The Scariest Halloween Candy

Yes it's time to drag out the skeletons and monsters, the scary costumes and black paint, and remember the scary candy!

Children and adults enjoy playing "tricks" during Halloween, but more importantly, they enjoy the "treats" of the holiday. Halloween has been celebrated for thousands of years, and has undoubtedly evolved accordingly. Several cultures have influenced this holiday including Roman, Christian, and Celtic. The United States embraces Halloween with open arms.

Kids Love To Be Scared
Kids love Halloween. The idea of wearing scary clothes, going out in dark, and taking candy is a venture which can not be resisted. Halloween celebrations encompass parties with themes, competitions for the 'scariest costume', and lanterns that look like pumpkins, and numerous other activities. Your candy favors need to be the best and most frightening in the neighborhood! How will you ensure this?

Halloween candies that look like worms, skulls, and cockroaches made out of chocolate are loved by children. As far as kids are concerned, the creepier the candy, the cooler the giver!

Follow these tips to make your house the prime stop of the neighborhood:

1. If getting scary and unique candy is high on your priority list, the Skeleton Candy Coffins are the most sought after if you are choosing candy favors. If you know about the Fear Factor television show, then you'll realize that Fear Factor Candy such as worms, maggots and eels are sure to be a scary hit! If your kids are crazy for Harry Potter, then Chocolate Frogs and Cockroach Clusters are sure to please!

2. The brands Foreign Candy and Generation Candy create very scary treats, also. A few you can select from are "Boogeyman Halloween lollipops" and even gummy brown earthworms. The youngsters will love treats with wild names like alien drool and brain dips. If kids in your neighborhood are like other kids, that means they love Gummies. There are several types of gummy candies that you can hand out, including rats, snakes, bats, and spiders.

3. The kids will also like the traditional gummy bears. So go with these if you can't stomach the thought of the more adventurous varieties. If you are feeling a bit adventurous, Vidal candies produces gummy fried eggs, snails, and gummy flies that are sure to please. It makes the original gummies seem a little boring.

4. HotLix is the brand for you, if the kids are truly into trying out new things. Candy crickets and chocolate covered cockroaches are just a few unique things you can get from HotLix. They also make Sour Gummy Vampire bats, Gummy Fangs, Gummy Brains, Gummy Finger puppets, Oozing eyeballs candy, Spooky eyeball gumballs, Creepy peepers filled chocolate eyeballs and spooky Halloween lollipops.

There are all sorts of gummy candies, such as vampire bats, fangs, brains, and finger puppets, as well as eyeball-themed goodies like oozing eyeballs, spooky eyeball gumballs, "Creepy Peepers" chocolate-filled eyeballs, and of course, Halloween lollipops.

5. Since black is the official color of Halloween, you may even want to give out some black candy. For a more traditional approach, hand out black licorice candy, black gummy penguins, black licorice cats, or black licorice wheels.

If you want to be the hit of the neighborhood on Halloween, then get rid of all those standard candies like M&Ms and candy corn. The ghouls will come right to your door when you give out the scary treats.

Have a Happy Halloween!

Scary Halloween Party

Scare up your Halloween family fun with some scary and thrilling games.

Character in Story Game:

Assign to each youngster a character which appears in the story. Whenever one's character is mentioned in the story, he makes the sounds assigned to him. The storyteller should pause a moment after a character is mentioned in the story. You'll probably have more guests than characters in the story but two or more can be assigned to the same character. It doesn't lessen the fun a bit.

The "Cat Game" will give your guests a real thrill:

It's a must at family parties on Halloween night. All lights are dimmed. Big and little guests sit on the floor in a circle, a sheet spread in the center. Each one takes hold of the sheet with his left hand and keeps his right hand free under the sheet. The hostess appears holding a tray covered with a napkin and says in a solemn voice:
"This evening when the Halloween cat was on the way to our party it was run over. His remains will now be passed around under the sheet. This is the cat's eye just pass it to your neighbor and so on around the circle under the sheet." The hostess reaches under the sheet to hand the first person an icy oyster, to be followed by the head a ball of yarn filled with hairpins; tail a coon tail from a child's cap; teeth a string of large beads, chilled; hide a brushed wool helmet; tongue a very cold watermelon pickle; insides a bunch of soft dough, well floured. The shrieks accompanying this game are hairs rising.

