Halloween Printables

Loyal Pesketeers will know how much I love Halloween, and how much I love to throw a party.

Well, a couple of years ago, I threw a Halloween party to rival both Jonathon Ross and Heidi Klum.

More people attended the Halloween party than our wedding (no joke!) and people made a massive effort with their costumes. The kitchen table was groaning from the amount of food I served up for the buffet, and there were copious amounts of drinks poured and Challenges completed. But today, I’m going to share with you how I decorated for the party, giving you access to all the printable designs I created, so you don’t have to spend months creating everything from scratch, like I did.

Each room in my house was decorated in a different theme, and I’m going to take you through them all now.

Living Room – Haunted House

In my living room I hung Hanging Ghosts and shop-bought cobwebs from the ceiling, put spooky pictures in my picture frames, filled my hearth with autumn leaves, candles and pumpkins and had paper bats flying out of my chimney and across the ceiling.

The drinks table and Challenges were set out in this room, along with bowls of sweets.

The bat templates are below. Print them out onto card and cut them out. Then, fold a piece of black card or paper in half, put a bat template with the straight edge along the fold, draw around the template and then cut it out. Because you have used a folded piece of paper, you will end up with a full bat, with a crease down the centre. Attach it to your wall / ceiling with Blu Tack along the crease.

The spooky pictures are below. I found them on Google. Just print them out and place them in front of your normal family photographs in their frames.

Dining Room – Witches’ Apothecary

Here, I wrapped orange string lights around a circular frame (a large hula-hoop would work) to create a pentagram and nailed it onto a wall. I hung black ribbons from the ceiling, knotted in random places and filled my bookcase with jars of potion ingredients and spooky knickknacks.

We took all the furniture out of this room so we could dance. It was fantastic bopping around to The Monster Mash in here with the orange pentagram flashing and the ribbons wafting overhead.

I stuck these labels to an assortment of jars and bottles and filled them with items from around the house and garden. For example, flour, soil, dried leaves, cherry stones, coloured water, acorns and wool.

The labels are here:

Kitchen – Cannibal’s Kitchen

The buffet was served in here, and I made as many food items resemble body parts as I could (severed finger hot dogs, spare ribs, eyeball truffles etc)

I covered my cookery books with cannibal inspired covers and made poison bottles out of card and stuck them above the kitchen cabinets.

We had a gap in our kitchen units as we’d had an old range cooker removed and replaced with a much smaller, much more efficient boiler. My husband created a cage in the gap, which he decorated with UV paint and attached a blacklight to. The children loved playing in the kitchen cage. One of my friend’s kids even asked on the way home whether they could install a kitchen cage in their house too.

Print the book spines out onto coloured paper, then Blu Tack them to your books. Once stacked, you wont see that the paper doesn’t fold around the whole book.

Some of these I used in the Witches’ Apothecary, so you’ll notice some of the book titles have a Cannibal theme, some have a witchy theme.

The book spines are here:

Bathroom – Bates Motel

We have two bathrooms in our house – one has a shower in it, the other has a bath. In the bathroom with a shower, we sprayed fake blood all over the inside of the shower, stuck blood splatter stickers on the floor and walls and covered the door with crime scene tape. I also created a witness appeal police poster which I stuck to the outside of the door as a warning of what was inside.

The poster is here:

Bathroom – Area 51

The other bathroom, we turned into an Area 51 autopsy room. I covered the walls in foil and filled the bath with water, adding a bit of green water colouring to it. An inflatable alien floated in the bath, while the surfaces were covered in autopsy apparatus (safety goggles and gloves, sample pots, pencils and rulers). I created safety posters for the walls and outside of the door. I also stuck a ‘clinical waste’ sign to the bathroom bin and removed the towels, replacing them with paper towels for people to dry their hands on.

The posters are here:

Invitations

I love a formal invitation, and these were mine. I covered the red with glue, then red glitter to give it a shimmery, bloody look and posted them off in black envelopes.

Feel free to edit them for your own use.

Invitations are here:

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