Halloween in the office: 10 ideas for a festive corporate party

Why do you need a corporate party for Halloween?

Halloween is a holiday that is becoming more and more popular every year. Yes, New Year's corporate parties will probably never go out of fashion, but a party can also be held in honor of All Saints' Day. Yes, it's a spooky, but incredibly fun holiday that opens up a ton of opportunities for office workers. Why?

It's simple. Bright costumes, competitions, scary stories and humorous competitions are just what is needed to strengthen team spirit, give employees the opportunity to take a breath and take a break from important tasks, and feel like a united family. Here are a few ideas that will help you organize an unforgettable holiday.

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Serving and menu

Any of the attributes listed above are suitable for table decoration - spiders and mice on napkins, a tablecloth with a dark pattern, themed stickers on glasses and plates. Place several pumpkins filled with sweets or fruit. You can serve soup right in the pumpkins, with something scary floating in it. Arrange vases with thorns or dried flowers. Candles in skulls, brooms made of toothpicks, decorations made of black lacy fabric.

Food is at your discretion - either a feast for hungry monsters or a buffet for elegant witches and vampires. Decorate some menu items with scary stories - spiders, fingers, eyes. A couple of salads in the shape of severed hands, poisonous green mushrooms (sauce with herbs), bloody pieces of meat (tomato juice), ham or squid in tangled strips (a plate of “worms”).

Do not throw away the pumpkin “guts” left after scraping. Cut the pumpkin without seeds into slices or in the shape of bones, faces, or spiders. Place on baking paper and sprinkle generously with sugar. Bake for 20 minutes – healthy, tasty and on point!

It’s easier with desserts - poisonous-colored cakes (icing), marmalade in the shape of beetles and worms, cookies of any shape reminiscent of Halloween. The party drinks are green with "Poison" written on them and red with "Blood" written on them. If you're celebrating a birthday, order a terrible cake - one made from fake spider webs, slime, shaped like a body part, a skeleton, etc.

Idea 1. Charity

Yes, you are no longer teenagers, so it is quite possible that loud, noisy parties are not your thing. Maybe you should invite your employees to participate in a charity event? Of course, first you should consult with some charitable foundations - they will probably have interesting and, of course, “scary” work for you. Perhaps your team members will have fun trick-or-treating and scaring people on the street, or feel like they're part of something bigger by throwing a party for the children in the hospital.

Letter from a maniac

You will need:

newspapers or magazines;
paper;
glue;
scissors.

This option is more suitable for schoolchildren who can already read well and wield scissors without the help of adults. You can carry it out at home, because it does not require a lot of free space.

Children are divided into two or more teams. Their task is to cut out letters and words from newspapers and magazines and compose a terrible letter from them. Whose letter, based on the voting results, turns out to be scarier, longer and more interesting is declared the winner.

Idea 2: Pumpkin Carving Day

What would Halloween be without a pumpkin? It's hard to even imagine. Have all your office workers mastered the secret skill of pumpkin carving? No? So maybe it’s worth organizing a master class?

Deliver a couple dozen (should be enough) pumpkins to the office and have a real competition. And remember that there are no standards here. Who said that a Halloween pumpkin must have two eyes, a mouth and a candle inside? Let your team members get creative and do whatever they want with the pumpkins. You can be sure that your office will soon be decorated with an impressive collection of pumpkins. And, of course, don't forget light snacks and drinks.

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Decor

Setting up a real horror movie at home is not difficult. Embroider black and dirty gray fabric with skulls, bats, crows, spiders and cobwebs, witches on brooms. Now drape the furniture, windows and part of the walls - the background for the decorations is ready. Fill the space with the scariest horror movies you can think of:

garlands of paper jaws, fingers, rats, nasty insects;

ghosts made of corrugated paper or sheets with drawn distorted faces;

glowing mushrooms (paint with luminescent paint) and thorny thickets (collect crooked branches, paint black and entangle with cobwebs);

bloody axes, chainsaws, cutlasses and other murder weapons (made of polystyrene foam, foam rubber);

a web of twisted bandages or frayed clothesline;

if you dip bandages in tomato paste and hang them on the wall, and place a rusty metal basin underneath, you will get charming released intestines;

Ping-pong balls can be used to make eyes for garlands or for filling jars like in a maniac's home. You can put all sorts of horrors in jars, like “severed” fingers and ears, “preserved” snakes or toads;

Repainted gloves and tomato mouth will make severed hands. Don’t overdo it, too realistic decorations can seriously frighten sensitive ladies;

from scrap materials, build several zombies, skeletons, fanged and clawed monsters;

Hang photos of creepy castles, cemeteries or horror movie posters along the walls;

scatter black and red balloons on the floor and hang them from the ceiling.

