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Way2prissy

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 03:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm having a Halloween party for adults and I was wondering if some of you might share your innovative party suggestions. I would love to hear your decorating ideas, recipes, games and prize suggestions.

Thanks!

Fabnsab

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 06:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I had a halloween party last year for my restaurant staff and it was great! Sometimes restauarnt workers can be a little cynical so when they and their friends saw my homemade caramel apples(individually wrapped) as take home favors, they kinda made fun, but NOONE left without one...LOL Heres a few things that went over well...

I made jello shots in plastic ramekins and put gummy spiders or worms in them.

I made a jello brain mold that also had vodka. That was a HUGE sucess. I had people just standing over it, eating it.

I made a kitty litter cake. It was time consuming but sooo worth it. It grossed everyone out. Melted Tootsie rolls act as the yucky stuff.

I took rubber gloves and filled them with koolaid and froze them, then put the hands floating in the punch.

I bought a $10 strobe light and a roll of black vinyl and covered the living room completely black and put whatever glowinthedark stuff i had in there with a black light lightbulb. it was an eerie effect.

Of course, everyone dressed up, which makes it so much fun. I was Anna Nicole Smith(post playboy) LOL.

I found that alot of stuff I would do for kids I still did. adults love halloween for the same reasons kids do. HTH. have a great party!

Resortgirl

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 06:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
http://holidayrecipe.com/halloween/home.asp

I had planned a Halloween Party last year (ended up being canceled) and used this site for ideas! Hope it helps!

Nonconformist

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 09:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Fab,

I went as Anna Nicole Smith last year also, and my husband was Ozzie Osbourne. He looked awesome!!

You have a lot of good ideas. My friend made the kitty litter cake.

A fog machine is good too.

Urgrace

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 01:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Where's Halfunit? She always has great ideas.
Fab, your ideas are terrific.

If you have time, take a spool of thread and hang various lengths of thread from doorways or random places from the ceiling, long enough for people to run into. It feels like spider webs when you run into it!

Halfunit

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 02:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
< Glances at Gracie with a puzzled look...>

Me? Great ideas? You must still be suffering from van-lag!

While I have never hosted an "adult" party (Unit and I invite all the cop kids over on Halloween), I have been to a few.

Each time, the hosting family would provide a pig for a pigroast. Everyone else brought a side dish and their own beverages.

As for recipes, I would say - make things you know people like, but USE FOOD COLORING! You'd be surprised how gross something as simple as ice cubes or chip dip look when they are green or black.

There was always a costume contest with TWO different kinds of "best".

One homemade, and one purchased (bought or rented). Prizes could be anything, but I'm a sucker for gift certificates.

Other than that, I really don't have any ideas off of the top of my head. If I come up with anything though, I'll be back!

Twiggyish

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 03:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
All these ideas are great!

How about a, "Come As You Are Party"? About two weeks before the party call everyone at home. Tell them they have to come to the party (in two weeks) dressed as they are at that moment. If you call late enough you'll catch them in pajamas..or worse..LOL
We were at a party with guys in boxers, women in robes with curlers. It's fun. Those people who don't like to dress up can come in shorts and t-shirts. You can send out invitations, too. (Just to make sure they set aside the date for the party) But, the phone call is a big part of it.

Jedisan

Saturday, September 13, 2003 - 01:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
DH and I used the black ligt theory, but i bought big poster boards in neon colors, and made "Thombstones" that we placed against the walls, and had that spider webbing you can get at the drug store draped all over the room.

We also layed down on the floor and outlined our bodies with tape (we even did half of a dog, because he was not completely cooperative)! like they have at the murder scenes.

we also had MANY categories for prizes; Over-all best; most creative; most sexy; cheapest (LOL!) a prize even went to the person who did nothing at all, prize for "the drippiest Halloween attitued".
Have a great time.

Jed245

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 06:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hello Jedisan haven't seen you in a while.

way2 I have alot of different ideas, but, they are mostly kiddy kinda stuff. Like for example :o)

If you want to have a sticky really gross looking costume. Take some peanut butter (the cheap kind will do) and some of that Karo syrup the clear stuff. Just enough syrup to make the peanut butter spread better.

Mix it up really really well. It will look like really smooth peanut butter... Then get some food coloring (light green) and mix just a tiny tiny small bit in with it. Just enough to give it a greenish hue.

Here's the sticky part. Smear it on your face. The result will leave you looking like a zombie with rotted skin.

You can also make this stuff up and smear it on a scarecrow if you have one with the fake rubber hands and a mask. Lay it in a makeshift coffin in the floor or yard.

A good headshot wound can be made with some silly putty. Yep the stuff ya bounce, stick to comic books and all that. A button, some fishing line or string. and some of that powder umm not sure what it's called.

