Halloween Ideas for Pubs
Children steal the spotlight on Halloween with the cute costumes and their trick-or-treating, but it isn't just for kids. After the little ghouls and goblins arrive back home safely, the bewitching hour begins for adults. Don your costumes and meet friends at local pubs to spend the holiday. For pubs looking to delight their patrons with a Halloween atmosphere, the right decorations, ambiance and treats can turn any pub into a spooky yet festive bar for the night.
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Costumes
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This friendly witch won't scare off the customers.
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Dress in costumes to create a Halloween atmosphere. Encourage employees to wear traditional costumes such as witches, ghost, zombies and devils. Create a prison theme with bartenders dressed in police outfits, while waiters, waitresses and barbacks wear prison jumpsuits. Try something more unusual and have female employees dress in male costumes and male employees dress in female costumes. Go retro and wear costumes that represent a particular decade, such as the disco era of the 1970s.
Decorations
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Decorate the pub to establish a Halloween theme. Transform the bar into a graveyard or haunted house. Create a prison theme by constructing cells with walls splattered in blood. Purchase skeleton decorations and hang them from the walls by handcuffs behind the cell doors. Cover the skeletons in fake spider webs to give the appearance of long-deceased corpses. Use black, blue and green lighting throughout the pub to enhance the spooky mood.
Food
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Provide pub patrons with Halloween-themed food and snacks. Serve pumpkin or ghost cookies as well as black and orange cupcakes. Toss gummy worms inside bowls of pretzels and peanuts. Put Halloween candy in bowls and place them throughout the pub. Arrange five carrots in a bowl of dip with enough space between each to give the appearance of a hand. Affix sliced almonds atop each carrot to create the appearance of sickly fingernails.
Drinks
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Supply patrons with Halloween-inspired drinks. Add three to five drops of colored dye to a pint glass and pour beer inside to create green, blue, and blood-red drinks. Give an alcohol-infused punch drink a fog effect by placing chunks of dry ice into a decorative cauldron. Set a smaller bowl filled with the punch on top of the dry ice. Add hot water to the larger bowl to create a fog effect. The dry ice will keep the smaller punch bowl cool.
Music
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Dancing to Halloween songs provides patrons with hours of entertainment. Create a playlist of holiday-inspired tracks and turn up the sound extra loud. Play scary audio tracks to replicate graveyards and haunted houses. Select spooky sounds to match the overall theme of the pub. Hire a DJ to host a dance contest or to help entertain the crowd. Give a free drink to the best costumed dancer of the evening.
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