Sound effects will make the atmosphere unforgettably realistic! It's simple: hide players or phones with small speakers behind the decorations. Let the sounds of creaks, rustling, grinding and howling be quiet, audible only when approaching the “hiding place”.

Don't forget about the main decoration - everyone's favorite Jack. Huge and miniature pumpkins can be painted and hung literally anywhere. It’s easy to cut out the core from real pumpkins and make lanterns by placing candles in bowls inside. Candles can be hidden in bottles, jars or tall glasses. Pumpkin heads can be dressed up in hats or covered with cobwebs, complemented with a robe, or built into a real scarecrow.

It is advisable to dim the light: arrange table lamps and hang wall lamps or iron candlesticks. Decorate your lampshades with bats and spiders. Or replace the lampshades with homemade ones made from thick, decorated paper. If you are planning to celebrate Halloween in a club, you won’t have to think about anything with the light - the club lighting should be just enough for the desired atmosphere of twilight. At home, you can hang electric garlands of red, white or red color on the walls.

Come up with original invitations or use one of the ideas:

a sheet of dough on a clothespin, a clothespin on a spring, a spring in a box. A classic of the genre - the box opens, the spring pops out;

a postcard in the shape of a coffin or gravestone with a frightening inscription on the cover “You are doomed...” and a continuation inside “... to endless fun, a sea of laughter and terribly positive emotions”;

miniature pumpkin with an opening “skull”. The text is inside, on a rolled piece of paper.

Idea 3. Visiting ghosts

Every city or its surroundings has its own ghosts - you just need to look. Perhaps otherworldly guests were spotted in some abandoned house, old library or museum? Go there with the whole cheerful company, solving riddles along the way. Well, if you’re unlucky with a real ghost, you can always hire an actor who wouldn’t mind showing off in a white sheet and scaring away your employees. It will be terribly interesting!

Idea 5. An evening of scary stories

We were all children once, and this is worth remembering. Can't organize a full-scale party with costumes and music? But this is not necessary. Just invite everyone to return to childhood. Decorate your office with creepy decorations, bring snacks and drinks, dim the lights and start telling those scary stories that terrified you as a child. The evening promises to be interesting.

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Vampire Assassination

Among the guys there are 2 vampires (for plausibility, they can wear vampire jaws, which are sold in any joke store). The rest of the guests are ordinary people, who will be attacked by vampires as night falls. The lights go out, the vampires go out hunting and try to bite their victim's neck if they are caught. The game lasts about a minute, guests run away from vampires, and vampires chase guests. Then the lights turn on and daylight begins. Vampires, in order not to die, must have time to hide under the table, under the blanket. If the vampire does not hide, he dies; if the vampire catches the guest and bites him, the guest turns into a vampire and this is how the game continues: a minute is night, a minute is day. At the end of the game we will see who is stronger: the vampires who were able to join their ranks or the ordinary people who were able to resist them.

Idea 10. Visit everyone

Not all employees will come to the office - at least some of them will decide to stay with their families that day. There is no need to worry about this. How about visiting each absent team member with a treat or treat? Of course, it’s worth taking a couple of pumpkins with you, as well as sweets (the workers’ families probably have children).

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How to decorate the hall?

Regardless of the choice of location for the party, the decoration attributes will be the same. This is everything that is usually associated with Halloween, everything that creates an atmosphere of mystery. At the same time, the holiday decoration should not be too dark or oppressive. Use contrasting and accent colors: black, orange and white.

First, look at what you have at home that suits you. Most often these are toys: black cats, birds, monsters. To make decorations, you will need black ribbons, black fabric, etc.

