When you want to host a memorable Halloween Party, there are several items that must not be omitted from your list of Halloween Party ideas.

Halloween party ideas means the plans outlined for the social gathering at the celebration of Halloween that will make it a wonderful occasion of pleasure and amusement.

Below are top ten (10) Halloween party ideas.

1. Home Decorations: There must be Halloween pictures and objects that will line up the front-door, the walls, the ceiling, and even on the floor. The windows and other glasses must have spooky items to match.
2. Costumes for people: You have to decide the type of Halloween garments to put on. What of the kids? Are you shopping downtown or on the Internet? What of the other accessory wears and the hairstyle?
3. Masks: There are bundles of Halloween masks to choose from. For adults, the more scary, the better.
4. Pumpkin Carved into a jack-o-lantern: This is one of the most important aspects of the Halloween.
5. Recipes/Treats: The meals must be real treats. Thus ordinary sweets purchased from the grocery shop down the street may not make the impression you desire.
6. Drinks: There must be enough to drink for the party as the people celebrate.
7. Music: You have to arrange for some sounds (music) that will fill the air.
8. Games/greeting cards: Please do not forget to plan for the Halloween games and greeting cards.
9. Tricks/story telling: The Halloween is a season of “treats and trick”. Thus you need to learn some magic for the occasion and lots of ghost stories to be told to the children.
10. Fortune telling: There is need for some “divination” concerning marriages, health, luck, and death.

As the weather starts to get colder and indoor boredom sets in, give your children Halloween crafts to keep them busy. Depending on their age, this may or may not get them out of their cold weather funk. But even if they are getting a little older, there could be a lot of fun to be had if you can interest your children in Halloween crafts.

A good way to get them motivated is to have them gussy up the treats for the kids who come to your house to trick or treat. Get several bags of suckers and a box of tissues. Wrap the tissue around the round part of the sucker and tie a ribbon, rubber band, or even a twist tie right below the round part of the sucker. Make some eyes and an even an open mouth if you like and you have little ghost suckers to hand out on Halloween.

Another fun idea starts with drawing a spider’s body with no legs on a piece of construction paper. Cut some pipe cleaners to the appropriate length and have your children glue them to their spider’s bodies. Get creative with what you could do with the finished product.

If you are having a hard time coming up with ideas on your own then you shouldn’t have a hard time finding plenty of children’s Halloween crafts in any craft book. You could also get a craft book dedicated to Halloween to find some more spooky ideas to fill your Halloween with fun and fright.

Pumpkin Crafts for Kids

If you are in charge of a kid’s Halloween party at your house or school you will want to be ready with Halloween crafts for kids.

Pumpkin crafts can be easily made and will be lots of fun for everyone. Here are some Halloween crafts for kids that involve pumpkins:

Pumpkin Photo Card- Take a picture of each child with a Polaroid or digital camera. Purchase pre-made frames that will allow the kids to decorate them. Have markers, puffy paint, glitter pens and other decorating supplies available for the kids to use to decorate the frames. After the frames are complete you can tape each child’s photo on the inside.

Pumpkin Seed Necklace- All you need for this project is pumpkin seeds, white thread or Scrappers Floss and a needle. Prepare the pumpkin seeds ahead of time by cutting up the pumpkin and washing the seeds. Let the kids thread the pumpkin seeds onto the thread to make a necklace. When they are finished just tie the ends. You could also use orange beads with the pumpkin seeds. +

Pumpkin Candy Jar- Purchase clear 4" jars, orange pom poms, green chenille stems, black felt and candy. Glue an orange pom pom to the lid of the canister. Fold the chenille stem in half once and the fold again and twist. Glue it on top of the pom pom to make a pumpkin stem. Use the black felt and cut out a nose, eyes and mouth. Glue these onto the pumpkin and fill the jar with candy.

Other Halloween Craft Ideas for Children

Frankenstein is always a clever theme when it comes to Halloween decorating, crafts and parties.

First of all we will make a Frankenstein painted pot. All you need is a clay pot and some acrylic paint in various Frankenstein-like colors.

A cool accent will be the two push pins used to look like bolts. Have a wire cutter handy to cut off the pin part and then use a glue gun to attach the pins to the painted pot. You can put tissue paper inside and candy or other treats.

