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Post By Alisa (Guest Post)
(08/01/2007)
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I'm a big halloween person. i love it. I'm only 13 but i can throw some good parties! Every year i have a halloween/birthday party and we decorate my basement with many props.(jack o lanterns, skulls, spider webs, wall designers, the grim reaper, and bats!) If you screw in purple lightbulbs in the ceiling it gives the rooms a spooky effect! Also black and orange lights look pretty cool also! Candy corn, and eatable gummy body parts are also very fun and festive! Having costumes be participant in your party give it a theme for extra fun! (costume contests) Another fun idea that goes over well is having someone sit outside of your house(dressed like a scare crow) and then scare people as they come to the door! My last suggestion is to play halloween music, from the classic movies, or just new mixes! (:_*
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Post By Karen in NH (Guest Post)
(09/29/2005)
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To make black KoolAid: mix together one package of orange KoolAid and one package of grape Koolaid per package instructions. The result is black KoolAid.
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Post By Pauleen (Guest Post)
(09/28/2005)
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I had a Halloween party last year and about 50 small plastic pumpkins from a Michales craft store. They cost about .25 each. I placed the pumpkins through out the back yard and had the kids gather them up. Just like an easter egg hunt but with pumpkins. Kids had a great time. We did it over and over.
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1st Float small 2-3 inch orange pumpkins and use them for a "duck pond" idea with small prizes on the bottom.
2nd Use a large black witches pot to "go fishin'" with a magnet on a fishing pole.
Mike
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Try clothes pin in a bottle, dunking for apples, and pin the hat on the witch. Hope your Halloween is fun
Linda
Gretna, La
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One of the things that a local school did during their fall party was put up a wall (just out of cardboard) and made fishing poles out of sticks and strings. The kids put the string behind the wall as if they were fishing and someone behind the wall put a small toy or candy on the line. Kids of all ages loved it.
Also they had a duckie pickup, where the kids pick up the duckie and get the prize that is listed on bottom but they used apples instead of duckies and floated them in a tub of water.
Stephanie
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My sister has thrown several Halloween parties (not Halloween night, but in the same week) for her kids down through the years. She said that none were as frightening and spooky for the kids, as the one where she served a red punch with frozen dark grapes (told the kids they were "eyeballs") and also, a black kool-aid* served from a plastic black cauldron with dry ice (it put off an eerie steam), along with other Halloween goodies and treats.
It was an outside party, complete with decorations. She ran an extension cord out to keep the crockpot of chili warm. Served everything in paper cups, bowls (for easy cleanup).
They had several outside games as well as a maze, they'd pre-made through the nearby forest, it was guided by some of the parents (so no one could get lost). Fun had by all, both children and attending parents as well. She had many compliments.
*recipe for the black Kool-Aid, I've seen in some Autumn magazines.
By Terri
Editor's Note: I couldn't find one for Black Kool-Aid but here's one for "Ghoul-Ade":
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf94959531.tip.html
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Halloween Party Ideas
By Cheryl Levey
Oh, Halloween! The night of ghosts and ghouls! Whether you're having a party for the kids or for the grown-ups - or for both! - here's the place for some excellent ideas. There are so many different ways to do a Halloween party that I couldn't possibly cover it all in one article, so I would encourage you to search the web for more ideas after reading this article.
In particular, I encourage you to look around sites that sell party supplies to get ideas. The reason I suggest this is because they have photos of their supplies and show you kits and other decorating and costume ideas that are easier seen than written about!
Invitations
Of course, anything with a scary design! Traditional Halloween colors are orange and black. If you want to make your own, you can create a flyer or invitation with basically anything "Halloweeny" on it - cats, bats, ghosts, witches, monsters, pumpkins, tombstones, etc. If you are having a specific theme for your party, you can use it on the invitation.
Costumes
I love to dress up. I've been lots of things over the years, including Peg Bundy (complete with spandex pants and big hair wig!), a go-go chick, a leopard, and a vampire, to name just a few. And I have seen some amazingly creative costumes too! You don't have to spend a lot of money for a great costume (although you can if you want to). Here are just a few costume ideas, gleaned from my own memories of parties I've gone to:
A bag of trash - this one had me laughing so hard! A guy I know cut leg holes in the bottom of a big lawn bag and then after stepping into the bag, filled it out with wadded up newspaper. He tied it closed around his chest (with some hanging out of course) and put a sign on front that said "Bag 'o trash."
