How to Have a Halloween Party Sleepover
There's no reason you have to stop having fun once the kids have finished trick or treating. You can continue your Halloween celebration with a sleepover party that features food, activities and slightly spooky surprises. Follow these steps to entertain your child's friends and your entire family with an overnight event. Does this Spark an idea?
Other People Are Reading
Things You'll Need
- Themed invitations
- Halloween decorations
- Sandwiches and cookie cutters
- Orange punch
- Pumpkins
- Paints and pens
- Mood music
- Goody bags
Instructions
-
-
1
Buy Halloween-themed invitations to invite guests to your seasonal sleepover. In addition to pertinent details like the time, date and location, list items guests will need for the sleepover like sleeping bags, pillows, blankets, toiletries and their costumes for trick or treating. (See Resources)
-
2
Turn your house into a Halloween paradise. Hang black and orange streamers and faux spider webs in the corners of each room. Swing tissue paper ghosts from the doorways. Put off dusting for a few weeks to let it accumulate. (See Resources)
-
-
3
Make spooky, but delicious snacks like sandwiches and cookies cut with ghost-, witch-, cat- or pumpkin-shaped cutters. Layer white, yellow and orange cheeses onto triangular crackers to resemble candy corn. Serve orange soda and punch. (See Resources)
-
4
Allow guests to trick-or-treat in the neighborhood, then come back for additional activities. Decorate pumpkins with paint and markers. Have a relay race where guests pass mini-pumpkins without using their hands. Blindfold them to "guess the item" and claim that spaghetti, grapes and gummy worms are "monster hair," "zombie eyes" and "mummy brains," for example.
-
5
Hide Halloween-related decorations like rubber spiders, ghosts made out of felt and tiny plastic pumpkins throughout the house for guests to discover. When the party's over, give a prize to the person who found the most.
-
6
Arrange the sleeping bags in a large room for the "sleepover" portion of the party. Dim the lights to tell ghost stories. Play eerie music in the background to set the mood or play previously recorded stories for the guests to listen to. (See Resources)
-
7
Hand out goody bags filled with items like a gift card to a local candy shop, a face-painting kit and a foam picture frame to hold a photo from the event.
-
1
