Halloween backyard parties is the perfect excuse to have a spooky good time. From setting the scene with homemade jack-o-lanterns and piles of haystacks, to creating ghostly snacks and playing your favorite Halloween classic movie, this will be a night to remember.
Get attendees excited prior to the Halloween party
Send out invites that are cut out into spooky characters like ghosts or witches, or e-vites that are Halloween-themed. Encourage invitees to wear their best costumes and announce that you’ll be hosting a costume contest with prizes. While not required, ask guests to bring their favorite Halloween snacks to enjoy during the Halloween movie!
Set up the projector and play a Halloween family classic
Picnicking in your own backyard and watching a Halloween family classic during the cool autumn evening is a memory in the making for the whole family. Choose a Halloween family classic or a remake. There are plenty of movies to choose from including: Beetlejuice, Hocus Pocus, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Casper, and Hotel Transylvania. Don’t forget to set up comfortable seating, including lots of pillow cushions, plush blankets, and comfy chairs.
Cook up Halloween Snacks
From easy Halloween snacks like tiny, black, plastic spiders in popcorn, freshly dipped caramel candy apples or jack-o-lantern pizzas (mini pizzas with olives on top), plus mummy dogs (pigs-in-a-blanket), there’s so many easy snack choices that are fun and edible. Try the Greek Lamb Sliders on your Wildfire Outdoor Living Grill for a twist on a fan favorite. Other, more advanced snacks include witchy cupcakes and graveyard brownies, which you can decorate colorfully with icing and gummy worms.
Create a spooky ambiance
Piles of pumpkins, bales of haystacks, and jack-o-lanterns everywhere set the ambience for a wicked good time. Use candles, candelabras, and lanterns for a rustic, creepy look and a fog machine for suspicious malice. If you have a pool, floating pumpkins, witches’ hats, or lanterns will add extra macabre. Finally, set the table with skulls and other centerpieces.
Host a costume contest
Let your guests be as creative as they want. If your Halloween party has a theme, now is the guests’ time to shine. Sample themes include Princesses, Monsters, Musicians, Important People in History, etc. Create categories and prizes for each, like “Most Creative” to “Scariest” to “Most Colorful”.