They use it on t.v. to take the glow out of your face. And alot of makeup kits have it. A concealer or something? I dunno, anyway... put Get ya a tube of fake blood and a red marker too.

Now take the marker and color in a spot on your forehead. Then smear some of the fake blood over it. Now take the string and tie it to the button then press the button on your forehead right over the red mark and blood.

Apply a little more fake blood over the button then press the silly putty over the button.

Ya have to pull the string a little so that it cuts through the silly putty then pat the putty back down.

Now you should have some silly putty on your head with a string comming right out of the middle of it.

Take that powder and pat it along your forehead and the silly putty till it matches your skin tone. The press on the putty with your fingers and have someone pull the string with a quick yank. BAM your dead.


Then again if it's an adults only dress up party and those kinda gags aren't what your looking for. Ya could just watch "the rocky horror picture show" and have everyone dress like that. If nothing else just to laugh at the guys that have to dress like the alien guy.

Jed.

Jagger

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 05:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Some things I did at my last Halloween party years ago.

Had one of the guests dress in a full face mask with a bulky costume. This person walked around for several hours and did not say a word, just nodded their head. This drove everyone nuts trying to figure out who this person was.

I also has someone else just walk into the party, go right over to the food and start filling a bag with candies and foods and than walk right out. They have to make it pretty obvious that they are there just to raid the food. The reactions of the others was priceless.

Jagger

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 05:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I also had several disposable cameras laying around so people could stap pictures anytime they wanted.

I also taped a fake spider on a string to the inside of the toilet seat, that way when they lifted the lid it kind of jumped out at them. I think a few people didn't quite make it to the bathroom.

I did the same thing basically with my laundry room, I had it set so when they opened the door a plastic punkin dropped down in front of them. This didn't last long, someone pulled it down. Than I procedded to have my brother stand in the laundry room in the dark and as people walked by he would open the door just slightly, scared the crap out of a few people.

Jagger

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 05:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Another suggestion that has happened to me was you tell everyone to come dressed in normal cloths but to bring along a costume, than give all the costumes a number and have each guest draw a number, that will be their costume for the evening. This turned out to be rather strange, but it didn't work out to well when people wanted to start leaving.

Jed245

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 11:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Here's a little Game you could play.

Designate a killer before the party. Then at the start of the party announce that there is a killer at the party. Give them a clue something small and hard to target. A good example would be to say that the killer loves candy corn. Have your killer dip into the candy corn atleast once or to be seen with it once. Make sure that you eat some too (ya might want to pic something that you know alot of people will want to eat).

Another setup thing to do is cardboard box in all your windows. Goto the local hardware store and buy you some of that foam in a can. And spray it around the cardboard. You want a nice even fit so that when the lights go out no one can see.

The killer can be in the game as well (I mean competeing for a prize). Let the guests know that the killer wants to kill them all. And that a prize will be awarded to the person that catches the killer or to the killer if he kills everyone there.

Then at an unannounced to everyone (except the killer) time you need to turn out all the lights. This is the time for the killer to shine. Let him go around and goose people or tie a red ribbon on them. As someone is goosed and screams. Ask who screamed and when they say tell them that the killer has killed them.

If the killer gets spotted and named then that person gets the prize. If the killer gets grabbed by someone and they announce that they think they have the killer and are right. The killer says they got me.

But, if you go through all the guests names while it's dark then the killer gets the prize.


Another thing you could do is play sitting up with the dead. You need a local graveyard that's open to the public. OR a secluded area with enough area to place people far enough away that no one can see eachother. Works best in a wooded area that you know very well. Last person to scream or jump from being startled wins.

The trick is you need one corpse for every 4 or 5 guests. Have the seculded area be the meeting place for the start of the party or the end of it.

Place your corpses (people laying under piles of leaves) in key locations. Ahead of time you need to map out where you will place the guests.

Each corpse can then sit up and sneak up on unsuspecting guests.

Also works if you have them sit in a circle around the pile of leaves... no talking.

Then have the corpse sit up. Makes for some good screams. The last idea works best in a graveyard. If you do it the last way give out small prizes for everyone that didn't scream or jump in each group.

If everyone jumps or screams... give out a small participation kinda gift. :o)

Jagger

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great ideas Jed, just make sure you have the paramedics standing by incase someone has a heart attack after having the life scarred out of them.

Or at least a few changes of new underwear.

