My husband and I decided we wanted to keep the party in the garage and have it be adults only. This allowed us to get a little creepier with the decor and by having it in the garage, we could set it up ahead of time. For this party, I stocked up on a TON of "creepy cloth" and cobwebs from the Dollar Tree. I wanted the look of this party to be that of an old, abandoned house.
I brought in some small furniture (love seat, oversized chair, side table) from our house and used some patio chairs and rocking chairs from our front porch. I covered each piece of furniture that was going to be sat in with a white sheet, giving it the abandoned house look. All of my sheets were thrift store finds and were under $5 (sheets had to be large to fit over the furniture).
I hung the creepy cloth all over the garage, making sure to tear and stretch it to give it an authentic look. Cobwebs went everywhere cobwebs could go, making it look as if the place hadn't been cleaned in decades. I also put plastic rats, crows and a variety of bugs anywhere I could. I had two small tables that I used to put little extras on, such as, spray painted black vases with black flowers, old candle holders, candelabras, creepy pictures in frames, old books and an old creepy telephone. The room was lit just by tons of candles to give it yet another element of abandonedness. I had purchased two animated dolls from our local Halloween store. One little girl that sat on a swing that hung from the ceiling and hummed some creepy tune and one little girl that stood about 4ft high and looked like the girl from the Exorcist. She too hummed a creepy tune and lunged at you when you least expected it. I also invested in a small fog machine from Party City that took the party to a whole new level of scary!
A couple of thrift store dolls were given a makeover and turned into some creepy bystanders that
stared at you no matter where you were in the garage. I was pretty proud of their scary makeovers.
For the dessert table, I covered the table with a black table cloth and spread moss over the top of the table. I used a roll of "weathered wood" paper from Michaels to create the backdrop, along with a black mirror from Bed, Bath and Beyond and two scary pictures in frames from the Dollar Tree. The focal point on the table was a huge candelabra from Michaels (use coupons, it saves a TON) with matching black candles (also from Michaels). I had two glass containers from another party that went on either side of the candelabra, filled with a skull and bones and more moss. Of course, everything (besides the food) was also covered in cobwebs.
As for the desserts, I made carmel apples, using a Dollar Tree knife as the stick. I also made red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and shards of "glass" made from drying a sugar syrup and breaking it into pieces. I made a simple pistachio bundt cake and covered it with red
frosting to mimic blood and made marshmallow pops, stuck into a styrofoam skull. Lastly, I made piñata headstone cookies with mini m&m's inside and "bones" out of pretzels, mini marshmallows and white chocolate (tutorial shared below).
Marshmallow and Pretzel "Bones"
Ingredients:
1 Package of pretzel sticks
1 Package of mini marshmallows
1 Package of white chocolate (I use Baker's brand)
Take one pretzel stick and push a mini marshmallow onto each end. Melt white chocolate on double broiler, until smooth. You may also use a microwave by putting the white chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and heating at 30 second increments, stirring in between, until white chocolate is smooth. Dip assembled pretzels into white chocolate and let dry on parchment paper.
This party was so much fun and everyone that attended loved it! We loved the decorations so much, we left them up for trick or treaters, some of which were scared to come into the garage. We had people in our neighborhood giving us so many compliments and I can't wait until our next Halloween party!
Hope you enjoyed this party as much as we did.
Until next time,
Creative Details Event Planning.
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