With the onset of a gloomy rainy autumn, you really want to have fun and fool around from the bottom of your heart. An excellent occasion for a party with family and close friends will be the eve of All Saints Day, which has been traditionally celebrated in America for many years and many European countries. If you wish, you can celebrate Halloween at home, decorating it with themed trinkets and transforming into a charismatic "evil spirit" for one evening.
Decorating a house for Halloween is a very important issue, since it is the right entourage that will create the appropriate mood at the party. You can start from a specific topic, for example, a cemetery or old house with ghosts. Or you can create a general ominous mood and decorate the house for Halloween with your own hands, using improvised means.
From black paper, you can cut out figures of bats, skulls, bones, imps, witches, and use tape or paper clips to attach frightening silhouettes throughout the room.
Before you decorate your house for Halloween, it is recommended to stock up on reflective paint in advance: with its help, you can decorate the figures, which will mysteriously flicker in the dark, creating the right mood.
From wire, you can very quickly make creepy spiders and hang them in the corners on a web woven from ordinary knitting threads. It's a good idea to paint white table tennis balls to look like human eyes. You can organize a little turmoil by scattering them in the most unexpected places, slipping them into the pockets of guests' clothes, or simply placing them in a transparent glass vase.
When organizing a Halloween party at home, it should be remembered that traditionally orange and black are considered the main colors for this holiday. If possible, it is necessary to beat the interior of the room in this color scheme. For example, lay an orange tablecloth on the table and arrange black dishes.
Lighting plays an important role in the design of a room. Candles or lanterns placed everywhere will be a great decoration for Halloween.
In fact, there are a lot of ideas on how to celebrate Halloween at home, it is only important to dream up a little and do not forget to prepare in advance for the upcoming party.
Making a pumpkin lamp
An obligatory attribute of the holiday is a large orange pumpkin with an image of a scary face with a candle lit inside. It can be purchased ready-made in a specialized store, or you can make it manually.
When wondering how to make an unusual candlestick at home, you should stock up on a sharp knife, a pumpkin of the desired size and patience. Carefully cutting off the top with a tail, it is necessary to remove all the pulp from the pumpkin with a spoon, and then, having outlined a grinning face with a pencil, cut out holes in the form of eyes and mouth. It is advisable to deal with this issue in advance so that the homemade lamp has time to dry.
Having installed a pumpkin on a windowsill or at the entrance to the house, it is enough just to put a lit candle or a flashlight inside, as everything in the area will be illuminated by a flickering light, and the lamp itself will create the necessary surroundings in a matter of seconds.
Halloween dishes and their decoration
To properly celebrate Halloween, you need to think over a suitable menu in advance. Of course, dishes can be the most familiar, but it’s still worth it to beat them correctly. So, small plastic or rubber spiders, worms, snakes, flies will be an excellent decoration for festive dishes. These cute creatures are the best fit for the main theme of the holiday, and enhance its main emotion - fear, and it will be very funny to celebrate Halloween at such a table.
If there are no small children in the house, you can pour beetroot juice imitating human blood into glasses and glass bottles, stain a couple of knives in it and lay them out on the festive table.
If you want really “terrible” dishes, then you can buy round candies in the form of eyeballs, bake “bloody” cupcakes with red icing, and decorate them with such “eyes” on top.
Ideas for a festive feast can be very different. If you are not too lazy, you can bake "Witch's Fingers" cookies, which will look like chopped off phalanges. The similarity will be enhanced by the halves of almonds located in place of the nails.
However, the main decoration of the table for this holiday should be a pumpkin-based dish. It can be anything: pumpkin pie, cream soup, sugar-baked pumpkin slices, pies, or pumpkin pot roast.
Festive dress code
How to celebrate Halloween at home in a fun and relaxed way? Well, of course, it is necessary that everyone present at the party be dressed in fancy dress. It is not at all necessary to buy them in a store, because you can create a real masterpiece from improvised means, and borrow ideas from the fabulous folklore of different countries.
