Though Halloween is often associated with kids and trick-or-treating, adults also love the spooky fun and excitement of dressing up. If you’re looking for a more grown-up version of the holiday this year, try these Halloween party activities for adults, including all your favorite Halloween games. Enjoy a kid-free Halloween party filled with fun, without worrying about keeping it G-rated!
Themed Adult Halloween Parties
If you’re looking for some edgy Halloween party activities for adults, here are a few ideas to spice up your celebration. Host a Playboy-themed party where male guests can dress as Hugh Hefner or a suave ladies’ man, while female guests channel their inner Playmate. For a more refined Halloween gathering, consider a masquerade ball with glittering decor and hors d’oeuvres—be sure to invite guests early so they can create stunning costumes. Another great idea is a 1920s speakeasy party, complete with classic cocktails like the New York Sour and French 75. Men can dress as gangsters, and women as glamorous flappers!
Outdoor Activities And The Best Halloween Party Games For Adults
Rent a trailer and attach it to a friend’s truck. Pile it up with hay and take a hayride with friends. Pack camping gear, food and drinks, and go camping together. Build a bonfire and tell the scariest stories you know. If you want to scare yourselves, buy flashlights, find a big cornfield and play hide-and-seek. Enter the cornfield at different points and turn your flashlight on. If you get caught in another player’s beam, you’re out. The winner is the person who “shines” the most players.
Other Activities For Some Halloween Fun
Check your city’s event calendar for Halloween festivals and celebrations. Find the most terrifying haunted house you can and take your friends along. Rent a big projection screen and projector. Set it up in a large open space, such as a friend’s back yard, and put on horror movies. Attend a murder mystery dinner theater showing. Tour a cemetery. Hold a seance and attempt to contact famous dead people. Get out the Ouija board and see what answers you can get.
Adult Halloween Games And Ideas
Halloween isn’t just for kids; it’s an exciting time for adults too! When planning Halloween party activities for adults, use your creativity to design festive food, drinks, and games that will keep your guests entertained. Encourage everyone to come dressed in their best costumes for a truly “spooktacular” night. To add some extra fun, offer gift cards as prizes for the best, scariest, and funniest adult Halloween costumes.
Food
Make tapeworm sandwiches using a package of hot dogs, hot dog buns and ketchup. Cut the hot dogs into thin strips like worms. Place them in boiling water until they begin to curl. Drain the water and mix the curled hot dogs with ketchup. You can also use mustard. Place some of the strips into a hot dog bun to make tapeworm sandwiches. Another idea for food is bat wings. Before putting hot sauce on your chicken wings, drop several drops of black food coloring in the sauce. Mix the black sauce with the chicken wings to make bat wings.
Drinks For The Halloween Night
Make a bowl of pumpkin punch using orange flavored drink mix. Float plastic toy pumpkins in the punch. For a scary punch, float black plastic spiders in the orange punch. Make red flavored punch in a large bowl and float an ice hand in the punch. This resembles a severed hand floating in blood. To make the hand, fill a white, plastic glove with water and place it in the freezer overnight.
Fun Halloween Games For A Great Time
Halloween Movie Trivia
Have a bunch of friends over and play Halloween movie trivia. Put guests into teams and see how many quotes each team can match to the correct horror movie. Or, take teams outside and distribute sidewalk chalk. Tell each team to draw an outline of a famous dead person. Beside the person, they should draw the outlines of relevant items; for example, a team drawing a dead Michael Jackson could draw a record, handcuffs, four other small human outlines — to form the Jackson Five — and a large mansion.
Halloween Pictionary
If your group is an artistic one, get out an easel and large paper pad and play Halloween Pictionary. Divide players into two teams. One person draws a slip of paper with a word or phrase on it and must get teammates to guess it only by drawing it on the pad. Don’t use obvious words for this fun halloween party game, such as cat or pumpkin; instead, have players draw famous serial killers or horror movie posters.
Scary Music Trivia
Prepare a variety of scary songs and movie themes songs on a MP3 or a CD for some halloween trivia. Use songs, such as “Monster Mash,” “Ghostbusters,” “Thriller” and “Nightmare on My Street.” Play a part of each song and have players try to guess the song titles. You can play the songs and have them guess as each one plays to award several small prizes. If you want to award one large prize, have the guests number a sheet of paper and write down their guesses. Award the large prize to the player who guesses the most songs correctly.
