Halloween Party Decorations, Themes, and Costumes
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Party Themes of Halloween
Being Gothic has it's advantages at least once per year, since my house is somewhat decorated for it all year long. However, we still take the time and spend extra money to create a scary and more appropriate Halloween party themed home for the kids.
Listed below are several themes you can choose from, or use a few of each to have a completely random party this year...
Contents of this Lens...
- Traditional Fall Decor
- Modern and Contemporary
- Halloween from the Grave
- Scary Halloween Props
- Wicked Witch Mystical Theme
- Things that go Bump in the Night
- Masquerade / Carnival
- Creepy Castles
- Fantasy and Mythical Beasts
- Pirates - Creatures of the Sea
- Pirate Halloween Costume Ideas
- Halloween Countdown
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Traditional Fall Decor
Pumpkins for Halloween Decorations
Not everyone likes to spook their guests, so traditional Fall Halloween decorating is quite popular, especially for country and colonial styled homes.Pumpkins, gourds, rich amber and fire red leaves, grape vines, dried branches, hay, apples, scarecrows, corn stalks, candy corn, and old wooden props complete the look for a festive harvest celebration.
Party games and activities include bobbing for apples, making candy apples, pumpkin carving contests, hiding candy corn, hay rides and mazes, costume contests and awards, and toilet paper mummies. :-)
Modern and Contemporary
Elegant Modern Halloween Decorations
Halloween is now sophisticated - with wine goblets, scrolled dish patterns, glamorous art deco centerpieces and cutout chandeliers, white and metal-framed pumpkins, feathered wreaths, and unique candle arrangements.Theme is very adult-oriented, so would include a lot of elegant food options, drinking games, spooky stories, costume parties, watching horror movies, and dancing the night away.
Halloween from the Grave
Spooky Halloween Party Decorations
This theme is meant to spook people of all ages using death as the main culprit. Skulls, graves, tombstones, coffins, corpses, rotting and shrunken heads, bones, and ghostly images.Props such as foggers, led lights, torn cloth, and spiderwebs are a must to provide a realistic haunted atmosphere. Jumping from behind graves, climbing out of coffins, skeleton arms that grab you from nowhere. Meant to collect as many screams as possible and usually the whole night is dedicated to it. In fact, some people count screams...and hope for more each year.
Bleeding candles, food that looks like body parts, blood colored drinks, music from the dark realms, and scariest costume contests create a party in their own.
Scary Halloween Props
Halloween Party Decorations
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Light-Up Gravestone Decoration
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Crystal Ball Fogger
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Groundbreaker Light Up Skeleton Halloween Prop
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Wicked Witch Mystical Theme
Halloween Decorations Complete with a Cauldron
Pointed hats, broomsticks, and black cats. Oh my! Old lady sits in a rocker...we've all seen it. I'd believe an elegant dark witch before I gave a traditional black witch with a big ugly green nose any credit. I must be desensitized from living in New England. LOL!Cauldron foggers are available and tying broomsticks to a string to make them fly off by themselves is creative. Creepy pumpkins with seed guts and spiders crawling out, potion bottles, jars filled with body part candy, crystal balls, wands, spiderwebs, and looking like you are actually using a cauldron is a much better attempt.
Things that go Bump in the Night
Scary Halloween Party Decorations
Blood dripping, slime falling off the ceilings, and eyeballs enhance the creep factor. Body part food once again plays a role, as well as faux stone props and a mysterious dungeon setting. Cages filled with skeletons and bones, hanging chains, bats and music with plenty of screams adds to the creature feel.
Vintage Horror films, monster movies, costume awards, mask decorating, Haunted houses, and frightful party games creates a fun Halloween setting for everyone.
Masquerade / Carnival
Halloween Masquerade - Masked Party Ideas
An elegant party theme for adults - a night filled with ballroom gowns, masks to conceal identity or show another side of you, dancing, and fun party games. Use candlelight to create a dark ambiance or replace bulbs with flicker lights. Serve an elegant meal, then bring out the gourmet chocolate treats and champagne for a high-class appeal.For a Mardi Gras masquerade, costumes will be cheaper and the plastic beads plentiful. Throw a mini float building party using craft supplies, balloons, silk flowers, and a few party store decorations. Voodoo-type decorations such as chicken bones and shrunken heads could be a scary addition to Mardi Gras.
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Creepy Castles
Include all of your wrought iron decorations in the theme. Drape fabric across your walls for a dramatic touch. Panne velvets, satins, tulle, torn and dyed cloth, and lace are the easiest to hang.
Fiery Torches for Your Castle
Fantasy and Mythical Beasts
Have an enchanted evening! This theme forces your guests to be highly creative in their costume attire with dragons, fairies, mermaids, phoenix, wizards, centaurs, gryphon, elves, and so forth. You can include fairy tales and twisted fairy tales with this theme as well.Create a natural forest setting with vines, tree branches, and appropriate wall murals. A castle theme could also be closely related. For fairies, you may want to add a lot of glitter and sparkle to as many decorations as possible, especially your pumpkins and vines. Include classical or new age music. Pass out wands as favors to keep the magic spreading all year long.
Pirates - Creatures of the Sea
Pirate Halloween Decorations
Pirate Halloween decorations are popular every few years, but it's hard to create a turbulent sea atmosphere. Start a few weeks early trying to turn your home into an old ship and use foam waves for the front yard setting. Circle off your windows with cardboard, create sea monsters from stuffing old clothing in the shape of tentacles and fins. Use a treasure chest to hold candy, gold coins, and pirate loot for your trick-or-treaters.
I highly recommend the following CD for your music compilation of the night. Very appropriately dark for your ship theme...
Spotlight - Pirate Halloween Music
Phantoms of the High Seas
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a_willow wrote...
This lens entered Fresh Squid Contest for November as one of the lenses that has been featured on Fresh Squid group during October!
Posted November 02, 2008
Mortira wrote...
Great lens! There are so many great party ideas - anyone can have the perfect Hallowe'en party! *****
Posted October 22, 2008
a_willow wrote...
Welcome to Squidoo and Fresh Squid group! Glad to have you aboard!
Posted October 22, 2008
richienn wrote...
Another terrific lens WS! so many ideas and projects!
5 stars
richie
Posted October 21, 2008
