Children and adults enjoy watching films about vampires. These fabulous creatures inspire horror, but attract attention with their mystical origin and legend. Vampires are strong, invulnerable, immortal. They wake up in the dark.
The origin of vampires is a kind of romantic story mixed with fantasy and fairy tale. The image of Count Dracula from Transylvania is especially famous.
How to Design Invitations for a Vampire Party
Preparation for such an original event begins with developing a program. Guests will love it if the invitations are designed in a special way. You can make personalized cards for each participant.
We design invitations in a mystical style. Vampires love antiquity and luxury. You can arrange invitations in antique, gothic, medieval style. We use an original shape: a heart, a bat, yellowed paper with drops of blood, a coffin. A wax seal would be an interesting solution. For the text we use a font with pointed corners. Depending on the background, the color of the letters is gold, white, black, red.
How to have fun: ideas and competitions
#1: Watching Vampire Movies
Here are some cool movies about vampires:
- Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
- Vampire's Kiss (1988)
- 30 Days of Night (2007)
- Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
- Twilight (2008)
- Interview with the Vampire (1994)
- Chronos (1993)
#2: Test of Vampire Seduction Competition
Twilight style idea sped up to a few minutes. Invite your guests (men and women) to take turns pretending how they are going to lure the next victim into a dark alley for a vampire kiss...
No. 3 Competition “Now you are Bloody Mary”
You will need:
- loud ominous music
- ample supply of Bloody Mary cocktails
- and of course, the participants
The rules are very simple.
To begin, everyone stands in a circle (but you can do this while sitting at the table).
The Bloody Mary cocktail is poured into the glass (to the brim). Accompanied by ominous music, it must be passed around until the music stops or someone spills the drink.
When this happens, the spilled drink or the one on whom the music ends becomes a Bloody Mary. What other participants loudly announce to everyone by shouting “Now you are Bloody Mary.”
After these words, the newly proclaimed Bloody Mary drinks the contents of the glass to the bottom and leaves the circle.
The glass is filled to the brim again, and the game continues. And so on until there is only one winner left. He receives a symbolic prize! For example, a couple of vampire jaws or a test tube of “blood” of any Rh group.
Scenery
A vampire-themed party is a specially created atmosphere. You can spend it in a luxurious castle, the Count’s lair, a fairytale forest, or a mysterious place that imitates a forest lake. Old things are suitable for decorating a room: figurines, vases, lamps with burning candles, paintings in heavy frames, textiles in red and black colors. It’s great if you can decorate the room with antique items or their imitation. In the corners there is a web of thin thread or gauze. You can attach bats, spiders to the walls, and place figurines of black cats on the floor.
The decor is dark but stylish. The light is dim, as vampires are nocturnal inhabitants who cannot stand the sun. You can entrust the design to professionals who will create an unforgettable atmosphere of mystery and mysticism.
You also need to choose the right music. Gloomy classics, rock - for teenagers and young men. Lighter musical accompaniment is for younger students.
Bloody menu: what to cook
Food and drink are an important part of any theme party. And the vampire party should be really bloody...
Best bloody dishes
- "Dose".
Any vampire cannot live without blood... So provide your guests with at least the minimum dose. It can be in glasses, or in special “medical” bags for transfusion... Will anyone remain indifferent? Especially a vampire?.. - Bloody Cupcakes
– Decorate chocolate cupcakes with chewy “teeth” and drops of “blood” (like strawberry jam) - Screaming donations
- a little fun in this dark, vampire world. The best treat for children! - Cake!
As the main sweet of a vampire party, a cherry cocoa sponge cake, topped with red “bloody” icing... And with a knife stuck in it, is perfect... Such a sight makes the blood run cold.
The best bloody drinks
- Bloody Mary.
Just a vampire classic. We recommend serving in “test tubes” (as in the photo). Looks very exciting - Vampire hot chocolate
with whipped cream. Sooooo delicious. - Mulled wine.
