Halloween

Party Ideas

Teenagers need to be kept entertained. Your games

should be active to make sure you keep everyone busy
until the party ends. Encourage the teens to dress in
scary costumes or pick a theme, such as zombies or
vampires. You can have your treats and decorations
carry out your chosen theme.
 Bobbing for Apples
This traditional game is great. Fill a washtub with water and
add apples. Let your teens attempt to pick up the apples with
their mouths without using their hands. Have plenty of towels
available for drying off.

Murder Mystery Game

With a bit of thought and planning, you can create a fun game
that will keep your teens busy for at least an hour. Create a
character list with the same number of teens who will be at the
party. Make a few characters not vitally important to the story
for any no-shows. Start with a story introducing the time,
place, and each character, assigning each guest a part. Only
Halloween Fear Factor you will know who did it, with what weapon, and why. You

Fill three or four bowls with gross feeling foods – peeled should have at least one weapon, character, reason, and body

grapes (eyeballs), cooked pasta (guts), steamed whole location clue for each person playing to have plenty of possi-

cauliflower (brain), a peeled tomato (heart), canned bilities. Hide clues around the house and let the teens figure

peaches (liver), pudding with raisins (vomit). Blindfold out the solution to the murder.

each teen and tell them what they will be touching. Then
have them guess the actual food.
 Pumpkin Carving Contest

Provide plenty of pumpkins and sharp utensils

for carving. If you wish, you can put your teens
in pairs or teams. Let carvers use markers to
create their faces before beginning to carve. If
you wish, you can clean and roast the seeds for
a party treat.

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees

C).

Wash the seeds thoroughly. Toss seeds in a

bowl with the melted butter and salt. You may
wish to add garlic powder and/or paprika. For a
sweet treat, use sugar and cinnamon with the
butter. Spread the washed seeds in a single lay-
er on a baking sheet and bake for about 45
minutes, stirring a few times, until they are gold-
en brown. You may need more than one baking
sheet if you have a great many seeds.
Halloween
For a fun, whole party décor, make your party room or
garage into a haunted house. Decide where your
guests will enter and exit and clearly mark them. Use
gauze or strips of sheet or black crepe paper to walk
through. Make sure the exit and entrance are well light-
ed, although the rest of the haunted houses should be
dim. Cover the walls with cardboard for attaching fake
spiders and other creepy crawlers. Additionally, you
can have someone stick their arm or hand out of holes
in the cardboard to scare your participants. Play
spooky music or a spooky sound track. You might wish
to include one or more of the following:
Gravestones
A sheet ghost
Halloween masks
Decapitated dolls or stuffed animals
Rubber bats and spiders
Your Halloween treats should be gross or shock-
ing. Try these creepy ideas:
Halloween Deviled Eggs. Color the yolk filling
with green food die and top with a halved green
olive.
Bloody Cup Cakes. Top vanilla frosted cup cakes
with streaks of red gel icing.
Severed Fingers. Score hot dogs to look like
knuckled fingers. Attach a piece of onion for the
fingernail to one end. Sprinkle with catsup to re-
semble blood and provide buns and condiments.
Killer Cake. For an easy, gross cake, make your
favorite Bundt cake and stick a fashion doll from
the dollar store in the center. Use gel to decorate
the doll and cake with fake blood.