Team Maker With A Halloween Twist
If you are going to have games, you may require teams. One way to put together the teams randomly, thus encouraging a little mingling among guests who don’t already know each other, is to have them draw words from a cauldron or witch’s hat. Beforehand, write enough words on slips of paper to have one for every guest. On the slips of paper write words like: Egyptian tomb, pyramid, ankh, canopic jar, mummification, broomstick, magic wand, magic spell, black cat, etc. Everyone draws a slip of paper. All those with words that go together, such as those words relating to a mummy, are on one team. You can set up as many teams as you wish. You might have had words relating to vampires or ghosts or werewolves.
Icebreakers Should Be On Your List Of Halloween Party Games
Another way to get guests talking is to play a game in which each guest must guess the name which has been taped to his back. The host puts names on everyone’s back. Since this is a Halloween party, perhaps use only names of people and monsters often seen at Halloween gatherings. Consider names like: Count Dracula, Long John Silver, Frankenstein, King Arthur, Merlin, Dorothy of Oz, etc. Each guest may only ask the other guests two questions each about the name on his back. The questions must be answerable by either a “yes” or “no” only. Perhaps award prizes for the first three to guess their secret name.
Halloween Match Game For Large Groups Is So Much Fun
Play an icebreaker match fun game to get the party started. Write down several Halloween related items, such as witch, pumpkin and Dracula, on small slips of paper. Write down words that match these items, such as broom (witch), orange (pumpkin) and blood (Dracula), on another set of small slips of paper. Put the slips of paper in two separate bowls. Divide the halloween party guests in half. Have half of the guests select from one bowl and all the other guests select from the other bowl. Guests must mingle with one another and ask questions about their items to find their match. The first two players to find their match win a prize. Allow all the other guests to keep playing until they find their match.
Halloween Scavenger Hunt
Send out teams on a digital themed scavenger hunt. Each team will be given a list of photographs they must take. The winner of this classic game is the first team to return with the digital evidence. Some examples of spooky scavenger hunts is the sort of photographs you might require include: a picture of a black cat, a photo of one of the team member’s spread against the side of a police cruiser, and a picture of two team members sitting in a tree. The photos may be required to be taken within the party house’s neighborhood. Or there could be a road rally element in which the teams load into cars and drive around. In that event, you should limit the team size to four or five members.
Dress Up The Dead For The Spooky Season For A Good Time
This simple game with a spooky twist is not for the shy and may result in some small immodesty. For the game, you will need a put-together skeleton. They can be found in the Halloween section of many stores. The skeleton can be of wood or plastic, so long as it comes apart easily and can be re-hooked together. The host “buries” the broken up skeleton under a pile of sawdust, loose dirt or hay in the yard. The first team, while being timed, must unearth all the skeleton pieces then run to where there’s a hook for hanging the skeleton. They must assemble the skeleton and then, donating parts of their own clothing, dress the skeleton in a shirt and pants. The end result is a catrina from the dia de los muertos celebration. The skeleton is undressed, disassembled and reburied for the next team. The team with the fastest time is the winner.
A Murder Mystery Game Will Be A Huge Hit
Host a murder mystery party as a play. Select players, either by volunteers or by random drawing or even have guests vote. While the players read over their parts, the rest of the guests arrange the room for the perfect game. Set up a row of chairs facing the party audience. This will be the “stage” where the murder mystery players will sit and perform their roles. The host keeps the game (play) moving, usually by playing one of the detective characters. At the end of the murder mystery, each member of the audience states who committed the murder. Whoever got it right, wins.
Planning Halloween party activities for adults can turn an ordinary gathering into an unforgettable celebration. Whether you opt for spooky games, themed parties, or elegant soirées, the key is to embrace the festive spirit and cater to your guests’ tastes. With a little creativity and planning, you can create a Halloween experience that’s full of fun, laughter, and lasting memories. So gather your friends, get those costumes ready, and let the Halloween festivities begin!