Next let’s try the Frankenstein laboratory hand. These Halloween crafts for children are great and easy to make. Take lime green construction paper and have each child trace her hand onto a folded sheet of the paper. Put the wrist on the fold while tracing and then cut out. Don’t cut on the fold! Open the hand shape and cut and glue pieces of chenille stems to the fingers on one side of the hand. This will allow the fingers to bend. Glue the hands together to form one hand. Cut fingernails of construction paper and glue on the fingertips. Glue a popsicle stick to the bottom of the wrist and add a spider ring to one or more fingers.

Another good Halloween craft for children is the freaky Frankenstein popcorn hand project. You will need disposable clear gloves, candy corn, popcorn and green curling ribbon. Put the candy corn in the glove first to look like fingernails and then add the popcorn. Tie the top with the ribbon and you are done.

Easy Halloween Recipes – Don’t have time for intricate Halloween recipes? Try something easy and tasty. Here are three Halloween treats that can be thrown together, quickly:

Bug Juice

Ingredients:

9 cups strawberries
2 1/4 cups lemonade concentrate
3 quarts ginger ale
3 cups frozen blueberries

Instructions:

Pour lemonade concentrate into a large punch bowl. Mash the strawberries in a separate bowl. Use a fork to do this. Next, add the mashed strawberries to the punch bowl that you’ve filled with lemonade concentrate. Chill for several hours. Before serving, add ginger ale and frozen blueberries, then stir.

Chocolate Spiders

To make these spider chocolates, you will need a double boiler and a pastry bag. Use two tips for the bag: a 1/4 tip, and a 1/8 tip.

Ingredients:

4 cups semisweet chocolate

Instructions:

Melt chocolate in the top of a double boiler. Allow the chocolate to cool for 10 minutes, then pour it into a pastry bag. Use a 1/4 tip to form the body, and a 1/8 tip to form the legs. Line a baking sheet with wax paper. Squeeze chocolate onto sheet, forming the spiders. Chill for 10 minutes. Remove spiders from paper, and store in the refrigerator.

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Ingredients:

3 cups pumpkin seeds
12 cups water
6 tablespoons salt
melted butter, desire amount
vegetable spray

Instructions:

Rinse the pumpkin seeds well. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add seeds, water, and salt to a large pan, and simmer on low heat for 10 minutes. Use a colander to drain seeds, and lay them out on paper towels to dry. Toss the pumpkin seeds with butter, coating them well. Spray a baking sheet with vegetable spray, and add the pumpkin seeds to the baking sheet. Bake for 30 minutes, until brown.

Vampire’s Smoothie

Ingredients
1 full tray of ice cubes
6 oz. can of frozen raspberry juice
1 1 /2 cups vanilla yogurt
1 banana
desired amount of strawberries
small drops of red food coloring

Instructions
Add all ingredients into a blender. Blend to liquify. Makes 5 servings.
After the guests have quenched their thirsts with the Vampire’s Smoothie, treat them to these snack food recipes for your Halloween Party:

Brain Shrimp Dip

A brain mold is required for this recipe.

Ingredients
8 ounces soft cream cheese
1 10 3/4 oz. can of cream of mushroom soup
.25 oz. unflavored gelatin, softened in 1/4 cup of water
1 bunch chopped green onions
3 pounds coarsely chopped cooked shrimp
1 cup mayonnaise
Tabasco seasoning to taste
1 Tablespoon lemon juice

Instructions
Mix cream cheese into heated soup. Stir in gelatin, blending well. Stir in all other ingredients, and pour into an oiled mold. Chill until firm, and serve with assorted crackers.

Bat Sandwiches

A bat-shaped cookie cutter is required for this recipe.

Ingredients
12 oz. shredded Cheddar cheese
8 oz. chive and onion flavored cream cheese
4 oz. diced pimiento, drained
1/2 cup chopped pecans, toasted
24 dark pumpernickel bread slices

Instructions
Stir Cheddar cheese, cream cheese, pimientos, and pecans. Use a 3 or 4 inch bat-shaped cutter, cutting 2 bats from each slice of bread. Spread 2 tablespoons of filling over 24 bats. Top with remaining 24 bats. Makes 24 sandwiches.

Green Slime Smoothie

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups chopped kiwi
1 cup diced ripe banana
1 1/2 cups lime sherbet
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions
Blend all ingredients until smooth. Serves 6 ghouls.

