Halloween is the perfect time to throw a spook-tacular themed party. After trying these tips, your friends will be dying to attend the monster bash!
Send a scary invite. Send an invitation that gets your guests excited about your party, such as a boxed invitation that includes a black rabbit’s foot, a locket of hair, a skeleton key and a glass eye (use a large marble). Create a rhyme or poem that gives the details of the party and lets them know what’s boiling in the cauldron.
Create a frightful welcome. Incorporate a skeleton, spider webs and other eerie objects nestled alongside fall mums and pumpkins. Your guests will think your house is haunted when you trick out your lights by installing flicker lamp kits. These are easy to find at retailers such as Target and Wal-Mart. Crank up some spooky music to set the tone for your party.
Haunt your household décor. Take old fruit jars and fill them with colored water, then purchase plastic insects and plastic body parts to place inside the jars. Line your shelves to make a spooky statement. Or, to frighten guests headed to the powder room, fill your bathtub with water and add red food coloring. Float a plastic skeleton or plastic eyeballs in the water. Both can be purchased at a party supply store. Serve ghoulishly delicious bites. Freeze cocktail shrimp in a round glass bowl to create the look of a human brain and serve them with Bloody Mary cocktail sauce! Other food that will make your guests squirm include: chicken fingers, tomatoes stuffed with mozzarella cheese and topped with black olives for eyes, and even racks of ribs!
Boo-tify your buffet table. Use black and white serving pieces with accents of orange. Place black candles in candelabras, use old newspapers to create a table runner or placemats and hang white and black ornaments from orange ribbons on a chandelier.
Serve spooky drinks. Greet your guests at the door with a special Halloween potion. Create a batch of hair-raising shots and pour into a science beaker. Serve individual shots out of test tubes. You can also create a glowing green punch and freeze plastic spiders in the ice. As it melts the insects will float to the top. Invite guests to drop an extra insect in their individual cups. Beverage labels will make any drink frightful, and I love the ones from the Martha Stewart Holiday Collection.
Try these frightful cocktails at your Halloween party using Crystal Head Vodka.
Brain Freeze
1 ½ oz. Crystal Head Vodka
1 ½ to 2 oz. pure lime juice
1 oz. simple syrup
Combine all the ingredients with ice in a blender. Blend until ice is well crushed. Serve in a sugar-rimmed rocks glass garnished with a slice of lime.
Cranium
1 ½ oz. Crystal Head Vodka
Cranberry juice
Grenadine
Pour Crystal Head Vodka and cranberry juice over ice in a tall glass. Add a splash of Grenadine (unstirred) on the top. Garnish with a blood orange slice.
