Saturday, December 20, 2008

Party Goods For Halloween

Writen by Gail Leino

Halloween is coming up and you'll find that, especially this time of year, you'll need more party goods than ever. Halloween is such an involved holiday. It is both extremely fun because of all the make believe involved and also can be quite harrying. Those throwing parties will certainly be rushing around to get all their ghouls in place, so to speak.

Luckily party goods are made to fill just this partying need for Halloween. You'll find the basic necessities such as themed tablecloths, napkins, silverware, plates, and pumpkins along with all those wonderful extras that make the holiday so creepy. Are you going to try and scare some trick-or-treaters?

Since Halloween involves an outdoor activity such as trick-or-treat, the practice of decorating the porch and front lawn is almost a requirement. Almost everyone has a Jack-O-Lantern on their porch. Those who want to go further can find decorations to literally turn their front yard into a cemetery. Styrofoam grave markers are very popular to stick on the lawn and usually they are also very funny, coming with funny epitaphs on them like, 'Here lies Captain D. He had bad seafood.'

Other ingenious decorative accents include fake spider webs, with rubber spider included, plastic skulls and skeletons of all kinds, scary laughter music discs and other gory objects.

To add a cool touch to your party you can also string up some glowsticks tubes. Glowsticks give off a phosphorescent light and come in several colors such as purple, green and blue and you can connect together longer glowsticks necklaces to make a chain or garland to hang up around the party area. You can also give out glowsticks as party favors or instead of candy to trick-or-treaters.

You can purchase special balloons that look like UFO's for your party or you can get balloons with scary faces on them. There are also a lot of streamer and confetti type products themed after Halloween which you can scatter around your party for festive fun.

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