Severed Fingers

Ingredients
1 egg
1 cup powdered sugar
1 cup cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 2/3 cups flower
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cups whole almonds
strawberry jam

Instructions
Beat together sugar, egg, and vanilla. Add flour, baking soda, ans salt. Beat well. Place in refrigerator for 25 minutes. Remove 1 quarter of dough from refrigerator. Roll teaspoons of dough into fingers, pressing 1 almond into tip of finger to make a finger nail. Work with paring knife to form rounded knuckles. Grease baking sheet, and bake cookies for 20-25 minutes at 325F. When cooled, add strawberry jam to imitate blood.  Repeat process with remaining dough. Makes 5 dozen cookies.

Caramel Apples

Ingredients
6 large apples
14 ounces caramel candies
2 tablespoons milk

Instructions
Remove stems from apples, and insert wooden craft sticks.Microwave caramels and milk for 2 minutes. Stir. Allow to cool. Dip apples in caramel sauce to coat. Place apples on buttered baking sheet to set.  Serves 6 ghouls.

Popcorn Balls

Ingredients
5 quarts popcorn (popped)
3/4 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup margarine
2 3/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 cup marshmallows
2 teaspoons cold water
vegetable shortening

Instructions
Combine all ingredients, except for popcorn, in sauce pan, over medium heat. Heat to a boil, stirring regularly. Combine mixture with popcorn.  With greased hands (vegetable shortening), shape fully coated popcorn into balls.  Yields 20 popcorn balls.

Halloween Pumpkins are the pumpkin fruit decorated for the celebration of Halloween. The pumpkin is usually carved into a jack-o-lantern. The pumpkin is a large pulpy round fruit that has a thick, orange-yellow rind and numerous seeds. The Halloween pumpkins are the most famous symbol of the Halloween festival.

The Halloween is an ancient celebration held on 31st of October every year in the United States and some other countries. The traditional belief is that on that day, the souls of the dead relatives revisit their former homes. The ancient people usually position a pumpkin carved into a jack-o-lantern placed on the window at sun-down to placate the spirits and obtain blessings from these spirits.

Pumpkins can be purchased from the open markets or from the Internet. Some Halloween celebrants also decide to cultivate their own pumpkins. This adds more fun to the celebrations. There are many shapes, sizes, and colors of the pumpkins that can be used for the celebration.

Some pumpkins are a few pounds in weights while there are reports of pumpkins that weigh over a thousand pounds. Cultivation of the pumpkin to make it as large as possible is not an easy task. The farmers still regards their information as technical secrets.

Carving the Halloween pumpkin is very popular. With a sharp knife, one can make openings on the fruit with ease. If one wants it to appear like a human head, then there will be slots for the eyes, mouth, etc. There is an even an online step-by-step guide on some website on how to carve your pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern for the Halloween.

Halloween Pumpkin Carving Pattern Ideas

Halloween carving patterns are easy to find at a variety of places:

• You can often find free Halloween pumpkin carving patterns online. These are great patterns and you can just run them off using your printer.
• Another place to look for Halloween pumpkin carving patterns is at the public library. The library often has various books and publications that feature these kinds of patterns.
• Any bookstore will carry Halloween books or magazines that contain the patterns you are looking for. These books or magazines will have detailed instructions on how to create a fantastic looking pumpkin.
• You can actually buy kits at a hobby or craft store. Sometimes grocery and drug stores also have these kits. The kits are a good buy because not only do they have patterns but they also contain the carving tools needed to carve many marvelous pumpkins.

Once you have the patterns and carving tools you might want to host a pumpkin carving party. Have your friends and neighbors bring pumpkins and a Halloween treat to share and you have almost everything you need for a great party.

There are many choices for Halloween pumpkin carving patterns. You can choose from ghosts, bats, witches and cats. Most of the kits have several patterns and they vary as to degree of difficulty.

Good luck with your Halloween pumpkin carving patterns; it’s a festive fall activity you and your family and friends can enjoy together!

Halloween games are activities providing entertainment or amusement during the Halloween celebration. They may be online or offline. Due to the Internet revolution, more and more people are playing online halloween games.

The major objective of the games is to provide fun for the whole family that is celebrating. Thus there are games for the kids and games for the parents. The kid’s games are usually educational as much as it is fun. For the adults, it is mostly entertainment.