Static - a woman dressed up in black leotards and pinned things like stray socks and underwear (the racier the funnier! - men's thongs anyone?) and even hair sprayed their hair sticking out at different angles.
Moving box - you guessed it, it's a person inside a big box! It's funny how something so simple can seem creative. Just cut out arm holes and a head hole. Leave the flaps open at the bottom so you can walk :)
Grapes - this is a popular one, I've seen it a few times. Wearing brown, purple or even green sweats or leotard, pin purple balloons all over yourself.
Personally, I would never have a Halloween party without basically requiring that people wear costumes, but since my husband isn't one to do much dressing up, one last simple costume idea is: Buy a big orange t-shirt and paint a black pumpkin face. I got lucky and found a pumpkin face t-shirt by chance and bought it for him. Even the most reluctant can do just a little to dress up!
Favors
The perfect favor for a grown-up's Halloween party is a candle. For a kid's party, a small trick or treat bag of candy is great! Other ideas are glow in the dark things, small flashlights, keychains, etc. Basically anything that glows in the dark is great!
Decorations
Depending on whether you are having a specific theme or not, you'll decorate according to theme. But if you just want to get the house in a Halloween kinda mood, here are some general ideas:
Colors are typically orange and black, but red (blood) and white (ghosts, bones) work too. Dark colors are also good - purple, brown, green.
Using lots of candles in strategic (safe) places and very low lighting is excellent for creating an eerie ambiance. Note though, that not having any lights at all is no fun. I tried that one year and used just candles and in the end people were just turning the regular bright lights on, which destroys the mood. Use black lights, strobe/ disco lights and other dim-lighting in addition to candles and other decorative glowing things.
With low lighting, one year I had a hard time finding a place to put my glow-in-the-dark skeleton. In the end, I put him on the bathroom door, which was down a hall in an area of the house that we weren't having the party in. Whenever anyone needed to go, we told them to ask the skeleton! Another idea I'm going to try this year is to put him in our back yard so people will see him from inside and hopefully be scared!
Of course, streamers and balloons (in black and orange) are always fun. Be sure to put cobwebbing in the corners of the party room. We also have a couple of funny things like an burning cauldron (a light and fan inside blow and glow fabric above to give the effect) and a candy dish with a hand that grabs you when you try to take some candy. The kids get a big kick out of that one!
Food
Generally, typical party fare works really well with a Halloween party, since they tend to be at night, probably after dinner time, and people can come and go as their schedules allow (or as their kids come crashing down after the sugar high!). You can make things with a Halloween flair, though. For example, you can turn cupcakes into pumpkin faces. You can make cookies in all different Halloween shapes. You can serve fish sticks and call them fingers, and you can serve "eyeball" meatballs in your crock pot. You can serve witches mix (trail mix). You get the idea.
Drinks
Don't forget drinks! Make sure you have juices and soda on hand. If it's a grown-up party, you can also serve wine, beer, and mixed drinks. Keep in the Halloween theme, though, with drinks like Bloody Marys and Witches Brew (punch), and don't forget to freeze eyeballs and plastic spiders in your ice cubes!
Cake
Something like a pumpkin spiced cake would be great for a Halloween party. Or you can do a sheet cake and decorate it with a Halloween image.
Games
For Halloween parties, I always think in terms of things like bobbing for apples, pumpkin carving (or painting), pin the tail on the cat or stem on the pumpkin, and telling scary stories. A lot of times, with adults, dancing and socializing is what everyone wants to do. It depends on how planned out you want the party to be and on what your guests are like.
Entertainment
Of course, a CD of eerie sounds can be played as people arrive, but you'll want to switch to something more fun (and danceable) later. Most music stores, this time of year, have some great Halloween compilation CDs.
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RE: Halloween Party Ideas
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Post By Dana (Guest Post)
(08/30/2005)
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For home a #10 can of Nacho Cheese Concentrate is about $6 and generic cornchips can be found on sale. Use the slow cooker and let your kids and friends have all the nachos they want. If you have a place you can take a short off road ride, the kids love riding in the back of a pickup truck. Wrapping each other mummystyle with toilet paper is fun. Put some Macerna or Chicken Dance Music on before their TP falls off. Get pictures. Have those pumpkin trashbags available for them to fill after the Toilet Paper Mummy activity. Pick marbles out of a bowl of cold pasta. Relay race with candy corn on a plastic spoon, use a dab of glue for little ones. Bob for apples!
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