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What are some Halloween Party activities for teens?

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Halloween Activities

halloween activities question by cartoonist_faith: What are some Halloween Party activities for teens?
I’m having a party/birthday celebration on Halloween with my friends, and I can’t think of many activities. We are ages 14- 17, and some of my friends are dull and don’t like games. I want some activities that aren’t too boring for the fun-lovers, but aren’t too childish for those dull friends. Have any suggestions?

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Fun Halloween Ideas from Popular Magazines
halloween activities

Article by Jessica Vandelay

Halloween is the holiday that is celebrated every year on the night of October 31. The night is devoted to all things fun and spooky including jack-o-lanterns, ghosts and witches. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties and haunted houses. Each year many family magazines, craft magazines and decorating magazines offer new ways to celebrate the spooky holiday.

Today, in the U.S. Halloween is the second largest commercial holiday. Americans spend an estimated .9 billion annually on Halloween decorations, food, candy and costumes. These magazines include Family Circle, Woman’s Day, Family Fun, Country Living and Martha Stewart Living. Below are some of the Halloween articles featured in the October issues of these popular magazines.

Family Circle magazine, a magazine devoted to family activities, features the article “Spirits of the Night,” on how to decorate with Halloween decorations. The article includes easy-to-follow directions and patterns for painting on pumpkins and other ways of creating crafty one-of-a-kind Halloween decorations.

In “Make Halloween Count” in the Oct. 7 issue of Woman’s Day magazine, writer Crystal Tate outlines a unique Halloween program called “Trick-or-Treat” for UNICEF. The volunteer program is a great activity for kids interested in charity work. Here’s how it works: trick-or-treating kids raise money door-to-door on Halloween then create a customized an online fundraising page, host a fundraising party and join the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF on Facebook.

Woman’s Day also features many fun Halloween-themed recipes for kids of all ages to enjoy. In the Nov. 1 issue, the magazine features recipes like “Witch’s Wicked Punch,” “Bag of Bones,” Pumpkin Patch Bites” and “Spooky Spiders.”

FamilyFun magazine’s October issue is their annual “Halloween Fun Guide.” Everything in the magazine has a Halloween focus appropriate for young children and parents including costumes, decorations and treats. Articles include how to recycle Halloween costumes, how to make scary and spooky Halloween treats and decorating pumpkins without carving.

Country Living magazine’s October issue is also packed with great Halloween-themed decorating, cooking and costume ideas. The easy to create ideas include “Halloween Hounds,” a guide to making costume for dogs, easy Halloween treats, including how to use a stencil to decorate a cake and simple Halloween crafts.

For the more seasoned cook and crafter, Martha Stewart Living magazine is the magazine to turn to for Halloween decorating and cooking ideas. The magazine’s Halloween-themed October issue feature directions for spooky party invitations, an October feast and clever treats and crafts.

About the Author

For more magazines, visit http://www.magazines.com/category/women-s

Jessica Vandelay is a freelance writer in New York City.

 

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6 comments on What are some Halloween Party activities for teens?

  1. Elisabeth R says:

    i had party last year :)
    the living room was decorated, and there was the table with a huge bowl of punch with fake gummy eye balls floating in it, then there was just other snacks, we had a halloween table cloth that we bought.. the rest of the night when the guests came we just talked laughed, andwatched some horror movies in the mean time makeing fun of the fake graphics and stuff haha, but it was pretty fun :)

  2. emmettripley says:

    alcohol.

  3. Erica N says:

    Halloween Themed Charades or Win-Lose-or-Draw can seem lame at first, but once the game gets going everyone’s competitive spirit gets out and they want their team to win. Buy printable business cards and print them with Halloween phrases, here a list I have handy:
    1. All Hollow’s Eve
    2. Bats
    3. Beware
    4. Black Cat
    5. Boo
    6. Candy
    7. Carving
    8. Costume Party
    9. Dracula
    10. Fright
    11. Full Moon
    12. Ghosts
    13. Ghoul
    14. Gourd
    15. Grave
    16. Graveyard
    17. Halloween
    18. Haunt
    19. Haunted House
    20. Horror
    21. Howl
    22. Jack-o-Lantern
    23. Monster
    24. Owls
    25. Pagan
    26. Pumpkins
    27. Scream
    28. Skeleton
    29. Spiders
    30. Terror
    31. Tombstone
    32. Trick-or-Treat
    33. Vampire
    34. Warlocks
    35. Witch
    36. Yell

    Bobbing for apples is fun, if slightly unsanitary, but I enjoy it. You could play a murder mystery game, such as this one: http://www.acemurdermystery.com/content/howtoplay/howtoplay.html
    If you’re not familiar with these, they are sort of a living version of Clue. It would be perfect for a Halloween party with mixed personalities like your party will have.

    Happy Haunting!

  4. Larry R says:

    Hi,

    Halloween is the perfect holiday for a teen party, if you have a bit of knowlege and imagination.

    Snag a copy of this book…(your school librarian can probably get a copy on interlibrary loan for free, but it will take a couple of weeks. Otherwise check your local library or but a copy online).

    http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~bannatyn/bannatynebooks.html#howto

    It has directions for Halloween parties and detailed information on old halloween customs…most of which involve a great deal of flirting…a subject of great interest to 14-17 year olds. Nobody winds up naked, but the games provide a structure for flirting…the Victorians used halloween very much as an excuse for boy/girl games…(you think your great-grandmother wasn’t interested in boys? where do you think your grandfather came from?).

    Example, hang two apples (maybe even caramel apples?) from strings. Set up two teams, each of one boy and one girl. Tie their hands behind their backs. Each team stands next to their apple, and on the count of “GO” has to start eating…whoever eats their apple first wins. Sounds silly, but just try to do it without getting “accidentally” kissed by your teammate.

    There is instructions on Halloween customs from pre-Christian Ireland, a Victoran section, and I think the other section was on early-american customs. Take a look at it, you will have lots of ideas for games and you can decide which ones are lame and which ones aren’t.

    Have fun!

  5. Jon S says:

    Music always makes a party go smoother.
    Here are some Halloween music suggestions that you and your friends can dance to:

    Monster Mash – Bobby “Boris” Pickett
    Thriller – Michael Jackson
    It’s A Hip Hop Halloween Night – The Halloween Freaks
    Theme from Ghostbusters
    Rocky Horror Picture Show music

    You can probably find them all on iTunes.

    Maybe you can play one of those DVD games like Scene It.

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