Halloween time! We’re having a party this year, so we need lots of ideas for stuff. Here’s a really cool idea for a costume - she’s pixilated! Anybody else hosting a party? Looking for costume ideas? Got ideas to share? I’m interested in all things halloween.
Hammer time! Awesome costume.
Oh, I’ve got food ideas. Nothing in the universe makes me happier than throwing a Halloween party!
First, you must have dip and veggies/cheese. You can find funky recipes if you like but the coolest way to serve is to get a big pumpkin, hollow it out and make the opening on top large enough to nest a dip bowl. Then you spear cheese cubes or mini carrots/peppers/cucumbers/broccoli/etc. on toothpicks (or half-size skewers). Make small holes all over the pumpkin with a large gauge needle (slightly smaller than the toothpick/skewer) and then insert your food picks. Instant Pumpkin Pinhead! (If you want to get crafty, cut out small shapes in areas you haven’t speared food and place a battery-powered light inside for the glowing effect.)
You can make Kitty Litter cake for grossness–http://www.fabulousfoods.com/index.php?option=com_resource&controller=article&category_id=109&article=17836
Serve different color cocktail shots in test tubes at your mad scientist bar (decorate with dry ice and colored water in beakers).
Bone Breadsticks are super easy to make from refrigerated dough (just shape them like bones) and dip them in Bloody Marinara (tomato sauce, garlic, oregano, basil, onion powder, Worcestershire and hot sauce with a splash of vodka).
You can make cheese fingers–sticks of string cheese with a slivered almond stuck on the end. (Can also be dipped into the Bloody Marinara. YUM!)
You should always freeze juice in a non-powdered, non-latex glove to float on top of the punch. Speaking of punch, Dishwater Punch is disgusting looking but tasty–
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1 can pineapple juice
1/2 quart apple juice
1 pk. Grape Kool-Aid
2 pks. berry punch Kool-Aid
1 pk. tropical punch Kool-Aid
1 1/2 pkss. strawberry Kool-Aid
11 quarts water
Make sure all kool-aid pks. are pre-sweetened 2 qt. pkgs.
Mix all dry mixes together. Add water and juices, and stir well.*
More gross food–make gruyere fondue and tint it green–snot or slime dip.
Check instructables.com, they probably have a holiday section, I know they had a Halloween contest last year. I bet there’d be a lot of good ideas to be found.
I also know my friend Dot at dabbled.org had a round-up of Halloween ideas last year.
I found a few food ideas - rolled sugar cookies with almonds for fingernails, swamp water punch with a frozen hand (freeze light blue kool-aid in a clean glove then peel the glove off) floating in it, dirt pudding (chocolate pudding and crushed oreo cookies) with gummy worms.
I like the bone breadsticks idea - yummy and disgusting! 
And snot dip!
One of the best costumes I ever saw was the guy in a trenchcoat. Shoes and socks, and bare legs showing under the trenchcoat. He’d go up to women and throw open his trenchcoat. Shock for a moment, then laughter.
Why? Because he had a pair of gym shorts on, but what was even better was that over those, he had a flashing light from a construction site hanging from his belt.
Yep. He was a flasher.
Ooh, that is good! I was thinking of dressing up in a prison outfit with a long red wig - and going as Lindsay Lohan.
I had a friend that did pretty much the same thing but used a camera flash. So when he opened the trench coat he would trigger the flash.
This years zombie party is “Zombies you don’t see in the movies” so I am doing zombie Amish (or Zomish) and my buddy is doing Zombie Jesus (he was sort of the original in some ways). Should be fun.
Lemme think what all we did at our party last year…well, we did Candy Corn Pizza (no, not actual candy pizza, just put mozzarella in the middle, a ring of cheddar around it, and left a wide crust to make slices look like candy corn), Candy Corn Pudding, Mummy Dogs (buy canned crescent rolls, cut the dough into strips, wrap around hot dogs like bandages, and bake), Moon Pie owls, ghost pears…can’t remember what all. The showstopper was my wife’s spider cake; hard to tell from the picture, but it was really huge. Oh, and melting brain punch (brain-shaped ice mold, apple flavoring, gummy worms, nice effect).
One cute thing for the table: I rolled out some white fondant into super-thin sheets and cut rounds, then draped them over large marshmallows and drew ghost faces on them with a marker. Then, I stuck toothpicks into them, with little signs taped on them, saying what each food item was. You can see one in this picture, along with the candy corn pudding, and another here by the candy corn pizza. I tried to put a different expression on each ghost. heh.
I think the biggest hit party game was: buy a big pack of cheap toilet paper. Break the party up into groups; for us, it was two kids and one grownup in each group. Each group got a roll of toilet paper. Then, the kids had, I think, two minutes to use their TP to wrap up the grown-up to make the best looking mummy they could. The best one won a candy-filled trophy ($1 at Wal-Mart).
One other thing that was a hit as far as decorating goes was the DVD I bought from Twisted Ambience. I played the “Possessed Paintings” one on a loop during the party (I have the “Tombstones” one as well), and it provided a good bit of unobtrusive background spookiness. The site has short demo movies so you can see what the images are like.
I love the ghosts! I think I’ve seen some mummy dogs on a website - with little beady eyes peeking out of the bandages. Very cute.
Some of my all time favorite Halloween costumes:
Me as Cat in the Hat, 2 friends as Thing 1 and Thing 2.
One year, I went as my friend Al. Cheap costume, I just borrowed some his clothes.
Another cheapo costume was going as the bearded lady from Spaceballs - just borrow a dress and grow a beard.
A few friends and I went as choir boys on eyear, which has the added benefit of providing an excuse to get hammered and then show up on people’s lawns at 2 in the morning singing “Jingle Bells” on Halloween night - it’s as fun, and as appreciated, as it sounds…
Last year I got and wore this Bunny Costume as a tribute to Anya
Adam Sandler had some good ideas:
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Spiderman and Daredevil are not wimpy! Sheesh.
The halloween decorations have started coming out; I have to see what my sister already has (she usually has the halloween party), and see what we still need to dungeon up our basement.
I’m going to repeat what I did three years ago. I just haven’t been able to come up with anything to top it.
Okay, that freaked me out. I assume those are large contact lenses?
Very large. You have to fold them to get them onto your eyes.
Get a metric buttload of purple cloth, and make yourself a costume of WoW T9 Mage Gear. For bonus points, add a tabard of your guild or favorite faction.
Last year Sweetie and I built a Dalek costume complete with voice modulator and light-up helmet dixie cup thingys; he was the Dalek, I was the Doctor.
This year we’re thinking simpler, Boris and Natasha.