The spooky theme is great fun for adults as well as children. This theme is not just for Halloween, it can be used for Friday 13th parties or any time you feel like being spooky. Browse down the page for food and party game ideas.

Spooky Clothing and Costumes

Some costume ideas include vampires, witches, evil bride & groom, zombies, ghosts and characters from movies (Scream, Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre).

The zombie idea is very flexible, you could be a zombie doctor, zombie bride, zombie business man or zombie pop star. Costume Box have fake blood to help with the zombie (or zombie attacked) look.

• Parties Online - Sydney based party products store in operation since 1991. See Fake Wounds and Blood and Halloween Masks
   
• Costume Box - Thousands of fancy dress costumes for adults and kids for all occasions. All costumes displayed are in stock and most are dispatched within 24 hours. Based in Sydney with flat rate delivery Australia wide.
  • See adult's Halloween costumes for vampires, zombie surgeons, horror film characters and more.
  • Halloween accessories include masks, fake blood, capes, bloody windows and shower curtains, fake knives, giant spiders, skeletons and more.
  • More costumes include - Ghosts | Ghoul | Spooky | Vampire | Witch | Zombie
     
• Party Costumes - Lots of party costumes and dress-ups delivered anywhere in Australia for a flat rate. See Halloween themed costumes for Devil costumes, fake wounds, vampire teeth, huge fuzzy spiders and much more.

Spooky Decorations and Catering Supplies

• Party Products Australia - Your one stop shop for party supplies, based in Brisbane, Queensland, with flat rate shipping Australia wide. They stock over 6000 items including a comprehensive range of Halloween themed party products.
   
• Parties Online - Sydney based party products store in operation since 1991. They specialise in themed and coloured tableware, balloons costumes and more. For some spooky products and costumes see the product range for Halloween. Delivery Australia wide with express delivery Available.
  • Balloons for Halloween
  • Halloween Goblets and Shot Glasses
  • Fake Wounds and Blood
  • Halloween Masks
  • Halloween Tableware
  
  
• Scrapbook and Craft Superstore - Find everything you need for your craft and scrapbooking projects from over 18,000 scrapbook and craft supplies. See their Halloween themed products, including stickers and cardstock for making invitations or decorations.
   
• Coolthings - All manner of gadgets and gizmos that make you say "that's cool." Search for 'spider' to see some remote control critters or other creepy things. based in Hobart with delivery Australia wide.
   
• Costume Box - Halloween accessories include bloody shower curtains, warning and danger signs, bloody handprint window transfers, glow in the dark skeletons, light up ground breakers, scene setters, skulls and more. Search for 'Halloween CD' to find some creepy soundtracks to set the mood. Based in Sydney with flat rate delivery Australia wide.

Spooky Party Food

Spooky parties are a great opportunity to eat strange, gruesome and disgusting foods you can't serve any other time. 

• Tomato soup makes great 'blood'
   
• Stuff lychees with red grapes to make creepy eyeballs
   
• Freeze jelly or soft drink in a thoroughly cleaned rubber glove and float in punch.
   
• Dismembered fingers: Make short-bread dough into finger-shaped cylinders.  Pinch dough slightly to form knuckles and draw in lines (to make curling fingers, drape over rolled-up aluminium foil). Bake and cool. Use icing to paste on almond halves for fingernails. Blood red icing for the ends of fingers is optional
   
• Worms in dirt: put some worm lollies in Milo.
   
• Put sultanas into drinks to make bugs

For some more spooky party ideas see our vampire party page.