Each family has a couple of old white sheets that can be used to create unique ghost costumes (draw big black “hole” eyes and a mouth open in a scream) or a skeleton (depict ribs). It is easier to prepare a mummy costume: it is enough to cut the sheet into strips of fabric and wrap it around a person. As a budget option for these purposes, you can use toilet paper and adhesive tape.
Turning into a bloodthirsty zombie is also not difficult, because for this intimidating look, an unnecessary T-shirt, torn to shreds and stained with red paint, as well as matching makeup, will do. There was a desire to scare your loved ones and strangers on the street? Then it is worth buying themed lenses for the eyes, which in the dark glow with a red or phosphorescent sheen.
Girls can put on an ordinary dress for the holiday, complement it with a black witch's hat, which is not difficult to make from cardboard, tights in a large mesh, long false nails and bright jewelry. Appropriate makeup and a little madness in the eyes - and that's it, the image of a witch is ready!
How to celebrate Halloween at home with friends
How to spend Halloween at home so that you can remember this holiday for the next year? In addition to jewelry, outfits and feasts, you should take care of the entertainment program.
You can arrange a real costume ball of Satan, choosing the appropriate music, or beat a scene from your favorite horror movie, distributing roles among all those present.
Don't forget about Halloween contests. The competition called "Apple" is traditional. However, it is only suitable for participants without facial makeup. Its essence is to eat with your hands tied apples floating in a basin of water.
Ideas for Halloween contests at home can be borrowed from wedding scenarios, only slightly adjusted to fit the theme of the party. An excellent end to the celebration of All Saints Day will be a joint walk with a frightening make-up through the streets of the city. But you should be especially careful not to spend the rest of the holiday explaining your good intentions to law enforcement officials to demand sweets and goodies from passers-by.
How to have Halloween at home with kids
Perhaps the most grateful audience for the celebration is the kids, who are always ready to fool around for glory. Children expect from Halloween, first of all, bright emotions, fun, freedom of action and, of course, more sweets!
Parents should organize a garden table for their offspring and their friends and think over amusing Halloween contests. By the way, the fun of diving into a container of water for apples will be very popular among children.
It is recommended to warn the neighbors in advance, and, having stocked up with a large bag for all kinds of goodies, demand them with a menacing look of “Sweetness or dirty tricks!”. Children take part in such extortion with great pleasure, and then they remember it for a long time, eating delicacies on both cheeks.
Halloween is one of the most ancient holidays, but until recently it was popular mainly in English-speaking countries. However, since the end of the last century, this slightly creepy, but undoubtedly cheerful custom has spread almost all over the world. They began to celebrate it in our country, however, not everyone knows what they do on Halloween, and what signs and superstitions exist in connection with this holiday.
How to celebrate?
For thousands of years, the traditions and customs of the Halloween holiday have changed many times, so the modern way to celebrate this "creepy" night has little to do with the origins of the holiday. Besides, in different countries developed their own traditions.
If in the USA it is mainly a family holiday, then in Russia and Ukraine Halloween is celebrated mainly by young people, and not at home, but in clubs. In entertainment centers, as a rule, they cook thematic programs, and young people, dressed up in costumes appropriate for the holiday, have fun with friends.
Moreover, in many cases, the traditions of the holiday, our people alter in their own way. For example, in choosing costumes, they are not limited to Western representatives of evil spirits, but choose characters from Slavic mythology. At parties, you can meet not only "imported" vampires, but also "domestic" ghouls (despite the similar way of eating, they do not differ in elegance and beauty). In addition, at the party you can easily meet Baba Yaga, Mavka, Kikimora or Lesavka.
Of course, you have to invent and make an outfit for a costume ball on your own, because you can’t find evil spirits from Slavic mythology in costume stores. But when did such minor difficulties stop creative people?
What to feed?
