| If you're looking to create a terror-iffic Halloween | | | | - Spray paint silk or plastic plants black or dark purple |
| birthday party, that is sure to be a scream, you'll want | | | | and place around your yard or party room. |
| to start setting the mood with some frightfully fun | | | | - For a real spook-tastic ceiling, cover it with fallen tree |
| invitations. We've also scared up some tricks to help | | | | branches that are free of leaves and spray paint them |
| you to transform your home into a Fright Fest. | | | | black. Then hang from fishing line large, black rubber |
| HALLOWEEN BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR | | | | bats and spiders. Interweave orange lights to create |
| INVITATIONS | | | | an eerie atmosphere. |
| Coffin Invites - Cut out coffin-shaped invites from black | | | | - To give your party room a creepy, crawly feeling, |
| posterboard or cardstock. Write "R.I.P." or "Going, | | | | cover a wall with a spiderweb tablecloth and attach |
| Going, Gone" in red, followed by the name of a guest | | | | large plastic spiders to the web. |
| in white. Put your party date, which will signify the end | | | | - Freeze glow-in-the-dark eyeballs into ice cubes and |
| of their life. | | | | use them in your punch bowl. |
| Spider Invites - Cut a piece of purple cardstock into | | | | - Create a fruit centerpiece by spray-painting plastic |
| four pieces. Using a yellow felt tip pen, draw lines to | | | | fruit black. Arrange the fruit in a silver bowl and |
| create the look of a spider web on the card. Type or | | | | interweave orange lights throughout. You could also |
| write the party details and add a black spider sticker | | | | attach an orange and black balloon bouquet to the |
| amongst your webs. | | | | arrangement to give it added height. |
| Poster Invites - Create a poster with a Halloween | | | | - Spray paint a long metal trough black. Fill it with rice |
| theme and add your party details at the bottom. | | | | that has been colored orange using food coloring. |
| HALLOWEEN BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR | | | | Place tea light candles in the trough to give your table |
| DECORATIONS | | | | ambiance. |
| - For a hauntingly good time, make a "ghost" to greet | | | | - When considering which Halloween birthday party |
| your guests. Blow up a large balloon and tie it off with | | | | ideas to implement, you might want to consider |
| fishing line. Cut a tiny hole in the center of a white | | | | creating a Mad Scientist display with a jar of |
| sheet and feed the line through the hole. Draw black | | | | glow-in-the-dark eyeballs, colored, steaming waters |
| eyes on the sheet and hang your friend from the | | | | using food coloring and dry ice in beakers, glass jars, |
| ceiling, at the front door, using the fishing line. | | | | etc. |
| - Make a ghastly couple to greet your guests. Stuff | | | | - You never know what will be lurking around a corner. |
| the clothing of a man and woman with newspaper to | | | | Fill a black cauldron with dry ice. Remember to wear |
| create their bodies. Place the bodies in chairs or a | | | | gloves when handling the ice so it doesn't burn you. |
| swing near your entrance. Stack some boxes behind | | | | Place rubber snakes, mice, and bugs along the edges |
| the chairs or swing and place pumpkins with carved | | | | so it looks like the pot is filled with these delectable |
| out faces to serve as their heads. | | | | critters. Pour warm water over the ice and it will look |
| - Create a frightfully fun graveyard to greet your | | | | like something's cookin'. |
| guests. Whatever the age of the birthday person, | | | | - Transform your party room walls with black trees |
| have that many tombstones in your graveyard. In the | | | | made from black butcher paper. You can make the |
| alternative, you could have the tombstones all reflect | | | | tree trunks in one piece, then make several branches, |
| the names of your guests. Just use gray posterboard | | | | and just attach them to the trunk to create the tree. |
| or foam board to create your tombstones. | | | | |