Ideas for Adult Halloween Parties

You're never too old to host a Halloween party; and you're never too old to attend one either. My family hosted one of the best and most memorable adult Halloween parties I've ever been to. So much so we've reminisced about it every Halloween since. Here is what we did. It might give you some good Halloween party ideas.

First, we over-invited. Anyone who's hosted any type of party will tell you only about half of the invitees actually attend to party. We didn't use invitations, but there's nothing saying you can't. Store-bought one would be good, but if you have the time and materials, hand-crafted ones are always better and they make a great keepsake. When it came to the decorations, though, we spared nothing.

We hung so many fake cobwebs we my mother was still finding some when Thanksgiving rolled around. We put plastic ants in the ice cubes. When we made drinks for the guests we put plastic bugs in the drinking cups. We set lighted flashlights on end instead of candles. (Alcohol and candles rarely mix well) We rigged a big, black, hairy spider on a string so it would move whenever the bathroom door was opened. We put creepy-crawlies on the tables, in the chairs, in the refrigerator, and we topped it all of with a track of scary noises playing in the background. We played some really fun games too.

We hung donuts from strings that had been tacked to the ceiling. Then we paired up and tried to see which team could eat the whole donut first. Did I forget to mention that we couldn't use our hands? We played charades, bobbed for apples, and we sat in my mom's dank, dark cellar and listen to my oldest brother tell a real graphic spooky tale while my younger brother and a few of his cohorts made freaky noises in the dark shadows. It really was spooky. But, before we did that we went on a scavenger hunt like none we had gone on before.

We when to each of our neighbor's homes, and to a variety of businesses in town, and asked for the weirdest things. A wooden toothpick, a red cotton sock with a hole in it (we actually got it although we cheated a bit and had to make the hole ourselves) a newspaper from the prior week etc. It was loads of fun for us and the neighbors.

As far as the food went, we decided on a potluck smorgasbord. Everyone pitched in which helped deferred the cost to everyone.

We had the time of our lives, we acted like teenagers without a care in the world, and we created memories that can only be found at an adult Halloween party.