Thread: Need Help with Sweet 16 Halloween Party Ideas

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Ty I went out today and got some material and cheese cloth. I think I am still going to cover the walls in the living room making them black, but I went with the weed material instead of the visqueen. I also want to do something with the roof. I am thinking that the creepy cloth may come in handy for that. Then of course I bought cheese cloth which I am sure will add a nice effect. I want to have a silhouette on the big picture window in the living room. Since the room is going to be "vampire nightclub" I want to go with the vampire theme for the silhouette. I am just not sure what to use. Any ideas? I think the nightclub is actually going to end up being more of a parlour area because my daughter has now requested scarey movies to be shown in there. Also looking for ideas for an easy fence for our graveyard.

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I sent you a link to my photobucket account. It has all the photos I have been collecting to frame. Hope those help. My only idea for the fence would be pvc pipe with a small skull or something of that nature on the top and then paint the whole thing a dark grey and wash with black for accenting. Not sure how well it work, but it's cheap. I just bought the expensive premade stuff at the party store one year.

For the silhouette you could just do one of blood dripping? Or a bat or even something like gothic crosses to make it look like part of the graveyard.

Found this too....

eBay.com.sg: 20 Gothic decor fence CAST IRON METAL PIKE SPEAR FINIAL (item 250505376905 end time Oct 05, 2009 06:48:00 SGT)

Thanks I didn't receive the link. Could you please resend.

i did this last year for my daughter's 13th birthday. i loved this cake that we made. i can't take credit for the idea...but i can't remember where i saw it either.

Anothe way to cover the wall is to use gossamer but it isn't solid black. It is inexpensive and come in large rolls -- available at Stumps, Andersons Prom, and Shindigz. Gossamer is also a great way to drape a ceiling.

One thing I have done for dance parties is to black out the windows and rent a 400 watt black light that will cover the entire room. Neon paints, white paint, tide detergent all reflect under the light furniture can be cover with white sheets done in RIT -- You don't really notice that the walls aren't black because all you see if the black light effects.

If your interested I can put a picture up from photobucket of our black light party (not halloween themed but it gives a club feel) I also use a lot of blacklight in our Halloween Party.

what i did in my bathroom for a few years during our halloween parties was to find some old clothes and a cheap wig, get a bag of balloons and blow them up and fill the clothes with the blown up balloons then make the tub half full of fake blood and let the body float then you could write redrum on the bathroom wall (hang plastic wrap so you don't mess up your walls) it is cheap and easy and i got a lot of complaments on the scene and idea during our parties. i also have a fence for my cemetery that was made with scraps of interior trim nailed in wierd angles so it looks old and creepy the two posts that surround the opening are longer and i have skull hung on them. you could also get some halloween string lights to hang around your club room you can probably find strands of solid red lights which would go good with your vampire theme. If you wanted to cast a large shadow through your front window get a spot light and shine it on the object towards your window you can play with the distance to the light to change the shadow. you could even cut the object out of cardboard since it will only be a shadow with out a lot of detail

Turmoil,

what did you use to write redrum on the mirror?

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i used lipstick, it is kind of nasty to clean up one year i wrote it on the bathroom tiles and the next year on the wall behind the mirror. when i wrote it on the wall i taped up clear plastic wrap and wrote on that so it would be easy clean up

I was afraid of that. lol But I guess for one day a year I can live. Thanks!