Let's have a ball this Halloween 2022!
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- Unique Halloween party theme ideas
- Halloween party planning guide
- Halloween Game and Activity Ideas
- Halloween facemasks - stay safe and look great
- Free Halloween graphics and printables
- Free vintage Halloween poster downloads
The sky is getting darker and as the moon shines brightly on this cloudless night, you feel a chill and ghostly horrors in the air. It's October 31st, the last night of the month. It's Halloween night, and you've decided to throw a hauntingly exciting Halloween party. What a ghoulish delight! But where do you begin when it comes to planning your Halloween holiday celebration?
Halloween party theme Ideas 2022
- Witches, Monsters and Ghosts
- Murder Mystery Party
- Vampires and Were Wolves ( think TV series Twilight and Originals for inspiration)
- Harry Potter (Wizards and magic)
- Evil Doll
- Zombies
- Sugar Art Skulls
- Skeletons and Skulls (traditional but add a Gothic spin for a freaky geeky fest).Game of Thrones (Dragons, Kings and Queens)
- Reptiles and Creepy Crawlies
- Little Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty - put a dark spin on them
- Marvel super heroes
- Comic Con and Cosplay
- Creepy version of Mad hatter Tea Party
10 top tips on how to plan a perfect unforgettable Halloween Party 2022
1: Halloween Party Kickoff
2: Halloween party invitations 2022
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3: Halloween food 2022
A Halloween party would not be complete without a variety of tasty Halloween treats. Make a menu plan and a shopping list. Make as much in advance as possible, and choose Halloween food that can be bought or made ahead of time and stored or frozen.
You can turn your kids' favorite dishes into spooky snacks. With a little inventiveness, you can make some monstrous nibbles for Halloween without breaking the bank. You can turn practically anything into a Halloween treat by adding a dash of evil.
- The leftover pumpkin flesh from carving a handful of pumpkins into scary masterpieces to decorate your home means it's time to create some pumpkin Halloween delights. Some of the greatest Halloween recipes with leftover pumpkin include pies, soups, cookies, and muffins.
- Apples are another seasonal Halloween culinary staple. Toffee apples are delicious Halloween snacks, and bobbing for apples is a fun Halloween party activity for the youngsters.
- Make some frightening cookies for your Halloween celebration. The fun comes from utilizing Halloween themed cookie cutters like bats, ghosts, and Jack O'Lanterns, or just letting your creativity run wild and creating your own free hand creations. The scary icing on these Halloween treats is made with food coloring.
- Make popcorn ghosts for a fun Halloween treat idea. Simply form your favorite popcorn ball recipe into ghostly shapes. With a Popsicle stick handle and jellybean eyes, this Halloween treat is complete.
4: Haunted Halloween Pumpkins
Buy your pumpkins early to ensure a good selection. You can make a variety of interesting jack-o-lantern ghosts by selecting a variety of pumpkin shapes and sizes. Don't forget about the miniature pumpkins, which can be used as party favors or Halloween decorations. Carve your pumpkins the day before the party and double-check that you have enough candles , torches, LED lights and glow sticks.
5: Halloween Costumes 2022
Let's get freaky! Having a fancy dress, costume party and assuming a new identity is always exciting. So plan ahead of time for your and your family's Halloween party costumes so you don't have to scramble around at the last minute. You can make your own Halloween costume with the help of lots of great online Youtube tutorials, you can hire a costume or you can buy a costume. You can also hunt around your local preloved and thrift stores for anything you can use to put a great costume idea together. Think outside the box!
If you're buying a costume you could arrange to trade costumes with friends and family in following years to cut costs and ensure this is not a one-time use purchase.
- Zombie
- Pirates
- Superheros
- Villains
- Werewolf
- Vampire
- Movie Characters
- Marvel Character
- The Joker/Batman Costumes
- Iron Man Costume
- Indiana Jones
- Harry Potter
- Ghosts
- Sports/Olympics Related Halloween Costumes
- Poltical Figures, past and present presidents
- Pirates
- Creepy Clowns
- Evil Dolls
- Fantastic Four
- Sexy Witch/Bunny/Nurse/Maid
6: Halloween Party Games 2022
Halloween Bingo is a fun idea, make your own or buy online readymade.
