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!
Suits
The choice of images is truly huge! The scenario for a Halloween party includes bandaged mummies, Frankenstein's brainchild, ghosts in robes, zombies in gray-greenish clothes, and skeletons. Witch - a torn hem of a black dress, tousled hair with spiders entangled in it, a broom, a pointed hat. A special chic is a huge wart on the nose. Demoness - red short dress, high heels, headband with horns and arrow tail. Vampire - plastic fangs, bloody makeup, a stylish black dress or leather suit, metal jewelry.
It is not difficult to make an original bat costume - a black tight outfit, slightly modernized. You need to cut out two triangles from the fabric with sharp jagged edges (like bat wings) and sew them on one side to the sleeve, and the other to the leg. He raised his hands and his wings opened (it’s better to make them wide, it’s more comfortable).
If you have a lot of time for preparation, you can create costumes for movie villains, maniacs and positive, but still terrible, characters. Take ideas from cult films that are probably familiar to all guests - Hellraiser, Ring, Scream, Jack the Ripper, Edward Scissorhands, Exorcising the Devil, etc. If you have very little time, ask your friends to come in T-shirts with creepy designs and prepare accessories - bracelets and necklaces made of spiders, bones and eyes, headbands with horns or ears of predators, false fangs.
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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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.
Zombie snot
Guests are divided into teams with the same number of participants. Team members stand in separate rows (one after another), as the game will be played in the form of a relay race. At the same distance from each team there is a table with the same number (corresponding to the number of team members) of mugs with zombie snot. Zombie snot needs to be prepared in advance (greenish jelly, the basis of which can be taken, for example, kiwi or gooseberry jam). Participants are not informed that this is jelly, this is zombie snot! At the command “start,” the first participants run to their tables and drink a mug of snot. It will be interesting to observe who will behave and how: some will doubt, others will immediately take risks. As soon as the first participants have drunk the snot, they run back and pass the baton to the second participants. The team that drinks the zombie snot the fastest will be the winner.
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.
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.
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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Halloween Costume Competition
HOST 1: For the next competition, which is called “Halloween Costume,” we invite 4 participants. HOST 2: As you know, a properly chosen costume is the key to a well-spent holiday. Therefore, we invite you to build an original Halloween costume with your own hands, so to speak.
HOST 2: To do this, we will give you a simple kit: a stapler, disposable bags, scissors, toilet paper. A Halloween costume needs to be made as quickly and efficiently as possible).
(Musical accompaniment - Lady Gaga "Bloody Mary")
HOST 2: Just like on Ivan Kupala, so on Halloween, girls and guys can guess about the future. The girls told fortunes using an apple peel, which they cut thinly and threw over their left shoulder. And they believed that the betrothed’s name would begin with exactly the letter that was outlined on the ground from an apple peel.
Apple bobbin
props:
- basins of water or ropes;
- medium-sized apples (donuts, bagels).
The essence of the entertainment is to catch the maximum number of apples from a bowl using your mouth. Your hands remain behind your back.
If this version of the competition does not seem very suitable to you, you can try to change the conditions a little - hang the apples on ropes and invite the participants to eat them at speed. Again, hands-free. Well, a completely modified option is to replace the apples on the strings with bagels or donuts. It won't be quite an apple bobbin, but that won't make it any less fun.
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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Pumpkin Explosion
Required details
- a large board, a piece of cardboard or just a free wall;
- green paper;
- orange balloons;
- cards with questions;
- small candies;
- threads
We throw candy into the balloons, then inflate them and tie them. We attach the balls in such a way that on the wall or board we get a pumpkin made of balls. Cut out a tail for a pumpkin from green paper.
Participants take turns taking cards with questions and answering them. These could be questions from the school curriculum, on a Halloween theme, or based on a book or movie. The one who answered correctly gets the right to burst any balloon and take away the candy. To make it more interesting, you can put candies not in all the balls or replace some of the candies with other small souvenirs. And for entertainment, add confetti or sparkles to each balloon, which will effectively fly away when the balloon bursts.
This children's Halloween contest is not as easy to implement as the previous ones, but the children's delight in popping the balloons is worth a little effort.
