Pinata (A hallowed out prize)
Ghost
Jack-o-Lantern
Witch Hat
Spider
Spooky Eyeball

Invitations (Haunting up some guests)
Print the invitations on a picture of a ghost or jack-o-lantern. “Come to Jackie’s Halloween party. We’ll have a spooktacular time!” 

Or use one of these printable Halloween party invitations.

Decorations (Who frightens whom, hanging from the wall?)
Besides the obvious multitude of Halloween decorations available during this season you might also try giant candy corn made from paper or cut scrap lumber and painted with bright stripes of orange, yellow and white.

Wrap white tissue paper around the head of a sucker and tie with white yarn on the stick. Draw a ghost face on the tissue and hang the little sucker ghosties around the room.

Cakes (Creepy Cakes)
Make a round cake into a spider by frosting brown or black and adding black licorice whips for the legs.

Decorate a round cake as a jack-o-lantern. 

Cauldron Cupcake Cake

Ghost Cupcake Cake

Costumes/Dress up (Forbidding attire for your Halloween party)
Invite the guests to wear their Halloween costumes or provide each guest with an oversized flannel shirt with raffia sewn at the sleeves and poking out so they look like a scarecrow.

Games and Activities (Spooky Halloween party fun)
Halloween Tic Tac Toe (ages 3-10)
Print out the tic tac toe board, give each player different pieces, like M&Ms or Smarties. Then play the traditional tic tac toe game. Winner gets a candy prize!

Pumpkin Gold (ages 3-12)
Place three pumpkins or jack-o-lanterns a short distance from the guests and provide them with five ping pong balls to toss into the pumpkins. Each successful toss should win a small prize. For young guests, they should get a prize even if a ball doesn’t go in.

Witch’s Goo Relay Race (ages 3-16)
Make some Witch’s Goo by mixing 1 cup water with 4 cups corn starch. Add a little green food coloring (just a drop or two because you don’t want to turn little fingers green when they play with it). It may be easier to mix the goo by rolling it around in a jar instead of trying to stir it with a spoon. For the game, split the guests into two teams and have the goo in two bowls. Each guest should take turns grabbing a little goo and running it to the witch’s cauldron at the other side of the room. If they drop the goo on the way they have to pick it up and start over. The team to get all of their goo in the cauldron first, wins. 

Tricky Words (ages 8-16)
How many words can you make from TRICK OR TREAT? Here’s a PDF file for this game.

Character Guess (ages 12-16)
Guess the traditional Halloween character’s printed on your back by only asking yes/no questions of the other guests. Here’s a list of Halloween characters in a PDF file.

Worst Makeover Ever (ages 12-16)
Set out some old makeup, costume or otherwise. Pair off the guests and let them take turns giving each other the worst makeover ever. Provide cleaning supplies if any of the guests wish to remove their new fashions after the game. This is fashionable game for your Halloween party.

Crafts (Conjure up the eerie pastimes for your Halloween party)
Masks (ages 3-8)
Provide each guest with a paper plate. Cut out holes for the eyes, and a hole punch on either side of the plate to tie string for securing the mask to the face. Provide colored paper, feathers, sequins, white glue, etc. to decorate the masks. The guests may make masks to look like animals or other creatures, or just silly masks that look like nothing else.

Jack-O-Lantern (ages 3-8)
Paint a paper plate orange. Glue face pieces cut from yellow construction paper and green leaves at the top.

Pasta Skeleton (ages 3-10)
Provide a basic skeleton outline printed on white paper for younger guests, and blank black paper for older guests. Put out different kinds of dry pasta, macaroni, rotini, shell pasta, broken bits of fettucini., and white glue for the guests to glue into the shapes of a skeleton on the paper.

Egg Carton Spiders (ages 3-12)
Cut out the individual cups from an egg carton. Turn the cup upside down and stick in pipe cleaners as legs. Add pom poms for a head and glue on googly eyes. 

Glow-in-the-Dark Mural (ages 3-16)
Stretch out a large piece of black butcher paper. Provide painting shirts, fluorescent paints and turn on a black light for a fun creation. Or give each guest their own sheet of black paper so they can take their creation home. This is a sppoktacular addition to your Halloween party.

Salt Dough Ghosts (ages 5-16)
Make up a batch of salt dough with the following recipe. Divide and put into baggies for each of the guests. Allow them to shape into ghosts and add googly eyes. Dry on a paper plate labeled with the name of the guest. 

Salt Dough
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 tsp. alum
3 Tbsp. mineral oil
1 ½ cups water

Candy Corn Candy Dish (ages 8-16)
Provide each guest with a small terra cotta planter. Paint it in stripes of candy corn colors, yellow, orange and white. In the middle orange section paint a smiling face. Fill the pot with candy corn.

Refreshments (Something Chilling)
Jack-O-Lantern Pizza
Place pepperoni around the outer edge of a cheese pizza, then place more pepperoni to create eyes, a nose and a mouth of a jack-o-lantern. 

Fang and Eyeball Salad
Fruit salad. Cut apple slices into the shape of fangs (triangles). Add banana slices for eyes and blueberries for the center of the eyes. I used frozen, thawed and drained blueberries. Reserve a few of the fruits to make faces, then mix up the remainder of the fruit with some yogurt or whipped topping. Serve the fruit salad in individual dishes and create a face on the top of each dish with banana and blueberry eye, and a few apple triangles in a smile. My children insist we serve this dish at every Halloween party.

Hanging Doughnuts
String doughnuts up on a pole and let your guests eat them without hands. This is a more sanitary option to bobbing for apples. 

Apple Smile
Cut apples into 8 wedges and treat for browning (dip in water with a little lemon juice). Smother one side of each apple slice with peanut butter. Put two apple wedges together to create an apple sandwich, but place white mini marshmallows in the peanut butter for teeth.

Take Home Gift Ideas (Scare up an offering)
Ghostly decorated food containers (like Chinese food take-out). Wrap the handle with orange pipe cleaner strung with a few black beads. Use a black permanent marker to draw a ghost face on the front of the container.