A Guide to Hosting a Killer Halloween Party this Spooky Season
A new season brings a new reason to decorate and host a party or gathering of family and friends at your home. This spooky season, why not throw a spooktacular Halloween party that'll have everyone screaming!
Transform Your Space with Spooky Halloween Decorations
In order to host the perfect Halloween party, it's important to go all out on decorating your home to completely transform the space for your incoming guests. Whether you choose to decorate both the interior and exterior of your home is up to you. We'd recommend both. Decorating outdoors will provide the perfect greeting for your guests as they arrive. Transforming your interior will create the ultimate Halloween atmosphere for your guests to enjoy. We have plenty of ideas for how you can (pumpkin) spice up your inside your home here. We have skele-tonnes of ideas for decorating your home's exterior here.
Ghoulish Grub to Feed Your Guests
Every party is incomplete without some food and drinks for your guests to enjoy. Keep your guests satisfied by serving up some ghoulish grub and devilish drinks. Consider going a step further than a few bowls of crisps and some soft drinks by leaning into the theme of Halloween, creating the perfect spooky season treats for everyone to enjoy. We have all the cookware you'll need here. Make sure to serve everything up on the perfect spookily decorated table too.
Snacks & (Severed) Finger Food
Get creative with your party food this spooky season by giving them a Halloween twist. Your guests are sure to love the effort you put into making their Halloween party a memorable one! Check out some of our ideas below:
- Mummy Dogs: Wrap hot dogs in strips of crescent roll dough to create mummy-like figures. Use mustard or ketchup to add eyes.
- Spider Web Dip: Create a spider web design with sour cream or yogurt on top of some guacamole.
- Eyeball Meatballs: Make meatballs and place a green olive slice with a small piece of red pepper in the center to create the appearance of an eyeball.
- Ghost Pizza: Use a ghost-shaped cookie cutter to cut ghosts out of pizza dough and top them with tomato sauce and cheese.
- Cauldron Dip: Make a creamy spinach or artichoke dip and serve it in a cauldron-shaped bowl with breadstick "witch's brooms" for dipping.
- Skeleton Veggie Platter: Arrange sliced veggies like carrots, celery, and bell peppers to resemble a skeleton on a platter. Use a bowl of dip for the skull.
Devilish Desserts
Halloween is the perfect time to unleash your sweet tooth. Make your party no exception by whipping up some delicious spooky desserts. Consider serving up some of the following:
- Graveyard Cake: Decorate a chocolate cake with crushed chocolate cookies for dirt, and use gummy worms and tombstone-shaped cookies for decorations.
- Creepy Cookies: Using Halloween-shaped cookie cutters like ghosts, bats, and skulls to create the perfect spooky treat. Decorate with icing to complete the design.
- Candy Apple Monsters: Dip apples in caramel or chocolate and then decorate them with candy eyes, gummy worms, or crushed candies for a monster effect.
- Brain Cupcakes: Frost cupcakes with pink or grey icing and use red gel frosting to create a brain-like pattern on top.
- Worms in Mud: Make a classic mud dessert using chocolate pudding and crushed chocolate cookies. Add gummy worms for a creepy-crawly effect.
You can find all the bakeware you'll need here.
Drink if You Dare
Keep your guests hydrated with some devilish drinks. Some of our spooky drink ideas include:
- Vampire Punch: Make a red fruit punch with floating sherbet scoops. Add vampire teeth to the punch bowl for a spooky touch.
- Creepy Cocktails: Create a menu of different Halloween themed cocktails in colours like green, red, purple, blue, and orange. You can choose whether you'd like them to be alcohol-free or not.
- Poisoned Apple Punch: A vibrant red punch made with apple juice, cranberry juice, and a splash of ginger ale. Add apple slices to complete the punch.
- Green Goblin Punch: A green punch made with lime sherbet, pineapple juice, and lemon-lime soft drink. Add a few drops of green food colouring for a vibrant green hue.
Need some glasses to serve up your drinks in? You can find everything you need here.
Halloween Party Games & Activities
One of the best ways to keep your guests entertained this Halloween is by organising a number of games and activities. From classic party games with a spooky twist, to crafting, costume contests, and a Halloween movie marathon, we have plenty of ideas below to get the ball rolling!
Classic Party Games with a Halloween Twist
They're classic party games for a reason! Enjoyed by most at childhood parties, why not bring them back for your older guests for a touch of nostalgia? Add a spooky twist to each of them to create the perfect set of Halloween party games for your event. Here are some of our top ideas:
- Bobbing for "Poisoned" Apples: Add a toxic symbol or skull and cross bones to the outside of the bowl or bucket you plan to use for the game. Fill the container with water and apples. Tie the player's hands behind their back and watch them try to catch an apple using only their mouth.
- Pin the Hat on the Witch: Just like Pin the Tail on the Donkey, guests will be blindfolded and expected to correctly pin the hat on the witch.
- Zombie Darts: Using a dart board, place a picture of a zombie at the centre. Whoever manages to land the dart on the zombie's head wins.
- Eyeball & Spoon Race: Replace the classic egg or potato with an edible eyeball, or small bouncy ball with an eye design on it, on top of a spoon. Have your guests race from one end of the room to the other. Whoever makes it to the far side first without dropping their eyeball, wins.
- Halloween Music Bingo: Put together a playlist of classic Halloween party tunes. Mock up bingo cards with the titles of the songs on them. Have your guests listen to the music and mark off any that match on their sheet. The first one to get bingo wins. This can be played throughout the night or have a dedicated time set for it.
Costume Contest
What better way to get your guests in the Halloween spirit than by hosting a costume contest? Invite everyone to arrive fully decked out in their best Halloween costume. Host a costume catwalk where everyone can show off their outfits and have a table of judges to vote for their favourite. Make sure you have the perfect spooky prize for the winner too!
Pumpkin Crafting
Get crafty with your guests this Halloween by having everyone decorate a Halloween staple - a pumpkin. Whether you choose to spray or hand paint real pumpkins, carve out some pumpkin art, or create your own pumpkins using paper or fabric, your guests will have a great time creating their own DIY decorations! Make sure you gather plenty of crafting materials in advance for everyone to use. Some the things you may need include:
- Real pumpkins
- Spray paint
- Assortment of different colour paint
- Paint brushes
- Coloured paper & card
- Markers
- Glitter
- Glue
- Sellotape
- Pumpkin carving kits and stencils
- Variety of autumnal coloured fabrics
Your guests can bring their pumpkins home as a token from a party they'll be sure to remember!
Create Your Own Halloween Mask
Another great way to craft this Halloween is by getting your guests to create their own masks. Make sure you supply plenty of plain white masks, along with paint, paint brushes, glitter and any other crafting materials you may need to create the perfect Halloween mask. Just like the pumpkins, your guests will have something unique and fun to bring home to remember the great time they had!
Halloween Movie Marathon
Why not keep things simple with a classic Halloween scary movie marathon for your guests? Pre-party, put together a list of everyone's favourite Halloween movies and pick your top few choices to screen. Create the perfect cinema atmosphere with dim lighting, surround sound speakers, and tons of popcorn.
Ready to host the ultimate Halloween party? Browse our Halloween party supplies and decorations for a scarily good time here!