The internet now makes it possible for people that are celebrating Halloween to play online games even when they are thousands of miles apart. It is wonderful and that adds to the fun of the Halloween.

Common Halloween games are usually about haunted houses, skulls, ghosts, vampires, and monsters. There are many designs available. Some online games are free while others are available at reasonable prices.

Some games involve the use of cards to do divination or fortune telling. The people that play the games usually “read the future” of the other person from the cards. From there, they can say whether they will have good or bad luck, ill-health or good health, etc.

According to ancient Halloween traditions, the spirits of the dead roam abroad during the Halloween and so the atmosphere is charged with supernatural powers. Hence the information about the future can be obtained from the spirits around.
Young people that want to get married also go for divination at this time about whether the union is sanctioned by the gods.

As people eat and drink at Halloween celebrations, the games add more fun to the party atmosphere. Thus it may not be a grand Halloween if there are no Halloween games.

A truly successful Halloween party begins the moment your guests set foot through the door. That mystical, creepy ambience can be so easily accomplished through each decoration used for the Halloween party. With a touch sensor mat, each guest can step into the party with a creepy howl. Fresh decoration for the Halloween party is both easy and fun to create.

With fun lighting, entry can continue through a dimly lit hall. You can use the dramatic fire-simulating lights or simply change your regular light bulbs to black or orange bulbs. This is the easiest way to create a fun and creepy lighting effect. Even the simplest decoration for a Halloween party can produce dramatic effects.

With a Halloween CD playing in the background, screams and howls will bring the party to new auditory heights. You can purchase Halloween CD’s at any party store, or you can make your own. Children, especially, will love recording haunting voice-overs with your choice of creepy music.

Actual decorations can be as simple as a web of black and orange streamers to hanging body parts and motion activated Halloween frights. With a relatively inexpensive fog machine, you can also create a mood that your guests will talk about long after the party has ended.

And don’t forget those Halloween treats. One of the most memorable and fun aspects of any party would be the themed-edibles. From cookies shaped like bats and witches to cakes resembling pumpkins, you can create a spread of hallowed munchies. With candy worms and spiders and some crushed cookies you have ready-made worms and dirt. Gelatin creates the perfect wiggly base for any creepy morsel, and cottage cheese with just a little blueberry juice is transformed to a lovely brain dip.

Whether you add just a touch of decoration to your party or go all-out to create a haunted house, you will capture the spirit of Halloween and create a night to remember.

Creepy Decorating Ideas

Scary Halloween decorations create a fun and creepy atmosphere. They encompass everything from yard props that entertain trick-or-treaters, to interior decorations, to moody lighting, to food and serving dishes.

Decorating for Halloween can transform your home into a haunted and creepy haven in no time at all. From nauseating edibles to fog and special lighting, there are lots of decoration ideas for Halloween, and they do not have to be expensive.

Halloween Decoration Idea #1 – Create a Crime Scene

Why not start with the exterior of your home? Create a simulated crime scene by purchasing crime scene tape at any party store. Then, with a piece of sidewalk chalk, lie down in various poses on the driveway and have somebody trace the outline of your body. Instant crime scene! This simple and cheap decorating technique will emulate a covert crime and add that spooky flare to your home. There is no limit to decoration ideas for Halloween once you get started.

Halloween Decoration Idea #2 – Add atmospheric mist

Dry ice, which is easily accessible and inexpensive, can create the perfect fog facade for your home. When placed in water it produces fog. The cloud of fog will actually move when the wind blows (an open window is fun here)! Just remember that dry ice is not a toy for children and will require extreme caution and use of gloves.

Halloween Decoration Idea #3 – Colored light bulbs

Change your ordinary light bulbs with orange and black bulbs to create a dreamy, haunting look. Balloons and streamers always add a touch of celebration, and special food preparations can provide even more fun.

Halloween Decoration Idea #4 – Revolting food

Make a brain dip with either a cottage cheese base or a cauliflower base. With a touch of black food coloring or blueberry juice you will have bulging, gray brains. For an extra touch you can serve it inside a carved pumpkin.  A little food coloring in whipped cream also helps to add that sickly hue to your dessert!

