3 Tips for Planning a Halloween Party

 Follow three important tips for Halloween parties to plan a fun-filled event! Regardless of the size of your party, there are a lot of details to keep track of while planning. These pointers will kick-off your party planning and ensure that you cover all the basics.
 Here are a few tips for a Halloween party to get you started:
  • List: Make a check list of items for your Halloween party and a timeline for completion. Include invitations, decorations, cake, food, drinks, and party favors on the check list. Leave a section on the list for notes. Check off items once complete!
  • Guests: Plan the Halloween party based on the age and preferences of the guests. Tailor the decorations, food, drinks, and music to a child or adult audience. Decorate with low-key and cheerful decorations for young children. Hang up pictures of friendly ghosts and carve smiling pumpkins. Pour orange juice in a punch bowl for a beverage. Decorate the punch bowl as a pumpkin. Serve “Worms in Dirt” for a sweet treat. Plan children’s activities for your Halloween party such as Halloween bingo. Plan more intricate details for an adult Halloween party. Select either scary or traditional Halloween decorations. Scary decorations include ghosts, witches, vampires, bats, and mummies. Purchase pumpkins, ghosts, and spiders for traditional Halloween décor. Drizzle chocolate in martini glasses to create chocolate spider webs in advance of the Halloween party. Keep the glasses cool up until the party. Serve a red punch and call it “Vampire Blood.” Serve a green punch for “Witch’s Brew.” Throw in some plastic eyeballs to up the scary factor. Make pumpkin bread and decorate ghost cookies. Dip pretzel rods in chocolate and sprinkle coconut on the ends to create witches brooms.
  • Theme: Select a theme for the Halloween party. Ideas for Halloween themes include haunted houses, jack-o-lanterns, and creepy crawlers. Create a haunted house theme with vampires, mummies, caskets, and goblins. Plan a jack-o-lantern theme with pumpkins and a variety of carving patterns. Place candles inside the jack-o-lanterns for adult parties. Use flameless candles for children’s parties. Decorate a creepy crawler party with a variety of spiders and spider webs. Scatter gummy worms on the tables and use them for cupcake decorations.
 Whether you decide to throw a simple or elaborate Halloween party, all the details will stem from these three Halloween party tips. Start here and you’ll be putting together a fantastic event in no time! 
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