The whole family participates from granny to toddler. Over the years Halloween has new hues with online stores selling designer and trendy Halloween costumes and accessories and experts creating trends and styles for each year.
If Halloween is a festival you enjoy then here are tips for you to make Halloween exciting and exclusive.
1. Dressing up for Halloween offers many choices from being a super hero to a witch on a broom stick. The occasion demands passion, color, and a vivid imagination. So think do you want to dress up in what is touted to be the " Top Ten Costume Ideas " for 2007 or would you like to be a trend setter.
2. Read up on fashions and what the online offline stores are stocking for Halloween. Check out whether any costume designers or studios are having sales of costumes used in a popular play or film. Imagine wearing a costume worn in the Titanic or Hulk! Does that thrill you well the possibilities are endless. Check out what online is offering.
3. Contemplate what would suit you as a person. Are you flamboyant or shy? Would you like to be a super girl or fairy god mother? Or are you bold enough to be a witch oozing oomph? Choose a costume you can carry well and not feel out of place in.
4. Visit a few costume stores and try out a few costumes to find out which one suits your body build and character. Don't just try out costumes experiment with wigs and accessories too.
5. Plan the Halloween celebration around the period and style of the costumes. If its classic then choose classic decorations and treats. Research the theme well and make the Halloween memorable but coordinating everything.
6. Plan games and music around the theme too! Orchestrate the celebration from a-z to reflect the theme. Try and keep the plans to yourself so that you guests and visitors are surprised.
7. Design invitation cards such that they enable your guests to dress in synchrony with the party theme or decide that a happy mêlée is fine!
8. Budget Halloween expenses so that you do not over spend. It is easy to use credit cards and have a Halloween celebrations and then worry about payments. So let happiness exist after the event by controlling expenditure from before the event and during. Decide on what you can afford and keep expenditure well within the limit.
9. If you are inspired and have a few stitching/sticking skills you can make your own Halloween costumes. There are guides and tips online that enable creation of costumes and accessories. This will cut expenses greatly.
10. Halloween costumes must be comfortable, easy to don, fire proof, and follow safety norms.
Halloween can be inspiring think about letting your teenagers be in charge of Halloween. Give them a budget and the freedom to create an exclusive and fun Halloween for the family. This motivates them and adds to their sense of responsibility and self esteem. Be different and put up your Halloween ideas and experiences in your blog or photo album online to share with others the many possibilities that Halloween offers.