Cheap Halloween Party Ideas For Kids, Adults, and Teenagers

Have Halloween At Home

Lots of us would like to keep our family and friends close to home on Halloween. We all love the traditions of this holiday, and probably have great memories about it, but these days it seems better to keep our kids and teens off the street. I have had a great time throwing Halloween parties for children, adults, and teenagers. Everybody remembered the fun for a long time, and built new memories they could pass on.

Set The Mood - When your guests arrive, make sure they are immersed in the holiday spirit (lol) right away. Dim lights and use candles or powered lanterns for mood lighting. Having to pass through a decorative spider web to enter will be lots of fun too.

Halloween Movies - A rented movie can help almost any party. You can keep it on the tv, but make sure the sound is low enough so other partiers can chat. Choose your movie to fit your guests. You can find some great cartoons for young children and zombie movies for teens. Even we older people enjoy doing the Time Warp Again too! Rocky Horror is great for young adults, or for adults who were young once!

The Haunted Relics - You can make a small haunted house in a hallway or bedroom. A dark room, some spooky sounds, and scary pictures lit by black light ca make this fun for everybody. Appoint a guide to lead the victims (guests).

The Scary Contests - Be sure and judge costumes. You can provide small prizes like bags of candy or themed cups. For younger kids, I would make enough categories so everybody can win, but adults and teens should be able to compete for a couple of prizes. You probably know that children love prize bags, but teens and adults seem to like them too.

Ghoulish Games - The easiest game for almost any party can be adapted to yours. Buy a pack of sticky notes and write the name of some creature on each one. You could use The Great Pumpkin, The Mummy, and Harry Potter for example. Each guest gets one paper stuck on their back until they can gather enough hints to guess it correctly. This makes a great icebreaker, and it is really cheap to do!

Frugal Halloween Party Planning - You can throw an affordable party without making it seem cheap at all.

You can find some great decorations, costume ideas, and slimy stuff for a haunted house in the dollar or discount store.

Do not be afraid to allow your guests to contribute, especially if they ask. You can delegate sodas, snacks, or bags of candy for prizes to any guests who seem willing to contribute. In fact, you can even make another contest out of this! Your friends will probably be happy to compete for the Best Halloween Treat competition. Be sure to award that one early before the food is all gone.

I think that Halloween is so popular because it celebrates our imagination, and you can certainly use yours to throw an inexpensive party that your guests will love.

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Halloween Party Ideas For Teenagers - Things You Should Do and Not Do

Halloween is a wonderful time, especially for teenagers. The reason for this is that vampires, werewolves, witches and ghosts are some topics that teenagers really enjoy as they have just realized that these things that they used to be scared of are nothing but fictional characters.

Halloween gives kids a chance to dress up and enjoy the morbid aspects of life without being stopped by their watchful parents. If you have decided to cater to what your teenagers have always been demanding and now have a Halloween party to plan, you are probably confused about what to do and what not to do with it.

In order to figure out the things that should be done and not done, you need to get into the mind of your teenager. The following are certain dos and don'ts in connection with Halloween party ideas for teenagers' parties.

Halloween party ideas for teenagers that you should implement:

1. Costumes:

Regardless of how old your children are, you will need to make the party a Halloween costume party.

2. Decoration:

Decorate the party location with the preference of your children in mind. Use tombstones, artificial cobwebs, made up gore, blood red or jet black sheets, red blood like punch etc.

3. Music:

There are tapes available in the market that contain scary sounds and noises that must not be ignored when you are taking stock of all the Halloween party ideas. Furthermore, there are many songs that will suit the gothic, Halloween theme which can be used.

Halloween party ideas for teenagers that you should avoid:

1. Games:

Games are well and good for kids and sometimes even adults, but for a teenagers' Halloween party you should avoid including games. Teenagers mostly prefer to be left alone and not be bothered by things that others think are good for them.

2. Supervision:

There is a level of supervision that teenagers would accept and you micromanaging their party would not go down well with them regardless of your intention of facilitating their fun time.

3. Time:

Ensure that there is a time limit to the party and that it does not run late into the night. However, this should not be done in a strict or condescending way as teenagers are naturally rebellious and this would bring out the worst in them. Instead, when the closing time approaches, you can tell your children gently and let them handle the closing of the party themselves.

Most parents go overboard with Halloween party ideas for teenagers as they try to be overly helpful or overly protective with their children. Such an attitude will only hinder the fun at the party and keep your children from having a good time on the day of the festival. Still, you can indulge yourself in as much innovation as you wish for the Halloween party, as long as you stay behind the scenes and do not embarrass your child by being the mother hen at every given chance.