Plan The Perfect Halloween Party

Plan the Perfect Halloween Party www.creative-elearning.net/halloween Copyright Oct. 2009 You may redistribute this document as long as you do not modify it in any way.

Decorations Are Not the Only Element To Your Party • Decorations are not the only part of a successful Halloween party. • You can spend a ton of money on decorating your house, but your party may still end up boring. • You can actually throw a Halloween Party spending a minimum amount on decorations and still throw a great party.

• To throw a Halloween Party that will be the talk of the town for years to come, you need to ensure that you concentrate on all of the elements required to throw a great party.

• You need to ensure that your budget allows for you to include – Invitations – Decorations, – Food – Drinks – Party Games – Lighting – Music.

• If you do not take the time to consider and include each one of these elements into your party planning, then your party will likely be lacking something.

• Let us discuss each one of these categories briefly to help you plan the perfect Halloween Party.

Invitations • You need to design you invitation in advance of the party. • Your choices are to – Create one yourself using your computer, – Buy invitations or – Even have a printing shop custom design the invitations for your party.

• Whichever option you use, you should ensure that your invitation is high quality. • You want to entice people to come to your party and one way to do this is with high quality invitations.

• You should also send your invitations out early in the month of October. • Other individuals will be planning parties also. • By sending out your invitation early, you can ensure that your potential guests will RSVP to your party instead of your neighbors.

Decorations • You do not have to spend a lot on decorations. • You should pick a specific theme for your party (ex. Graveyard) and stick to it every year. • This way you can add decorations to your party every year instead of trying to buy a bunch of decorations all at once

• I would start out with the basics. • You will want to purchase some spooky cloths and spider webs. You can then cover your furnishings with these items to give an immediate haunted look for very little money.

• When you combine this with the correct lighting and music, you will have a very spooky effect.

Food and Drinks • As far as food and drinks are concerned, you can find great recipes online just by searching for Halloween recipes and Halloween cocktails.

• You should try and pick recipes that apply to your theme if possible.

• You can also have your guests bring a dish to help cut down on the costs of your party.

Entertainment • You should definitely plan out your activities. • Entertainment is a very important element to your party. • If you do not have anything for your guests to do, your party will be very boring.

• For example you can have a costume contest or a mini pumpkin carving contest. • Also kid’s games can sometimes be fun even for adults. • Who doesn’t like a good old fashioned sack race or bobbing for apples.

Lighting • You lighting is also very important. • You do not want it to be too dark so that your guests cannot see. • However you do want to ensure you keep a haunted and spooky look.

• You can change out your bulbs in your house to blue colored bulbs. • This will give the appearance of darkness but ensure there is enough light to see.

• The other recommendation on lighting is to get as many flameless candles as you can afford. • You can usually get flameless tea lights for pretty cheap.

• Do not use real candles because they are too dangerous.

• Flameless candles really add to the effect so do not overlook this option. • Put them everywhere you can.

Music • You need to find to two types of music. • You will need some scary music with sound effects and then you will also need some good Halloween Party music.

• You will use the party music in your main party area and the spooky music in areas to add spooky ambience. • For example, you can play scary music and sound effects in your front yard to produce a scary effect as your guests arrive. • You can also have some spooky music playing lightly in the bathrooms to add that special effect to those areas as well.

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