Halloween Decoration Idea #5 – Create a theme for your party

A unique way to create scary Halloween decorations is to come up with a theme, and decorate accordingly. This works well both indoors, and outdoors. Some theme ideas: a haunted pirate ship, a space ship, a vampire’s lair, and a mad scientist’s lab. The possibilities are endless! Start by making a list of what would be found within a specific theme, and work from those plans.

Spooky Decor Tips:

• The addition of ambient lighting to Halloween decor makes for a spookier, creepier setting. String lighting isn’t just for the Christmas season. Look for string lighting in purple and green where Halloween decorations and crafts are sold.
• Black lighting works well, and gives a room a supernatural glow.
• Food and treats are a big part of Halloween. To add a special touch, use special gelatin molds to create edible hands, hearts, and brians. Serve normal foods in creepy containers like, small caskets and skull bowls.
• Place lanterns along a walkway, and they will give off a warm glow in the dark.
• Fog machines and dry ice create erie clouds. Make sure party guests know that touching dry ice can result in injury.
• If you plan to carve pumpkins, get some of the smaller ones, too. Hollow them out, and place tea light candles inside, then scatter them around a room, or cluster them all together.

The pumpkin flesh is extremely high in carotenoids, it is this plant compound that gives pumpkins their orange color. Carotenoids are really good at neutralizing free-radicals, as they are powerful anti-oxidants that can protect cell membranes from damage. It doesn’t end there pumpkins are also high in other plant compounds lutein and zeaxanthin, which scavenge free-radicals in the lens of the eye. Helping to protect against the formation of cataracts and reduce the risk of macular degeneration, a serious eye problem than usually results in blindness, very important as we get older. Pumpkins are also a rich source of other nutrients, like iron, zinc, and fiber.

Whole pumpkin – when I cook pumpkin, I cook a whole pumpkin stuffed with some of my favorite recipes, and I place the whole thing in to the oven. This saves me cutting peeling and chopping it. I get a smallish to medium pumpkin, cut the top off and scoop out the middle. I put a cooked mixture inside, for instance I cook a mixture of vegetables and beans in a green Thai curry sauce with coconut milk. I place the cooked veggie curry, or chicken and veggie curry, inside the pumpkin and replace the top. I place the whole stuffed pumpkin in a medium heated oven for about two to three hours depending on the size of the pumpkin. Once the pumpkin is cooked remove from the oven and serve with the top off, it looks really good.

Pumpkin pie has been a traditional favorite at Thanksgiving. Pumpkins make great soups or a vegetable to accompany a main meal.

The flesh of the pumpkin has a mild laxative affect, being useful in cases of dyspepsia and constipation. Pumpkin juice has been used to help heal ulcers and reduce high acidity levels in the body, common these days. This juice needs to be drunk three times a day, half an hour before meals. It is also useful in cases of insomnia, as it has mild sedative properties. Pumpkin is also indicated in cases of hormonal imbalances and menopausal discomfort. Big pumpkins might be great at Halloween for caving up, but not that good for eating as they can be a bit tougher.

Traditional external use of pumpkin was recommended for treating burns, inflammatory conditions, abscesses, insect stings, and softening the skin, the crushed pulp was used, and changed daily until healing was complete.

Pumpkins seeds also contain phyto-sterols, essential fatty acids (EFAs). These EFAs have many benefits that protect blood vessels, nerves, protect all tissue, including the skin, and they can help reduce cholesterol levels in the blood. The pumpkin seeds are high in protein, one ounce of seeds provides about seven grams of protein. Contain copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, and zinc. They also contains vitamin A, which helps keep your eyes healthy, your skin, mucus membranes, and stimulates the T cells of the immune system to help fight off infection. The seeds also contain vitamin E, has excellent free-radicals properties, protecting the circulatory system. The seeds are also renowned for helping protect the prostate.

Studies into the health benefits of pumpkin seeds have revealed they contain a plant chemical (phytocompound) called cucurbitacins that can prevent the body from converting testosterone into a much more potent form of the hormone called dihydrotestosterone, this is thought to be the reason the seeds protect the prostate health. Keep the seeds in the refrigerator.

Salad dressing – these three fresh ingredients are very easy to find at the local markets – parsley, garlic, pumpkins seeds, and cilantro – grind these three ingredients together add a little extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice, use as a salad dressing. The herbs and spices that go well with pumpkin in general are parsley, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cardamoms.

