Halloween Party Decoration Ideas
Your Halloween party decorations will probably include the standard range of items, but there are some simple little extra tricks you can easily add that will add a scary surprise, and give your guests a chilling fright and cause a few screams.
No good Halloween party could be void of spooky, creepy, candlelit, carved Jack-O-Lanterns spreading eerily dim lighting throughout the room. You can also buy ghostly glowing images to hang up in strategic locations and add imitation spider web or goassmer cloth to walls. Either one will create a scary haunted house feel to your party.
Other decorations can be hung from the ceiling right at eye level with your guests. They are sure to be scared when they accidentally walk into witches, bats, ghosts, skeletons, and spiders. Similarly, spreading small plastic bugs and spiders in the room and on plates will be sure to frighten just about anyone at your party. In a candlelit setting, your party guests will constantly be on the look out for the next frightening surprise that awaits them.
To make party goers feel a creepy ghostly presence in the room, you can attach lots of thin, darkly colored string from the ceiling. Make sure they can’t be seen. That way, people will walk into them and feel something strange touching them without being able to see what it is, which might even win you a few terrified screams.
Frights come when unexpected things suddenly happen. You could set up a few lights on timers to occasionally briefly illuminate scary scenes or pictures in two or three otherwise dark corners of the room. The effect is increased if you are able to coordinate sound effects to draw attention when the light comes on. Depending on the age group of your guests, you could create a frightening three dimensional scene that is briefly revealed, such as a ghostly headless or hanging man.
Fog machines are readily available from party hire specialists. Used with lighting effects, they will immediately create a chilling and eerie atmosphere in the room as the fog floats across the floor of the room around the feet of your guests. If you can, set up an artificial tombstone or two to conceal the exact location of the machine.
With large screen televisions becoming more common, you could play a horror movie in the background, with the sound turned down, to help to set the scene.
Music plays a large part in creating the atmosphere. At least for the early part of the party, Halloween sound effects and music like the classic Monster Mash will heighten the sense of tension in the room. With the party in full swing later on, your guests will expect to hear their favorite dance music tracks. A compilation interspersing Halloween sound effects would help to maintain the atmosphere.
