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Some frightfully Fun ideas, Recipes, Ghoulish Treats and
Costume Ideas. To help you create the best
ghostly gathering ever.
No bones about it. The spook factor is what makes Halloween
so real. So spooktacular.
Whether you're planning an adult or kids party, the more bone-chilling ideas you include - which make things seem downright scary - maybe even get some screams (then you know it's all working!) is what's guaranteed to set your party or gathering apart from the rest. Maybe even go down as the scariest - but most fun - party of the season.
Here's 24 ghoulish and creative decorating ideas:
1. Think about lining the walls of 1 or 2 rooms with black fabric if you're having your party at home. It can be washed and re-used next year. And can be shopped for all year long. Likely found at discount prices. Lightly spray the fabric with gold or silver fleks. (comes in cans at your local craft store) This will give the fabric an other-worldly shimmer and looking more like a starlit evening. Think about draping the ceiling too.
7. Give everyone a glow stick, necklace or bracelet, glow-in-the-dark sunglasses to create a more eirie feeling. Hang multi-glow ropes to guide them. 10. Sit skeletons in chairs; dress them. Pose them; have them holding a book, laying down on stomach or on their side. Make a chair using a posable plastic skeleton. Use it as a focal point and decorate around it. 11. Turn off all the lights and illuminate the scene by giving everyone a flashlight (or have them bring their own. Use twinkling lights as extra lighting. Deals at Cascio Sale thru 11/5/09. 14. Slime guests. To create slime, here's a simple recipe to get you started. 15. Add to the scary mood getting spidery with some old lamp shades. Buy some old lamp shades and remove shade material so you have only the frame or simply buy some cheap old frames. Wrap with spider webbing. Use 1 dull bulb in each for lighting. Stick or attach some spiders to frame or base. Black crow to top.
2. Small White Skulls help add to the atmosphere. At craft and party stores online, find small white skulls, about 3-4"x3-4". Spray some black. Then - purchase 1 roll of black, 1 roll of white, curling ribbon. Cut one 3' strip of ribbon for each skull (black ribbon for black skulls, white ribbon for white skulls). Take each strip and holding one end with your thumb and forefinger, and using a metal pair of scissors, curl each ribbon. Glue each curled ribbon onto a skull. Hang each from the ceiling so they're hanging at different lengths.
3. Cutout simple silhouettes of a haunted house, ghosts, skeletons, tombstones or monsters to trim doorways. these larger than life cut-outs can be done with cardboard sprayed black. Then trim doorways with strings of white lights. And hang black crinkle curtains in doorway entrances.
4. Purchase Window Posters -1 for each window. (Can be done either with indoor windows, or used on the outdoor side of window.) Cut poster to fit your window size, then illuminate with a light. Guaranteed to scare the daylights out of indoor guests since posters appear to come alive. And coming through the window!.
5. Creep them out with a huge poseable spider, feathered vulture or black crow.
6. Spider Webs are an absolute necessity. The trick, when using them, is to spread them and keep spreading them until you create a unique and full web. Place webbing in strategic places, which require guests to pick their way around them. Spray white webbing black for a more goulish look.
8. Create street signs using 1/2" thick cardboard - or foamboard -cut into 12"x4" pieces, sprayed black or covered with black construction paper. Paint signs with glow-in-the-dark paint. Decorate with furry scaries. Give your signs unique street names. For example - Stray Cat Way; Moulting Monster Drive; Give it a Rest Cemetary; You Kill Me Corner. Hang them at angles or in strategic places.
9. Use some cheap framed mirrors to create some otherworldly fun. Find them at Goodwill, or a 2nd hand store, in various sizes. Remove glass and spray frames black. Hang in different places (group 2 together) on walls. Sit a large plastic skull in the middle of the top of each frame. Then, using fake plastic bones, glue one on each side of each frame about 2" down from the side of each; as if they were arms. Get creative and cross the bones as if this were a person crossing their arms. Spray mirror with silver glitter-spray. Or glue skeletons to top of frames, with posed arms, and suspend frames from ceiling at angles.
12. Decorate some black balloons with stick-on spiders. Spray them with a gold or silver glitter spray.
13. Create blood using ketchup. It's edible and safe.
Mix together in large bowl:
* 3 oz box of lemon-line flavored Jello
* 4 oz box of Knox unflavored gelatin
* 1 1/2 cups boiling water.
Stir until completely disolved, about 3 minutes. Then bowl
in refrigerator so jello mixture can cool and set (about 4 hours).
When spreading your "slime mixture" around, be sure to place it in - on or around -waterproof cups, plates, pails, for example. So when liquid eventually melts it won't harm wood or fabric furniture.
16. Create creapy, crawly pumpkins. Spray some good sized pumpkins black or white. Drizzle some white cake frosting (add some extra water so it's gooey) over the black pumpkins. Black frosting (use a drop or 2 of food coloring in white frosting to make it black) over white pumpkins. (Or slime them using recipe above). Stick a black crow on top of each. Decorate with black spiders.
17. Create an even more eirie look using old wooden shutters. By suspending, or sitting at unique angles, old dilapitated wood shutters sprayed black. Using a piece of sandpaper, remove some black paint from edges and lightly streak edges with white paint to make them look even older. Find them at junk stores or wood recycling centers. Decorate with goblins and witches.
18. Use a piece of black grillwork, or old garden gate, and chain to give guests the heebie-jeebies. Find a piece of old grillwork, or garden gate, at a recycling center. Also find some old chain link (not too thick), that will reach - loosely - from one end to the other of the grillwork. Spray chain black and secure one end to each end of grill. If chain is longer, spread it back and forth accross grillwork until you've used up the chain. Be sure to secure the grillwork so it stands properly. Place a small circulating floor fan, turned on High, pointing up at chain; so when fan is turned on it rattles the chain against the grillwork. Decorate the area with tombstones, witches and crows.
19. Drape large fabric chairs and couches - even tables - with white sheets you've painted with black "ghost eyes". (Cut ghost eyes from black construction paper or black fabric. Eyes should look like upside down apostrophe's). Glue a pair onto each sheet.
20. Ghoulishly cover either empty, or full, tin canned goods cans. Cut construction paper wide enough to cover the can wrapper. Using black, dark purple, orange or bright green colored paper. Decorate. And hand print names like - Stringed Friends, Monster Mash, Four Eyes, Bat Bites, Corn off the Broom, Slimey Peas, Spider Sauce, Mice Macaroni, Poison Pasta.
21. Create your own ghoulish-looking blood and spritz it on decorations. While you can buy phony "blood" by the spray bottle, you can also inexpensively make your own. Take 1 24 ounce container of catsup. Empty it into a large bowl. Add 2-3 cups of warm water; or enough to make a thin, runny red mixture. Stir until well mixed. Then transfer to a spray top container. Shake before each use. NOTE: For best results, when spraying hold container about 8-10 inches away from surface you are about to spray. Spray and re-spray a spot until it looks realistic.
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