Helping You Find The Best Halloween Night Theme Party

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Helping You Find The Best Halloween Night Theme Party

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How do you throw a Halloween Night party to reflect your interests and character? Film buffs may choose a horror movie night, the artistic may host a craft party, socialites may organize a block party and the refined may opt for an elegant dinner party. There are almost limitless options for expressing your creativity, while entertaining your friends for some Halloween fun. To take the stress away, plan ahead, decide upon a budget, pick a theme and ask others to bring things if need be.

Comedian (”Strangers with Candy”) and Entertainer Extraordinaire, Amy Sedaris, recommends hosting a Halloween Night Movie Party. “The fun of the party to me is the movie I’m featuring,” says Sedaris, who personally recommends classics like Dracula and Frankenstein, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Trilogy of Terror, The Bad Seed, and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Of course, there are countless movies from which to choose. To create the in-home theater, she moves the TV to the center of the room and arranges cushy beanbag chairs and furniture around it so everyone can see. Then she places food trays around the room in accessible spots.

She serves meatloaf, mashed potatoes and corn because “you don’t have to see it to eat it” and she also highly recommends pumpkin pie dessert and pumpkin seed snacks. She likes to start the Halloween fun with a pumpkin carving activity too. Drinks can include a Bloody Mary, a Berry Rum Punch, Sangria or a witch’s brew. Sedaris also recommends sending out invitations that look like a movie ticket or film reel, draping red velvet around the room, playing elevator muzak, setting up 25-cent concessions booths and throwing a few of the more traditional Halloween decorations around. “Entertaining alone is one of the most creative and rewarding experiences I can think of,” she concludes.

A Halloween Night craft party is another great idea for the artistically-minded. Kid parties are made easy when you check out all the Halloween fun craft kits at www.orientaltrading.com for foam Halloween magnets, Halloween necklaces, suction cup Halloween characters and more. Also, pumpkin decorating and scarecrow building are two of the most popular craft parties for kids and can be easily arranged via the nearest craft supply shop. For teenagers or adults, you may be interested to know that www.goregalore.com and www.monstermakers.com have kits for building authentic Halloween masks and corpse Halloween decorations, although these may take several gatherings and a few months to complete.

An easy October 31st festivity is to plan a “Murder Mystery Party” by using one of the many boxed game sets out there. You’ll typically receive character and costume suggestions for each person, music and decoration ideas, Halloween recipes, music suggestions and scripts. Check out www.dinnerandamurder.com, www.acemurdermystery.com, www.tailormademysteries.com, www.mysteriesbyvincent.com or www.host-a-murder.com for starters. Some kits allow hosts to download all the materials they need, while others offer more person-to-person party planning advice. There are also murder mystery kits you can buy at game stores, notably the Bepuzzled brand “A Taste For Wine and Murder,” which comes with recipes, character booklets, invitations, a CD, secret clues and costume/decorating advice. Murder mystery games are great guides to hosting your first Halloween night party!

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