From pumpkins to pranks and communication with the dead, Halloween is a holiday stitched together with religious and occult traditions that span across centuries.
The history of this festival originates from the time of the Celts, a collection of tribes with origins in central Europe. Their culture spread across the continent more than 2000 years ago. They used to celebrate the end of the harvest season with a festival called Soin on 31 October.
It also marked the Celtic New Year and was considered a time between years, a magical time when the ghosts of the dead walked the earth.
With the spooky festival just around the corner, why not try something new and interesting while throwing a bash in your house?
So, here are some simple steps that can be helpful in organising a grand Halloween party.
Set a theme
Though Halloween is itself a theme, you can add a twist to the bash by making it a Mad Scientist-themed party for which everyone gets to dress accordingly in their lab coats and quirky goggles.
Prepare Guest list
While hosting a Halloween party, it is very easy to get carried away in preparing a list of people that you need to invite. Often, people think that making a mental calculation of the invitees is enough, but it’s not so. Always make a list at the beginning of the party-planning process, so that you neither miss anyone nor go overboard.
Customised invites
Send out invites in the style of bubbling concoctions and make sure to warn them about the dangers of entering a scientist’s laboratory because experiments are what mad scientists do best.
Choose Spooky Decor
For a theme party, you need the decor to give that madness exactly what you thought while picking up the theme. So get just what the mad scientist needs to feel right at home in the lab, such as using skeleton skulls, black crows, specimens like the frog skeleton, glass lab candle holders, mini plastic science beakers, and etc.
Prepare a playlist
Any party is incomplete without music. So plan your playlist, add some gothic, dramatic sound tracks to enhance the vibe of the Halloween theme.
Plan a menu
Prepare orange and green fizzy drinks served in beakers, warm and eyeball shaped gummies, finger and spider cookies, monster brain cupcakes, carve and clean a pie pumpkin to serve as the dip-holding centerpiece; and others.