The refreshments can be as simple or as elaborate as you want but after an evening of hilarity, apple cider and pumpkin pie are easy to serve and popular.

By all means give a family Halloween party. It's such a good chance to have fun with your children and your neighbors and their children. It also provides a constructive way for young America to celebrate that American tradition of Halloween merrymaking.

Happy Halloween

Scary Halloween Party 2

"Bluebeard's Den" is a good chiller-diller:
Prepare for it by hanging an old sheet across one end of an adjoining room. Cut four holes in it big enough to admit a head. Just around and below each of these slits smear the sheet with red paint or some kind of red coloring, ketchup will do. Beforehand arrange with one of the fellows to play Bluebeard and ask one of the girls to pose as his first be-headed wife. Have powder or flour and a big puff handy so that she may powder her face heavily and quickly. At the appointed time the girl gets behind the sheet, thrusts her head through one of the holes and lets her head hang in a grotesque position.

Dim the lights and call in another girl. As Bluebeard swings his blade or shoots his cap gun accompanied by screams from the two girls, the second girl thrusts her head through a hole in the sheet. Repeat the process with a third and fourth girl. When the heads of the four beheaded wives are in place bring the guests, two at a time, from the other room to view the remains. As Bluebeard goes through the motion of showing how he killed each one, the heads moan and scream. This screaming and the report of the cap pistol excite the curiosity of the guests in the adjoining room who are anxiously awaiting their turn to visit Bluebeard's den.

No Halloween party is complete without a fortunetelling stunt:
Beforehand have one of the girls prepared to be your gypsy fortuneteller. Under the umbrella canopy mentioned in scary halloween party 3 you can make a realistic-looking fire by laying a few sticks across orange tissue paper with flashlights concealed underneath. Burning incense gives the effect of steam issuing forth. Instruct the fortuneteller to question each one about his last dream. She can interpret these dreams according to the following meanings. If you pick a clever gypsy she can also use her imagination and her knowledge of the client to make the fortunes particularly apt.
Some common interpretations of dreams are:

• Snakes - deceitful enemies
• Lightning - beware of accidents
• Falling - beware of money losses, hard times
• Crying - joy
• Sunset - love affair
• Fog - end of your troubles is coming
• Writing - will receive an important letter
• Laughing - love or business disappointment
• Suffering - wealth
• Flames - gossip
• Black cat or crows - bad news
• Riding on train - visitors
• Hungry - plenty
• Fighting - success in love, prosperity
• Strange faces - travel

Game 2:
Tell the crowd its bad luck to follow the leader so you'll play "Contraries".
Choose a leader who picks his victim. The victim is to do the opposite of what the leader does. Both are provided with chairs and hats. When the leader stands the victim sits. When the leader puts on his hat the victim takes his off. They should act simultaneously. It is almost impossible to do the opposite while watching the leader, much to the enjoyment of the crowd. After a bit let the victim be the leader and choose some know-it-all who has laughed long and hard, to be his victim. It's a good game.

Game 3:
Tuna-fish salad tucked into sandwich buns and cheeseburgers are great favorites with teenagers. Top this off with plenty of cokes or root beer. With some Dixie cups and plenty of mints and nuts the refreshment problem is easily solved. Serve these refreshments buffet style and your friends can squat around the fireplace as they eat. Someone will be sure to tell a blood-curdling ghost story.

Happy Halloween

Scary Halloween Party 3

Every child wants their Halloween party to be the scariest, thrilling and chilling. They come up with new motives of dreary decorations and exciting games to give horrible shock to their friends so that the party will be remember for a long time.

October brings that bright blue weather poets sing about and it also brings that traditional night of nights when witches, bats, owls, black cats and goblins are on the prowl in step with the moaning wind in ghostly tree tops.

What could be more perfect on such a night than to have the High School gang in for a Halloween party? No other party is such fun to give with all of "spookdom" ready to do your bidding to add to the party atmosphere. And if you make your party a "superstitious" party you can give your games that different touch that will make your party the talk of the crowd for many a day to come. It will start the social season off with a bang.

