Fall parties are becoming a fast trend amongst parents as an alternative to trick-or-treating. It’s a great for kids and even adults who have outgrown trick-or-treating but still feel like celebrating. Many people from different parts of the world have big celebrations to herald and enjoy the most fruitful season of the year. Here are some tips and tricks to help you prepare for the perfect Fall party.

Fun Fall Party Invites

The guests will immediately know the party you’re having once you send them fall-themed party invitations. Invitations shaped or decorated like maple leaves, pumpkins and corn are very ideal for the season. If you don’t feel like looking for special designs, you can just use red, yellow and orange colors for your invites.

Ask your guests to come wearing their fall-themed outfits from the latest fashion. Since it’s such a fruitful season, you can also arrange a special fall potluck where your guests will bring their special fall recipes like apple pie, squash soup, and the like to make the party more homey and special.

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Decorations to Fall For

The fall season has a very unique color, so you should take cues and inspiration from nature. Decorate your home using reds, browns, honeys and gold shades and use them on your curtains, sofas, tablecloths, napkins and pillowcases. You can use cheerful colors like orange or bright red as an accent to everything. Banners, streamers and balloons should also follow this color theme.

Mother Nature herself can provide your other decorations. Step out to your garden and pick red and golden maple leaves. Wash them, let them dry, and make sure they don’t have any insects. Spray paint them with golds and other fall colors. Arrange these leaves in shallow bowls and put apples, personal pumpkins (the really small ones) and acorns on top of them for beautiful and seasonal centerpieces. If you don’t have time to do this, just use autumn-themed potpourri instead of leaves.

Change your lighting from white light to a warmer yellow light to remind guests of the cooling fall sun. Hang up fruits like grapes or bunches of acorns from your ceiling.

Set up floating candles in clear shallow bowls with water. Scented ones with apple pie, bread or cinnamon scents are great, giving a warm, inviting smell to your fall party.

You can also clear a space for party games in your backyard, living room or garden. Put haystacks around the area, with baskets full of fall produce on them like pumpkins, apples and corn. You can also put up yellow Christmas lights and more banners and streamers.

If you have time, make some autumn-themed serving bowls by hollowing a pumpkin and cleaning it out with water. Once dry, you can use it as a punch bowl or as a serving bowl for drinks and snacks. Smaller pumpkins can also be used to make pumpkin cups. (Learn how to carve a pumpkin)

Fall Treats

Because of the fall season fruits and vegetables available this time of the year, you can have a very diverse and filling menu comprising only of fall harvests. Here are some suggestions:

• Smoked Almond Stuffed Dates. Slit the dates open just enough for the almonds to slip in. Don’t try to put it all the way through. Serve to your guests.
• Spicy Cocktail Nuts. Baked in egg whites, water, creole seasoning and cayenne pepper, these nuts will surely be a hit with your guests. Leave dishes full of these wonderful nuts with an interesting twist.
• Roasted Butternut Squash Soup. Made from roasted butternut squash blended and cooked in chicken stock with lemon and cream, this is surely one of the best flavors of the autumn season. (More tips on how to cook butternut squash)

Let this video show you how to cook a Roasted Butternut Squash, You can try this in your home.

• Garlic Mashed Potatoes. Chop up russet potatoes, mash and bake with garlic paste, and season with salt and butter. This is a favorite that both kids and adults will enjoy, and it’s a welcome change from the usual recipe of mashed potatoes.
• Cream Apple Chicken. Bring a fruity twist to your main dish by cooking cubed chicken in butter in a skillet. Cook mushrooms and heat blanched green beans separately. Once the chicken is golden, add cider and reduce until the meat has an apple flavor. Combined with the butter, the cider will form a caramel coating on the chicken. Serve with cream and apple slices on the plate.
• Traditional Pumpkin Pie. A traditional dessert in the fall season, pumpkin pie is made with a pumpkin-based custard baked in a pie shell without a crust. It’s flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and served with whipped cream.

Yummy roasted butternut squash soup!

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• Fall Punch. Mix in apple and orange juice together, simmered with cinnamon and cloves. Take out the cloves, chill the punch, serve and enjoy.
• Banana Apple Pumpkin Shake. Mix in banana, pumpkin and apple slices in a blender with milk and a dash of cinnamon. Blend until foamy.

Warm Up the Season with Fall Games

Generate some heat in the cool autumn day by having some great fall party games. These games incorporate some autumn fruits and vegetables, so ready your harvests!

Corn husking contest.


• Corn Husking. Get four or five participants and supply them each with five fresh ears of corn. Show the participants how to husk the corns properly first before the game begins. The first one who completely and properly finish husk the corn cobs wins. You can later cook the corn and serve them for the feast.
• Toss the Pumpkin Seed. Prepare five to ten colored dried pumpkin seeds for each participant. Have them line up and try to toss the pumpkin seeds as far as they can. The one who has thrown the farthest, wins. Another variation of this game is to have them toss their pumpkin seeds into a hollowed-out pumpkin. The person who gets the most seeds into the pumpkin is the winner.
• Chocolate Coins in the Haystack. Hide several chocolate coins in haystacks and let the kids go wild trying to find them.
• Pumpkin Relay.Choose three to four small or medium sized pumpkins, and make sure they’re all of the same size and weight. Divide your guests into three or four groups and have them line up. Each one will have to carry the pumpkin up to a certain point, turn back, and pass it on to the next one in their line. This goes on until all the participants have had their turns. The group who finishes first before the others is declared the winning group.
• Wheel Barrow Racing.This game is recommended for adults, because it will require some heavy lifting. Pair up your guests and assign each pair a wheelbarrow. Have the pairs line up, one riding the wheelbarrow and the other pushing it along. At the word “go” the pairs race to the finish line. Once they get to the finish line, they must swap places and race back to the starting point. The first pair who finishes first wins.

Check out this fun video of a Wheelbarrow Race game.

• Pin the Hat on the Scarecrow. A fall party variation on the popular Pin the Tail on the Donkey, kids must take turn trying to put on the hat of a scarecrow properly while blindfolded.
• Pumpkin Pinata.Buy a pumpkin-shaped pinata from your nearest party supply store. Fill it with popular fall candies like candy corn, taffy, caramel popcorn, dried pumpkin seeds and autumn-themed marshmallow peeps. Have the guests try their luck in breaking the pinata open.

Start off the wonderful autumn season with a blast. A fall party is a feast for your eyes and tummy, and is a great reason to pig out on all the treats the season has to offer. Enjoy the party!