How to celebrate Halloween at home? October 21, 2010, 00:00 | Katya Kozhevnikova
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All Saints' Eve, also known as Halloween, is celebrated in Russia relatively recently, but cheerfully and with pleasure. On the night of October 31 to November 1, theme parties will be held in nightclubs in all major cities, where witches, devils and other ghouls will gather. But, you must admit, sometimes you want to celebrate a holiday at home, with friends. I'll tell you how to prepare a home Halloween so that no one will regret missing the party at the club.
Merry Halloween in Russian
Although Halloween is not a Russian holiday, it is easy to imagine what kind of evil spirits would gather in our country. Our unclean forces are, first of all, witches and devils, as well as spirits of various elements - water spirits, goblins, swamp kikimoras. You can invite your friends to dress up as these creatures as they imagine them .
If we recall folk tales and Russian literature, it is clear that our domestic evil spirits and undead are not as terrible as they are made out to be. Devils and witches are not evil forces, but rather slobs, jokers and petty mischief-makers who love to have fun (although their idea of fun sometimes differs from that of humans).
But, one way or another, in the company of Russian evil spirits you need to have fun and play different games - funny, cheerful and a little stupid. If you have more than ten guests at your party, you can arrange a game “Murderers” , adding a little atmosphere of horror to the evening. The names of all guests are written on pieces of paper (their characters can be used if they are not repeated). Then all the pieces of paper are mixed, and each participant draws one for himself. If someone pulls out a piece of paper with their name on it, a draw takes place.
Each participant in the game is a “killer”, and the name written on a piece of paper is his victim. “Murder” occurs in this way - the killer must privately show the victim a piece of paper with his name on it. When this happens, the “victim” gives the killer a piece of paper with the name of his potential victim and all the others that he managed to collect. For those killed, the game ends, for the rest it continues. The one who collected the most pieces of paper won.
The beauty of this idea is that it is casual - you can eat, dance, play other games. Throughout the evening and creates a feeling of slight paranoia - no one trusts anyone and does not want to be left alone with anyone. In practice it's fun and quite creepy. If you have talented people visiting you, you can safely offer them creative games. For example, the game "Fairy Tales" . Guests are divided into two teams, each of which chooses a storyteller.
The storyteller tells a well-known fairy tale, participants from the opposing team must show it in real time - the narrator speaks, the actors show. After this, the teams change roles.
Naturally, the narrator can make fun of his actors. For example, he may say: “Then the sleeping beauty began to stretch voluptuously.” There's nothing you can do, you'll have to stretch and stretch voluptuously. In general, the more the storyteller deviates from the well-known plot, the funnier it turns out. And if we are talking about Halloween, then you can add a creepy ending to the tale.
For example, remember the fairy tale “Turnip”? At the end, the presenter can say: “And then the Turnip opened one eye, bared its teeth and ate Grandfather and Grandmother, Granddaughter and Bug, only the Cat and Mouse managed to escape. Moral: don’t grow genetically modified vegetables.” When the actors try to cope with hysteria by showing such a fairy tale ending, fun is guaranteed for everyone. The Alphabet game also requires creativity and acting skills from guests . The idea is that two people act out a dialogue on a given topic in such a way that each phrase begins with the next letter of the alphabet. For example: “Oh, is it you again?” - “Bah, who do I see!” To give a hint, you need to write all the letters of the alphabet on a piece of paper so that the participants in the game do not get lost.
Since it's Halloween, we need to give appropriate themes. For example: “The devil in a female form is trying to persuade a young man to sign an agreement”, “Solokha is trying to take away a month from the devil”, “A young girl is on a date with a vampire, the first has romantic feelings, the second is just very hungry”, “Baba Yaga is trying to cook Ivan the Fool, he resists.” This game is usually fun to both play and watch. In general, any games, such as association or twister, can be made on a Halloween theme. This only makes them funnier. Well, if you are really confident in the psychological stability of your guests and their willingness to play seriously, you can arrange a truly scary holiday called “Death Row” .
According to the plot, all the people invited to you are criminals sentenced to death. Tell each of them in their ear what they are accused of. One, suppose, kidnapped people for ransom, another killed several people, the third committed high treason. Each player will have to come up with legends and crimes.
After this, you leave all the “death row” prisoners in one room and warn that every hour (or half an hour, more often), an executioner will come into the room and take one person to death. The room should have dim light, preferably from candles.
Death row inmates must decide among themselves who will be executed next. Only the last one has a chance to survive. Accordingly, in the intervals between executions they decide who will be next, try to prove their innocence, and weave intrigues. To make things more interesting, you can get an executioner’s hat so that your friends don’t think that this is all a joke.
If you get into the game seriously, it becomes truly scary. Imagine realizing that you are a murderer, being afraid of death, lying that you are innocent, and sending others to their deaths. It's all pretty creepy. Therefore, the “executed” whom you took out of the room must be soldered with hot mulled wine, told jokes, in general, brought to their senses.
In any case, your friends will not forget this holiday. In a good or bad way. How do you like to celebrate Halloween?
Katya Kozhevnikova , iledebeaute.ru
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