Trim your house from top to bottom with black cut-outs of witches riding the broomstick, black cats, owls, and grinning jack-o-lanterns. Add to this usual decoration plenty of superstitious symbols to carry your party theme. Cardboard horseshoes can grace the doorways and huge four-leaf clovers decorate the drapes. In one corner suspend an open black umbrella decorated with bright orange streamers that reach to the floor. This colorful canopy will house your gypsy queen when she tells the fortunes of the willing guests.

Set the pitch for your party with invitations inscribed in white ink on black cut-out skull and cross bones:
BEWARE!
Bring your luck with you
Friday night, October 31
To Your Name at
8.00 P.M.

YOU'LL NEED IT!

Be a black cat when you greet your guests at the door and hand each one a rabbit's foot to guard him well as he walks under the tall stepladder arching the doorway. Your black-cat costume need be no more than a black-cat mask and a black rope tail fastened under your belt. If the rest of your clothes are dark it will carry the catty illusion.

Usher the girls into a room so dimly lighted they'll not loiter long to primp. A long, jagged, black crayon mark drawn diagonally across the mirror will remind them that bad luck is loose in the house tonight.

A huge number 13 over the door of the boys' room will warn them of the peril of the night as well as huge black-cat cut-outs taped to the walls.

Before the party type a list of Bad Omens or Superstitions, one to a card. Then cut each card into several pieces. Scramble them and place several pieces in each envelope. Hand an envelope to each guest as he enters. By exchanging pieces with the other guests he can get the right pieces to formulate one complete superstition. Here are some familiar superstitions to use:

• A broken mirror will bring you seven years of bad luck. 2. If you sing before breakfast you will cry before night.
• If a black cat crosses your path you will have bad luck.
• To walk under a ladder is extremely bad luck.
• You'll never finish anything started on Friday.
• If you put on a garment wrong side out it's bad luck to change.
• It's bad luck to sneeze before breakfast.
• It's bad luck to rock an empty chair.

Hint: This mixer will give the guests something to do immediately upon arrival and avoid any stilted, awkward moments.

Next seat the guests on the floor in two lines facing each other:

Appoint the first man of each line captain. Give each captain a double handful of Bad-Luck Corn. Instruct him to lay his Bad Luck (Corn) in a pile in front of his neighbor. The object of the game is to see which team can first pass the corn down the line and back. Any spilled corn must be gathered up and passed along. It's quite a trick to pass this much corn fast without dropping kernels.

Have fun,

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Party 1

Every year a Halloween party is enjoyed, especially by most of the kids. This is the moment when the children come out with so many costumes ideas, it will be also a good time to invite your children's friends to celebrate and play together in this occasion.

Of the many different kinds of Halloween parties a "hard-time party" is bound to be intriguing. Appropriate invitations for this type of party are written on torn pieces of brown paper decorated with a black-cat sticker. Black cats, witches, and bats from the dime store make effective home decorations. Pictures can be hung at an angle or upside down. The dressing table may boast a shiny pie tin used for a hand mirror along with an old comb minus many teeth. Gunny sacks make lovely window curtains for this hard-time affair.

Such a setting entails very little expense, not too much effort and creates an atmosphere of hilarity that starts the party off with a bang.

A game that all young people will enjoy is a game o£ "Halloween Ten Pins." This is especially good when bowling is so popular. In keeping with the hard-time motif use ginger ale bottles for pins and solid heads of cabbages for balls. Set a certain score for game and let some expert bowler keep score for the crowd. Don't keep at one game too long.

After this game "Match Box Relay" will be fun.
Divide the guests into two teams, girls against boys. Let the hostess fasten the cover of a penny match box on the nose of each of the leaders. Each must transfer the box cover from his nose to the nose of the next team mate without the use of the hands. If the cover is dropped, it may be picked up and put back on the nose of the last person to have it. The team that finishes passing the box first is the winner, of course.

Halloween is synonymous with fortunetelling. No Halloween party would be complete without some sort of fortunetelling stunt, especially for teen-age youngsters.

"Goblet Fortunes" are fun to do:
Place a goblet on a table. Tie a ring to a string. Let each guest drop the ring to the bottom of the goblet while he recites the alphabet. Immediately when the ring strikes the side of the goblet the person stops. The letter with which he or she stops is indication of the name of the person he or she will marry.

