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ADULT HALLOWEEN

PARTY IDEAS

 

 

 

 

Party Ideas by Party Consultant Michelle Hylton         Updated: 03/16/2010

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Multiple vendors included in this party plan. Links will be updated seasonally for new and discontinued items.

 

 

Invitations

 

 

 

 

Terror Invitations

Halloween Bewitched Invitations -PartyShelf.com

Bewitched Invitations

Old Fashion Halloween Spooks

Halloween Cat Invites

Monster Bash Invitations (8 count)

  Monster Bash Invitations

 (8 count)

 Eerie Estates Invitations (8 count)

Eerie Estates Invitations

(8 count)

 Halloween Party Invitations (20 count)  Halloween Party Invitations (20 count)

 Voodoo Cocktail Invitations (8 count)

  Voodoo Cocktail Invitations (8 count)

                                             

 

Spooky Party Decor

 

 

 

 

Table Decor

Room Decor

Party Extras

Tableware Themes

Table Centerpieces

·         Jack O'lantern Piñata

·         Flaming Cauldron

·         Pumpkin Table Deco Kit

·         Cemetery Table Deco Kit

·         Halloween Firework Decor

·         House Cupcake Tray

·        Gruesome Centerpiece

·        12" Pumpkin Light
 

Table Extras

·         Use Flashing Spike Bracelet for Napkin Rings

·         Coffin Cutlery Caddy

·         Bar/Serveware

·      Skeleton Table Sprinkles

·         Creepy Table Sprinkles

·         Dreary Glitter Leaves  

·         Cutlery Packs
 

Don't forget to add some Bone Chillers to your drinks!

Bone Chillers

Set the tone of your room by decorating your walls with scene setters from graveyards to silhouettes.

 

In the main party room add some ceiling danglers or garland.

 

If you are limited to one room,  then you can section off one or all corners to be a different scene. Here are some ideas:

        Graveyard

        Haunted forest

        Mad Scientist Lab

        Dungeon

        Spider Web

        Bat Cave

        Blood Scene

 

If you can spread your party to multiple rooms, then make each room a different scene. I have listed some ideas below.

 

 

 

 

Misc. Items

 Skull Ice Bucket

Gargoyle

Black Cat Swizzle Sticks

 

Skull punch bowl set

 

 

Set of 12 spider web

 paper lanterns

 

 

More Ideas 

Cover furniture with white sheets , use black lights or dim your lights, add a skeleton and prop it on a chair reading a book.  Also take a moment to view my Photo Gallery for a graveyard, mad science lab and ghastly guest bedroom. 

 

Vote for best or sexiest costume! 

Best Costume Trophy - Halloween

9" Best Costume Trophy

 

Halloween Sexiest Costume Trophy - PartyShelf.com

Sexiest Costume Trophy

     
 

Room Scenes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kitchen - How about a 

Hell's Kitchen with devilish treats for your guest. Use skull/crossbones picks , skull punch bowl, Cemetery terror platter  and ghastly goblets. Don't forget the bloody knife, Flaming Cauldron, Refrigerator Door Cover  and these cardboard Red Flames Set/6 for the walls.

Hallways - Haunted Forest, Bat Cave  or Spider Alley.

Bathroom - Bloody Scene  or Water torture Room (leave the tub or sink dripping).  Cover the door with bloody door cover.  Add the bloody wall border around the bathroom.  Use the "GET OUT" mirror grabber.

 

 

 

 

 

Guest Bedroom, Parlor, Sitting Room - "Never the Bride" Suite with a skeleton bride.  Add a peeling plaster scene  to the walls with some Ethereal Ghosts.

Bar - Mad Scientist Lab with brains and LEDs. Fill clear glasses around the bar with mad scientist specimens, plastic bugs, eyeballs and more! Use the LED lights to give it an eerie effect when the lights are turned off.

