You are new to the neighborhood and you still haven't had the opportunity to properly introduce yourself to the neighborhood families. Halloween offers you a great scope to meet those families in a friendly and informal way! So if you have planned to organize a Halloween event, why not arrange for a scary neighborhood Halloween party this time!
Invite Your Neighbors
Design spooky invitation cards with blood stained hand prints all over or with a monster face drawn on the card cover. You can even invite the neighborhood kids to come with their crayons and water colors and do some drawing and coloring on the invitation cards.
Party Theme
If you decide to turn your locality into a cemetery, then use fake tombstones to decorate the whole area. Involve the kids and their parents to decorate the streets and the lawns with skeletons erected on sturdy sticks. You can also add flying bats on each tree and use dim lights to create a spooky ambiance. Additionally, place different sized pumpkin paper cutouts in front of the doorways.
Costume to Wear
You can tell the kids to dress like Dracula, a witch, Frankenstein, monsters, and so on to make your party a fun-filled affair. It will be lovely to see kids and adults looking like horrific devils and blood sucking vampires. You can keep small gifts ready to be given to the best dressed kid and adult. Don't forget to take pictures of the guests entering your home in such bizarre costumes.
Food of the Day
Take suggestions from your neighbors on what they want to prepare for the scariest event of 2012. Will you make white cakes with edible skeletons on it or chocolate cakes with edible giant spiders? Donuts and cookies can also be prepared in the shape of caterpillars, worms, broomsticks, etc. Remember to make or buy packets of jellybeans, candies, caramels, and lollypops to enjoy during the event. Serve red, white or yellow colored juices to the guests.
Entertainment
Arrange for some creepy music and sound effects (that of howling cats, barking dogs, wings flapping sound of bats, strong winds blowing, etc.) to set the mood of the party. Let all the guests have a blast dancing to the music. You can buy CDs from a nearby grocery store or borrow some from your friends.
Games for Both Kids and Adults
While entertaining the guests with some scary music, you can also introduce games to add more fun and excitement to your event. For your neighborhood Halloween party, you can ask the guests to make a "Jack-o-Lantern" using a cardboard, crayons, and a candle. You can also have the 'candy corn game' for kids where the contestants will have to guess the exact number of candy corns in a jar. The person with the closest guess will get the full jar.
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