Plan the Perfect Halloween

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 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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