Not a single holiday in our country is complete without a traditional feast, so thinking over the menu is one of the stages of preparing for the holiday. As a rule, the most ordinary dishes are served on the table, only you need to decorate them so that they look creepy. For example, any salad or pizza can be decorated with cute spiders made from olives. And sausages can easily be turned into terrible mummies by wrapping them in thin strips of puff or yeast dough. You can make pumpkins from tangerines, and bake cookies in the form of skulls.
In the United States and some European countries, children go to neighboring houses, begging for sweets. And if the owners are stingy with treats, then uninvited guests can do something nasty to them, for example, cover the windows with soot. In our country, this custom has not particularly taken root, since it is unlikely that adequate adults will let the kids wander around at night in search of sweets.
divination
In our country, it is customary to guess at Christmas time, however, as experts assure, fortune-telling on Halloween is no less accurate and certainly more terrible.
Fortune-telling, as a rule, is carried away by girls who seek to find out who they will marry. There are quite a few options for divination for the groom. The most famous - with a mirror and a candle. You need to sit all alone in a dark room, putting a candle by the mirror, and comb your hair (in some versions of divination, it is recommended to leave your hair alone and start eating an apple). It is believed that if you peer into the mirror for a long time, then you can see the image of the future spouse there.
If it’s scary to do fortune-telling alone, then you can do this exciting business in company with a friend. For example, you can try to conduct a home séance, having prepared a sheet of paper with written letters and a saucer with an arrow drawn on it. It is believed that on Halloween night, the door to the world of spirits and ghosts opens, so the likelihood that one of the loitering spirits will still look at the fortuneteller increases.
However, not only girls, but also guys are fond of fortune telling. So, if a young man wants to know what his future wife will be like, then he will need to crawl under a branch of a blackcurrant bush (in extreme cases, a rosehip or acacia bush will do). It is believed that at the moment of crawling on the ground, the fortuneteller will be able to see the narrowed shadow. And by this shadow he sees, he will be able to judge what kind of wife he will be - short or tall, fragile or "in the body." Of course, in our climate at the end of October, it is not pleasant to crawl outside under the branches of bushes. But for the sake of fortune-telling, one has to make not such sacrifices.
A very ancient collective divination at the stake can be done if the celebration takes place outside the city, for example, in the country. Fortune-tellers laid stones around the fire, remembering where and in what position “their” stone is located. In the morning it was necessary to go to visit the made "mosaic". If all the stones are in place, then a good year awaits all fortunetellers. In the event that the stones are moved, one should expect trouble.
An ancient fortune-telling is also the determination of fate with the help of an apple. Before eating a fruit, it must be cut in half with a knife. If all the apple seeds at the same time turn out to be whole, then the fortuneteller expects well-being. If at least one seed is damaged by a knife, you should expect trouble. But worst of all, if several seeds are damaged at once, it means that the year for the fortuneteller will be very difficult.
Signs and superstitions
There are many superstitions associated with Halloween. Let's figure out what to do and what not to do on this day.
- after dark close all windows and doors in the house tightly;
- decorate the living quarters with nuts and candles, and be sure to put a pumpkin in front of the front doors. You can just put a whole vegetable, but it’s better, of course, to make a flashlight out of it by carving a scarier face on a pumpkin.
Attention! Do not leave burning candles in the house unattended, this is no longer a sign, but fire safety rules.
- if on the night before the first day of November a spider is found in the house, then this is a bad sign, indicating the presence of evil spirits in the room. It is necessary to go around the house around the perimeter with lit candles, and in no case kill the discovered spider itself, but try to carefully put it out on the street;
- on a festive night, you can’t leave clothes drying, even if the dryer is on the balcony. A person who then puts on clothes that were dried on Halloween night will attract misfortune, both to themselves and to those around them. Therefore, if you believe in signs and forgot to take off your underwear before the onset of the “terrible” night, you will have to rewash everything again. Water will wash away all negativity.