Tabbyking

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 01:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
aha, the 'come as you' are party.......when i was about 9, a friend had one of those. i had this cool nehru shirt. i wore it for a week straight, so i would have it on when she called me! i wore it to the party and no one even mentioned it LOL the girls in flannel nightgowns and rollers really were the center of attention!

i remember my parents having fun games at parties and filming them. there was one where you got in two lines of male, female, male, female, etc. you each had a toothpick and the first person would put a peppermint lifesaver on their toothpick. they would turn to the next person and have to slide it on their toothpick without using their hands. it was hysterical and it looked like they were all kissing! then there was one where they had an orange under their chin and had to pass it from person to person.

we used to play 'killer' at dinner parties. we would all get a playing card. all of the cards were black except for one. whoever got the red card was the killer. if they winked at you, and no one caught it, you had to do a major death scene. you could not wink if you weren't the killer. when i was a teen, we played it at my friend's house. she was one of 7 kids and some of them had friends over, too. the parents were both prominent physicians and they had other physicians to dinner. we were all at this huge banquet table they had that seated 24 people. and one by one, we would do these incredible choking or fake-stabbing ourselves with forks or butter knives...and the parents were so used to the kids being idiots, they just ignored it, but the guests' faces were priceless!
the kid who thought of it (my friend's brother, bill) ended up being a big-wig at apple computer and made millions as one of their main design guys!
which i guess goes to show, 'there is life after death' LOL

Way2prissy

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 03:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow! Thanks everyone! These are GREAT ideas...Please keep them coming!

I am expecting over 50 guests this year and really wanted some "fresh" ideas. I will definitely have to try some of these tricks!

Sia

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 09:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Prissy, I found a good decorating idea in "Parents" (or "Parenting?") magazine a couple of years ago. The article said to use black felt to cover windows, but I used black tablecloths that I'd bought for next-to-nothing on clearance a year earlier. You cut eyes and a mouth in each sheet of plastic or fabric that you put at each window, making a ghost face that is visible from outside the house. The light inside the house shines through each ghost's eyes and mouth, and the effect is really great.

Tabbyking

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 09:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
my daughter and i made a tombstone cake a few years ago. it was on the cover of some magazine at the time. we made a chocolate sheet cake and made little ghosts out of glops of cool whip. we used the milano cookies (are those the oval ones with chocolate middles?) for tombstones sticking up out of the cake. you can also use green shredded coconut for grass, but my kids don't like coconut that much, so we skipped that part.

when i was room mother, i made up some things...a real winner was when i made large apple-shaped sugar cookies. when i first took them out of the oven and they were still soft, i poked two or three holes in each apple--a straw was the perfect size for making the holes. after they cooled down, i took a long gummy worm and threaded one through the holes to look like it was in the apple. the kids loved them. that one class i was room mother for 5 times. most of the kids hated frosting, so i didn't frost the cookies, but if you want to, make a red and a green frosting to color the apples. or just put food coloring in the dough before using the cookie cutter.

Cancunkid

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 11:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My sister always has a theme party. She lives in a suburb of Chicago while all her friends are from the city so one year she had a suburbia party people came dressed as things like a well manicured lawn which was an astroturf dress tied with a hose belt and manicured nails of course. Another as a garage sale complete with items to sell, a couple as a bridge club complete with manniquins attached to fill out the table. She has great photos and she says she loves it because everyone makes a costume and gets very creative.
Another year it was come as something you have heard of but have never seen, winning costume was a financial guy who came as net profit dressed as a profit with a red net around his shoulders. Funnist photo though is of the flash in a pan, he is dressed in a flesh colored body suit with a frying pan tied around his waist covering the flash of course.

Tabbyking

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 12:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
cancun, i have to laugh wondering what 'high hopes',
'spitting image', 'glory be', 'monkey's uncle',
'no brainer' and some others would look like! how fun :)
i do know that 'sheer magic' is MM of GAL!!

Aus10

Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 06:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
We used to have an "annual" adult halloween scavenger hunt. Although the scavengered part wasn't "things" as much as it was information. It takes a little prep work before the hunt. The information was from tombstones in the cemetery, landmark's, historical sites, etc. We'd have a list of things we had to find to be able to answer the questions. Kind of an amazing race thing. It was a blast!

Pamy

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 08:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
bump

Tabbyking

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 09:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
when i lived in the bronx, we had a halloween 'pick up' party. coming up with this idea about 6:00 p.m. or so, a friend and i both got dressed up as hookers. we walked and arrived unannounced at a professor's apartment. he and his wife gave us a drink, while they found something to put on for costumes. then the 4 of us walked over to some medical students' house and had a drink while the people there found something to dress up in...wherever we went, we got people to join in. about 9:30 there were more than 2 dozen of us in the local bar on morris park avenue. after a drink or two there, everyone walked back to their residences. not one group didn't join us! it was spur of the moment and one of the most fun evenings. we were all in our 20's to 40's.

Bastable

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 09:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Three Mile Island Party:

You string up some black lights
Everyone has to wear something fluorescent
You buy some glow-in-the-dark makeup for people to smear on
You serve a big punch bowl that has tonic water in the mix--the quinine glows under black lights

Yay! Radioactive fun!