Tips for Throwing a Halloween Party at Your Apartment

Two women posing for a Halloween photo
It’s time to start planning a Halloween party at your Arrive Watertower apartment. Enjoy time with friends by playing games, eating Halloween treats, and having fun! Enjoy your month here in Eden Prairie, MN.

Halloween Games

Costume Contest

This is an easy and a classic way to get everyone involved. Choose a few categories beforehand to help you judge the costumes. You can either have a board of judges that will choose the winning looks or you can have the guests choose their favorites. Either way, choose a variety of categories such as the scariest, funniest, most clever, and best overall costume. Each winner of the categories will go home with a prize.

Halloween Movie Trivia

Test your horror movie knowledge with some movie trivia perfect for the occasion. This is a fun game that all your guests will enjoy. Come up with some questions and play a game of your choosing. Or click on the link above to choose a game that will work for your group. Make it more fun by offering a cool prize to the winner.

Halloween Treats

Red Hot Candy Apples

These apples coated in red hot candies have quite the kick of spicy cinnamon. The recipe comes from Mom Start. Here’s a list of the ingredients you’ll need to make these fiery apples: your favorite variety of apples, skewers or popsicle sticks, sugar, light corn syrup, red hot candies, red food coloring, and water.

Pumpkin Spiced Shortbread with Apple Cider Buttercream

If you like shortbread cookies, you will definitely like this Pumpkin Shortbread from The Cafe Sucre Farine. It’s topped with a decadent apple cider buttercream that everyone is sure to love. For the shortbread cookies, you’ll need these ingredients: butter, powdered sugar, flour, cornstarch, pumpkin pie spice, salt, and vanilla extract. For the buttercream frosting find apple cider, dark brown sugar, butter, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and half and half.

What’s your favorite Halloween party game? Let us know in the comments. Thanks for reading! Visit the Arrive Watertower Blog again next month for more apartment living tips and seasonal fun posts!