"Halloween Hags" are lots of fun.
Draw on a sheet a life-size witch with stringy hair, peaked hat, etc., with a hole where the face should be seen. Hang a sheet in an open doorway. Let the girls stick their heads in the opening, making faces to disguise their identities. Boys write their guesses as to who each one is. Then the girls take their turns at guessing whose face they see. It is surprising how hard it is to guess each face. The kids are very good at face-making and have a grand time doing it.

At the conclusion of the games serve your guests a hearty meal. Have the dining table set with a clean ragged cloth or brown paper doilies. Cracked and nicked dishes are in order along with old and odd pieces of silverware. Candles stuck into empty pop bottles may be used for table lighting. Colored magazine ads that represent some fault or peculiarity of the guests may be used for place cards. This causes a riot of fun and you would be surprised how quickly each guest will spot his place. Oyster stew, vegetable salad, rolls, pickles, jelly, pumpkin pie and cider will satisfy the hungriest guest and are not too hard to prepare.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Party 2

Make your Halloween party a home run hit with these Halloween party games.

While you are clearing the table and pushing it out of the way let your guests try this stunt:

Hang a string from the center of a doorway. On it fasten a short stick or cane so that it remains parallel to the floor. From one end of the stick suspend a ripe juicy apple. Spin the cane merry-go-round fashion as fast as possible. Then let the first brave soul step close and try to bite the apple as it flies past. If he succeeds in biting the apple he will be, or is, lucky in matters of love. If he fails he's very unlucky and will need considerable dusting off. It's a hilarious game all your guests will be clamoring to play.

For a quieter game:

Give each lady present a cup of wet pumpkin seeds and supply each man, young or old, with a threaded needle. As each lady hands the man a seed from her supply he threads it on a needle and runs it down the thread. If he drops the seed he must recover it before another seed can be threaded. The couple finishing the cup of seeds first wins the right to first try in the next game.

Next Game:

Line up on the table seven lighted candles. Ask a guest to stand six or eight feet from the table facing the candles. Then blindfold him and turn him completely around three times and tell him to walk to the table and blow three times at the candle flames. Allow him three blows and no more. If he blows out all the candles he will sell all his crops at a big profit. If he fails to blow out any he'll have to store his grain. If 1, 2,3,4,5, or 6 candles are left burning they indicate the number of years before he will become rich.

This next game can be played by any number of people:

Tie candy pumpkins or orange or black jelly beans to a string. Make each string about three feet long. Instruct each guest to put the free end of the string into his mouth and hold his hands behind his back. At a signal all start chewing. They continue to chew until someone gets his piece of candy in his mouth. He is declared winner. It is an exciting game to watch and equally funny to the players who have trouble trying to keep from laughing as they furiously chew.

While the following game is an old one it always makes a hit:

The ladies are seated in chairs facing a circle. There is one extra chair. Behind every chair stands a man. All men stand stiffly with their hands at their sides. The man behind the empty chair is the Halloween cat. When the cat sees a lady he'd like to sit in his chair, he winks at her. She must slip away from her chair before the man at her back can restrain her by putting his hands on her shoulders. If she escapes her man becomes the cat. If she doesn't, the cat must try another lady. This game is fun for all and takes quite a bit of time.

Hint: Be careful not to play any game so long that the guests get tired of it. Quit each game while it is at its height and go on to the next game.

For the farewell game:

Let the men join the women in a circle. Caution your guests that no one must laugh during this game. If he does he will be eliminated. The first player, looking solemn, says, "Ho" to the person on his right. That player then says, "Ho Ho" to the third person. He in turn says to the fourth, "Ho Ho Ho." Each person with a straight face adds another "Ho." Around the circle will go the "Ho Hos" until only one "sober-sides" remains? He will be the winner.

With a merry "Ho Ho" we wish you a jolly Halloween the night!

Halloween Party Games 3

Talk about a grand month for parties!

No month of the year offers better opportunities for thrilling and original parties than the month of October with its wealth of color and beauty and its Halloween festival. Invite your friends, and their parents and your relatives to have a big and thrilling Halloween family party.

