Every year growing up I used to go to my friend Katie's house for a Halloween party. It was the highlight of my childhood Halloweens as they would decorate the house to the nines, complete with a haunted house for us all to venture through. Ever since those days I've always thought that one day I would be able to host my own haunted house Halloween party.
Here are just a few ideas to help set the stage of a Spooktacular Halloween Soiree. First, wrap candle votives and vases with gauze and pin them closed using small safety pins. Essentially you are mummifying the glasses. You can then use them to set mood lighting or serve candy.
Next, use those plastic fangs you find at Party City or online and repurpose them as napkin rings. They are super inexpensive and a great way to get in the Halloween spirit around your dinner table for the weeks leading up to Halloween, not just at your party.
You can also make really fun drink labels and put mixers and alcohol in potion type bottles to spice them up. You could also pre-make punches and bottle them up. I recommend having a group of standard bottles you use for parties and affixing chalkboard labels to them so you can reuse them for every holiday party, just mix up the label names to suit the holiday.
You can also Halloween up your punchbowl by filling plastic gloves with water, tying them off and freezing them into giant hand size ice cubes. You then cut away the gloves and have hand shaped ice chilling your punch all night long.
When we used to go to the haunted house as kids, it used to be a touch and feel haunted house in the dark. It was creepy but so fun. We used to feel tongue (which they used cow tongue), rat's brains (which were peeled grapes), bucket of vomit (chunky salsa, corn and peas mixed together), blood (corn syrup), maggots (cooked rice with a little bit of water), brains (either calf brains or cauliflower with cottage cheese).
Are you having your own Halloween Party and/or Touch and Feel Haunted House? Let me know how it goes!
I love the hand-shaped ice idea! I may have to start putting that in the gin bucket.
ReplyDeletePlease tell me how it goes. Champion would prob love it.
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