Updated on February 12, 2025
Celebrate an October birthday with a fun Halloween birthday party! Decorate the house with spooky spiders, create a graveyard for photos, and make festive food!
Every year since my kids were little, I have thrown a fun, themed birthday party for each of my kids. Planning parties is so much fun!
My son decided on a Halloween theme for his 7th birthday. I usually decorate a little for Halloween, but last year, I was able to go over the top!
Halloween Birthday Party Invitation
I started by creating a Halloween party invitation. We invited everyone—grown-ups and children — to wear a costume to the party, making it a Halloween party and a birthday party all in one!
I created this invitation in Photoshop Elements to create this invitation, but I also made a similar invitation you can edit in Canva.
Halloween Party Decorations
Next came all the decorations. I decorated our front entryway so people could see it while walking through the house to the backyard, where we held the party.
We had a Halloween apothecary table, a creepy spider display, a graveyard, and more!
Spider Decorations
I hung up the spider egg sac I made.
Then, I added spiderwebs and paper spiders to the wall around the area, starting at the table and moving up to the hallway.
Halloween Apothecary Display
On the front table, we had a scary display of apothecary jars. I started by draping a black creepy cloth over the entire table.
I added our mirror and a glittery DIY Halloween spider web plate to the table. I also purchased a bunch of glass jars and labeled them with Halloween labels.
The jars contain eyeballs, rats, spiders, snakes, “poison,” fake fingers, and other creepy items. I created the poison using water and food dye, and we used slime in one of the bottles.
Bathroom Decorations
We added a DIY spooky ghost to the guest bathroom mirror.
I also added a vinyl sign that said “you’re next” to the back of the bathroom door, which people could see once the door was closed. I purchased it at Dollar Tree.
Halloween Party Table
On the party table, I used a fun orange and black polka-dot vinyl tablecloth I found at Target. I also wrapped the porch railing in Halloween lights.
I stapled plain black tablecloths behind the party table. This created a spooky backdrop while also providing some shade for the food.
I hung orange and black paper lanterns. Then I stapled up a creepy cloth and placed some foam bats in it.
I found some fun accessories at the Target dollar spot and Dollar Tree: these creepy holographic pictures, a skeleton skull, foam pumpkins, and ravens.
Halloween Party Food Ideas
Of course, the party food needed to be Halloween-themed, as well!
Clementine Pumpkins
To make these, peel your clementine oranges and insert a small piece of celery for the stem.
Bat Fruit Kabobs
To make these, I cut the bats off plastic bat rings and hot-glued them to the kabob sticks. Add fruit, and you are done!
Halloween Party Punch
I washed some plastic eyeball decorations and added them to my orange party punch. I didn’t get a picture before it was almost gone—that is how good this punch recipe is!
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Easy Spiderweb Cake Design
For the cake, I made a round-tiered cake using a box cake mix with homemade white buttercream icing.
To create the spiderweb effect, I used ready-to-use black icing, a round tip for the web, and a star tip for the border around the bottom. Then, I placed some plastic spiders on the cake.
For the cupcakes, I used Halloween cupcake wrappers and iced them with white buttercream icing. I added black plastic spider rings for decorations so the kids could wear or take them home.
Halloween Party Games
You can’t have a birthday party without games! We set up most of the party outside. I created some fun activities for the kids to keep them busy.
Halloween Graveyard Photo Prop
The graveyard photo area was a fun place to take pictures in costume.
I used a plastic backdrop of a forest and a graveyard and hung it on the fence. I set up a plastic spider fence and placed some foam gravestones behind them.
During the party, I took a picture of each guest in their costumes in the graveyard. Later, I printed them out and sent them with the thank you cards.
Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin
Pin the tail on the donkey is always a hit at parties.
For this Halloween birthday party, I found a cute pin-the-nose-on-the-pumpkin game at Target. This would be easy to make with a poster board and some markers to color in a pumpkin.
Target no longer carries this exact game, but I found a similar pin the skeleton game for only $5!
Pinata
I don’t think we have had a kid’s party without a pinata. For this party, I found a ghost perfect for a Halloween theme. You could also do a bat, pumpkin, eyeball, or witch.
Halloween Costume Contest
It was fun to see all our friends in their costumes. My husband and I dressed up. I was a barmaid, and he was a beer. It was pretty funny!
We had a costume contest that the birthday boy got to judge. Each of the winners got a little prize.
My daughter dressed up as Cinderella.
My son dressed up as the Grim Reaper.
Halloween Party Favor Ideas
For the treat bags, I found clear cellophane spider bags and closed them with a spider ring.
Inside each bag, the kids got a Halloween fruit snack, mini erasers, a stretchy skeleton guy, a pack of stickers, vampire teeth, and a jelly bracelet.
All of these party ideas would work great for any Halloween costume party.
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