Scavenger Ghost hunt
Buy some lollipops on sticks and make little ghost covers for them. You can then place them around the house or outdoors (assuming the edible part is safely wrapped and protected from the elements) and then the kids and adults can enjoy a'ghost hunt! If it is after dark, use torches and glow sticks, and hang fake cobwebs about for an eerie effect. I made a couple of fake legs and feet one year by stuffing an old pair of trousers and adding shoes. I then placed these next to the shed so it looked like the shed had fallen on someone. If these are witch legs ... even better (Wizard of Oz theme).
Pumpkin bowling:
Like regular bowls but use small pumpkins. Also beanbag and can bowling. Make your own or buy from Amazon.
Mummification
Using toilet rolls have a few willing 'mummies' with team of people to wrap them in toilet paper from head to toe in a set time limit. The team with the most complete mummy after the time is up wins!
Walk the plank
Use a narrow piece of long paper or fabric to create a fake 'plank'. Particpants need to dart across the plank trying not to step over the edge. Stepping over the edge they lose! The winner stays on.
Eyeball Spoon Race
You can make eyeballs by painting horse-chestnuts or hard-boiled eggs or buy a readymade set from Amazon.
Mystery Feels
Carve out the insides of a pumpkin and keep that gloopy flesh! Add some creepy items and then put the gloopy pumpkin flesh back inside the pumpkin. Ask your brave blindfolded guests to dare to reach inside the pumpkin and see what they can grab. Make some eyeballs by painting Horse Chestnuts or conkers. Cook some spaghetti to represent slimy worms. Dried Apricots make great tongus. Grapes Peeled are also good for Eyeballs and for fingers use baby carrots.
Halloween Sack Race
You can decorate and make your own Halloween sacks using potato sacks or buy readymade via Amazon.
Is There a Ghost in the House?
Before you begin, you must designate someone, usually the party host, as the ghost. To begin the game, have everyone stand completely quietly while they listen for the ghost. The ghost then walks around them, quietly approaching one of the players. The ghost begins silently counting to ten, and if the person standing behind the ghost does not say 'is there a ghost behind me?' before the ghost finishes counting, the ghost informs that player that he is dead and out of the game. However, if the player says, "Is there a ghost behind me?" the ghost joins the player in attempting to eliminate all the others one by one. If all of the players are eliminated, the ghost wins; otherwise, the last player to become the ghost wins.
7: Halloween music and sounds
Halloween music is an excellent way to elicit emotion. Scary Halloween sounds are a haunting combination of chilling sound effects that create a sinister atmosphere making the partygoers tremble with fear and shiver with suspense.
Sometimes the music is based on themes from scary movies. Sound effects include howls, shrieks, and screams, owls hooting, ghostly sounds, scary laughter and creepy footsteps. There are many special music CDs available for purchase, or you can make your own.
8:Halloween Party Favors
Party favors add a fun touch to any Halloween party and your guests can take them home after the Halloween party as a momento. They don't have to be elaborate or expensive Party Favors; they can be as simple as a small plastic toy or as elaborate as a homemade resin skull!
Candle favors are a great non-edible option for Halloween. Look for votive holders with a 'Halloween' theme, such as black and orange. An orange votive is ideal for the holder! Halloween party cups have also grown in popularity. These are typically made of acrylic (which is very durable) and have a Halloween motif on them.- You might also wish to offer treat bags with candy, candy maize, or black and orange M&Ms.
- Children's rings, necklaces, bracelets, toy watches, and other small jewelry can be used as party favors.
- An assorted collection of bugs, spiders, vampire teeth, and bats can also be used as Halloween party favors.
- What kid doesn't enjoy collecting stickers? A lovely bag loaded with an assortment of Halloween stickers is sure to make kids and teens happy.
- Glow sticks keep kids occupied for extended periods of time.
- Flashlights with images of ghosts and pumpkins can also be very entertaining.
- You can buy foam masks or cutouts in a variety of Halloween themes. They can then wear the masks or cutouts to other gatherings or even take them trick-or-treating.
- Coloring bag for Halloween Maybe a lovely small bag with colorful Halloween notepads and a cute Halloween crayon. Presented in a basic bag.
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Trick or Treat Stickers9: Halloween Decorations
Decorating your garden, yard and house for Halloween can be a lot of fun and does not have to be expensive. Experiment with Halloween lighting and smoke machine effects, cobweb sprays, plastic bats, spiders placed around indoor and outdoors. - Add some spider webs to your Halloween decorations for a frightening effect.
