Halloween Party Ideas

Why not host the neighbourhood Halloween Party this year! Fill your house with haunting decorations and play some spooky music. Have a theme like a Halloween monster mash, or a Vampires Ball. Give out prizes to inspire your guests to dress in their Halloween best. Be brave enough to have a horror movie party and watch all your favourite scary movies.

Or, for the kids maybe you just want to have fun and have a Pumpkin carving party. Head out to the local pumpkin patch to pick that perfect pumpkin. Throw on some Scooby Doo or It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown to help you get in the mood. Kids and adults love candy so be sure to have lots of it. Keep the atmosphere spooky but happy. After all that’s why we say “Happy Halloween!



Halloween Party Supplies and Halloween Decorations

Outdoor

  • Jack-o-lanterns
  • Make your own grave site by using painted Styrofoam board or wood for tombstones
  • Have some artificial ravens and crows on top
  • Use cobwebs
  • Have dead looking hands reaching out of the ground
  • Place a pile of fake bones and a skull nearby
  • Witch’s broom
  • Hang spiders
  • Hang some Skeletons and use plastic chains to tie them up
  • Make some hanging ghosts in trees or on the front porch
  • Use Little jack-o-lantern lights
  • On the front porch, take old clothes and stuff them to make it look like a real person. Put a mask on its head. Or make a Pumpkin scarecrow
  • Hanging bats
  • Black cat

Indoor

  • Dim the lights
  • Light black or red candles
  • Hang some cobwebs
  • Black and orange balloons
  • Glow in the dark skeletons
  • Dead flowers in a black vase
  • Make a cauldron with dry ice. Be sure to handle with gloves
  • Use an old candelabra with lit candles
  • Use Halloween themed table cloth, plates, cups, napkins, streamers (paper products work best)
  • Hanging bats
  • Hang some Slime
  • Use a fog machine for a cool effect
  • Have strobe lights
  • Homemade Coffin
  • Have a Crystal ball with a Genie or Gypsy
  • Black lights
  • Glow in the dark spookables
  • Indian corn
  • Mini pumpkins
  • Gourds


Popular Spookable Halloween Costumes

  • Dracula
  • Wolf man
  • Mummy
  • Frankenstein
  • Freddy Kruger
  • Grim reaper
  • Goblins
  • Jason
  • Witch
  • Pumpkin

  • Dracula
  • Wolf man
  • Mummy
  • Frankenstein
  • Freddy Kruger
  • Grim reaper
  • Goblins
  • Jason
  • Witch
  • Pumpkin

Halloween Party Games and Activities

  • Carve or Paint Pumpkins
  • Make a “Mummy”. Divide all the players into two teams. Give each group a roll of toilet paper. Each team will pick one player to be the “Mummy”. Be the first team to wrap a mummy using the entire roll of tissue.
  • Blindfold guests and have them reach their hand into an unexpected bowl full of:
  • Peeled grapes for eye balls
  • Cold Spaghetti for brains
  • Gummy worms for small intestines
  • Black string licorice rat tails
  • Black jelly beans bat droppings
  • Rake leaves into a big pile for jumping in
  • Paint your windows using window paint with spook pictures
  • Bobbing for Apples
  • Have a Mask Making station
  • Halloween coloring book or pages
  • Ouija board
  • Read some spooky stories
  • Make some Halloween cookies
  • Visit a Pumpkin Patch
  • Halloween scavenger hunt
  • Watch a Scary Movie!!





  • Carve or Paint Pumpkins
  • Make a “Mummy”. Divide all the players into two teams. Give each group a roll of toilet paper. Each team will pick one player to be the “Mummy”. Be the first team to wrap a mummy using the entire roll of tissue.
  • Blindfold guests and have them reach their hand into an unexpected bowl full of:
  • Peeled grapes for eye balls
  • Cold Spaghetti for brains
  • Gummy worms for small intestines
  • Black string licorice rat tails
  • Black jelly beans bat droppings
  • Rake leaves into a big pile for jumping in
  • Paint your windows using window paint with spook pictures
  • Bobbing for Apples
  • Have a Mask Making station
  • Halloween coloring book or pages
  • Ouija board
  • Read some spooky stories
  • Make some Halloween cookies
  • Visit a Pumpkin Patch
  • Halloween scavenger hunt
  • Watch a Scary Movie!!

Halloween Party Food and Drink

  • Themed Punch bowls with Halloween Punch
  • Pumpkin pie
  • Pumpkin cookies
  • Apple cider
  • Hot chocolate
  • Popcorn
  • Roasted pumpkin seeds
  • Marshmallows
  • Pumpkin decorated cupcakes
  • Chips in Halloween bowls
  • Lots of candy and chocolate

  • Themed Punch bowls with Halloween Punch
  • Pumpkin pie
  • Pumpkin cookies
  • Apple cider
  • Hot chocolate
  • Popcorn
  • Roasted pumpkin seeds
  • Marshmallows
  • Pumpkin decorated cupcakes
  • Chips in Halloween bowls
  • Lots of candy and chocolate

Halloween Party Favors

  • Glow sticks
  • Goody bag full of treats
  • Colouring book and crayons
  • Stickers
  • Slime
  • Silly putty
  • Play Do
  • Pumpkins