Here's a truly wicked Halloween party theme invite your friends to a fancy dress witch and warlock party.

Set the scene by turning your party area into a magical cave. Drape the furniture in black sheets (this will also help to protect your furniture) and set up an altar with a Book of Shadows and some magical decorations. You can get these items from a new age shop, or make your own, covering old books and using a light fitting globe for a magic crystal ball.

To make a book of shadows, cover a large book with black paper. Open the book and lay it flat. (Don't do this with a book you want to keep!) Glue all the pages together except the two where you opened the book. Glue two sheets of paper with spells printed on them (you can print spells off the Internet) to the open pages.

You can also paint the pages with white acrylic paint and stick on pictures of unicorns and other mythical creatures when they are dry.

Prop the book on the altar - you can use a book rest or rest it against a candle in a bottle. Add black candles in black candleholders, a pack of tarot cards and some crystals.

To make the crystal ball, place the light fitting globe side up in a round black box - the box needs to be too small for the whole globe, so that it sits up on a stand. Drape it with a silk scarf and do impromtu `readings'. If you can fix up a light in the box to switch on and make the crystal ball glow, it will look terrific.

If you have dragon or magic themed statues and ornaments, put them on display, or cut out paper dragons and mythical creatures and pin them up.

Haunt your cave by draping old white sheets or pieces of cheesecloth over helium balloons. Paint on scary faces and let them float up to the ceiling. You can also put a masks and wigs on your helium balloons and let them loose.

Decorate the corners of the room, archways and doors with fake cobwebs. You can buy fake cobwebs that spray on or stick on at a Halloween party supply store.

Use a large black laundry tub with a handle for a cauldron, and fill it with lime drink or party punch and strange plastic toy animals rats, toads, lizards. These make great party favors for the guests.

You can set your cauldron on a pile of crumpled up red and yellow cellophane paper to like a blazing fire.

Fill goblets or champagne glasses (you can use plastic champagne glasses and paint them with silver water based craft paint) with strings of brightly colored glass beads, old paste jewelry and gold chains spilling over the side. Scatter small crystals and shiny paste jewels mixed with Gummi eyeballs around the bases of the goblets. These look great set out on the food table.

You can make simple magic wands out of foot long pieces of dowel rod, or even long chopsticks. Paint the wands black and the tips gold. But if you really want to impress, go into the country and cut straight pieces of fallen branches to make wands. Bunch them in decorated large cocoa tins for your guests to play dueling games a la Harry Potter.

As the head witch or warlock, you can create a great costume that doesn't cost too much. Make your magical hat out of a large sheet of construction paper curved into a cone shape. Cut the bottom of the cone to fit your head, tape the ends firmly in place and paint black. While the paint is still wet, sprinkle the hat with glitter dust and let it dry. You can also cover your hat with silver and gold cut out stars and crescent moons.

Make a simple robe out of length of dark coloured sheeting or satin, 60 inches by 120 inches. Fold the fabric in half lengthways, and cut an opening unto the fold in the upper piece of cloth. Cut a shallow neckline to fit your neck. You can hem the edges to make it look neat. Sew the sides of the robe up to 16-20 inches from your armpits (adjust for your size). Clasp the front neck edges of the robe with a paste brooch in a magical design, such as a pentacle.

Now invite every witch and warlock you know to this great Halloween party theme!

Just as Halloween changed over the course of history, Halloween costumes have been changing as well. The “costumes” were more religious outfits than costumes back in the beginning whereas during later centuries the costumes were extravagant outfits. Focusing on the modern times, Halloween costumes have been changing as well.

To many of those, Halloween was a community based celebrated holiday where everybody contributes their own effort in order to make Halloween happen. One of those contributions was making our own Halloween costumes. Costumes back then were less extravagant and showy and more on creativity, there were less Halloween costume choices so the adults and children must try hard to make their costumes stand out. Halloween masks were also very popular due to its ease of design, make and use.

Fast forward to the twenty first century, the traditions have changed yet again. Where Halloween has loss in terms of community involvement, it has gained in market appeal and publicity. Due to mass media and greater consumer wealth, Halloween costumes have become complicated and sometimes very extravagant. The choices for Halloween costumes have grown exponentially, with all the TV’s, movies, Pop culture figures and stories, choosing a Halloween costume has never been harder.