 

Dining Room - Great room for a Skeleton reunion. Hang some skeleton lights and terror tinsel garland. Cover the table with a black table cover, use white plates, and scatter skeleton confetti on the table. Don't forget to add a rat or two in the room. Add a few spider webs from the chandelier.

Arrange table top skulls around the room.  Add some festive skeleton glow balloons. Use full body skeletons seated at the table.

Front yard - Create an area for your cemetery in the front yard. Use white plastic garden fences or skull stake lights to enclose the graveyard.  Start with tombstones and spider webs.  Add several any of these graveyard extremes:

 

Groundbreaker Skeleton

Terror Lawn

Skeleton

Skulls Tombstone

Rip Lighted Tombstone

18" Tombstone W/ Skulls

Eerie Acres

Cemetery Sign

Fx Fog Juice 1 Gallon (up to 6 hours of fog; fog juice sold separately)

Garages or Unfinished Basements - These areas are great for dungeons or chop shops. Use one the catacomb scene setter to cover the walls. Add lots of webs, chains, hatchets (plastic) around the room.

Don't forget some scary props!

 

     
 

 

Party Theme Variations

 

 

Mix one of these themes below with the Spooky Decor above for a Ghastly Party!

 

Dreadful Dance (Disco)

Frightful 50's (50's)

Gambling Ghouls (Casino Night)

Groovy Polyester Pete - Halloween Disco Costume

Combine the spooky look above with our Disco theme to create your dreadful dance hall.

 

Ask guest to come to dressed to dance to the disco sounds of the late 70's  & early 80's. You'll need a Disco Ball and/or Mini Black Strobe Light. 

 

Guest can dress as disco skeletons, ghosts, monsters, dead disco dancers, etc.

 

Greet your guest with a disco ball necklace  or light rope necklace as a  party favor.  

 

Crown a Dreadful Disco King and Queen for the night.

 

Male Disco Costumes

Female Disco Costumes

Sandy's Costume - Decade 50's - Halloween

Hot cars, poodle skirts, Jocks, Cheerleaders, Fonzi and maybe even Elvis will make an appearance at this party!

 

Serve up some creepy burgers, bloody fries and molten shakes at the "Dreary Diner". 

 

Hang some black and white guitars from the ceilings, along with a few ghostly friends.

 

Combine more 50's decor for a fright filled night.

 

Male 50's Costumes

Female 50's Costumes

 

 

Sexy Miss Mafia Costume

Transform your home into a haunted casino, add a personalized Casino Banner and some tough guys at the entrance to greet your ghouls.

 

As your gambling ghouls arrive, give them some blood money (set an amount everyone

receives). Funny money is exchanged for casino chips and then later redeemed for raffle tickets before midnight.  At midnight raffle off some haunting prizes. 

 

Game suggestions:

Devil's Blackjack

Witches Roulette

Wheel of Misfortune

Creepy Craps

 

Casino Theme Supplies:

Casino Tableware

Casino Decorating Kit

Poker Glasses
Poker Chip Key chains

33" Dice Beads

 

Male Gangster Costumes

Female Gangster Costumes

 

 

 

 

Ghost Ship (Pirate)

Haunted Hoedown

Horror Movie Madness

Bones Pirate Costume

"Surrender ye swabs!" -"Give in you creeps!" Gather your Soul Mates for a Ghastly night on the Ghost Ship. 

 

Transform your kitchen into a galley. Serve up some Hard Tack and  Salmagundi Stew or Fish and Chips.

For those thirsty mates have a Pirate's Keg on hand or mix up some Jolly Rogers.

 

Pirate Supplies

Male Pirate Costumes

Female Pirate Costumes

 

 Pirates Cove Arch Each *cm*

Pirates Cove Arch

LED Western Hat - Costume Accessory

Get those old rickety bones a two-stepping back into the past of the Wild Wicked West!

 

Serve up some Cauldron Beans, Crypt Chicken, and some Coffin shaped Cornbread.

