25 Insanely Fun College Halloween Party Ideas
One of the most exciting parts of halloween in college is looking for college halloween party ideas. Here are some of the funnest halloween party ideas for college!
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Halloween is a big deal in college, and if you’re wanting to plan a party, you’re probably looking for college halloween party ideas.
As someone who has seen lots of college halloween parties, here are some of the best ideas for the best halloween party EVER.
After you read this post, you’ll have some awesome ideas for a college halloween party.
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The Best College Halloween Party Ideas
1. Serve Drinks In A Pumpkin
If you plan on serving drinks at your halloween party, this is such a cute idea! You’d just need to carve out a pumpkin, get some ice, and pop the drinks in there! You could also do multiple throughout the party since it doesn’t hold that many drinks if you plan on having a party with a lot of people.
2. Decorate With Floating Witch Hats
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This is such a cute low effort decor idea for a college halloween party. You’d just need a pack of some witch hats with some fishing wire/ clear string like this pack and you’d just hang them from the ceiling!
3. Bubbling Cauldron Centerpiece
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This is the perfect halloween centerpiece idea if you plan on serving food at your halloween party. To recreate it you’ll need a cauldron, some stuffing, and some purple (or whatever color you want) led lights to put inside the cauldron to make it look like it’s glowing.
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4. Decorate With Curtain Lights
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This is another amazing low effort halloween decoration. The best part of this one is you could leave it up year round as decor all the time! You’ll just need some color changing curtain lights. I have some curtain lights hanging in my living room and I am obsessed with how pretty they are.
5. IV Bag Drinks
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This is suuuuch a cute way to serve drinks for a halloween party. To recreate it you’ll need to get some IV drink bags and you can fill them with whatever drink you want for your guests!
6. Candy Corn Jello Shots
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If you’re a jello shot kind of person, candy corn jello shots are the perfect option for halloween. You’ll just make the different colored layers of jello with whatever alcohol you want and let them set separately and then move onto the next layer!
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7. Spooky Entrance
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This is the perfect spooky entrance theme idea for a halloween party. I love that they decorated the top of the door with the balloon arch, it really levels the whole thing up.
8. Chocolate Fountain With Red Dye
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I am obsessed with this halloween party food idea. To recreate it you’ll need a chocolate fountain, and I’m pretty sure they made the chocolate red by using white chocolate and a whole lot of red food dye. You could also probably use red chocolate melting wafers for the same effect.
9. Put Frozen Gloves In The Punch Bowl
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This is such an awesome and easy drink idea. Basically all you need to do is fill some clear gloves with water and freeze them to make the hand ice!
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10. Decorate With Floating Candles
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This is another amazing ceiling decor idea. The best way to do this would be to get a pack of remote controlled taper candles. The remote controlled ones would be best so you can turn them all off and on at once instead of having to turn them on individually, which would be a pain (especially once they’re already hung) and would take forever.
After that you could hang them up with some clear fishing line!
11. Have A Costume Competition
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This is the staple halloween party game. Doing a costume contest will also encourage people to wear cool costumes to the party!
12. Halloween Bathroom Decorations
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Don’t forget to decorate the bathroom at the party! This bathroom decor is perfect for a glow in the dark Halloween party. Decorating the bathroom will also make it so people can take pictures in the mirror!
13. Eyeball Jello Shots
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This is another really good jello shots idea! These would be super easy to make because you’d just have to put the gummy eyeballs in!
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14. Witch Hat Ring Toss
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If people are going to be outside at the party, a witch ring toss would be an awesome game to have going on! You could do this inside as well if you have a room that is big enough to play.
15. Halloween Bar Cart
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If you already have a bar cart or want a cute spot for people to serve their own drinks, this is an awesome idea! I love the skeleton they used.
16. Serving Skeletons
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This is another very cute skeleton decor idea! It would be the perfect way to serve snacks. The little chef hats they put on them are so funny.
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17. Set Up A Photobooth
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Setting up a photobooth is a great idea so people have a cute area to get pictures of their costumes! There are so many cute ways you could set up a halloween photobooth, and this one is so cute!
18. Creepy Conversations Game
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If you’re going to have a party with a lot of people or a party with people who don’t know each other, this would be such a great game! The pieces of paper could have spooky questions like “have you or anyone you know ever seen a ghost?” or normal conversation starters.
19. Glow In The Dark Beer Pong
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Beer pong is a college party staple, and making it glow in the dark would be the perfect way to make it halloween-y. You could draw on a table and the cups with some highlighter and use a blacklight to make them glow. If you want to go over the top you could get glow in the dark cups for the game!
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20. Coffin Cooler
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This is a genius way to serve drinks for a halloween party. You’d need to get a decorative coffin and line it with some kind of plastic (you could probably tape some trash bags together for the liner). Then, you should be able to fill it with some ice and the drinks!
21. Glow In The Dark Decorations
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Glow in the dark decorations are perfect for a halloween party. The easiest way to do this is to get some blacklights and neon decor. If you don’t want to buy blacklights, you could get some blacklight bulbs for the lights in your house!
22. Decorate With Caution Tape
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Caution tape is a simple and inexpensive way to decorate for a halloween party. This is also a great decor idea if there are certain areas of the party that you don’t want people to get into!
23. Skeleton In Bathtub Decoration
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This is another super cool and easy bathroom decoration. I love the bugs they added on the side!
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24. Use A Projector
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This is another simple decoration idea if you don’t want to go all out but still want things to look decorated.
25. Use A Fog Machine
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Using a fog machine will immediately level up any party. It would be so perfect for a halloween party.
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