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Monster Mash Halloween PartyIt's the… Mash! It is the Monster Mash… and that's the party we're planning for Halloween. Your favorite monsters are coming to party at your home or event. Let's see what we have in store for them.
Party Music & VideosWhat's a party without music? Your invited monsters want to stomp their feet and wave their arms in the air (isn't that what they do in the movies?) Here's some CD's that you can pick up to make your Monster Mash shindig a complete success:Music:
See our Halloween Movies section for a listing of mystery and horror movies. Videos to Watch (For Children) See our Halloween Movies section for a listing of children's Halloween movie picks. Monster Mash Halloween Party DecorationsHow about some shrunken heads adorning your tabletop? Or perhaps you could "serve" a severed hand? Our Monster Mash party needs decorations to suit its theme namely body parts scattered throughout the area. Of course, we mustn't forget to have a "work in progress" stuck away in some "laboratory"! For children's parties, tone down some of the decorating ideas found below.Shrunken Heads Materials:
Peel the apples and remove the stem. Carve a face into the apple (it doesn't have to be perfect, just enough to resemble a face). Let the apples dry for several days. Place on the table or hang around the house. Severed Hands Materials Needed:
1. Cut 4 wire pieces the length of the glove and one measuring the length of the thumb to the wrist. Wrap batting around the wire. 2. Insert each covered wired into a finger of the glove. Stuff with additional fiberfill if needed to fill out the finger. Twist the wires together where they meet. Stuff the palm of the hand with additional fiberfill until filled out to look like a hand. Bend the fingers into whatever shape you desire. 3. Spray-paint the gloves with green paint. Add some spots and veins with the gray and brown paints. 4. Glue the nails onto the ends of the fingers. Place on tables or creeping over the backs of chairs. For an extra fright, place on a plate on the food table and cover with a solid round lid. You might want to add some fake drops of blood to the fingertips too! Creepy Bathroom Materials Needed:
Instructions: 1. Fill the bathtub partially full with water. Add red food coloring. 2. Put a bunch of plastic eyeballs or other body parts floating in the water. 3. Put some ketchup on the plastic knife and lay it near the bathtub. Dip your hands in the ketchup and make some "handprints" on the tiles and bathroom fixtures (bathtub, toilet, and sink). (NOTE: DO NOT USE FAKE BLOOD AS THIS WILL STAIN. Also, only use the ketchup on the enameled surfaces…do not use it on painted walls as it will stain the walls.) 4. Right a message on the mirror with the red lipstick. Mini Laboratory Materials Needed:
Set up a small table somewhere for you "laboratory". Cover it with a white sheet. Fill bottles with water and food coloring (green, red, orange, yellow, blue). Cut tubing to go from one bottle to another. Plug one end of the tube with putty. Monster Creation Materials Needed:
1. Use a small room if you have one. Attach a 2 foot length of rope to each end of the dowel. Secure the rope to the ceiling or wall with thumb tacks or nails, 2 feet in front of the table. 2. Drape 1 or 2 lightweight white sheets over the dowel so they hang near the floor. This is your "operating room" screen. (Like the curtains that hang around a hospital bed.) 3. Cover the table with the tablecloth so that it hangs down in front. Stuff the clothes with newspapers and layout the "body" on the table. Stuff the mask with newspapers and set in place (Hint: for added effect, place a battery operated LED bicycle light inside the mask to make the eyes glow red.) 4. Stuff the gloves and secure into place with safety pins. Place shoes at feet. 5. Scatter around the table the "tools" used to build your creation. Put droplets of "blood" on clothes and tools. 6. Fill the jars and containers with the "blood and guts body parts" listed below and put some "inside" the body (like the guts) with the shirt slightly open. Place some around the table. Set up a small second table with the remaining "inside body parts". 7. Set your flexible reading lamp near the head of your creation like an operating room light. Turn off all other lights in the room. 8. Give tours of your creation. Make sure to have a place where your guests can wash their hands afterwards.