Kids Halloween costumes now are immaculately detailed like never before, if you have ever seen a trick or treater in a Star Wars costumes, or Pirate costumes; not only are they detailed, but are accurate down to every detail from eye patch to the clone trooper armor. Home made costumes although still present, are not as popular as before. Although with the passing of time, materials both common and exotic have become less pricey- resulting in some very spectacular homemade costumes that were not previously possible.

Halloween has also gotten very popular with adults in the modern era, in return adult Halloween costumes has been popular as well. Halloween as an industry has grown almost thirty percent in the past ten years- most of which were propelled by the demand of Halloween costumes and items by adults. Unlike kids Halloween costumes, Adult Halloween costumes revolves around a more mature theme, less on fantasy, movies or characters and more on costumes that are showy and sexy. As a result of this change, sexy costumes for have been the number one choice of adult Halloween costume for the past few years.

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There are many adults out there that are looking forward to Halloween. No, they are not looking forward to Halloween so that they can go trick-or-treating, although some adults are, but many adults are looking forward to Halloween simply because Halloween is the time when all of the grown-ups are able to dress up differently from how they normally dress up. Adults can wear costumes that are very attractive and matching to the fantasy they desire.

If you wear a beautiful Halloween costume during Halloween time, you will be increasing your fun, even if you are just working at the front door giving all of the children candy. If you are looking to join in on a Halloween party, then you should pay attention to the type of costume you are wearing.

The trends of Halloween costumes have evolved throughout the years. If you are looking for a beautiful costume for the Halloween party that is about to come up, then you should keep track of the costumes that are in demand. Many of the costume companies have a separate line of costumes that are made just for adults. These costumes are catering to everyonea€?s preferences and needs. If you want to wear a sexy costume for the Halloween party, then you will be able to find a lot of sexy Halloween costumes out there today(visit http://www.whatagirlylife.com/ to get more information). If you are looking for some scary Halloween costumes, then they are out there as well.

When looking for your Halloween costumes, you should visit different stores and play some  halloween costumes games on some dress up games sites,such as Dress Up Games,Girls Games before you choose the one Halloween costume you want to wear. If you are looking for Halloween costumes on the Internet, then you should look around at different places before you choose the Halloween costumes you want. If you want a traditional Halloween costume to wear for this Halloween, then you can be a witch, ghost or vampire. If you want to add some modernity to your Halloween costume, then you could find costumes of mysterious gypsy, French maid, belly dancers, cowgirl and much more. Before you start to look at Halloween costumes, you should decide what theme you want to go for.

If you are a guy, then you too will be able to find a wide array of Halloween costumes. You will have the chance to become a pirate, a superhero, display your Greek look by wearing a toga or something else that you like. Today, you will find tons of Halloween costumes out there for guys because guys have started to get in the trend of wearing Halloween costumes as well.

When it comes to Halloween costumes, this should be something fun and something that you would enjoy to wear. If you have wanted to be a ballerina and wear the same outfits that ballerinas like to wear, then Halloween is the time to do so. If you want to show your witch looks, then Halloween is a great time to show your witch looks without someone making fun of you and laughing at you. Remember, whatever Halloween costume you choose to wear, you should have fun in it and that is all that counts.

What's Halloween without an upbeat costume camaraderie ? No charismatic Halloween costumes in your kitty and you're most likely to fall out of the freak-wave that surges through all and sundry during Halloween !The funkier and freakier your Halloween costume, the more the fun and thrill. Demands for Halloween costumes go sky-high almost a month before the most-awaited Halloween night. And the stores generously oblige with scary Halloween masks and peachy props to pep up people's Halloween guise !

Now halloween Halloween no longer remains a kid's holiday today. People of higher age-groups are equally ‘spell-bound' by the spirits of Halloween ! While men go for scary Halloween costumes, women prefer to charm in more feminine and coquettish costumes on Halloween. Greeting cards and Halloween decorating props also witness record sale figures along with Halloween party supplies and Halloween costumes. Halloween props from the grooviest to the wildest, offbeat to the upbeat—hit the shelves at all stores all over. Halloween props and Halloween costumes during this season.

