To throw a Halloween party, you will need significant amount of food, drink, music, invitations, but possibly most importantly, Halloween party decorations!
It's ALL about the decorations, right?
Incase you were not aware, Halloween is usually held around the night of 31st October.
It's mostly celebrated by children wearing [mildly] horrifying masks and costumes, and knocking on neighbor's doors asking for a trick or treat.
Halloween is also THE ULTIMATE excuse to throw a party where you have free rein to go as crazy as you like, creating the most spectacular event on your friend's and family's calendar.
That said, parties need planning.
It's not always easy to bring together a party that requires invites, guest lists, food prep, drinks lists and decorations.
That's why we've written this guide - so make sure you pin, share or save this guide for reference.
With people being so busy these days, a formal invite is a must!
Without further ado, let's get Halloween party planning by starting with some invite ideas:
This simple and effective pumpkin-shaped invitation design is perfect for setting the expectation of a scary good time!
The silhouette of the witch, the dripping blood, and the haunted house in the background of this invite design all create anticipation for a blood-curdling experience.
This is a great set of Halloween party invitation designs, and we especially love the detail of the severed zombie finger!
Below is the perfect design for mysterious Halloween hosts, who have been collecting weird and wonderful ingredients to serve their guests.
Perfectly simple, this Halloween invitation design is a great match for an after school kids party with some supervised spooking.
Not got enough time to print and send a paper Halloween party invite?
Then digital invites are for you.
This is a perfect design for using facebook events to advertise your party amongst your friends, and it's just about mysterious enough to spark intreague as to what is to come.
These Facebook group / event / page headers are immediately available for you to utilize in your party planning.
Here is another example.
It's important that your design format is clear and the details are legible, and this design is just the ticket for smart devices.
With the vast cobweb, the crow on the broken fence and the sunset in the background, the Halloween invitation design below is spot on for outdoor parties.
Will you be partying 'til sunrise or sunset, that's the question.
These Halloween cake sticks were created using SVGs by Paperly Studio.
Invites sorted; perhaps now you're wondering how to cater for your guests? Because food and drink make a party, right?
If your aim is a bustling Halloween party, full of guests dressed up as mummies, zombies, ghosts and witches, then food that people can pick up and pick at is a must.
We've gathered our favorite resources to help you along the way:
Fill these easy to make pumpkin-shaped boxes with sweets and treats.
They're very easy to construct, and they look brilliant stacked up and in a rainbow of colors.
These hanging bat boxes can be constructed in minutes, and can be filled with dry snacks such as wrapped sweets, popcorn and crisps.
These Halloween graphics are brilliant for kid's parties and games, and are perfect for labelling cups, bottles and belongings.
Just like the pumpkin and bat boxes above, these skull shaped papercraft boxes are brilliant for serving snacks.
They can also be given out to your guests with little surprises in at the end of the party.
These pillow boxes are embellished with Halloween shapes, and are just the ticket for giving to your guests at the end of the party. You can easily add edible treats, snacks or tiny gifts.
Copyright Designbundles.netNow you've thought about your guest list and catering, it's onto the really fun part!
There are several Halloween themes to choose from, and therefore are really easy to adapt them to fit around your guest list, budget and venue.
Finally, here are three of our absolute favorite Halloween party themes:
Copyright Designbundles.netTurning your house into a haunted one is much easier and cheaper than you may think!
Focusing on the entry is a good idea, because this will give your guests a good impression from the start.
If you have a front garden or pathway leading to your house, you could print and laminate headstones, pinning them to posts or trees.
The Graveyard font is perfect for adding personalized, creepy messaging to the headstones.
A slightly controversial move would be to write each of your guest's names on their very own headstone in your garden, consequently greeting them in the most thought-provoking way!
Also, scary signs are a must, and especially great with dripping blood fonts.
Inside the party venue, setting up a dark and eerie backdrop is a good place to start. This can be achieved simply by dimming the lights, or creating areas of candlelight.
If you have dark colored sheets or material, gathering it up and covering the walls will create a blank canvas for your Halloween party decorations.
Create a creepy music playlist with Halloween sound effects, and throw lots of wispy cobwebs all over the place.
We've highlighted a few of our favorite Halloween SVGs and mockups below.
With 1000s of incredibly inspiring graphics available you're able to create some unique haunted house party elements easily, also at a low cost.
Love them, or hate them, place spiders over everything! Hang them from the ceiling with fishing wire, consequently creating a skin-crawling feeling for your very lucky guests.
Simply print these spider SVGs on card or paper and cut them out, or use your cutting machine.
These Halloween window shapes are great if you've blocked out the light to create your eerie atmosphere. Simply print and stick up on walls, and you have instant creepy window decorations.
How could we have not mentioned ghosts yet?! These creepy, but kinda cute ghosts could easily be printed onto paper and placed on walls.
Hang them off ceilings, and hide them in bathrooms to add to your haunted house style.
If you want your guests to believe you're the ghostess with the mostess, then why not get it printed on your attire?
This is also a super-easy way to creep your guests out. Simply print and stick these bloodshot eyes to anything and everything. In the bottom of glasses or cups, on cocktail sticks in cakes, and make masks with them.