- To give your Halloween decorations a worn and abandoned aspect, collect old, torn, ragged, and shredded apparel from Halloween merchants.
- Get some scarecrows to add to your Halloween décor. Put some on the front porch, backyard, and party hall.
- A lighted jack-o-lantern on your front porch is also a terrific idea. Bring several plastic jack-o-lanterns available at stores and light them with battery candles.
- Use haystacks for seating.
- Use more autumn colors like orange, gold, and brown in your décor.
- Pumpkins, carved, natural and painted are great Halloween decor.
- Tombstones
- Inflatable ghosts, witches and monsters
- There has been a trend of doing the 18+ movie theme of adding fake 'corpses' to gardens. Not my taste but that's a new popular theme.
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Wicked Witch Doormat10: Party Guests Arrival
It's that time of year again - Halloween party night - and your guests are about to arrive. Take a quick look around to ensure that everything is in order and that your home is a safe environment. Maintain a porch light so that everyone can see any steps or other obstacles.
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Do you know how the holiday of Halloween originated?
Halloween is one of those holidays that is celebrated by the majority of people all over the world. Halloween is observed on the 31st of October every year. Despite the fact that Halloween is celebrated in a number of countries, few people in these countries are aware of the holiday's true origins. There are many people who believe that the origins of Halloween can be traced back to various satanic worshipers throughout history.
But this is incorrect, and not everyone is aware of this fact, which is unfortunate.
Interestingly enough, the term "Halloween" has deep historical roots in the Catholic church. It's a kind of twisted version of "All Hallow's Eve" or "All Saints Night," which was a festival held in honor of saints on November 1st that has since been corrupted. A celebration of Samhain (pronounced "sow-en"), the Celtic version of New Years Eve, was held on October 31st in honor of the goddess of harvest. Because of thousands of years of dilution, the two became confused with one another.
Halloween was introduced to the United States by Irish immigrants in the 1840s. The Celts believed that certain epochs in history were marked by supernatural occurrences. Despite modern times, the proverbial "witching hour" remains a well-known expression. The beginning of a new year was thought to be particularly potent, and the "veil between the worlds" was at its thinnest at this time of year. This was thought to be a particularly good time to commune with the dead or to learn one's fortune.
Because Samhain was regarded as a "untime," the people believed that chaos reigned and would engage in outlandish behavior as well as unusually high spirits to commemorate the occasion. It was customary on this night for people to dress up as fairies or "spooks" and run from house to house begging for candy.
They would carry a turnip that had been carved with a small face on it, which would be used to hold a flame to illuminate their path. Even if the homeowner refused to cooperate, the group would harass him with pranks and practical jokes. This is most likely the origin of the phrase "trick or treat."
The Celts would extinguish their home fires and travel to the center of Ireland, where a Druidic fire would be lit by rubbing two pieces of wood together, which would later be blessed by the Druids, before returning home. People would return home with a torch that had been lit by this sacred fire and would relight their hearths once more. This was most likely a symbol of the beginning of a new year.
Samhain was the last of the harvest festivals, and anything left in the fields after this day was regarded as "fairy food," which was unfit for human consumption, according to the tradition. Making predictions about the future was one of the most popular activities during the evening.
Tossing apples was originally used as a form of marriage divination, with the first person to bite into an apple being the person who would marry first in the new year. Another apple divination method was to peel an apple and measure the length of the peel to determine how long your life would last. Lastly, the most joyful of all was when each person would place a stone in the hearth ashes before going to bed, knowing that if their stone was disturbed when they awoke, they would die within the year.
According to Irish folklore, there once was a prankster named Jack who managed to trick the Christian devil into climbing a tree and escape. After that, Jack carved a cross into the wood, effectively trapping the devil. Jack made a pact with the devil, promising that if the devil did not tempt him again, he would be released.
In the aftermath of his death, Jack was denied entry into heaven due to his "evil" actions. When he went to hell, the devil refused to let him in because of the ruse Jack had pulled on him. The devil, on the other hand, provided him with a single ember with which to navigate his way between the worlds.
Jack put the ember inside a turnip out of fear that it would burn out completely. As a result, the Jack O'Lantern was born. When Irish immigrants arrived in America, they switched from growing turnips to growing pumpkins because pumpkins were more plentiful there.
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