 

Round everyone up for a Creepy Campfire and roast up some Screechin S'Mores.  

 

Western Supplies & Hats

 

 

officially licensed Freddy Krueger and A Nightmare on Elm Street Costumeoduct.

It's Horror Movie Madness Night. Invite guest to dress as characters from a movie like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Phantom of the Opera, Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, Frankenstein, Friday the 13th .........(see movies at the bottom of this page).

 

Use many of the spooky decor items described above, but add some movie theme decor.

 

Set up a main viewing room and a separate room for those who want to mingle.

 

For those who are more adventurous, set up an outdoor movie screen and let the darkness and  sounds of the night add to the ambience.

 

Don't forget the phantom popcorn.

 

 

Monster Bash

 (Mardi Gras)

Knockem Bones (Bowling Party)

Tiki Terror

 (Luau)

The jester is requesting your appearance at the annual Monster Bash! Come dress as your favorite Monster, but don't forget to where your MASK!

Transform your party room to the sites and sounds of New Orleans! Dazzle your guest with sparkling beaded necklaces and coins everywhere.

Don't forget to crown the Monster King and Queen!

Mardi Gras Party Supplies & Ideas

Bowling Ball Costume - PartyShelf.com

Reserve a few bone pin lanes and a party room at your local Bowling Center for a Knockem down night!

Better yet, check into some cosmic bowling for a glowing night!

Give out prizes for the most spares, splits, strikes and high score!  

Bowling Party Supplies

Great theme for those warmer climates! Reuse those left over Luau supplies from summer then add lots of Tiki totem poles and a Polynesian flair!

 

Light up your front walkway or outdoor party area with Tiki lights to greet your guests!

 

Drape spider webs with spiders around Tiki statues.   Add some terror tinsel garland around your raffia covered tables.

 

Tiki Time supplies

Tiki supplies

 

 

Halloween Extremes!

 

 

 

 
9" Coffin Fogger - PartyShelf.com
9" Coffin Fogger
Halloween Props - PartyShelf.com
5' Life Size Talking Bride
Groundbreaker Skeleton - PartyShelf.com
Groundbreaker Skeleton
8" Hanging Vampire - PartyShelf.com
8' Hanging Vampire
Reaper - PartyShelf.com
7' Reaper W/ Lit Eyes
Hanging Demon - PartyShelf.com
72" Hanging Demon
Out of the Ground Torso - PartyShelf.com
Out Of Ground Torso
Skull Stake Light Set - PartyShelf.com
Skull Stake Lights 3ct
Haunted Clock - PartyShelf.com
Haunted Clock

 

 

Favor Ideas

 

 

   

Glow Items

Halloween Leis - PartyShelf.com

Halloween Leis

Halloween Goblet Each

Halloween Goblet Each  

 

 

Flashing Shot Glasses - PartyShelf.com
Flashing Shot Glasses
   

 

                                                  

 

More Party 

Supplies

 

 

Costume Wigs - PartyShelf.com
Wigs
Costume Shoes/Boots for Men - PartyShelf.com
Men's Shoes/Boots
Halloween Scene Setters - PartyShelf.com
Scene Setters

 

 

Party Music

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fun Party Foods

 

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Ingredients

Pumpkin Seeds

¼ cup Vegetable Cooking Oil

Salt

 

Directions: Wash and drain seeds in lukewarm water. Pour vegetable oil on a large cookie sheet.  Spread seeds on the sheet, coating them well with oil.  Bake in a oven at 350°, until seeds are lightly brown ( approx. 8-10 minutes).  Remove, drain on paper towels and sprinkle them with salt as desired.  Store seeds in a airtight container. 

