Adult Halloween Party

Fun ideas for an adult halloween party that includes great halloween recipes, activities and more.

Halloween parties for adults can be planned for during the week if you are running low on October weekend dates to choose from.
Once you have a date picked out, you need to start planning the party.

You'll need to decide if you want to create a sub-theme for your Halloween party. Halloween is the main theme but you can add another theme to it to make it fun.

Themes for Halloween Parties

You can add extra fun to the party by adding a sub-theme and have your guests dress in appropriate costumes for the theme.

Basic Themes Pumpkins Cats Witches Monsters Ghosts/Ghoulies Country Themes Chinese African Mexican German Halloween Movies The Great Pumpkin Aliens Frankenstein Nightmare on Elm Street Dracula Creature from the Black Lagoon Beetlejuice The Nightmare Before Christmas

Actresses Marilyn Monroe Liz Taylor Greta Garbo Halle Berry Terry Hatcher Diane Keaton Anna Nicole Smith Actors Clark Gable Matt Damon George Burns Henry Fonda Alfred Hitcock Paul Newman Comic Book Characters Archie Comics Superman Mad Magazine Spider-Man Hulk X-men Fantastic Four

Newpaper Comics Peanuts Blonde Snuffy Smith Family Circus Calvin and Hobbes' Garfield Hi and Lois Popular Movies The Godfather Shawshank Redemption Pulp Fiction Star Wars Casablanca Lord of the Rings Schindlers List It's a Wonderful Life Monty Python and the Holy Grail Misc. Ideas Western Theme Playboy Mansion Sports Teams

When using one of these themes for your adult Halloween party, have the guests dress in any of the characters in the movies or comics. If you choose a country theme have the guests dress in the historical or cultural costumes for that country.

Theme Decorations:

Room Decorations:
The decorations you use are limited only by your imagination and the time you have.

You can use orange and black helium filled balloons singles or tie in groups of three or more.

Hang crepe paper strips from the ceiling and in doorways.

If you are using a movie theme turn the room into a replica of one you see in the movie.

Use can use brown craft paper or even the back of inexpensive wrapping paper to draw room scenes on and then hang them in your room.

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When planning your food tables:
For a large group, put your food on one table and your drinks on another.
If you are having a sit down adult Halloween party you would put them together on the main table.

On your food table use simple risers to give the table height, a pot or pan covered with a cloth serves this purpose nicely!.

Sprinkle toy spiders, confetti or little pumpkins around the tables for a festive look.

Adult Halloween Party Activities:

Costume Contest:
This is what dressing up is all about, you have to give some type of kudos to the creativity of your guests.

Food and Drinks:

When setting out your food you can put little labels near them with creepy titles:

Monster Eyes:
A Package of frozen meatballs and two large jars of brown gravy.
Put all ingredients into a crock pot and cook on low for an hour, then simmer throughout the evening.

Floating Fingers:
Rinse out a new latex glove. Fill just the finger part with red juice and freeze overnight. Peel the glove away from the fingers and place into your punch. You could also put the fingers into individual glasses as you serve your guests.

Orange Treats:
One orange per guest. Cut the top off the oranges and hollow out the insides. Rinse and pat dry. Draw a pumpkin face on the orange using a permanent marker. Fill each orange with sherbet ice cream and put into the freezer. Just before serving place a half stick of cinnamon and a mint leaf on the sherbet.