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Miranda is the Houston-based writer, blogger, and Halloween lover behind Spooky Little Halloween, the blog celebrating October 31st all year long. Her favorite Halloween things include pumpkin guts, chocolate bars in her trick-or-treat pail, real haunted houses (including the one she lives in!), and historic cemeteries. There are many Halloween activities and events for kids this year (last year was spooky, wasn't it?) From a fall festival that boast creepy and kooky fun...
For more advice on hiring Halloween party entertainment, check out these 10 questions to ask before signing a vendor contract. After all of the singing and dancing works up an appetite, pass out Marty McFly’s diet staples of pizza and Diet Pepsi while watching the movie on TV. If you want to stick with the time-traveling theme, consider hiring a fortune teller or psychic to predict further into the future. Stray from tradition and host your festivities during the day instead of after dark.
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Once the title is announced, members are given 4-6 weeks to read the chosen book. I will also give recommendations on how to find the book at no cost or minimal cost, plus purchase links in physical and digital formats if you prefer to buy your own copy. Earlier this year, I launched The Halloween Book Club, and I was thrilled when more than 200 of you joined within the first month. As of the start of 2020, we’re at 4,900+ members – WOW! Seems like I’m not the only one who loves Halloween and reading.
To further set the mood for a classy evening, hire a jazz band. Of course, drinks are the highlight of the evening, so offer an array of seasonal wines and festive cocktails. And for treats, serve up desserts featuring white and dark chocolate with mini bottles of milk alongside black and white sweets like licorice-flavored candies and yogurt-covered fruits and nuts. Halloween is NYCHalloweenParties.com's staff favorite day of the year, it's the time of year between fall and winter when the grey time straddling the line between life and death comes about. Get that funky playlist ready and gear up for an evening of disco!
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We’ve made it easy for you by gathering up our favorite sweet and savory Halloween party food ideas. From Jalapeno Mummy Poppers to Graveyard Parfaits, here are 24 Spooky Halloween Finger Food Recipes. Hire a caterer or baker to prep some dishes for you. Grab your friends, make some popcorn, and put the Halloween pajamas on for a scary movie marathon. Queue up all your favorite horror movies including Halloween, Friday the 13th, and It for a scary good time.
Keep this year’s Halloween party simple; jack-o’-lanterns, Halloween decorations, and lots of dancing. Book a live band to perform for a fang-tastic monster mash dance party that will get everyone moving and grooving. Ask what’s in their repertoire or request a few songs from our spooky Halloween party playlist. To feel like you’re watching the magic unfold during the greatest show on Earth, plan a circus-themed Halloween party with a spooky twist. Produce an eerie mood with a pitch black setting by covering windows with black tarp for complete darkness. Glow sticks and other glow accessories will function as nightlights and black lights will illuminate guests’ neon or white attire.
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With tons of mystery-solving options, you and your guests will have a blast finding clues and solving riddles. Pumpkin carving and painting techniques sure have evolved over the past decade. Set up a pumpkin carving or painting station with a variety of shapes, sizes and colors of pumpkins and invite your guests to show off their skillz, or at the very least, help you decorate. Depending on your guests, you could even increase the stakes and make it a pumpkin carving contest. You’re going to want to catch all the costume hilarity on film, so be sure to set up a photo booth with a halloween backdrop to encourage some snapping and sharing of photos.
Gather your gang for pumpkin spiced lattes, Halloween Ghost Pancakes, Spooky Spider Web Deviled Eggs, along with orange-hued mimosas and bloody marys. Wondering how exactly to pull off a murder mystery Halloween bash? Check out this complete guide on How to Throw a Murder Mystery Party this Halloween, or look into hiring murder mystery entertainment for inspiration!
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Click through for the recipe and more Halloween treats for this year's Halloween party. Great night to get some solid photos to throw up on Instagram throughout the week. Delegate to a high schooler to shoot the pics and upload them to your YL facebook group. An ongoing debate; is Nightmare Before Christmas more for Halloween or Christmas? Using Tim Burton’s film as a party theme is a perfect way to incorporate both holidays into one epic Oogie Boogie bash that Jack and Sally would want to attend.
Call up 4 folks without costumes and tell them you found the perfect costume for them to wear, then make them put on a sleeping bag. After they’re wearing sleeping bags have a wrestling match. Pair off 2 at a time, winners face one another for the championship. Just a Costume Club spin on the old sleeping bag wrastlin’ game.
If you’re sick of all of the horror of Halloween, downplay the spookiness of the Halloween season with spooky-chic black-and-white party decorations. For this color palette, pull decor inspiration from skeletons, ghosts, crows, spiders and bats. Guests can wear their favorite snazzy black or white cocktail threads.
Bring some of those impressive outdoor Halloween decorations indoors for your party—cobwebs, spiders, skeletons, ghosts, bats and black crows will turn any room into a spooky space. For a more authentic haunted house vibe, create vignettes in each room of the house. We read fiction that ranges from the classics and novels that are spooky or supernatural to horror favorites and yes, even books set on or during Halloween season. For a Halloween treat, set up popcorn, candy bars, gumballs, cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles and even a cotton candy food truck.
Customer favorites such as Corn Stalker Life-Sized Animated Props and Zombie Clown Life-Sized Animated Props seen last year will still be here – but along with a bigger new family. Long before Halloween Club came along, their big sister store, Aahs! They grew attuned to customer’s feedback from both kids and adults.
Choose tricks over treats and hire a magician to entertain your guests. You could set aside time for an amazing magic show or you could hire a magician to work the room and perform their tricks for small groups to see things up close. Kids take turns tossing candy corn kernels, one at a time, into bowls. Set bowls of different sizes at different distances – bowls are worth different points based on difficulty.
Otherwise, a search online should land you some sweet supplies. To get everyone in the party mood, ask your guests to submit their favorite dance songs in advance. Take it up a notch and challenge your guests to learn the latest dance steps trending on TikTok and compete with a contest. Whatever you do, there’s guaranteed to be lots of LOL moments. If you’d like to make Halloween cocktails the highlight of the evening , consider hiring a bartender to handle it for you and ask for magical mixes with pumpkin or apple flavors.
Set up empty 2-liter bottles, cans, or bowling pins. Each person rolls a pumpkin once and tallies the total number of pins knocked down.