A red, rich and aromatic autumn drink. Just right for Halloween. Cook in a large cauldron. Add orange, apple, cinnamon, ginger, star anise, cardamom. Enjoy! - Red wine.
Just replace the labels on it with the inscriptions “Blood of the King of England”, “Second Negative”, “Blood of a Young Shepherdess”. It will be much more interesting this way.
How to decorate a table?
Table setting is an essential part of a cool vampire party banquet. Cover tables with black or red tablecloths. Arrange the candles. Place black napkins with “jaws” on the plates (it will be very impressive). Match glasses, cutlery and napkins to match the party colors.
Place some insects on the table (in different places) - for example, small decorated spiders or bats. A skull would fit perfectly—for example, on a stack of books in the corner of a table. Small decorative pumpkins are also suitable.
Costume ideas for girls and boys
The image of a vampire is the main one at the holiday. For girls - fluffy dark or purple dresses. The attire for boys is a long cloak. A vampire costume for children can be made from satin fabric. You can replace it with T-shirts with themed designs. As an additional attribute - fangs, they can be purchased in the store or made yourself.
You can use vintage costumes - tailcoats, vests, frills, dark high boots. Boys have a hat on their head, girls have a high hairstyle or loose hair.
Suits: what to wear
Outfits are one of the key components of any party. And even more so for a vampire Halloween party!
Outfit ideas for men
- Hungry vampire
- you can experiment with the image. How do you imagine a hungry vampire? Maybe pale and wearing loose clothes? Or in a formal suit, looking for a victim only with his eyes? - Werewolf
- when you don’t want elegance, you can try brutality. Wide jeans, a plaid shirt... And the face + hands of a wild beast. - Magician
- black trousers + white shirt, bright burgundy vest, tall cylindrical hat, cape and cane. And a little magic in your pocket (a tall flower or a white rabbit - it’s up to you) - and of course, Dracula
is the most popular male image. Red and black coat, black pants, white shirt and silver vest. And be sure to have a pale face (use makeup) and vampire jaws.
Outfit ideas for girls
- The Vampire Queen costume
is a strict, daring and delightfully beautiful lady. A long fluffy dress (like from the Middle Ages), a strict corset, a collected hairstyle and scarlet lipstick are perfect for this look. - Enchantress
- black and purple floor-length dress, high hairstyle, chopper around the neck and bright makeup. To charm anyone! - The witch
is a universal image. Choose a dress of a suitable style (in black/red/purple shades), put on a tall witch's hat, and take a broom in your hand - let's fly! - Devil
- red corset and red shorts framed with lace + black feather boa. Gallant and impressive! Large mesh tights will perfectly complement the look.
Entertainment, competitions for a vampire-themed holiday for children
The evening should be fun so that the children remember it for a long time and have a good time.
Competitions for a vampire party will be good entertainment. Examples:
- Print out a photo of the actors as a vampire. Participants must guess who is in the picture.
- Depict how a young vampire or female vampire will lure the victim into his lair.
- Active games: sack races, blindfolded.
- Dance competition - who will portray the best vampire dance.
To make the party more colorful, it is worth inviting animators. A popular image for such parties is actors dressed as Dracula, Mavis. Professional animators will help create the right atmosphere, hold competitions, and develop a script to make the event fun and interesting for all guests.
Guests in the house
1. Present the host of the evening as the most important and powerful vampire! And during the holiday, he gradually “turns” his guests into vampires, rewarding them for winning competitions with fangs, cloaks and bloody makeup. 2. You can organize a large party in the Mafia, only instead of the mafia and the police there are vampires and hunters and victims. 3. Friends can be immediately divided into 2 teams - werewolves and vampires. Werewolves with Indian tattoos. Vampires with appropriate makeup, red drinks 3. When everyone gets together, organize a hunt (paintball game). In the end, friendship will win - they will light a pipe of peace (hookah) 4. You can look for a hunting place. You can look for some kind of relic - a necklace of fate, for example, which will decide who will own the territory and power.
