Thread: Party Decoration Plans: 'Twisted Fairy Tales'

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Foyer/Entrance: Guests walk up to the front door, "Enter through the looking glass..." is written in blacklight sensitive paint on the glass. They then enter the foyer that is covered with long 'v' shaped tenril of .5mil clear plastic drop cloth. A fast-paced strobe light disorients guests.

Dining room: Drinks/Sweets area. Mad hatter tea party gone wrong. Broken and chipped teacups filled with blood are scattered along the table; a bloodstained lace tablecloth underneath them. Drinks are located in certain spots of the table. That's all I have so far. Any ideas?

Kitchen/Breakfast nook: FOOD. Three little pigs/hansel and gretel themed.

That's all I have so far. Share your ideas/ critique mine.

Thanks in advance everyone!

Please excuse all typos. Thanks haha

I love your ideas! I was thinking of doing Grim Fairy tales this year.. was thinking of getting a cage and tryign to find some creepy looking plastic dolls and bones to throw in a la hansel and gretel - not sure if this will be near our staircase as then could have large candy canes , where the red stripes look more like dripping blood going up the stairway? need to get a candy theme in there so people know it's hansel and gretel! :-)

If i can find a good sized pumpkin was ( uk based) was going to smash it and have some bloodied white mice trapped under it with a broken wand .. not sure if i can get anything like a glass slipper but thought a silver sprayed/glittery shoe ( charity shop buy?) dripping with blood on the garden path might be a nod to the Cinderalla story..

will be checking back to see if the regulars have any more ideas! good luck with yours!

Oh, I love these ideas!!! They are going in my idea book for years to come!! Thanks!

sounds like fun.....a skeleton with snow white's dress on, an apple with a big chunk bitten out of it in her hand. Evil dwarves grinning eerily at everyone who walks by.

http://www.familymanagement.com/lite...rimms-toc.html

see if this helps....also maybe add a few demented Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes....old grandmother hubbard been killed by her oh so very hungry doggy.

dish massacred by the spoon


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nursery_rhymes

Sounds like a great theme and the looking glass entry sounds cool!
A few years ago, deadted did a similiar them and posted great pics. If you do a search for it, might give you some additional ideas.

MsM

I love what you have so far!

If you're really interested in some twisted fairy tales there is a role-playing book out called Grimm. It is put out by Fantasy Flight Games. It has loads of creepy fairytale/nursery rhyme ideas in it.

I also did an "Alice in Twistedland" theme one year. We decorated the walk up to the Queen's throne with white roses painted red...with blood

Here's a link to the book I'm talking about if you're interested in buying it for some good visual ideas:

http://fantasyflightgames.com/edge_m...mi=Grimm%20RPG

Hallow and you may want to visit this section of my blog - and old entry with some nice responses that give ideas as well:

http://www.halloweenforum.com/blogs/hallowsusieboo/531-scary-tale-forest.html

Fantastic ideas and links one and all!! Me thinks there are waaay to many potential party plans here!

I did this theme at my party last year and it was a huge hit. Sounds like you've got some great ideas so far. Here's some of the stuff I did:

- A "Hansel" skeleton inside a cage (constructed from PVC mouldings) with a burlap sack of breadcrumbs
http://www.ualberta.ca/~mjk4/hallowe...hanselcage.jpg

- A gory Humpty Dumpty with blood and guts splattering out of his eggshell
http://www.ualberta.ca/~mjk4/halloween/2009/humpty.jpg

- A twisted Pinocchio doll with "real boy" parts (plenty of liquid latex!) for my Gepetto puppetmaster/butcher costume
http://www.ualberta.ca/~mjk4/hallowe.../pinocchio.jpg

- A "tempt fate" game inspired by a suggestion posted here last year (sadly, I can't remember by whom, or I'd give proper credit!) I put a bunch of handwritten notes on torn, tea-dyed paper into one of those oversized brandy snifters. Half of them had a "good" fate, where you'd win a small prize, and half had a "bad" fate, where you'd be "poisoned" and had to do a shot of a vile concoction of liquors as the "antidote."

- And of course, what Fairy Tale theme would be complete without a game of Werewolf?

Best of luck with your party planning. Hope it turns out as successful as mine did!