A haunted house theme is great because it's perfect for kids and adults. Tone the venue down or up depending on how creepy you think your guests can handle!
It's cheap and easy to create an eerie atmosphere for your guests, likewise there's so much inspiration on Design Bundles to get you started if this theme isn't for you.
Copyright Designbundles.netA mad scientist themed Halloween party is a very easy theme to set up that works for all ages. With this theme, it's all about the detail of the food, drinks and surface decorations rather than the styling of the party venue.
Therefore, concentrate on things such as food and drinks stations, and other areas of interaction. A black candelabra, crows, mouse skeletons and a few specimens can be of much use to make your mad scientist theme come to life...
...or death!
Guests will be surprised and delighted mixing their own poisons and potions using syringes, test tubes and stirring cauldrons.
Using Design Bundles resources, create labels, backdrops, surfaces and signs for use on your drinks station that intrigue and encourage people to get stuck in.
Here are some of our most noteworthy design favorites:
These apothecary labels have the right amount of detail to evoke fear about what a guest is going to drink.
Simply print them and stick them onto containers, bottles, test tubes and jars for an instant effect.
'Drink Up Witches' is the perfect statement for a Halloween gathering.
Framed and hung or propped up near the drinks; it's a must for any witches gathering.
Below is the perfect sign if you want to create some mystery and intrigue into the drinks you're serving.
A cure for wrinkles? Oh, go on then.
If you're not going the whole hog and letting your guests mix their own potions, then utilizing potion graphics like this is a perfect way to set the scene.
These vintage anatomy graphics are a brilliant fit for your science lab party.
Teamed also with a few 'real' props, and a drop or two of blood, this will be sure to delight your gore-loving guests.
You can use a large storage jar for poison punch and print a pharmacist label using the Magic Potion font. Remember, the more mad you go, the better.
Finally, think about serving different colored drinks in different vessels.
You could pour black vodka in a clear glass skull, white wine from a poison bottle, or serve fruit juice via a drip! Though not intravenously, as that would not only be mad, but very bad indeed.
A mad scientist theme would not be complete without some more weird, but wonderful creations to savor. Create a food table where there are an array of strange-looking concoctions and flavors.
Perhaps serve some mind-bending savory-tasting dishes that look like desserts and vice versa.
Also, add a bowl of shiny red, poisonous apples, inviting your guests to pick one if they dare.
Jelly, yoghurt or ice cream could be squirted into the mouths of children via a syringe.
Serve canapes impaled with eyeballs on cocktail sticks.
Furthermore, a few specimens in jars, the odd skull and a bloodied instrument to set the foody scene won't go amiss.
Finally, to stop guests from asking you to share your secrets of what is being served, you could DIY a book of magic spells (drinks and food menu) using the witchcraft graphics we love, here:
This theme is perfect if you don't have much space, and don't mind getting a bit experimental and messy with food and drinks.
This is a great theme for those who love to get stuck into creating weird and wonderful party pieces.
Design Bundles has your back with 100s of resources to help.
If zombified hands emerging from graves, accompanied by rabid dogs with yellow eyes, matted fur and dripping mouths spark your interest, then the Living Dead Halloween party theme is for you.
You can turn your garden into a zombie's playground by scattering human and animal skeletons alongside severed zombie hands digging in and out of graves.
Then, evoke a feeling of apprehension in your guests as they arrive at your door covered by a ragged, blood and dirt-stained sheet.
Also, use the dripping blood font, create a scary message that asks them to turn back or die, or to get help!
If they read that and enter, it's at their own risk.
Inside, add scratches to doors, squirt fake blood on kitchen cupboards and on windows.
If you want to go full on zombie apocalypse mode, nail some wood across doors that are out of bounds, also close all the curtains and add big padlocks to cupboards.
What about those zombies who didn't survive?
Stuff old clothes with cushions and pile them up as though you're stockpiling your unfortunate zombie victims.
Add bloodshot eyes and sharp, blood-stained teeth to your stuffed animals, and create a zombified animal cage.
Add some zombie-themed foods like brain cakes, severed crudité fingers, watermelon zombie heads, meat on the bone, jelly body parts and so on.
One last thing.
Bad with face paint, and need a mask instead?
Design Bundles has got you covered with this selection of zombie masks!
The zombie theme seems like a lot of fun, right? That's because it is!
If you've got a small space, the zombie theme is great, as it requires little effort and minimal cash to set the scene.
Likewise, if guts, gore and drama is your thing, zombie Halloween party decorations are so fun to make and go to town on!
The talented Design Bundles Designers have made throwing an awesome Halloween party so easy.
The ideas for Halloween party decorations, catering and invites we've brought together for you here will make for the most memorable and enjoyable Halloween party.
So which theme will you choose? Will it be the haunted house, with gravestones, spiders and ghosts?
Or possibly the mad scientist party where guests mix their own drinks and cast their own spells?
Finally, does the thought of staging a zombie apocalypse do it for you?
With three strong themes to choose from, you're future Halloween ideas are sorted.
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