What else is not customary to do on Halloween? Signs differ in different countries. So, somewhere it is strictly forbidden to allow black cats to spend the night in the house. Therefore, it is customary to put even beloved pets outside on this night. In many places it is considered good luck to kill a bat, however, there is also a superstition to the contrary, which says that flying in a multitude of bats portends wealth.
It is considered very useful on a festive night to put on clothes “upside down”, and also to go out of the house with your back forward. In such a simple way, people try to deceive the spirits.
Whether to believe in signs and fortune-telling, whether to celebrate this holiday at all - everyone can decide for himself. However, one cannot but admit that Halloween is a holiday with a rich and very ancient history.
Children love to talk horror stories and watch horror movies! Usually parents try to protect their children from such entertainment, but once a year you can allow yourself to relax and arrange a “nightmare” holiday.
halloween at home
Of course, we do not encourage you to send your child to the neighbors and beg for sweets, as they do in the USA. You can arrange a holiday in your own apartment by inviting a few small guests. Most likely, they have never participated in such entertainment and will be completely delighted with your evening!
scary crafts
Start with invitations for guests. Let them be mysterious and mysterious. You can artificially age the paper by dipping it in a tea solution, and make an application of ghosts and bats.
The second important activity is pumpkin carving. Children will be happy to participate in this exciting process that develops imagination and perseverance. If you don't feel like carving a pumpkin, use a quick table decoration.
If guests arrive without costumes, get them involved in making masks. Together with the children, make cardboard masks according to pre-prepared stencils - for example, masks of black cats and cats. Thus, each guest will immediately receive a homemade costume.
Terrible sweets
Traditionally, Halloween sweets are made from corn and apples, that is, from seasonal products. In addition, on children's holiday you can do something themed.
3 recipes for Halloween:
- witch eyes
- witch fingers
- Mummies in dough
Meatballs in tomato sauce garnished with black olives are a simple and tasty dish for Halloween dinner.
Bake finger-shaped shortbread cookies. Don't forget to add the almond nail!
An ordinary sausage in dough will turn into a mummy if you wrap the dough around so that only a small piece of sausage remains on top. And on this “head” attach eyes made of black pepper with peas.
And for dessert, please the little ones with caramel-covered apples and cookies in the shape of ghosts or maple leaves. Cooking ideas for children's Halloween, see here.
Nightmare Entertainment
Prepare music from a horror movie, blindfold the children and invite them to the panic room. First have the children dip their hand into a bowl full of eyes (peeled grapes), then touch earthworms (cold spaghetti with butter) and jelly.
And then turn off the light, light the candles and remember the scary stories that were told to you at the pioneer camp at night! Children will be surprised that mom knows so many interesting things about yellow curtains and a black spot. If you can’t remember anything from your childhood, read Eduard Uspensky’s “Horrors”.
The evening can be completed by watching a family "horror movie". Even though Halloween is not our traditional holiday, do not miss the opportunity to organize unusual entertainment for your child.
TOP 5
What to watch on Halloween with kids
- Casper
- Hocus pocus
- The nightmare before christmas
- TV series "Goosebumps" or "Are you afraid of the dark"
- Coraline
How to celebrate Halloween at school
Halloween at school
In many Russian schools, Halloween is already celebrated annually - at least in the classroom. in English. Prepare a costume with your child and talk about holiday traditions in English-speaking countries.
If your school is planning a tea party, make candied pumpkins and themed cupcakes, or buy ready-made sweets like gummy worms and spiders.
3 ideas for simple costumes:
- Ghost.
- Witch.
- Devil.
Yes, yes, this is the same “little ghost from Vazastan”, in the role of which Carlson acted. Take a sheet, make slits for the eyes and mouth and circle them with black markers for brightness. Adjust the length of the sheet according to the child's height. And the ghost girl costume can be decorated with a bow.
You will need a pointed hat made of black cardboard, a black mesh tutu skirt and a broom. Making this outfit will take you a couple of hours: build a hat, sew a mesh onto an elastic band and you're done!