Pumpkin and ginger soup

1 pumpkin small/medium, peeled and chopped

4 tablespoons coconut oil (found in your local health store)

1 or 2, garlic clove depends on your taste

3 small leeks or onions

3 celery stalks, diced

3 quarts vegetable stock, optional

1 piece grated fresh ginger – size depends on how you like ginger

1 (15 ounce) coconut milk can or fresh

Chopped cilantro

Salt and Pepper to taste

Sweat the garlic, onions and/or leeks in the coconut oil, then add the other ingredients and bring to the boil, lower the temperature and simmer until cooked. Then puree in a blender and then and the cilantro and serve with a decorative swirl of natural yogurt. Enjoy.

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Many agreed that the key to a successful party depends on ambience, costumes, food, music and activities. It is not necessary to do all of these but doing so will surely make your party a great hit and will be the talk of the town.

In creating the perfect ambience for the party, imagination is the key. Grab some of the spookiest and scariest decorations and gear up your house or apartment. Set your lights on dim mode and add some fog machine to create a more mysterious effect. You can also add up some tomb stones on your yard using cardboard as well as putting fake spider webs on the ceilings and on your windows.

Music plays a huge part in creating the perfect ambience. If you’re Halloween Party will involve dancing, make sure to find Halloween tunes and music via online or record stores. I’m sure people will love dancing to infamous “Thriller” by the king of Pop. In addition, if you’re really trying to create a mystifying feel in the venue, you can play some howling and growling music in the background to give your guest a big dose of chills.

Food is the star of the event. Before starting to buy tons of it make sure to check if your guest have allergies or special dietary restrictions. You can also ask your friends to bring at least one dish each, it’s up to you if you prefer them to bring whatever they like or you can request a specific one. There are also fun ideas on how to create and present perfect Halloween foods and treats, one way is to add food colorings on liquids and making foods shape as body parts.

As for the activities, make sure that all of your guest will be entertained. And always keep in mind that you need to prepare a couple of extras. You can prepare some fun indoor games for kids and adults. Indoor games are safe when it comes to unexpected change in the weather. You can do crafts, even cooking and baking. If you think that weather would be fine, you can also play some outdoor games like scavenger hunt or pumpkin hunt, just make sure to take every precaution necessary to ensure safety and you must consider any liability issues.

For the costumes, make sure to indicate in the invitations that they are to come in their scariest and unique outfits. In relation to this, you can set up a mini fashion show for your guest to present their costumes and then in the end, one will be hailed as the winner. Just make sure that you will also prepare good prices or trophies that have something to do with Halloween. Also, make sure to prepare give a ways or loot bags for everyone.

These are just few ways to consider on planning your very own party. I’m sure that there are still plenty of ways you can do to make your party a success. Always do some research on the net or ask those who already organized their own. Remember that how big or small the party was, the most important thing is the fun and memories that you will build from it.

For the next themed Halloween party choose Alice and wonderland costumes that will make your gathering together like stepping into 2010 movie. Ladies, don’t forget your special make up in your Italian designer handbags

Memories to remember

There are such a lot of exciting events that occur in October, all leading up to Halloween. Have your camera prepared so you don’t miss a single Kodak moment!

To start, there’s the costume selection. Odds are, your youngster will need to try on 3 or 4 or more before settling on their ideal choice. There’s also the trip to the pumpkin patch to choose the perfect pumpkin, the one that you will turn into the “just right” jack-o-lantern. You may even want to capture memories of raking the yard, hanging up the decorations, or baking Halloween cookies and goodies.

Getting supplies together

Obviously, the first step to building a scrapbook, is getting a scrapbook to start with. While craft stores can offering a wide range of sizes and styles from which to choose, you can also download many excellent digital layouts online for your perfect scrapbook. Halloween themed kits are plentiful and popular.

While you are shopping around, you may want to have a look at the different colored papers, stickers, and other wide and varied assortment of embellishments that are available to add zip to your scrapbook pages. If you’re in need of stencils, scissors, or glue, don’t forget to add those to your shopping cart as well.

Memories to incorporate

What you choose to include in your scrapbook of Halloween is entirely up to you – be as imaginative as you want! If you like, have your child take part by picking out photographs or other items to incorporate. If your “idea tank” is running low, here’s some fuel to get get you moving forward:

Go for a walk and gather some colorful fall leaves that are always dropping from the October trees.