A Halloween party, which includes the whole family, offers one of the very nicest ways to celebrate this traditional day of merrymaking. Plentiful opportunities for legitimate fun for the young people in the home obviates any desire on their part to participate in activities outside which might easily, in exuberance of spirits, result in depredations and disorders. At the same time civic habits for your sons and daughters are being made.

In our home such a Halloween party for the whole family is an annual event. It has proved so popular with our family and family friends, that each year there is a general request for another. In fact, our sons greatly prefer these family parties at Halloween time to any other kind.

Decorating the house for the Halloween party is one type of interior decoration that boys and girls thoroughly enjoy. All that is needed is plenty of orange and black crepe paper and some black silhouette figures obtainable at the dime store.

At our house "Mike" hangs in the room where the men and boys leave their coats and hats. "Mike" is a life-size cardboard skeleton purchased at the dime store. We painted him over with phosphorous paint (also from the dime store). From the darkest corner of the room "Mike" shines forth in all his ghostly glory, thereby adding to the spooky atmosphere of the home.

Guests quickly imbibe the Halloween spirit and are ready for any fun. Games must be planned beforehand and must be for young and old. This is not as hard as it sounds. A good way to start off the evening is to tell the guests that you have just heard that two witches have come to town and that you suspect they are among the guests; that they must be caught immediately before they can do horrible damage. (Two of the guests have agreed beforehand to be the witches.)

The hostess describes the two witches as to height, weight, color of hair and eyes, habits, etc., and adds, if she sees fit, humorous comments. The guests immediately hunt for the two witches that have just been described. As soon as someone believes he has spotted one of the witches he extends his hand and reads in a loud voice from a card (which has previously been given each guest by the hostess) the following:

When shall we meet again? Thunder, lightning or in rain? Better take it on the lam, Old black witch, beat it, scram!

If he has pointed out the real witch, he or she disappears rapidly through the nearest door. If the discoverer is wrong he gets a "Bronx cheer" for his efforts. The game ends when both witches have been discovered and sent out.

Another Halloween game which proves a riot, especially for the heavier mamas, is the well-known "Broomstick Game" in which even the men bump their noses and the kids rock with laughter watching the grown-ups try this trick of picking up the apple with their teeth.

Before your guest arrived, get ready with all the games so that you can also actively participate in it.

Happy Halloween!

Organizing Your Halloween Party

Halloween is a fun holiday that begs for having a creepy costume party. But getting such an event together requires some planning and organizing.

First Things First
Step one in organizing your Halloween party is deciding what kind of party you are going to have. Are you going to have a themed party or just a fun bash? Is it going to be a potluck or are you going to try to do it all yourself?

Hint: Trying to do it all yourself not such a great idea. It makes your life a whole lot easier and allows you to have more fun if it is a potluck. Believe it or not, it can also make it more fun for your guests. Some fun potluck ideas: Have everyone bring the most disgusting looking or sounding dish that they can find. However, make sure that they know it must be edible! If you’re doing a themed party, have everyone bring something in keeping with the theme. For example, for a pirate party, have everyone bring a dish that has a skull and crossbones in it or on it.

So first decide what kind of Halloween party you are going to organize and how you are going to handle the food.

Make a List
Step two in organizing your Halloween party is making a list of everything that needs to get done. Just sit down and brainstorm everything that you can think of. Then go back over your list and figure out the order of what needs to get done. For example, sending out invitations should be one of the first things on your list. Organizing and buying decorations should also be near the top. Getting food ready will be at or near the end of the list. Then go back through that list one more time and organize it one step further by figuring out roughly how long each task will take you. Hint: It is better to overestimate the time it will take you than to underestimate.

Get Ready Before The Day
Okay, so this is more of a tip than a step in getting your Halloween party organized. But it is important so bear with me. In order to minimize your stress and to make the party more fun for you, get as much as possible organized before the actual day of the party. This includes making as much of the food as you can before the day of the party. If you can make it and freeze it, by all means, do it. This also means cleaning whatever areas of your house you feel need to be cleaned beforehand. A few more things you can do before the day of the party: wash dishes, decorate, setup tables and put out anything non-perishable the night before.

And the most important tip of all: Have FUN!

Happy Halloween!