Top Ten Ideas for a Halloween Party

Obviously, Halloween means we shall all have an unhindered night of spooktacular fun, right? YES! If your group of friends does not have any plans just yet, be the one to throw a Halloween party, the RealEstateSINY.com and TrendingSINY way! Here are the top ten things you will need for a purrfect party:

Pick a theme. This is an important step. You will need to figure out what the theme of your party should be. Do you want the home to be haunted and filled with zombies, mummies, and vampires? Or do you prefer to throw a modern Halloween themed party with pumpkins, witches, and ghost décor? The only limit is your imagination! Once you settle on what you want, you can design the party around that idea.
Enter, if you dare! The first thing guests will see are your outdoor decorations. Make sure your front lawn is dressed for the occasion with a cemetery, ghoulish figures, and spider webs! If you need some inspiration, check out our Halloween Decorating Ideas, or visit our Facebook page to be inspired by the Best-Dressed Halloween Home Decorating contestants!
Deck the halls with haunts and scares. Once you are satisfied with the outdoor decorations, it is time to decorate the inside of your home! Only focus on rooms you will be holding the party in. Set the Halloween mood indoors with lanterns, banners, balloons, cutouts, spiderwebs, lighting, and, of course, decorative pumpkins.
How to creatively block off rooms. Control where the party goes by keeping people out of rooms they do not belong in with some crafty ideas. Try using caution tape, or police “do not enter” tape to block off a room that is considered a “crime scene of a murder”! Or go with the zombie theme and block off rooms with wooden boards, declaring with signs that the “living dead are inside” and mortals must stay out.
Keep guests on the ground level. Do not want wandering guest to entering the second floor? There is a creative way you can keep them out of there too. Try adding a staircase display. Add tool cloth, leaf garlands, spider webs, and “do not cross” tape. Give it an extra creep factor by adding fake mice, decorative body parts and skeleton bones.
Care for a bite? Make your food table as decorative as everything else. Have a centerpiece, use tablecloths, and themed party plates, cups, and napkins.
Trick or treats! Let us not forget about the Halloween-themed food you can serve: from mummified hot dogs to graveyard pudding!
Witches Brew. Why not mix Halloween-themed drinks for the adults as well? Serve them in a cauldron, or give your pitcher a fancy name, such as “Carrie’s Blood”, “Zombie Virus”, “Polyjuice Potion”, or “eyeball punch”.
Watch your back. Make sure your guests do not have a place to hide from your Halloween spirit. Decorate the bathroom too! Some the best horror movies have a bathroom kill! This can be accomplished with a decorative towel, mirror paint, and even a scary “psycho” shower curtain.
Party Tunes. No party is complete without a playlist! Mix your entire Halloween playlist in with your Top 40 tunes.