Need great ideas for your child’s Halloween party but you’re short on time? We’ve got you covered with plans for a fabulous and memorable party.

Halloween Party Invitations

Your Halloween party invitations are very important aspects of your party. Invitations are the best way to get your guests excited about your Halloween party. Send some great hand made Halloween party invitations and you can be sure your party will stick in people’s minds. Make sure to apply your Halloween party theme to your invitations.

• Decide on the date and time. Tip: Have your Halloween party start later in the evening, after dinner time so you only have to serve snacks and finger foods.
• Set a number of guests you can easily accommodate and to make sure you have the right amount of food and supplies.
• Write them with a shaky hand and enclose little black plastic spiders. Include an RSVP and phone number or email address so your guest can respond to your invitation.
• Send Halloween invites at least 2 weeks in advance.

Halloween Party Decoration

• Create a spooky ambiance: Halloween's one of the best times to go all out on your decoration.
• Create a spooky ambiance: Halloween's one of the best times to go all out on your decoration.
• Announce a Pumpkin contest in your Halloween party invitation. Ask your guest to bring their carved pumpkins to the party and you got some great decorations.
• Reserve a corner and turn it into a pumpkin patch. Use a brown sheet and drape it over a table or some boxes to get different heights. Display your pumpkins and add some green ribbons around them.
• Hang orange and black balloons in clusters in corners with black ribbons attached.
• Hang spider webs up in ceilings and corners and place big hairy spiders in some of the cobwebs.
• Cover tables with black plastic table cloth and decorate with a pumpkin cut-outs and pumpkin garlands. (see pattern to make it yourself)
• Decorate each doorway for your Halloween party with cobwebs and spiders.
• Roll up orange napkins with black cutlery inside and place it inside a bat napkin holder.
• Lower the lights to create an eerie atmosphere, or replace the lights with red or black bulbs.
• Throw old sheets over furniture and decorate with spider webs.
• Hang glow-in-the-dark skeletons from the ceiling and walls.
• Light essential passageways to the toilets or the bar with strings of glowing Halloween party decoration.
• Use Halloween music to set the mood.
• Use Halloween Place Cards for your table

Welcome your guests

Children can help you to create and place rows of tombstones with the names of your guests leading up to your door. Use decorated cardboard or cereal boxes.

Hang Halloween lights around your front door and use a fog machine to welcome your guests.

Halloween Party Games and Activities

• Next you'll want to keep your guests busy. Create several activities areas for the guests to visit.
• Photo spot- Create a Halloween photo backdrop to get their special picture taken. Use an instant camera to get pictures right away.
• Dance contest - have a dance contest to the Monster Mash.
• Videos and Movies - Rent some Goosebumps videos or classic monster movies for later in the evening.
• Games  - See our games section for fabulous and fun games.
• Trick-or-Treating - Have your party goers line up and parade around your neighborhood for trick-or-treating.
• Pumpkin Contest - Hand out a price for the scariest and best looking pumpkin.

Halloween Party Food and Refreshments

Serve chips and dips in black cauldron pots at your Halloween Party. Make Oreo cookie spiders and place them on the table. Make a freaky fruit punch bowl with ginger ale and an ice hand floating in it. (Fill plastic glove with water and freeze it. Remove plastic glove and you got a creepy ice hand).

Graveyard Pudding - Put chocolate pudding in clear plastic containers and place gummy worms in the pudding and some half submerged. Cover the top of the pudding with crushed chocolate or oreo cookie crumbs.

Ghost Sandwich - Let the children make their own ghost sandwiches. Use marshmallow creme to spread on sandwich. Give each child a ghost cookie cutter and let them press the shape out of the center of their sandwich. Use raisins for the eyes.

Swamp Slime - Prepare some green jello according to package directions, when jello starts to set divide it into two containers. Stir in various gummy bugs to the first container. Beat the rest of the jello with some whipped cream or cool whip and add to the top of the slime. Sprinkle crushed chocolate cookie crumbs and half submerge some gummy worms. Let set.

Buggy Ice - Freeze ice cubes with raisins in them to look like bugs.

Witch Hat Cookies - Take Oreo® cookies and place them on wax paper. Place an unwrapped Hershey's kiss in the middle of the cookie attaching it with a dab of frosting. With orange colored frosting, pipe a ring around the candy kiss to look like a hat band.

Spider Cookies - Little kids love this food project!! You'll need some Oreo cookies, some thin black licorice and a tube of white decorating icing.

Take Oreo cookies and loosen top and bottom of cookie. Cut black licorice stings into 5-inch lengths and place 4 licorice pieces inside each cookie. Cover with cookie and use frosting to make eyes on the top.

End your Halloween Party with a Treat!

Hand out costume awards for each child with party favors.