I’ve been wanting to host an Addams Family Party for Halloween for a long long time and this year managed to make it a reality. This was a large party with lots of decorating, a dessert table and cocktails for the adults. We based this party around the original TV series from 1960’s with references to many of the characters in the show. A set of printables have been created as a free download.
We hope you enjoy. Julie.
The Addams Party Ideas, Gomez’s Train Set and “Thing”
Grandmama’s panty was a joy to create, I collected a lot of eclectic old leather clad bottles, vintage books, skulls and more to create a spooky pantry for grandmama.
The Addams Family Party Ideas Grandmama’s Pantry
We used stone wall wrap and a lot of panne velvet and faux fur to transform the room. It also helps if you have access to a real deer head.
The Addams Family Decorating Ideas, Use Stone and Velvet to transform a room
Panne velvet transformed our curtains and cow hides were used on the floor. We used old leather wingback chairs with tapestry cushions to create an older style room.
The Addams Family Decorating Ideas, Use vintage furniture and cow hides to transform your room.
I had to incorporate Gomez’s train set into this party. I used two working train sets which ran in opposite directions all night and one derailed set, the TNT box completed the train set. I opted for a dark purple table cloth which worked well against all of the black decorations.
The Addams Family, Gomez’s Train Set and “Thing”
I included a small nook with grandmama, two visiting skeletons dressed for the roaring ‘20s and the Addams family graveyard.
Grandmama’s Addams corner
The Addams Family Party - Two skeletons for Halloween
The Addams Family Grave Yard
A vintage peacock chair is a must for Morticia as is Cousin IT. We used a couple of “Thing’s” in the party they were purchased on line as hand mannequins.
Morticia Addams with Cousin It & Thing
Wednesday and Pugsley Addams
Morticia was often featured in her conservatory feeding her beloved Cleopatra, I made Cleopatra with paper mache and glued dissected monster teeth into place, I then placed a collection of severed fingers at the base of the pot. The conservatory had a mix of strange looking cacti and succulents, including a swarm of bats
The Addams Family Morticias Conservatory
The Addams Family Cleopatra
As our guests arrived they were treated to our vintage chairs reserved for moon tanning,
The Addams Family Moon Tanning in the Garden
Morticia loved to use baking powder to give her that all over white glow, we created a small dressing table for Morticia featuring Baking Powder.
The Addams Family Morticia Addams Dressing Table
Our dessert table included “Eye of Newt” and “Cleopatra” cake pops, “Aristotle” Cup Cakes and sugar cookies with poison bottles and tarantulas.
The Addams Family Dessert Table
While Cake Pops can take time to make they are always well received. For the Addams family I settled on creating some green man eating plants to represent “Cleopatra” and some blue “Eye of Newts”. The cake pop border can be downloaded as a free printable, you will require a few prints of the boarder to cover your holder.
The Addams Family Cake Pops, Cleopatra the man eating plant and Eye of Newt.
The Cleopatra Cake pops were made by making a wedge slice for a mouth, We used black candy melts for the interior of the mouth and white nerds “popping candy” for teeth, purple lips and pipe cleaner leaves completed the look. For the Eye of Newt I used baking store eyes and created twisted blue eyelashes created with candy melts, the eyes were completed using mini baking cup papers under the eye.
The Addams Family Cake Pops - Cleopatra
The Addams Family Cake Pops - Eye of Newt
We based our cup cakes on Pugsley’s octopus, “Aristotle”. The tentacles were made 2 days in advance to allow the shape to set, remember to place a toothpick in the base of the tentacle when it is still soft..
The Addams Family Cup Cakes - Aristotle
We made two types of cookies for the party with small bottles of poison and tarantulas.
The Addams Family Poison Bottle sugar cookies
The Addams Family Tarantula sugar cookies
Layered Lurch’s jelly cups were created for the party with cake toppers from our printable range
The Addams Family Party Lurch’s Jelly
Two green punches adorned our table, one for the adults and one for the kids.
The Addams Family Adult Punch
The Addams Family Childrens Punch
Simple blue martini’s were made for the adults, the glasses were topped with black sugar.
The Addams Family Party - Morticia Matrini
Gomez was rarely seen without a cigar in hand so we included some chocolate covered wafers in one of my favourite serving bowls and you can find some original photos on line which look grate in frames for your party.
The Addams Family, Gomez’s Cigars
The Addams Family, Use old images as Photos
We created a range of free printables for this party including various tent cards, mini bunting, room signs, cake pop boarders and oval images that we used to make this party come to life. Please use these links for full downloads.
The Addams Family Free Printables - www.chicpartyideas.com.au
The Addams Family, Morticia, Wednesday and Ophelia
This party was a lot of fun to both create and host. You can collect a lot of quirky pieces from thrift shops and markets to help create this look.
We look forward to your comments.
Enjoy Julie