A safe Halloween can mean having a house party instead of going door to door for tricks and treats. Simple and inexpensive decorations and quick and easy sweet desserts can be the answer to a fun Halloween party.
A haunted house with scarily clever touches will stop partygoers dead in their tracks. Use candlelight to create dark shadows in the corners of your rooms. Put ghostly white tapers in a flea market candleabra to enhance the creepiness of cobwebs and flying bats that can be found at most local dollar stores. Flea markets, garage sales, secondhand stores, and dollar stores are great places to use your imagination to find props for your haunted house effects. You can also trick out your jack-o-lanterns with bewitching handmade halloween masks that you cut out from black felt or construction paper.
Give "dressed to kill" a whole new meaning with a pumpkin headed specter. Here's how: Carve a grimacing jack-o-lantern, then carefully attach it to the top of an old dressmakers dummy, or something similar. Drape the "mannequin" with tattered looking two ply cheesecloth or torn up old white sheets, and position it in the foyer to greet your guests. If you are willing to spend a little more, you can purchase a smoke/mist machine that gives a really eerie atmosphere to your other decor. I have seen them retail for about $60 at some stores.
Try these easy ideas for a fright fest- conjure up a devilish looking dessert by frosting slice and bake sugar cookies with white icing. Then, starting at the cookie's center, pipe circles of black icing. Create creepy cobwebs by alternately dragging a toothpick from the center to the edge and from the edge to the center of the cookie. Scooped out mini pumpkins can become spidery votives thanks to tealights and pipe cleaners. After scooping out the pumpkin, make spider legs out of black pipe cleaners and place a tea light in the hollow of the gourd.
Adults and children alike can have a spooktacular time at a Hallowen house party. Let your imagination soar!
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