Halloween

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Attract STUDENTSwith a Creative Movie Event

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Horror Movie Trivia

Carve out a spooktacular movie schedule this Halloween season by showing a selection of top new releases and scary movie classics that will fright and delight your student population.

Before each showing, include a fun, themed activity – like pumpkin carving, fortune telling or horror movie trivia – to create a wickedly good time on your campus.

Check out our Halloween toolkit to download our free trivia slideshow.

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Help students paint their very own pumpkins in time for Halloween!

Provide paint supplies and textured materials, like felt, markers, glitter, stickers and more, so each person can create a pumpkin as unique as they are.

Play a Halloween flick in the background while they craft, or save it until the end as the big finale.

Painted Pumpkins

Painted Pumpkin D I Y

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What supernatural activity lingers in your campus?

Find out by inviting a team of paranormal researchers to search as they demonstrate their equipment and explain how everything works to attendees.

They can also share stories about previous investigations.

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Haunted Happenings

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Host a Halloween-themed carnival in conjunction with a spooktacular film!

Invite acrobats, aerialists and tarot card readers to perform, feature fun games like boo-loon pop, pumpkin bowling or toilet paper mummy, and include lots of delicious treats to create an event your campus will never forget!

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Pumpkin Bowling

Toilet Paper Mummy

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Teach attendees how to face paint, recreate zombie looks, or do special-effect wounds.

Pinterest is filled with inspiration and how-to’s to model your class after.

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Face Painting

Special-Effect Wounds

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Provide your campus with all the fun and excitement of completing an escape room challenge without the scary price tag by DIYing a room or space right next to your showing!

Simply decide on a theme, craft your story and clues then watch the fun unfold! You could also see if a local commercial escape room will give you advice or lend you props free of charge in exchange for promotions at the event.

DIY Escape Room

Escape theRoom

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Entertain your campus with a speakeasy-themed Halloween event!

Hire a live DJ, create themed mocktails and include a costume contest with a grand prize.

Costume Contest

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Focus on the past by partnering with a local historical society or your university history department to discover your community’s haunted past.

Many have information on the haunted histories of their communities.

You can host a walking tour to visit haunted locales, or simply have a story time session before a screening of a Halloween flick.

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Walking Ghost Tour

Image Source: Historic Pensacola