Halloween Party Tips Can Help Take the Fear Out of Organizing, Reports Factory Card & Party Outlet

Top Party Organizers Offer Halloween Party Tips to Help Organize Your Halloween Holiday Events

Naperville, IL (PRWEB) October 8, 2006 -- Organizing a fun Halloween party – not ghouls, goblins or gargoyles – are the greatest fear for many Halloween party hosts. Factory Card & Party Outlet (http://www.factorycard.com/), the leading party retailer, offers some tips from top party organizers to help hosts manage all the details, stay organized and make party planning just a little less scary.

Top Ten Halloween Party Organizing Tips:

1.    Select a date, start and end times. Don’t get spooked by guests. Clarify start and end times.

2.    Choose a fun theme. Do you want devilishly scary or loads of laughs?

3.    Pick a hauntingly fun location. Be creative. A forest preserve? Dark restaurant? If outdoors, have a backup plan for bad weather for your Halloween party.

4.    Oooo…Who-ooo is invited? Determine your guest list.

5.    Ask your guests to dress in costume (http://www.factorycard.com/vr4-web-site/catalogservlet?categoryId=21249). Head-to-toe disguises add to the fun!

6.    Mail invitations (http://www.factorycard.com/vr4-web-site/catalogservlet?categoryName=halloween_party_invitations). Help your guests reference the date, time and location of the Halloween event.

7.    Plan freaky, fun activities! Keeps guests busy with games (http://www.factorycard.com/vr4-web-site/catalogservlet?categoryId=73473) – and don’t forget the goody bags (http://www.factorycard.com/vr4-web-site/catalogservlet?categoryId=72705)!

8.    Decorate for doom – inside (http://www.factorycard.com/vr4-web-site/catalogservlet?categoryName=halloween_indoor_decor) and out (http://www.factorycard.com/vr4-web-site/catalogservlet?categoryId=74497)! Halloween decorations create the mood. Scene setters (http://www.factorycard.com/vr4-web-site/catalogservlet?categoryId=75009) for entire walls, fog machines (http://www.factorycard.com/vr4-web-site/catalogservlet?categoryId=75265), door gore and more will do the trick!

9.    Add spooky sounds. Sound effects and music (http://www.factorycard.com/vr4-web-site/catalogservlet?categoryId=73729) add to a hauntingly fun atmosphere.

10.    Create a menu “to die for”! Whether you’re baking (http://www.factorycard.com/vr4-web-site/catalogservlet?categoryId=73217) pumpkin pie or swamp salad, scrumptious recipes make the Halloween party.

Factory Card & Party Outlet offers a full range of party supplies in one place to help make that Halloween party event just that much easier.

About Factory Card & Party Outlet

Factory Card & Party Outlet (http://www.factorycard.com/) (NASDAQ:FCPO) based in Naperville, Illinois, is the largest publicly traded retail party chain in the United States. Factory Card & Party Outlet currently operates 192 Company-owned retail stores in 20 states, offering a wide selection of party supplies, greeting cards, gift wrap, balloons, everyday and seasonal merchandise, and other special occasion merchandise at everyday value prices.

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