How to Throw a Halloween Party for Adults

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Throw a Halloween Party for Adults

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Why should kids have all the fun on Halloween? Adults enjoy Halloween just as much as kids do, believe it or not. Get your friends together to help celebrate the holiday, and be sure to give prizes for the most imaginative costumes and makeup. Serve some scary drinks and terrifying food and you're all set to go.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Spider Webbing
Tarot Cards
Halloween Makeup Kits
Halloween Invitations
Halloween Decorations
Halloween Light Sets
Jack-o'-lanterns
Party Food
Masks
Scary Sound Music
Disposable Cameras
Halloween Party Packs
Ouija Boards
Glow-in-the-dark Stars
Witchs' Cauldrons

Step1

Plan your party. If you wish, choose a theme. (See tips below.)

Step2

Make a list of people you want to invite.

Step3

Send invitations noting the theme and whether or not guests should wear costumes.

Step4

Decorate with anything from crepe paper streamers and balloons to a full-fledged house of horrors. Get small plates, forks and napkins in Halloween colors.

Step5

Play one or two short games such as bobbing for apples, musical chairs or charades with a Halloween theme. Or get into a Halloween mood with a Ouija board or tarot card readings.

Step6

Provide finger foods such as cheese and crackers, popcorn, pretzels, cocktail wieners or meatballs, veggies and dip, deviled eggs, finger sandwiches or mini-quiches.

Step7

Offer drinks such as "Nuclear Waste," made with one shot blue curacao mixed with orange juice and vodka. Or, mix your favorite alcoholic punch and add an eerie cast to the brew with food coloring.

Step8

Talk. Most adults like to have some time to visit and talk, so try not to fill the whole night with planned activities.

Tips & Warnings

Provide each guest or couple with a disposable camera to record the fun.
Theme ideas include famous historical figures, action heroes, dress up as your favorite song, a masquerade ball and the '50s.
Serve drinks in a witch's cauldron with dry ice at the bottom.
For a dark theme, use candles, scary CDs for sound effects, spider webs and dry ice. For a light theme, make the decorations more fun and keep the lights up.
Do not allow dry ice to come in contact with your skin, and be sure no pieces get into anyone's drink. Dry ice may also damage plastic, so put a punch bowl inside the cauldron before adding dry ice.

Comments

kympossible6 said

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on 11/5/2007 We have just started doing halloween parties. Last years theme was a haunted funeral. We sent out an obituary of our departed guest Helen Back as the invitation and to decorate we transformed our living room into a funeral parlor. Made a casket out of foam board. The whole house was covered with black plastic and glow in the dark webs and a pyscho bathroom. we had jello shots called suck and blows and test tube shots with eerie names.

yellowrose169 said

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on 10/17/2007 try bobbing for little booze bottles in place of apples it is so funny)the one you get is the one you drink)have fun

yellowrose169 said

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on 10/17/2007 try bobbing for little booze bottles in place of apples it is so funny)the one you get is the one you have to drink)HAVE FUN

Anonymous said

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on 9/7/2006 I purchased latex gloves and filled them with water and put them in the freezer. When I was ready to put my punch bowl out, I cut the gloves, peeled them off the frozen hand and floated them in the punch...keeps your punch cold and looks great!!

Anonymous said

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on 8/8/2006 ┬òThe Sexy costume contest keeps people coming back year after year.
┬ò If weather permits outdoors, Try "Blood Wrestling". Like mud wrestling, but I fill a kiddy pool with corn syrup and red food coloring. Be sure to offer soap, and a place to hose off privately. Great event if you have a vampire theme.
┬ò Peel green grapes, and dot them using food coloring to give them the appearance of eyeballs. Put toothpicks in them, and stand them up in a vodka martini with a bit of grenadine for color.
┬ò If permitted in the area you live, a bonfire always heightens the atmosphere.
┬ò Fog machines are now commonly sold for less than $25. Two or three on a dance floor (placed so no one will trip on them) will defiantly attract more people. Submersible foggers for pools and ponds are about $50, and look really cool when lit from beneath by pool lights.
┬ò I found some very realistic rubber "severed appendages" in a costume shop. I mix them in with the beer bottles in the cooler.
┬ò Make sure to have sleeping bags, cots, or extra beds. People can get pretty wasted, and there are a lot of police out on Halloween, not to mention children, if not in your
neighborhood, then most likely in the neighborhood your guests are returning to. Keep it safe. Also keep a phone in a quiet place, so guests can call home if they have children.

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