It's great to watch a world of spooks and demons, monsters and aliens unleash before you as Halloween fever takes over with a ghastly intensity. !Halloween costumes and masks have a whopping range and can be anything under the sun that grabs the attention. It can be anything from Frankenstein to Porky Pig, killer wolves to goofy clowns, Tom Cruise to Scooby Doo, dancing dolls to wacko witches, black cats to batman, honeybees to a bag of beans and so on.


But what do people do in these Halloween costumes ? Answer is simple—bewitch ! Either in a party or just going about in the neighborhood with a whole bunch, the idea is to bewitch all and charm looker-ons in unwonted Halloween gears. Some even go haunting about a haunted house with their folks, while some others spend a romantic Halloween night with their folks, while some others spend a romantic Halloween night with their spookhearts. Now let's get down to some kooky costume ideas for your Halloween:

Play a ghost !

The most common and easy-to-do Halloween costume—cover yourself with a white sheet and cut out holes for eyes and mouth. Other colors would also do; who said ghosts can't be colorful ? You can deck this one up more with red-colored spray paints or may be with a crooked hat.

Go ghoulish !

Get some macabre Halloween masks and spruce up the rest in keeping with the face you choose to give yourself. You can go for wolf masks or monster masks if you're planning to look scary. Alternatively, you can preen in celebrity Halloween masks or go for masks replicating your favorite cartoon character

Old is gold !

You can even choose a classic Halloween costume in antiquity theme—may be wigs, tattoos, headbands and other accessories which belong to older times.

Paint it scary !

If you've had enough of Halloween masks and the Halloween props for some years now, do something different this time. Paint your face ! You can choose to look either horrific or funny—but giving a face to yourself is going to be fun for sure. So be a Dr. Jekyll or a Mr. Hyde—the choice is yours !

Prop up the poise !

Just prop up your Halloween with the screamingly freaky Halloween props like body parts, tombstones, blood-stained axes, broomsticks, broken fences, distortion mirrors, detachable brains and hearts, batty wings, fog machines, bleeding knives and much more.

Halloween is such a fun holiday because it is one of the few times of the year when you and your children can get dress up like someone else. However, Halloween can become a very expensive holiday because Halloween costumes are notoriously known for their expensive prices. You should not be discouraged about dressing up for Halloween; there are many ways to save money on Halloween costumes without spending too much money.

Thrift Stores and Garage Sales

Thrift stores and garage sales are wonderful resources to find material for Halloween costumes, articles of clothing to incorporate into Halloween costumes or even Halloween costumes already put together. The great advantage of this is you can customize a one of a kind costume at really cheap prices. However, it takes a lot of time to jump around to garage sales and thrift stores to find exactly what you are looking for.

Hand Me Downs

Borrowing a costume from someone else is always a great way to save money. Why not? Especially since you will be wearing it for one day or even for a night! Just be careful when going to a Halloween party that you are wearing a costume that was not remembered from the previous year. You will get comments from others remembering the costume from the previous years.

Another factor to consider when borrowing a costume is to make sure it fits your or your children properly. Otherwise, your child could fall and trip because of a costume that is too big or too small. Make sure you try on all costumes before attending any Halloween parties or taking your children trick or treating.

Make It Yourself

By making your own costume, you can let your creative juice flow to enhance your one of a kind costume. Plus, it’s very cheap to make your costume since you are incorporating items that you already own. Unfortunately, making a costume can be time consuming, and you may need to spend hours sewing, tacking, or gluing pieces together.

Shop at Online Halloween Stores

The best way of getting cheap costumes is by purchasing it online. When you purchase your costume online, you don’t have to worry about spending time to make it, hunting down pieces at thrift or garage sales, or worrying about a borrowed costume fitting. Instead, you can simply choose what Halloween costume you want and select your size. You will receive your Halloween costume at your door - fast.

A cheap online Halloween costume store that sells quality Halloween costumes is HalfPriceCostumes.com.

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