Creative Halloween Party Decorations
by Create a spooky Halloween atmosphere for your party using food and decorations. You may be surprised by some of the “scary” combinations perfect for a haunted Halloween event.
Greet your guests with a range of scary treats this Halloween. Spooky snacks, decorations, and more are easy to make and share, helping create unforgettable details for your Halloween party.
Ghostly Handouts
Party favors and trick-or-treat offerings are easy to make with the right materials and a creative idea. Try making paper-mache surprises your guests or visiting ghouls can’t wait to open. Blow up miniature balloons (not too full; about halfway is fine) and paper-mache over them with glue and pieces of torn-up newspaper or orange or white tissue paper to create round “pumpkins” or “skulls”.
Leave a small opening at the top to “pop” and remove your balloon, then fill with candy and treats and seal over with an extra piece of paper. For newspaper designs paint them first, then add details with a black magic marker. Fill a spooky bowl for guests to help themselves or for easy handouts to trick-or-treaters.
Haunted Hors d’ouvres
A platter of ghoulish goodies should cause your guests to shrink a little before sampling these tasty treats. Like deviled “eyeballs” made from eggs sliced in half, the devil’s food tinted with food coloring — add half a green or black olive for the pupil.
“Severed fingers” spice up any Halloween party platter — roll up won ton or pastry wraps with sweet red fillings like strawberry jam, mold in the shape of a finger, then bake for five minutes. Jam should spill from the open “severed” end; cap the closed-off fingertips with painted-on icing nails.
A Perfect Centerpiece
Whether it’s your windowsill or the middle of table loaded with Halloween party goodies, a spooky centerpiece is second only to the carved Jack o’ Lantern. Create a haunted gingerbread house by substituting the normal Christmas goodies with Halloween favorites like mini sugar pumpkins, candy corn, and foil-wrapped ghoulish candies.
Or create a “tombstone cake” just beckoning visitors to sample a slice. Cut a sheet cake in shape of a tombstone, ice with grey marbled icing (mix white and black) or chocolate, then add a spooky inscription and engravings with squeeze bottle of icing.
For an “upright” tombstone, cover your sheet cake with chocolate icing and crumbled Oreo “dirt” then add a painted cardboard backdrop cut in the shape of a grave headstone — a skeletal hand popping from the dirt (or a few gummy worms) makes the perfect finishing touch.
Your spooky Halloween party atmosphere needs only a little creativity to frighten guests into a good time. A few extra-special decorations will make it a party perfect for all ages.
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