The beginning of the party is a pumpkin with a carved face. An obligatory holiday symbol that you can’t do without. A face can be both evil and good. Find a pumpkin that is the right size, then use a marker to draw a face on it and carefully cut it out with a knife.

Pumpkin decoration

The more pumpkins, the better. They can serve as decoration for tables, shelves, and walls. If you choose pumpkins of different sizes, you can use them to create a bright themed photo zone.

You can hang a poster on the door and hide a secret word in it - whoever reads the text on the poster and finds it will receive a sweet prize.
Stick figures of ghosts, black cats, witches, and bats on the windows.
Throw a white cloth over white helium balloons and draw a face on it - the ghosts are ready.
You can make crafts from red and yellow leaves and decorate cabinets and tables with them.
Make a jack-o'-lantern from an orange or grapefruit. Carefully cut off the “lid” on top and remove the pulp. Place a small candle inside and draw a face on the peel. You can make pumpkins in the same way.
From old wallpaper or paper, make paper garlands in the form of monsters, ghosts or spiders (it is better to paint the spiders with black paint).
Cover an empty glass bottle with white paint and draw a monster's face on it. Place a garland inside - the flashlight is ready, it will be interesting to look at on the table or on the window.

Do you want the party to be a success? Here are some rules

Regardless of which scenario you choose to celebrate Halloween, you need to follow some rules so that a fun party does not turn into a useless duty.

Be sure to ask your employees what type of holiday they need. Listen to the wishes of the team - then everyone will have fun.
Yes, Halloween is primarily about scary costumes and the opportunity to transform. But you shouldn't set a strict dress code. There are always a few employees who don't like dressing up - let them just come and have fun in whatever clothes they feel comfortable in.
Be sure to take care to create the right atmosphere. Remember snacks, drinks, appropriate music.
After completion, be sure to find out if your team enjoyed the holiday. Perhaps employees have some comments or ideas that can be used for next year.

Have fun from the heart - it raises team spirit and certainly improves performance.

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Entertainment

Hang a poster at the entrance with bites drawn in a pattern of the Olympic rings and the words “Annual Vampire Games.” Or organize a competition of evil spirits, timed to coincide with the next witches' Sabbath. Compete in teams or every man for himself:

quickly wrap mannequins or one of the guests with toilet paper to make a mummy;

scream in the dark in every possible way. The guest must guess which friend is screaming. This fun is more suitable for Halloween in a club (you can scare or anger your neighbors);

dismembered into 6 parts (two legs, two arms, head, torso). You will need two human silhouettes cut out of paper. The difficulty is that two people need to hold the scissors;

put boiled pasta, dried banana, limp beets and various objects that are unpleasant to the touch into the bag. Let friends put their hand into a bag filled with fears and, without peeking, guess the contents;

Assemble a skeleton from paper bones at speed.

Organize competitions for the sexiest dance with a broom, the best costume, the scariest grimace or the creepiest story. Hold a quiz on your knowledge of the topic: show your friends still images or photos from horror films - guests must guess the name of the film. You can make up abracadabra (zombie - bozim) from the names of monsters and invite teams to quickly guess the encrypted horror.

The following three games will require space:

path of fear. Ask guests for any items (wallets, phones, handbags, etc.). Lay out from start to finish. The guest must walk along the path blindfolded, without stepping on the valuables. The joke is that after blindfolding, you need to quickly remove everything from the contestant’s path, replacing it with eggs, boxes, toys, etc.;

broom racing. Place balls, large soft toys and other non-hazardous obstacles from start to finish. The witches must take brooms, hold them between their legs and “fly” to the designated point;

turn-off potion. Come up with a simple recipe for a miracle brew, prepare all the ingredients and a few more incorrect ones. Give the teams two identical books. Circle the letters in them so that, writing them out one by one, you get a recipe. Guests must write out the recipe, run to the alchemy table and “brew” the potion.

Give away beakers with the “blood” of a dragon, toy spiders or mice for competitions. At the end, you can have an auction using the winnings as currency. Prepare gifts for guests - “terrible” photo albums, CDs or movie tickets, scarecrow souvenirs from a joke store. If today is truly Halloween, you can end the party by walking around town, handing out or asking passers-by for candy.