Halloween Activities From the Mafia to Zombieland

You want to make the most out of Halloween, like any holiday. You have a lot of options for Halloween activities, and you want to pick something that really recreates the Halloween spirit. Sometimes there will be a new scary movie premiering in theaters Halloween night. This can be one option for spending a few hours of your Halloween. Lots of people also enjoy watching old scary classics at home.

A unique thing you can do is go on a ghost tour and visit allegedly haunted locations that are open to the public. These are available in hearses, trolleys, hay rides, and walking tours.

Some people like to turn their houses or place of business into a haunted house. You can set up scares and surprises from start to finish and give your friends a good jolt. Lots of adults enjoy throwing Halloween parties. If you’re going to throw a party, make sure you have plenty of fun things planned to keep people interested. One thing you could do is encourage every to show up in costume and then have a contest. Everyone is allowed to vote on who they think came in the best costume and you can have a prize available for the winner.

It can be especially easy to come up with Halloween party games if your party has a theme. This gives you a place to start when coming up with ideas because you want everything to match your theme.
First think about what kind of party you want, and if the themes you’re considering could produce a lot of party activities. One idea that can generate a lot of potential for games is to theme your party after a haunted carnival. Lots of people are scared of clowns and so eerie carnivals have turned into an acceptable and even common Halloween theme.

Carnivals themselves have tons of games so this works to your advantage. You can also put a spin on them to make them more akin to Halloween. As you set up games based off carnival booths, simply alter a few things. Instead of throwing a ball through a basic hole, you can throw a ball through the hole in the torso of a mannequin. Instead of throwing darts, you can throw darts at a severed head, aiming for the “bulls-eye”, if you will. And, instead of tossing plastic rings onto bottles, you can toss rings onto skeleton fingers.

Another theme you could do is to base your party off prohibition mafia. This era had a style of its own and will give people a lot of potential for costumes such as mob suits and flapper dresses. You can theme your party after a speak-easy, and all your guests are given a code-word to enter, just like in the movies. Once inside, you can keep the mafia theme rolling with your party activities by running games of poker and blackjack. Keep in mind that in most cities you aren’t allowed to play for money inside your house. However, while the poker chips won’t hold any monetary value, you can still offer a prize at the end of the night to the top three chip leaders.

The poker games also work for old-west themed parties, in the form of Texas Hold’em. For this party idea you can also dress up like a bartender of the era and pour whiskey for your adult guests. If you have a zombie party, you can scatter fake body parts all over your backyard. Then, you send the swarm of zombiefied party guests on a scavenger hunt to see who can collect all the listed body parts first. The list of Halloween decoration ideas would be endless.

There’s nothing quite like throwing a great party and knowing all your guests are having an awesome time. You could even have Halloween party ideas for kids who are in attendance. Let the fun times begin.