5. You can look for something for the birthday girl - for example, help open a good luck totem. But luck is not given just like that - you need to pass tests of courage, the ability to tell the truth, insight (a game of believe it or not), etc. Friends help her. And in the end - the hunt to conquer this totem - to get there first. But friendship will win. And a symbolic totem of good luck will be given to the birthday girl.
6. You can scatter and hide apples with inscriptions along the journey, you will need to collect them all and put together a message from them, for example, the final location of the hunt. 7. You can do a task on passing rope obstacles in the forest, climbing ropes and trees in the forest, for example, using a rope you need to climb a tree to a certain height from which you can see a clue laid out on the grass with something visible only from a height. Game "Bats" It is proposed to find as many toy bats as possible, hidden by the owners throughout the room. The winner gets a prize. Fun with donuts or apples: hang a donut (preferably covered with icing) on a long string from the ceiling. Now let your guests, with their hands crossed behind their backs and without resorting to their help, try one by one to jump and tear the donut off the thread. Another option: fill a large container or tub with small red apples. Give each guest one try, using only their mouth and teeth, to get their apple (no hands!). Bite the apple competition. Hang apples from the ceiling with long strings. Divide the guests into pairs: two people for each apple. Now ask the children, holding their arms crossed behind their backs, to try to bite the apple one at a time when given a signal. The goal of the game is to manage to bite off as big a piece as possible from the swinging and spinning apple. The couple that manages to chew their apple halfway through within three minutes (use a timer) is declared the winner. Witch's Drink: Mix equal parts orange juice with pineapple and ginger beer. Cool well. The drink will fizz and bubble a lot if you add a little baking soda to it. Instead of adding ice, put a frozen "hand" in this "witch's potion". You can do it as follows. Fill a plastic glove with water, tie the wrist tightly with a rubber band, and place it in the freezer. When the water freezes, immerse the glove in warm water for a few seconds - then the finished “hand” will be easy to remove from it. Place your "hand" in the "witch's drink".
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Sea Sea
Teenagers love everything original, so you shouldn’t start the evening with a banal salad. It’s better to prepare a dish that will give off the ocean breeze, because one of the most exciting scenes in the film “Twilight” can be considered the moment when the main character Bella jumped from steep cliffs into the raging cold waves to dispel the longing for her lover and get an adrenaline rush. Or perhaps she just wanted the great seafood that you serve to impressionable teenagers. First, peel 2 kg tiger prawns. Then fry 2 cloves of garlic in olive oil (if there really are vampires among the guests, you will immediately expose them), 20 g of ginger and 20 g of celery stalks and add shrimp. They need to be fried on both sides for 3 minutes and immediately after that pour 0.5 liters of pureed tomatoes in their own juice. To prevent sea creatures from becoming rubbery, remove the pan from the heat 1.5 minutes after the dish comes to a boil and serve hot, sprinkled with coarsely chopped green basil leaves. White bread makes an excellent accompaniment to sea food. Especially if you pre-dry it in the oven, sprinkling it with olive oil.
Bella's donuts
The actress who played the beautiful Bella in the film woke up famous as soon as the movie was released. Her fans dye their hair dark, former classmates give tours of the playgrounds where she played, and corrosive journalists pester the star with the question “What do you prefer for breakfast?” Your young guests will probably be interested to know that the “dream of vampires and werewolves” loves donuts with strawberry jam, and after such information, even girls on a diet will not refuse to try this dessert. To prepare it, add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda to 1.5 cups of flour, stir and sift. Then thoroughly grind 2 tbsp. spoons of granulated sugar, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of butter and an egg, dilute with half a glass of milk and, gradually adding flour, knead the dough. Roll out the finished mass to a thickness of 0.5 cm and cut into circles using a glass. Then remove the core with a glass and lightly beat the resulting bagels. Then deep-fry the donuts and serve them with sauce - for it, throw 100 g of frozen strawberries into a saucepan, pour in 50 g of dry red wine, put 20 g of butter and 60 g of sugar. Place on the fire and remove as soon as it boils. A pinch of ground cinnamon will add charm to this delicious treat.
