How to throw a halloween party
With cold and flu season coming up, maybe bobbing for apples in a community barrel isn’t the best idea. And eating decorated Halloween cookies may not go over well for the diabetic. So, liven up a Halloween party by doing other activities. • Tell the guests to bring a cardboard cut-out of a tombstone to write their eulogies or cause of death on. Use markers or even frosting to decorate and make each tombstone look the part. Afterwards, set them up in the host’s yard and take a picture with each character in front of their tombstone. • Make Halloween gingerbread houses and compete for the best-decorated. The host can even present a decoration theme like “scary scene from movie of choice” or “most gruesome gingerbread house” to make the competition more challenging. (Side note: ketchup works well here.) • For the less gruesome type, tell each guest to dress up as a famous person throughout history. Upon arrival, guests will sit in a circle and each person brings out their previously made note card that gives clues in telling who they are. The other guests give their best guess. The character being guessed about can also teach or share with the other guests something interesting about their historical character that isn’t easily found. • Divide into pairs. Each team receives a roll of toilet paper to turn their partner into a mummy. The teams race against each other to wrap their partner completely in toilet paper. • Tell guests to dress up as poker players from the Old West (this can include having guests come as saloon girls as well) and spend the night playing poker. Instead of money or Halloween candy, the stakes can be dares. Or the winner of each hand can choose two people to switch Halloween costumes. • Tired of normal pumpkin carving? How about a contest for the most erotic or sexy pumpkin carvings? Or if carving isn’t your thing, divide into teams and place tiny pumpkins under your chin to pass to the person next to you. The pumpkin needs to make it to the end of one line and back to be first to win. • Carve a huge mouth into a pumpkin. Set the pumpkin up at one end of the room and let each guest take their turn at swinging a golf ball into the pumpkin’s mouth. Give prizes. • Create a short Halloween film with the video camera. Divide into groups. Each group has a theme or maybe can create a film based off of who they came dressed up as. • Create a trivia game about Halloween. Have each guest answer questions concerning the origins of Halloween, the most popular Halloween movie, etc. These things can usually be easily found searching the Internet. • Throw a party with a particular theme and have guests dress up accordingly. Possible themes: pirates, Phantom of the Opera, Harry Potter, famous couples, famous villains, dress up as your date at age 60, fairy tales, rock groups or singers, animals, white trash, etc.