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Adult Halloween
Party Ideas
Party
Ideas by Party Consultant Michelle Hylton
Updated: 09/07/2008
www.PartyShelf.com
Multiple vendors included in this
party plan.
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Spooky
Party Decor |
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Table
Decor |
Room Decor |
Party Extras |
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Tableware
Themes
Table Centerpieces
Table Extras
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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. Here are some ideas.
Hallways
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Haunted Forest,
Bat Cave or
Spider Alley.
Kitchen
- How about a
Hell's Kitchen with devilish treats
for your
guest. Use
devil picks,
skull punch bowl,
cemetery terror platter or
bloody goblets.
Don't forget the bloody knife,
Flaming Cauldron
and these cardboard
Red Flames Set/6 for the walls.
Guest Bedroom, Parlor, Sitting Room
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"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,
mad scientist spooky specimens,
pulsating heart and LEDs.
Don't forget to add some
Bone Chillers
 to your drinks!
 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. Turn the faucet
water red with
a
Temperature Controlled Red/Blue LED Faucet Light.
Front yard
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Create an area for your cemetery in the front yard. Add
Cemetery Fence Set/2
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enclose the graveyard. Start with tombstones and spider webs. Add several any of these
graveyard extremes:
Garages or Unfinished
Basements
are good for
dungeons. Use the
stone wall scene setter.
Add some
eyes,
haunted signs and
hanging skeletons to the wall.
Don't forget the
shackles!
Dining Room
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Skeleton
Reunion.
Hang some
skull and bone garland
or
terror tinsel garland.
Add a
skeleton candelabra
to your table. Use the
Catacomb Scene Setter.
Sprinkle the
table with skeleton bones. Scatter these
tabletop skulls
around the room. Use
Glow Skeleton Balloons.
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Misc.
Items
Brain Mold
Halloween Lanterns
Halloween wired runner
Skull Ice Bucket
Black Feather Tree
Gargoyle
Black Cat Swizzle Sticks
Bloody Cloth Decoration
Pumpkin Bunting Each
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 costume! |
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Party Theme
Variations |
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Mix one of these themes below with the
Spooky Decor above for a Ghastly Party! |
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Dreadful Dance (Disco) |
Frightful 50's (50's)
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Gambling Ghouls (Casino Night) |
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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 |
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
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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
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Ghost Ship (Pirate) |
Haunted Hoedown |
Horror Movie Madness |
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"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 |
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 |
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.
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Monster Bash
(Mardi
Gras) |
Knockem Bones
(Bowling Party) |
Tiki Terror
(Luau) |
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Fun Party Foods |
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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.
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Mummy's Eyes
Ingredients
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Monster Mash
Ingredients
10 cups of Popcorn
1 16 oz. bag of M& M's
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.
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Bat Wings - Place chicken wings in a barbeque sauce and bake in 350 degree oven
for 45 minutes.
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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!
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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.
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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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