Mummy's Eyes

6 hard boiled eggs

¼ cup plus 2 tbs. mayonnaise

3/4 paprika

6 pimento-stuffed green olives

salt 

 

Directions Cut through hard cooked eggs about 1/3 of the way from the tip, just enough to scoop out yolk.  Place cooked yolk in a bowl and mash with a fork.  Cut just enough of the other end of the egg to create a flat surface to stand the egg on.  Stir in mayonnaise, paprika and salt to taste.  Mix thoroughly and fill egg white eye socket with mixture.  Smooth top of yolk mixture.  Press olive into yolk mixture so pimento is facing out.  Serve upright.

Pea-nutty Pumpkin Spread

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup solid-pack pumpkin

1/2 cup peanut butter

2 T. honey
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon

2 T. chopped peanuts (optional)

Carrot, celery sticks, apple slices


Directions: Combine pumpkin, peanut butter, honey and cinnamon; mix well. Chill. Top with nuts before serving (optional).  Serve with vegetable sticks and apple slices. Makes one cup.

Finger Cookies

These Witches Finger Cookies were a hit at my last party. I used an urn filled with small dry beans (also try rice) and covered with crumbled chocolate cookies to look like dirt. Then stood cookies upright  in urn. (Source: Martha Stewart).

Ingredients

Cookie Dough:

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. almond extract

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 ¾ cup flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

OR for those who don't' have a lot of time, use refrigerated cookie dough

¾ cup whole blanched almonds

red food coloring

red decorator gel

new small artist brush

 

Directions:  Preheat oven to 325°F.  Lightly grease your cookie sheet.  To make cookie dough, mix dry ingredients in a bowl.  In a separate large bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond and vanilla extracts.

Gradually add dry ingredients and blend.  Cover and refrigerate dough for 30 minutes, this will make it easier to shape the cookie dough. 

 

Work with a ¼ of the cookie dough at a time, leaving the remaining chilled in the refrigerator.  Take about a full teaspoon of cookie dough and shape into a finger. You can get creative and draw knuckle lines and even a cut mark on the finger.  Once shaped, press an almond firmly onto the finger for the nail.  Using the artist brush paint the almond with red dye, giving a painted fingernail look.  Continue making cookies to fill cookie sheet. Bake for 20-25 minutes ( or according to packaged refrigerator dough).  Let cool a few minutes.

 

If you desire, you can add red decorator gel to create a bloody finger look.  You can gently lift almond and put gel underneath giving the appearance of oozing blood from the nail. Or if you marked a cut on the finger, then add the gel for oozing blood. 

Kitty Litter Cake - You will find this recipe in many places on the net.  Though it looks gross, it was quite tasty. It took a little coaxing from me (the hostess) to get the guest to try it.  Click on my photo for a closer look.  I made mine from a recipe found on Fabulousfoods.com.

 

Monster Mash

Ingredients

1 14 oz. bag of chocolate covered peanuts

1 cup of candy corn 

1 cup peanut butter chips

 

Directions: Mix all ingredients in a large bowl, serve in a witches cauldron or large green bowl.

Bat Wings - Place chicken wings in a barbeque sauce and bake in 350 degree oven for 45 minutes. 

 

Witches' Brew - Add green food coloring to lemonade.  Place in a punch bowl or witches cauldron.  Freeze some gummy worms in ice cubes and simply add the ice cubes.  Makes a howling good thirst quencher!

 

Ghouls-Aide Punch

Ingredients

1 Envelope Kool-Aid Grape Flavor Unsweetened Mix

1 Envelope Kool-Aid Orange Flavor Unsweetened Mix

2 Cups of Sugar

3 Quarts of Cold Water

1 Bottle of Ginger Ale Chilled (qt)

 

Directions:  Mix Kool-Aid together with sugar, in a large pitcher.  Add water and mix.  Just before serving, add ginger ale.  

Witch's Mix

Ingredients

Bugle chips

Pretzel sticks

Goldfish crackers

Cheez Nips

 

Directions: Combine all ingredients in a large bowl or witch's cauldron.  

 

 

 

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