Additional props for this costume are horns, ponytail and trident. Clothing can be ordinary - black jeans and a red T-shirt for a boy or a red and black dress for a girl.
On the night of October 31 to November 1, the most The most unusual holiday of the year is Halloween. From him breathes a fairy tale, mysticism and slight horror. If you do not want to miss the opportunity to get out of the everyday, do not miss this wonderful occasion!
It is not necessary to participate in mass festivities and trust your mood to mass entertainers, but you can celebrate the most terrible and at the same time the most fun holiday at home, with family or friends. How to celebrate Halloween at home? Read this article!
What to cook for Halloween?
Since our blog is culinary, we will not bypass this important part of preparing for the holiday. Here you will find an original and tasty salad in the form of a spider web, a fried hand patty or a ghost cocktail, as well as other recipes and ideas for Halloween.
How to make an original candlestick lantern -
Choosing a scenario for Halloween.
A delicious culinary masterpiece begins with a recipe, and a fun celebration should begin with a script. A well-thought-out plan for a house party will help avoid confusion with decorations, costumes, roles, dishes, and musical accompaniment.
What to take as the basis of home terrible fun? Yes, whatever! For example, arrange a ball. Of course, this will not be a fabulous ball for Cinderella, but a real ball at Satan's with witches, werewolves, demons and frightening skeletons.
If you have a favorite horror movie, take the most appropriate scene from it and act it out, giving yourself and the children the opportunity to play the lead roles.
Games and competitions for the holiday.
How can you celebrate Halloween without games and competitions? It is they who make any holiday interesting and alive. Of course, competitions should fit into the theme of the holiday, and prizes should correspond to the situation.
For guests of all ages, the Mummy contest will be a great one, in which participants will have to pair up, and then one of them will need to wrap the other with toilet paper. At the same time, it is important not only to finish the work first, but also to prevent the paper from tearing.
Another harmless competition - "Apple". For its implementation, apples are lowered into a basin of water or hung on ropes, and participants are invited to eat them without touching the fruit with their hands.
In order to find out which of the guests is the real vampire, you can arrange a competition for the fastest emptying of a glass of thick red liquid through a straw. It is best to cook jelly for this purpose, which will be difficult to drink through a straw.
Home decoration.
Making the room take time, so prepare some elements of the "intimidating design" better in advance.
Put it in a prominent place frame mirror, and then take a picture of what appears in it. The image will need to be printed and placed in a frame, covering the mirror surface. The result is a mirror in which no one will be reflected.
Cut out cardboard moon and paint it with reflective paint. Don't forget your event guests.
Make from gray paper bats with glowing eyes, and from white funny ghosts and curious skeletons. Spiders can be made from wire, and in order for them to have a place to catch on with their tenacious paws, they need to be woven web of threads.
Culinary decorations.
In addition to carved pumpkins in the form of lamps, you can make interesting home decorations from products. If there are no small children in the house, pour into glasses, bottles or jars beet juice, soil your knives in it and arrange all these elements of vampirism around the room. If you want to go even further, arrange on plates fresh liver, meat and pork ears.
Paint tennis balls into human eyes, place them in clear vases, or simply scatter them on the table.
So that a cozy and beautiful house does not spoil general atmosphere and did not frighten away the dark forces ahead of time, you will have to cover upholstered furniture and other details that stand out from the script with old rags, sheets or bedspreads. If there are a lot of soft toys in the house, they will also need to come up with roles and make appropriate masks, otherwise cheerful teddy bears and dogs with kind eyes will spoil the whole idea.
Draw posters with famous horror movie characters, and if there are no artistic talents - just with blood stains, and hang them on the walls. Posters with glowing ghost heads can be hung on the windows, giving the impression that uninvited guests are eager to join the party.
The main attribute of the holiday of horrors - Jack-o-lantern, or pumpkin head. It is also better to make it the day before. The easiest way is to cut out muzzles using paper stencils, the blanks of which are easy to draw yourself or download from the Internet. It will be possible to fill the head with light with the help of candles, Christmas tree garlands or other lamps.
