Thread: Haunted Carnival-Halloween Party 2011

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Hello!! I am kind of new here...to be posting anyway, but I have thoroughly enjoyed reading many of your posts, viewing your photos of your haunts/parties, etc. Thought I would share a little bit about my haunt/party theme this year. I have done a Halloween party every year since 2008. Every year I say I'm not doing it again because I hadn't had much of a turnout, but last year was a fairly good success and we had several guests, all wanting to come this year and see what was done and how the party had become bigger and better. Last year was a vampire theme done in my huge basement storage room and 1-car garage.

So, this year I decided to expand from the storage room and garage, which is normally used to nearly the entire house. This year's theme will be The Carnival of Lost Souls (yes, I stole my name from Nox Arcana..sorry bout that, may change it later, but I REALLY liked that name). Anyway, so my idea is to use my front porch and house facade, a handicapped-wheelchair ramp that my husband built for my father-in-law last year who had terminal cancer and was living with us (he has since passed on, God rest his soul, but the ramp is still up and in use), my living room, computer room, guest bathroom, kitchen, and then the basement storage room as the actual adult party area.

For my "tent" I plan to use either red and white gossamer or tulle material (crepe paper if money gets exceptionally tight) draped from the front porch and eaves/guttering of the front of the house ALL the way across, wrapping the material around the front porch columns, and draping it from the edges of the porch roof to the light fixture, creating a type of "tent" like atmosphere. Am also thinking of hanging black material, plastic or something of that sort INSIDE of all this tulle/gossamer on the front porch area and making a dot room to enter the house through. I saw someone's link and photos of a skeleton walking a tightrope, so decided to try that in the front yard along with someone's idea of "climbing skeletons" using the ground-breaker skeletons, but having them dressed up as acrobats, and having them in the front yard as well. For my wheelchair ramp, I thought it would be an awesome idea of turning into something that looked like a roller coaster incline and having a cart look like it wrecked and fell off of the track off to the side. I have plenty boxes to make this with and thought of using old lawnmower wheels to make the cart's wheels. They're pretty old and rough looking and taking up space in my garage, so I thought that would be perfect.

Inside I'm thinking of dividing up my living room, which is pretty big, and making one side a chamber of curiosities and having the other entire half look like a cage that houses all of the bezerk clowns. My computer room will be set up as a fortune telling room, and my guest bathroom will be a reptile room full of swampy looking plants, reptiles everywhere and hopefully some green fog from a hidden fog machine. I have a bar that separates my kitchen and living room, and am wanting to incorporate that somehow, but not sure exactly how to do that other than just lining it with some carnival munchies such as "rotten candy," bloody boxes of popcorn, caramel apple severed heads, etc. Not sure what to do with the rest of my kitchen, so any ideas about that would be greatly appreciated. I have two more bedrooms and a master bath upstairs in the house that I think I will keep closed off. The small hallway between the computer room and guest room will be my hall of mirrors, that will be totally lined in mylar. (It's really small and wouldn't take much of the stuff I don't think.) I also plan to make some carnival advertising posters to hang outside on my roller coaster ramp, forgot to add that. The basement storage room will be my adult costume party area, with a dance area and bar, etc.

On the other side of my porch and facade, I will set up the game area with some games like a balloon dart game, with the balloons filled with red Kool-Aid instead of water (thanks to my friend's wonderful idea!!), and some others that I haven't yet come up with. Anybody with any additional ideas on this theme, I would GREATLY appreciate them!!! THANKS in advance for any input!

Wow. Those are some really great ideas. It sounds like it's going to be a awesome party. I especially like the Kool-Aid in the balloons idea.

Thank you! I liked the Kool-Aid idea too. It sure is nice to have twisted friends. LOL

Ooo, can i come??

Of course kallie! Come right on! Will be in Mt. Sterling, KY.

Me too Me too!

Sounds like lots of good ideas. I'll be watching this thread closely as this is my theme for next year. Wish I had as much room as you have!

Originally Posted by cmcrump

Of course kallie! Come right on! Will be in Mt. Sterling, KY.

Aww. I wanna come too! My husband is from Winchester and has relatives that live in Mt. Sterling. He could go visit the inlaws and I could go to a killer Halloween party.

You all are welcome. Or since I'm from central/eastern Kentucky, should I say, y'all are welcome??

Great plans!!!

Check out Oriental Trading. They have some carnival stuff like the popcorn containers and such. Maybe also serve corn dogs and have green tinted mustard and/or cheese sauce for dipping