Heart Use: poached eggs in chunky salsa or partially filled balloon in semi-set gelatin. Eyeballs Use: peeled grapes or olives or pearl onions. Ears Use: dried peaches/apricots or dried apples or pears. Brains Use: over cooked cauliflower or frozen and then thawed tofu, shaped. Hair Use: corn silk or a wig. Teeth Use: unpopped popcorn or small broken pretzels or pine-nuts. Fingers Use: pieces of chalk or cold wieners or carrots (cut into finger size) or sliced dill pickles or cleaned chicken wing bones (use bones that have been cooked). Guts Use: cold, cooked spaghetti with a touch of oil or canned Heinz Spaghetti Liver Use: canned peach half. Fresh Vomit Use: bottle of salsa or a can of vegetable soup. Cold Hand Use: rubber glove that's been filled with water and frozen. Decayed Flesh Use: dried wonton or egg roll wrappers. Body Fat Use: water and flour mixed together to form a thick paste. Materials Needed:
1. Make frames from cardboard if needed - use brown cardboard for this. Decorate paper frames if desired. 2. Cut out squares of cardboard to make the backing to fit the frames. 3. Cut out pictures of monsters from graphics, posters, magazines, etc. or draw and color your own. Paste or tape the pictures to the cutout backing. (IDEA: Get pictures of rooms and then paste cutouts of the monster "in" the room.) 4. Tape the pictures to the frames. Hang your "portraits" around the house (a hallway is a good place). If desired, make name plates from cardboard to place under the pictures.
Party Games & ActivitiesAt your Monster Mash party, all games and activities will be geared toward monster themes and icky body parts…eeewwww.Scared Stiff (Group Activity) Materials Needed:
Everyone gathers in one area. Start the music. The guests dance around the room. Stop the music and everyone must freeze. If someone moves, they are considered dead and are out of the game. Keep going until only one person is left. Body Part Treasure Hunt (Team Activity) Materials Needed:
1. Hide the various body parts around the house. (Don't make this too difficult). 2. Divide the players into two teams. Give each team a list of the body parts. 3. Explain that they need to find all the body parts and create their "monster". The first team to finish wins. Should a team find both skulls, for example, they are to leave the second skull where it is. Each team is ONLY to gather what they need to make their monster. 4. If any parts of the house are off limits, tell them immediately which rooms they are. Who Am I? (Ice Breaker Activity) Materials Needed:
1. Remove or cover all mirrors in the house while playing this game. As guests arrive, pin the slips of paper onto their backs without them seeing the name. 2. Players then go around asking other people questions as to who they are. Answers can only be given as yes or no. They cannot ask the question: Who am I? 3. When a player thinks they know who they are, they go to the host for confirmation. If they are wrong, they continue playing. If they are right, they can rejoin the game to give answers. 4. The host keeps a record of the order in which players guess their identity. Give out a prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. How Many Words? (Individual Activity) Materials Needed:
1. Give each player a pen and paper. Set a time limit, say 5 minutes. 2. On the word go, the players try to make as many words out of the word: FRANKENSTEIN. 3. The winner is the one with the most words written down. 4. Other suggestions for words: VAMPIRE WEREWOLF DRACULA GHOULISH Mummy Wrap (Team Activity) Materials Needed:
1. Divide the players into teams of 2 to 4 people each. One person on each team is elected to be the mummy to be wrapped. 2. Give a roll of toilet paper to each of the other team members. On the word go, the other team members start wrapping the mummy with the toilet paper. The first team done wins. Winning teams play off against each other. Frankenstein Bean Bag Toss (Individual Activity) Materials Needed:
1. Glue picture of Frankenstein on cardboard or plywood. Cut a hole where the mouth is. 2. Attach the 2 pieces of wood to the back of the plywood/cardboard so that the picture sits on a slight angle. 3. Mark a spot on the floor about 6 feet away with masking tape. Have the player's line up at the tape and try to toss the bean bags through the mouth of Frankenstein. (NOTE: Other pictures you can use (or paint) onto the board: Mummy, Vampire, Ghost). Zombie Dress-up (Team Activity) Materials Needed:
1. Divide the items up into piles, with each pile having one of each of the items. 2. Divide the players up into 2, 3 or 4 teams (depending on the amount of people - use teams of at least 3 players in each). Place the pile of clothes in front of each team. 3. Place a bell or whistle about 10 feet away from each team. 4. On the word go, the first player of each team races to dress up in the clothes as fast as possible. They must run to ring the bell or blow the whistle, then race back their team mates and undress. The second player gets dressed, rings the bell, returns, undresses. The teams continue doing this until all members of a team have completed their sequence. Once done, have the whole team sit down on the floor to show that they have finished. The first team to sit down wins. NOTE: You should have a video camera or take pictures during this game. Party Favors & PrizesWhen playing Halloween games during a Halloween party, you'll need some monster related prizes to hand out. Here are a few idea that you can quickly put together for favors and prizes.Eyeball Favors Materials Needed:
Cut the netting about 6" in diameter. Place 3 or 4 pieces of gum in the center. Tie up with curly ribbon. Monster Portraits Materials Needed:
1. Use mini frames if possible. Otherwise, make frames from cardboard. Decorate paper frames if desired. Cut out squares of cardboard to make the backing to fit the frames. 2. Cut out pictures of monsters from graphics, posters, magazines, etc. or draw and color your own. Paste or tape the pictures to the cutout backing. 3. If you have an instant Polaroid camera, take pictures of each person, cut out the picture to fit the frame, and place them in the frame instead of using magazine pictures. (Provided you have the time to do this during the party).  Buy Halloween Party Favors Here
Decorate the bags with the stickers. Fill with candies. Fold over top of bag and staple shut. Other suggestions: Rubber bats and skeletons, small pumpkin containers filled with candy, Dracula fangs, black or orange votive candles, a tape of monster music. Halloween Party RefreshmentsSince this is a Monster Mash party, we're going to have a lot of "body parts", as well as green and oozy things to serve. Gruesome is good!Edible Eyeballs Ingredients:
1. Cut the eggs in half lengthwise. Scoop out the yolks into a bowl. Set whites aside for a moment. 2. Mash egg yolks with fork. Mix in some mayonnaise, onion powder, mustard and salt. Stir well. Place 1 teaspoon of mixture in each half of cooked egg whites. 3. Push a green olive into the center of the egg yolk mixture, making sure the red pimento is "looking" out. 4. Dip toothpick in red food coloring and make "red veins" in the yolk mixture. Bloody Punch Ingredients:
1. Mix the orange juice and cranberry concentrates together with 4 cups water. 2. Add about 1-teaspoon red food coloring paste (or 8 to 9 drops of red liquid food coloring). This will help make the punch look more "bloody". Pour in the pop just before serving. 3. When ready to serve, put the red ice cubes into bowl. (Hint: if you can find some ice cube trays shaped like body parts, this would make the punch even better!) Graveyard Cake Ingredients:
1. Make a square or round chocolate cake according to package directions. Let cool. 2. While cake is cooling, make white icing. Tint with green food coloring. 3. Cut about ½ inch off across the bottom of the cake, straight across from side to side. Scoop out the center area of the cake to make a hole (but don't go straight through cake). Set cake crumbs aside. 4. Fill the well with Cherry Pie Filling. Replace the bottom of the cake that you sliced off earlier and set the cake down on a plate. 5. Frost the cake with the green icing. Place chocolate wafers along the top to look like tombstones. Add a few plastic ghosts and goblins. Put some of the reserved cake crumbs around the tombstones to look like freshly dug graves. (You could also get some small doll hands and place them sticking out of the graves). 6. When you cut the cake, the pie filling will ooze out and look like blood. Bloody Nachos Ingredients:
1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil. 2. Place tortilla chips on cookie sheet. Sprinkle with cheese, chilies and olives. 3. Bake for 4 to 5 minutes until cheese is melted. Remove from oven and top with salsa. 4. Add red food coloring to the sour cream and serve with the nachos, along with the guacamole. Moldy Biscuits Ingredients:
1. Heat oven to 450 degrees F. Mix flour sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl. 2. Cut shortening into flour mixture using a pastry blender or two knives, until the mixture looks like fine crumbs. 3. Add green food coloring to milk until it is a dark green. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in the milk. 4. Mix together until dough leaves the sides of the bowl (it should be soft and sticky). 5. Turn dough out on lightly floured surface. Knead lightly 10 times. Roll out so that dough is about ½ inch thick. Using a round cookie cutter cut biscuits from dough. 6. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet about 1 inch apart and bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet immediately. (Yield: about 24 biscuits) Other Suggestions:
How To Haunt Your Party This Year!How To - Dungeon of DoomCreate your own Dungeon of Doom. Will you perish in this room of doom or will you ever get out? Abandon hope all ye to enter here. How To - Witch Kitchen Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Even the Wicked Witch of the West would love to have this kitchen setup! How To - Bone Yard Bar Scare up some spook-tacular boos and spirits with the frightening effects of this bar façade. How To - Bloodcurdling Bathroom Go psycho for this spooky shower scene that is sure to leave an impression on your soul. |
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