How to Make A Halloween Party Easy
Ideas for Making Halloween and Trick-or-Treat Entertaining Special
Sep 3, 2009
Decorating and planning for a fall party can be easy. Here are some tips to treat guests and party goers to a wonderful time at a Halloween party without a lot of work.
Greet Guests in Style
Set the tone for your party by making the entrance reflect what guests will experience inside. Add colorful lights, a few hay bales with pumpkins or scary items set on top. Instead of, or in addition to, fun Jack-o-Lanterns, create some spooky or silly creatures by stacking assorted gourds together, three are four small gourds work well. Skewer gourds together with large toothpicks. Decorate with globally eyes or paint-on markers, use small twigs for arms.
Decorate the Table in Halloween Style
A pretty centerpiece is just part of a nice table. Complete the party theme with unique or special place settings and party favors. Cut small gourds in half and hollow out. Allow the gourd to dry completely, usually overnight. Paint each gourd to match your party theme. Use an 8 inch piece of wire and insert on each side of the gourd at the top, about 1 inch down, for a handle. Decorate the baskets and write or paint each guest’s name. Fill with candy or other party favors.
Plan an Easy Menu
Simple food can be turned into an easy Halloween Party Menu. Foods like Sloppy Joes, cookies, soup and even cheese sticks can be transformed into spooky party food with a little extra know-how.
Buckets of Fun: Bobbing for Apples to Buckets of Candy
Large, shallow buckets or tubs can be used for bobbing for apples and also for candy bowls. Sit several similar colored or metal shallow buckets filled with large quantities of candy, these are so inviting and can match your Bobbing for Apples basin. Extra fun: these metal buckets can also be used for handing out candy to Trick-or-Treaters.
Keep Decorating Simple and Easy
Group similar types of on-hand decorations to form a theme, all ghosts in one room, witches in another. Or decorate the whole house in one simple theme.
Pumpkin Challenge
This activity is fun for little and big party-goers. Have enough small pumpkins on hand to be sure each guest gets one. Using frosting for glue, have everyone decorate a pumpkin. Have small bowls filled with assorted crafts supplies like little googly eyes,glitter, felt cutouts, buttons, or even little bowls full candy to be used for decorating. A pumpkin challenge works best if there is a set time limit for the decorating.
Put a Halloween Party Together Fast
Lat minute parties don't have to be difficult. Here are some ideas to put a party together quickly.
- Invite guests via email or through a social networking site like Facebook
- Enlist help from close friends and family and assign duties.
- Invite guests to each bring a dish
- Use party bags for place settings or as favors and have each guest fill their bag with leftover desserts or candy from the candy bucket as they leave.
- Ask each guest to bring one decoration. Part of the activities can be decorating the house or party place as a group. Make sure each person labels their individual decoration.
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