Dem' Bones Halloween Party

By Jeanne Benedict

Skull Decor from Plum Party

Want to host a horrific Halloween party? Center your party theme around bones. From skeletal stemware to bowling with faux skulls, dem' bones are everywhere at this affair.

Food and Recipes

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Halloween Skull-Mold Cheese Dish

A skull cheese mold is perfect for a low maintenance Halloween buffet.

Ingredients

3 8 Oz. blocks of cream cheese
1 container flavored soft cheese, like Rondele'
1 skull mold
1 Cup minced black olives
1 package of crackers
1 Cup minced black olives

Skeleton Bash: Buffet Food

Halloween usually falls on a weekday, so most are “dead on their feet”

from working all day. Set up a low maintenance buffet.

Food that you
can prepare in advance and will serve a lot of people at the party,
such as a soft cheese spread prepared in a skull mold, is perfect!

I found this incredible webstore, Pushin’ Daisies, that sells skull pans, skeleton gelatin molds,
and much more in the way of mortuary novelties. Pick up a couple of
skull pans, and use one for the skull-mold cheese dish, and the other
one to make a spooky skull cake for dessert.

Round out the buffet with veggies and dip, and some “food on the bone,” such as Buffalo wings.

Decorations

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Halloween: Your Own Private Ossuary

Have all enter in ghoulish style through a cemetery scene.
Once inside, chill them to the bone with a “wow” effect like a Tombstone Rocker.
Hang 5' glowing skeletons in the nooks and crannies of your party room with a smoking cauldron in a dark corner.

Halloween Skeleton Stemware

Skeletons and tabletop are a match made in Halloween heaven:

Their spiny fingers are perfect for holding glasses or used as a pedestal when “the carpal bone’s connected to the radius bone”.
Skulls are also brilliant as details on candlesticks or as cranial candles on the buffet.
For a grand statement, at a steeper price, you can buy a chandelier fashioned from sculpted bones to hang over your dining table!

Games and Activities

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Fun and Bones: Skull Bowl

Preparation

Steps

Set up a skull bowling game in your yard or an appropriate area of your home.
Pick up a set of 12 skulls from Plum Party to use as bowling balls and tabletop décor.
Use craft bowling pins, smaller than the pro size, and paint them black or bone white for all to knock down.

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Grave Robber's Coffin

Bid guests a final farewell with a fun inflatable coffin of goodies, but make them dig for their treats.

Preparation

Fill the coffin with black shredded Mylar, or something similar, and bury little Halloween toys and candy inside for guests to rob the grave!

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