Halloween is not only a time for kids to dress up but also many adults can't resist the chance to also dress up. So why not take advantage of this urge and invite friends and neighbors to a party.
Make the theme for the night a mystery theme such a haunted dinner with a "who done it" murder theme complete with corpse etc. Be creative and have a series of clues that point to one of the guests as the murderer. At sometime during the night ask for opinions as to who is the murderer and why the guest thinks that they have nailed the murderer.
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If you plan such a party then create invitations that are formal and in keeping with the occasion. They can be in the form of a Gothic order written in fake blood and sealed with a wax stamp. Even the stamp can be symbolic of Halloween.
How about having a masquerade dinner and ball. To set up you'll need plenty of dark lights and candles. If one of the guest has had a kids party then you can make use of their cobwebs, spiders and other creepy decorations. These can be draped over the dining room table and chairs. The only other colors besides black should be orange and red.
Besides the normal Halloween decorations of pumpkins and ghosts that were used for the children you can add some more gory decorations. How about lots of fake blood, rubber body parts, scary insects, various forms of ooze and slime and anything else that is scary.
For dinner you could have a pumpkin theme. This could include pumpkin soup, serve the main dish on hollowed out pumpkin shells, mashed pumpkin and potatoes, pumpkin pie, stewed pumpkin and apples, and even a drink based on pumpkin juice.
Prior to dinner you can have Halloween shaped munchies. If you are not on the pumpkin theme for dinner then a ghoulish soup could be cream of tomato embedded with olives that look like eyeballs and pasta shaped like fingers.
Before and during dinner you can have some gothic music of Benedictine or Gothic chants or soundtrack from a Harry Poter movie so as to set a haunted tone. After dinner more lively music can include "Black Magic Woman", "Thriller", "Goblin Girls", etc.
When it comes to costumes the internet is full of ideas. One of the best suggestions and least expensive is to look around your house and at your old clothes and then with a little creativity you can fashion a unique costume. Don't forget water soluble makeup and markers can add to the effect. If you are not certain what you represent then make it a guessing game at the party. It should be good for a few laughs.
Halloween was first designed to keep the dead away from destroying both the crops and the living, on the eve of All Hallows Day. It was believed that on this night there is a blurring of the line between the living and the dead. This is why people dressed up in costumes and acted in a way that was meant to scare away the dead.
Traditional crops at this time were pumpkins and apples. Both are part of the food of Halloween. Apples were also used in games such as bobbing for apples, eating an apple hanging by a string without using ones hands, skinning the apple to see who can make the longest skin, and also dropping the skin and making up a story or prediction based on the apparent shape or letter formed by the skin.
Halloween parties can be quite involved so a detailed plan, of everything that is needed, of who is helping to set up, of who is bringing what and also having a take down and take away plan. This will involve more than one person so responsibilities have to be assigned and checked off once completed. One good thing is that most items can be prepared well before the day of the party.
Have a ghoulish time.
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