These Are the Top 10 Halloween Party Ideas For Families and Children of All Ages

Planning a Halloween party for your family and friends is a fun thing to do. Whether you will be hosting adults, children, or a mix of both, a Halloween party is the fun and exciting party for everyone to attend.

Halloween Parties take a bit of planning and I have seen fit to cover all bases and make it the event of the year, with some great ideas to get you started:

First Step - Deciding on a budget for your party and working out who you are going to cater for is the first step, weather it is going to a Children Party, Adult or both.

Second Step - Using your imagination and creating some spooky foods is on the agenda, children are easy to cater for and for the adults some creepy canapes are just what the party needs.

Third Step - Beverages are also easy, as a slimy punch made out of lemonade, sugar, meringue powder, and seltzer water. To this add some green food coloring and stir. The mix will be slimy and frothy and some Creepy Cocktails for the adults won't go astray either.

Forth Step - Dry ice to beverages is also a fun way to spook things up a bit. This will give them a foggy effect which is just as appealing to Adults as it is to Children.

Fifth Step - Decorating for Halloween is also fun. Form Styrofoam cut outs you can make tombstones in the yard and even hang lanterns, skeletons and ghosts in your trees. Spider Webs can be put through the inside of your home, with spiders, creepy decorations a coffin here and there.

Sixth Step - Lighting is also an important consideration for the night, dimly lit but bright enough so your guests can see without tripping over each other, with a fog machine or cauldrons with dry ice creating that misty effect along the floor.

Seventh Step - All important Music is a must for a fun Halloween party. There is heaps of suitable music for Halloween, Thriller, Monster Mash, Welcome to my Nightmare, go wild and get some great party tracks.

Eighth Step - Game s for Halloween are always a hit for any party for that matter. A fun game for adults is charades using scary movies and themes. For children, bobbing for apples can be fun if the weather and space allow for it. Also, contests for the best Halloween Costumes always go over well. (Mention the Games and the Prizes on your invitations).

Ninth Step - Writing secret messages on your drinking glasses is a clever way to blow your guests away. How you do this, is by taking a mixture of dish soap and water and write messages with it, using your finger, on the outside of some drinking glasses. Once you are finished place them in the freezer to frost over. As your guests drink, and the glasses warm, your messages will magically appear. Your guests will be amazed at and talk about this ghostly phenomenon for a long time after wards.

Step 10 - Jumping online is one of the best ways to research Halloween Party Idea's. There's plenty to choose from, costume ideas, novelties and complete Halloween theme packs are available and very affordable, so make your Halloween one that everyone there will remember this year.

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Halloween Party Ideas For Tweens (Kids and Families)

Most people, regardless of age, love Halloween. What is not to love? Cute little kids in costumes, Halloween parties, candy and scary movies, are all part of the fun leading up to the big night of Trick or Treating. As kids get older, they grow out of the super hero costumes but still want to have fun. Halloween evening goes by so quickly, so draw out the holiday by doing cool things throughout October. Here are some ideas to try out:

Decorating Party: This is fun as a family, or kids can each invite a friend or two. Start by pulling out any stored decorations or Halloween items you have from previous years. Go to a party or dollar store and get extra items, like orange and black balloons, streamers, window clings, black table cloths, cotton batting, plastic ghosts, and skeletons, etc. If you can find orange string lights, or even clear string lights (from last Christmas), pull those out to light pathways, Jack O Lanterns, party doors, etc. Buy some black light bulbs to replace the regular ones with. Stretch out cotton batting to make cobwebs.

Decorating challenge: Pick an entry way to the house or a party room to decorate. Divide up into teams and give each team a challenge or a section to decorate. Set the rules: Can other items, like stuffed toys, be dressed up & used? Can clothing items from closets be taken out and be filled, draped or decorated? Are they allowed to use tape to hang things from walls? Have a little prize for the winning team (scariest, most original, etc.)

Craft party: Kids can make their own decorations using any of the following items: Poster boards and construction paper in black, green and orange; scissors; glitter glue, paints or markers; stencils; rulers; foam felt Halloween shapes; Halloween confetti, cotton batting (for spiderwebs), googly eyes, etc. They can cut shapes out to look like pumpkins, black cats, witches hats, ghosts, or skulls. Alternatively, you can buy each child a plain trick or treat bags they can decorate themselves.

Baking Party. If you only have a couple of guests, let them help make the cupcakes or cookies. If you have many kids, bake ahead of time and let them do the decorating. Provide white, black and orange icing, candy corn, black licorice, chocolate cookie crumbs, gummy worms, and black and orange candies. Kids love art they can eat.

Costume Party:  Kids can come dressed up in their own costumes, or everyone can make costumes out of the hats, scarves, clothes, props and make-up you provide.

Halloween Music: Put your tweens in charge of the music selection - since they probably know how to download tunes better than you do anyways. Give them some song suggestions or have them do searches for the most popular ones. See if they can find some sound effects to mix in. They can burn a party CD and even do the cover art design as they are waiting.