Halloween cards or invitations you’ve received can be used as an embellishment. You may use the whole card so you can still read the messages, or just cut off the colorful picture on the front.

Any Halloween work-of-art that your youngster has created is an excellent addition to your scrapbook. Halloween designs your child has made in school are an obvious choice. If the project is too chunky or oversized to fit comfortably in the scrapbook itself, take some photos of it to incorporate instead. Any fun art project that you and your child worked on together at home would be a great addition too.

Suggest to your child that s/he create a Top Ten list of the current crop of “favs” this year – favorite costumes, candy, books or television shows, for example. Goodies from any parties that you attended are also fun to include. The present bag, name tag, or invitation make a sweet addition to the scrapbook.

Halloween costumes are an obvious memory to include, so be sure to take a photograph of your child all dressed up for their big evening out. Keep the camera ready to snap the action as the day unfolds.

Pix, pix and more pix! A really good photograph will capture the fun of the day in a way that a written description just can’t – pictures are worth a thousand words, as they say. Hand your child the camera and allow him or her to take some shots also, to get another unique perspective on the events.

Nab any decorations, souvenirs, or other things you think may help spark memories when you look through the scrapbook after it’s all over. You want to preserve memories forever, so if you would like to recollect that perfect costume or those special moments from your child’s first Halloween party, consider making your own scrapbook. Halloween, with all its color and clutter and wide-eyed excitement, is the kind of childhood memory that deserves to be remembered in style.

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Of course, it goes without saying that a Halloween party is a costume party. Anything less wouldn’t be Halloween.

You’ll get your best results if you pick a Halloween costume theme and then ask guests to come in the appropriate type of costume. You can choose famous Grade B movie ghouls, or characters from any of the teenage death movies that are always popular. Or, you can go back to the more traditional Halloween roots and have a Celtic theme. It’s your party so you get do decide.

Be sure to put the word out that that anyone arriving without a costume has to parade around in their underwear all night wearing a dunce cap. THAT ought to get everyone thinking about what they’re going to wear. Be sure to send your invitations out by the first week of October because Halloween is a major party season and you don’t want someone else’s party competing with yours.

Decorating Tips

If you want to go all out, follow the tips in our How to Create Your Own Haunted House article, or just build upon these great ideas:

o Decorate the main party room with artificial spider webs, or let the real ones build up all year long.

o Replace your normal light bulbs with colored ones. You can usually find orange bulbs in the home centers but you’ll almost surely find them in the party stores as Halloween approaches.

o Drape the traditional black and orange crêpe paper from the ceilings and door frames and hang up some of those fake spiders and bats for added effect.

o Cover the tables with black shower curtains or pick up some Halloween tablecloths while you’re out getting the light bulbs. Don’t forget to sprinkle the tables with Halloween party confetti and plastic cockroaches.

o If you can find some of those life-like fake rats, grab a few and put them in wonderful places like inside the refrigerator. Put one in your bathroom medicine cabinet and when you hear screams you’ll know that you’ve caught a snooper.

o Carve a big jack-o-lantern as a centerpiece. Black flowers (real or artificial) look great in black cat vases.

o Follow our tips in the our How to Create Your Own Scary Sound Effects

and Halloween Sound Track article, or cheat and just go buy one. Either way, make sure that you’re spinnin’ some gruesome tunes when your guests arrive.

Food Tips

Snack foods go well with Halloween parties. People aren’t expecting a sit-down meal, but you should have more available than chips and dips. Buffalo wings are always a hit and, if you want to be dull and boring, you can always order pizza. But why not make some scary looking Halloween specialties that have the look that screams Halloween? I’m no cook, so I’m going to leave this part to the experts.

Entertainment Ideas

Scary soundtracks will only get you so far, so make sure that you have a good mix of party and dancing music available. Get copies of some of the Halloween classics like Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, which is the classic Halloween organ music. You’ll recognize it as soon as you hear it. Monster Mash, Pumpkin Head Harvey, Somethin’ in the Swamp, In Salem Town, and, of course, Ghostbusters are fun to mix in during the evening.

Have a costume judging event with plenty of prizes. Winning categories can include: Best Costume, Worst Costume, Scariest, Sexiest, and Nicest Underwear (male and female) for those who arrived sans costume.

Remember this one rule when throwing a Halloween Party: There are No Rules, so enjoy!

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