Adult Halloween Party!!!

I found a bunch of fun Halloween decoration ideas on Familyfun.com They're cheap and easy to make.
There were also fun party ideas in Parenting Magazine this month, with recipes for festive-looking food like cinnamon bread sticks that look like shriveled up fingers, "slime" punch with blood dripping down the glasses, etc. I'm not one to go all-out for Halloween, so I really don't have any first-hand ideas.

Check out Oriental Trading and Current online for the decorations. :-)

allrecipes.com/HowTo/Halloween-Cakes/Detail.aspx
www.thecakestore.co.uk/acatalog/Halloween.html
familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/specialfeature/halloween_ms_food

one of my favorite things to do is to search halloween sites. i found a few harry potter recipe sites. just search "harry potter recipes."

A great cake is a Cat Liter Cake. You can search the recipe on www.recipezaar.com . You can also search Halloween and see what you can come up with. This is a site that can be free or paid for, but it is all people contributions with rating so you know how people liked it. It is also a great place to store any recipes you keep misplacing!

I made that cake last year for my then Kindergardners Halloween party! The teacher took it to all the classrooms so she could show people and let them sample.

Good luck on your party!
J.

The best Halloween parties I've been to have been Murder Mystery dinners. You can rent these games from a costume store (they come with instructions, a book/script of mystery, and what to put in the invitation) Everyone is assigned a role in the story and dresses up for their part. And while you eat and socialize you try to figure out the mystery. Lots of Fun! Good luck

At game stores they have the Murder party game. They have different scenerios, and a few different versions. We did one years ago for a Halloween party and it was a lot of fun! I think there is a game store in Provo Towne Center and University malls that sell it.

You can serve Spaghetti (guts). Tapioca pudding makes good brains or frogs eyes. One year I shaped a meat loaf like a rat. I used slivered almonds as teath and Craisins as red eyes. My Mom always carves out a pumkin and serves soup out of it. We have made deviled eggs and called them eyeballs. you can make witches brew (some kind of punch with dry ice in it). We have a halloween party at my Mom's every year. Just play with it and have fun. My Mom likes to hang up cob webs every year and to use black lightbulbs instead of regular ones. It makes the cob webs glow. Good Luck, and have a Blast!

Check out foodnetwork.com; they have a lot of good recipes and party ideas. Have fun!
S.

It depends on how "halloweeny" you want it to be. Do you want it to be cutesy Halloween, Creepy/Scary Halloween, or just Fall-ish? A good default is always the bales of hay and pumpkins and cornstalks for the front porch; the stalks can be tied up with raffia or fall ribbon. If you want to go more Halloween specific, Martha Stewart's website is usually a wealth of ideas for decorations and food. I helped my parents put theirs together a couple of years ago and we went so far as to make the invites little severed fingers (plaster cast) in a box-a black ribbon tied around the finger telling the guests "don't forget". It was an all out kind of thing and took a lot of prep work, but it turned out great. All the lightbulbs in the dining room were replaced with black lights or purple or green lightbulbs for the dinner portion of things as well.

Last year we had one of our own-it was a costume party, so just seeing people arrive was a huge part of the fun. We wanted to keep it more simple, so we just used the decor we already had out for fall and Halloween. We also had everyone just bring some type of appetizer/finger food or treat so it was more of a pot-luck sort of thing. For games, we had a few things planned, but we ended up playing Scene It (80's music addition which was a riot!), and then mostly just talking and hanging out, although it did end up turning into a dance party that lasted until 2am! Oh-we ended up with a limbo contest as well. lol It was entertaining to watch Mr Incredible, a pirate and a vampire doing the limbo! I can't wait to see how it turns out this year!

For us it seems that most of the time when we "plan" games, we end up not doing them because we spend more time just enjoying each others company. You could always go the traditional route and do things like bobbing for apples, one line at a time spooky stories, things like that. There is a website called partygameideas.com that usually is a decent resource for ideas.

Oh, and for a cake, http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/halloween-cake-idea... has a bunch to browse through.