How and from what to make costumes for Halloween?
Every house has unwanted white sheets- use them to create costumes. Draw ribs if you want to see a skeleton at the festival, or big black eyes and a terrible mouth, imitating a ghost jumping into the light. To obtain mummy costume, cut the unnecessary fabric into strips (you can use a bandage) and wrap them around one of the family members.
Girls can take a dress as a basis, supplement it with a cape, a hat (it’s easy to make it out of cardboard), fishnet tights, high boots, and large jewelry. Do not forget about bright makeup, false eyelashes and black or glowing polish on long plastic nails. Look in the mirror - in front of you real witch!
I hope you have lots of ideas for how you can celebrate Halloween at home! No matter how terrible Halloween may seem, deep inside this holiday lives an all-conquering goodness. Be sure to end the night on a good note.
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The most mystical and "terrible" holiday of the year is coming - All Saints' Day, otherwise called Halloween. AT recent times This holiday is becoming more and more popular in our country. On the pages of "Dream House" we have already talked about decorating the house for this holiday. In the same article, we will show you how to have Halloween at home by organizing a great house party for this occasion, even if there is very little time left until October 31, as in our case.
Celebrating Halloween at Home: Room Decoration
To create an appropriate Halloween atmosphere, it is necessary to decorate the room in which the fun party will take place - the whole house or a separate room, hall. A mandatory attribute of Halloween is considered to be a large candle lit inside. You can carve a pumpkin lantern yourself or purchase a ready-made one from a store.
Throughout the house, you can arrange small candles in themed candlesticks: turtles, small pumpkins, etc. It will be good to hang silhouettes of black cats, witches or bats on the walls. Home-made portraits of all evil spirits, hung in frames in the room where the celebration of All Saints' Day will take place, look very impressive.
How to have a Halloween at home - decorating a room
The main colors of Halloween are black and orange. Try to beat these shades as advantageously as possible. Lay an orange tablecloth on the festive table and place it on it crockery black color. You can do the exact opposite: choose a black tablecloth and orange cutlery.
You should not spare effort and money for: remember, creating a festive entourage is already half the success of the party.
Halloween dishes and their decoration
Of course, a festive feast should reinforce the impression made by the decoration of your home. You can prepare Halloween dishes that you and your guests are familiar with and love, just remember to decorate them in a certain way.
Since the main emotion of this holiday is fear, your table treats should in every possible way support a similar mood of all those gathered.
In any toy store you can buy small toy spiders, flies, snakes and worms. These "cute" creatures will decorate any dish.
Treats with "human eyes" look impressive. Making eyes is quite simple: take white table tennis balls and draw pupils on them with a marker. For a greater visual effect, you can dip the finished eyes in ketchup or other tomato sauce.
Your guests will not forget the party you hosted for a long time if one of the festive Halloween dishes is decorated with “hands”. Just take rubber gloves, fill them with water and put them in the freezer for several hours. If desired, ready-made "brushes" can be painted.
In addition to scary Halloween dishes, your holiday table must have a dish containing a pumpkin, a symbol of this holiday. It can be pumpkin pie, pies, pumpkin patties, pumpkin pot roast, or even a delicious creamy soup.
Halloween Party at Home: Holiday Dress Code
Needless to say, all Halloween invitees must come dressed appropriately for the holiday. The most popular images for All Saints' Day are vampires, witches, ghosts, skeletons, mummies, bloody brides and famous movie freaks (for example, Freddy Krueger). You can make a Halloween costume yourself, but it's better and easier to rent it. But you can try to do a terrible make-up or makeup yourself, drawing ideas from master classes.
How to have fun celebrating Halloween at home: entertainment program
How to entertain a fun company on Halloween at home? You can have some fun competitions for the best costume, making the best Halloween card, writing the best Halloween-themed quatrain, etc.