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Colour Themed Halloween Parties - Ideas for Costumes and Decor

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Go colourful this Halloween!

A colour theme is a great idea for a Halloween party if you have reluctant friends who don't all want to dress up. Some people prefer to dress in something they already own, or buy something they will wear again on an ordinary day.

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Getting guests to dress up

You could set a single colour as your theme - "Everyone dress in red", or allow your guests to pick their colour.

You could either specify that the bulk of their outfit must be one colour (different shades and tones allowed), or allow just a highlight or two of the chosen colour - a tie, scarf, or t-shirt.

You'll be surprised at the imagination and variation your guests come up with. And your more shy, non-costumed guests won't stick out as they would at a more specific-themed party.

Decorating to a colour theme

Decor for a colour themed party doesn't have to cost you the earth.

Drape sheer fabric in your colour choice around your main entertaining room, and switch your curtains for a cheap (even second-hand) set of curtains in your colour theme.

If you're having a dinner party, use a coloured tablecloth, napkins, candles, and even coloured glassware.

If your party is in the lounge, choose a coloured sofa cover, cushions, and lampshades to set the mood.

You may even be able to find foliage or flowers in your colour scheme (even near-black shades) - team with a matching vase.

Red Party Ideas

Clothing



Red is the colour of blood, of fire, of candy, and of the poisoned half of Snow White's apple.


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Red food

  • Serve stuffed tomatoes and red capsicums/bell peppers
  • Make a salad with red lettuce, cherry tomatoes, radishes, red/Spanish onion
  • Barbecue rare steaks or rare tuna steaks
  • Mix strawberries, raspberries, and red globe grapes into red jelly. Pour into martini glasses and chill for a sophisticated dessert. Drizzle with a dark sherry or liqueur before serving.

Red decor

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Red accessories

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Red drinks

More red cocktails and recipes
  • Bloody Mary or tomato cocktails
  • Strawberry Daiquiri
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Cranberry juice based cocktails
  • Pink champagne/sparkling wine
  • Raspberry liqueur

Red hats and wigs

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Red music

Red costumes

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Black Party ideas

Clothing



Black is the colour of death, of darkness, of crypts and morgues.


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Black food

  • Cajun style cooking, chargrilled barbecue, meats marinated in dark, syrupy sauce that blackens on the grill.
  • Stuffed aubergines/egg plant, or strips of roasted aubergine, still with skin on, tossed with wild rice.
  • Black grapes, blackberries, mulberries.
  • Dark chocolate mudcake.

Black decor

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Black accessories

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Black drinks

More black cocktails and recipes
  • Black coffee
  • Irish coffee
  • Espresso martini
  • Calypso
  • Night Black

Black wigs

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Black music

Black costumes

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Purple Party ideas

Clothing



Purple is the colour of ghouls and poison, of garrotting, and of blood darkened by time.


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Purple food

  • Cook a stir fry with red cabbage - the juices from the cabbage will stain everything in the stir fry purple!
  • Either drain some of the juice from the red cabbage stir fry, or cook some red cabbage on its own and retain the juice. Pour the purple juice over anything you choose to serve - chicken, meat, fish, vegetables...
  • Using the red jelly dessert in martini glasses idea, switch the red berries for blueberries and black grapes. Instead of using water alone, mix the jelly powder with the juice from some of the blueberries.

Purple decor

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Purple accessories

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Purple drinks

More purple cocktails and recipes
  • Crystal cocktail
  • Prosperity
  • Monza
  • Mix cranberry juice and Blue Curaçao

Purple wigs

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Purple music

Purple costumes

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Blue Party ideas

Clothing



Blue is the colour of mists and ghosts, of bruises, of strangulation, and of tears.


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Blue food

  • Blueberries make a delicious glaze marinade for meats like steak, lamb, and pork. Thicken it with glycerine or corn flour.
  • Make blue dips by adding blue food colouring. Serve with chips, or neutral dipping vegetable sticks like celery or peeled zucchini/marrow.
  • Serve mini cupcakes with blue frosting, or cheesecake smothered in blueberry sauce.

Blue decor

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Blue accessories

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Blue drinks

More blue cocktails and recipes
  • Go heavy on the Blue Curaçao.
  • Alaska Ice Tea
  • Bazooka
  • Blue Hawaiian
  • Blue Lagoon
  • Blue lime ghost

Blue wigs

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Blue music

  • Blue
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
  • Blue by Joni Mitchell
  • Moody Blues
  • Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin

Blue costumes

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Green Party ideas

Clothing



Green is the colour of envy and potions, of frogs and newts, of entrails and mould, of aliens and Linda Blair.


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Green food

  • Smother meat in chopped pistacio nuts, or serve with an avocado dollap. Serve with creamed spinach or broccoli.
  • Serve guacamole dip with celery, zucchini/courgette sticks with skin still on, and broccolini sticks.
  • Chill green jelly in martini glasses with chopped green grapes, pistacio nuts, and kiwi fruit. Or beat finely chopped pistacio nuts and kiwi fruit pulp into vanilla icecream and re-freeze.

Green decor

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Green accessories

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Green drinks

More green cocktails and recipes
  • Apple martini
  • Margarita
  • Grasshopper
  • Electric lemonade
  • Green parrot
  • Kermit

Green hats and wigs

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Green music

  • Green
  • Green by R.E.M.
  • Green Day
  • Al Green

Green costumes

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Tips and ideas from the experts

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Any more ideas?

Help us out with more suggestions for food, decor, etc.

Have you ever thrown a colour theme party?

  • Tipi Oct 21, 2011 @ 9:34 am | delete
    What frightening fun...by the colors!
  • mutter May 10, 2011 @ 5:50 am | delete
    Lots of great ideas here. I love using color as a theme, which I've used a lot when working with children. Lensrolled to my latest Rainbow Lesson Plan lens: Top 10 Activities With The Color Blue.
  • WindyWinters Oct 28, 2010 @ 7:10 pm | delete
    Fun Ideas! I love colors anytime and these are especially spooky color themes for Halloween! (^^..^^)
  • CreativeArtist Sep 16, 2009 @ 6:16 pm | delete
    A fun idea, to have a Halloween color themed party, one with just veggies and fruits would be cool too! Featured on on Halloween stamps lens - http://www.squidoo.com/Halloween-stamps
  • Sep 19, 2008 @ 5:29 am | delete
    Great Idea!
    The theme of your site is nice. I like your suggestion on colors. I wont like red color, but after having a look on your advice I changed my opinion on red color. Thanks for your good advice.
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