takes many years to perfect the use of tarot cards and they ARE NOT evil or spooky.

[Hunnyvee]

on 9/21/2008 I'm not a teen, but I think a better way than requiring kids to dress up is to have some kind of incentive for them to dress up, some kind of door prizes for those who do dress in costumes

[frostedpumpkin]

on 9/20/2008 OOO! It's so annoying when I spot a spelling mistake!
I meant KC and the Sunshine BAND not, BAN.
That typo gave them a whole new meaning. :O)