Horror party ideas for horror movie fans

Dawn Of The Dead zombie costume competitions.

Classic horror creature costume competition.

Alien survivor game.

Version of tag with a team dressed as aliens and a team dressed as space miners.

Predator hunting game.

Version of hide and seek/paintball with one or more predators vs one or more humans.

What's In The Box competition.

With skulls, spiders, sticky webbing and all things squeamish horror. Either the old-school hole in the box can be used or the one opening the box can wear a blindfold.

Paranormal Activity house (night).

Set up booby traps and tricks for flickering lamps, shaking objects, strange shadows and strange creaking, thudding and whispering sounds.

Jaws (day) or Lake Placid (night) pool, pond or lake party.

Giant inflatable shark or crocodile is required.

Pool decorations and character costumes recommended.

Freddy vs Jason costume and fight competitions.

Using foam or plastic swords (shaped) and Jason gloves.

Battle Royale pass the parcel.

One awesome prize fought over by all in a no-holds-barred (but no real injuries allowed) battle. Those who lose any individual fight forfeit rights to the prize. Costumes required.

10 unusual fiction based things to do on a rainy day

1. Set up lighting and hold a shadow puppets story.

2. Write a collaborative story with your friends and family.

3. Hold a Mad Hatter's tea party.

4. Make furniture out of old and unlikely to be reread books. Suggestions: a coffee table, some shelves, a bench.

5. Hold a competition for drawing your favourite characters. Most imaginative wins.

6. Have a cooking fest where you makes foods based on fictional foods. Hold a party to eat them all.

7. Hold a reading competition where you have to read upside down or backwards.

8. Place a soft cover book on each blade of a ceiling fan and turn the fan on. First book to fall is the next to read. (Put anything breakable away first).

(No one has been idiotic enough to do this and take a poto so I got Simon to put some books on our fan.)

9. Hold a treasure hunt where the hints for the next place to search are found in books. The hints are encoded by page number and word number.

10. Make character costumes using your own clothes. Best costume wins.

This is of Madeline, for those still guessing.

Note: Simon and I both thought of these but he wants some special credit. So, credit for the initial post idea goes to him. As does ideas 8 (definitely) and 6 in part.

Book repurposing (once you've read them)

Make a bath. 

Construct a broom. 

 Use several to make a reading lamp.

 Use several thousand to make a building.

 Put together a chair to sit on while reading your new books.

Make a counter or bench.

 'Sew' a dress.

 Create rings and pendants.

 Put together a light shade.

Form a rug. 

Mock up a coffee table.

 Create a new tower of Babel.

Or make a lovely vase.