It’s true. Halloween parties don’t have to be entirely spooky. You can incorporate dark and moody elements into a Halloween tablescape while still maintaining an elegant design.
For me, tablescape inspiration can come from virtually anywhere. This year, I fell in love with the idea of creating a skull floral centerpiece. So, when I stumbled upon this fun color shift aerosol paint by Testors, I knew the 2 would make an amazing combination. Keep reading for the simple DIY for this fun centerpiece, plus a few tips for pulling together your own elegant Halloween party.
Tips for Hosting an Elegant Halloween Party
We are thrilled to share a few simple tips for creating a Halloween tablescape with you all! First, select a color palette. This year, we were inspired by the purple shade found in the Testors Color Shift Aerosol Paint, so it became our jumping off point for design. We added additional pops of purple to our florals and napkins.
Next, create layered place settings for each guest. Combining colors, textures and patterns adds visual interest to any tablescape. We selected silver glass chargers and formal china for our elegant Halloween party design.
Finally, bring in elegant Halloween details into the design. Keep in mind; less can sometimes be more. For example, our nods to Halloween included these rhinestone spider napkin rings and our DIY skull floral centerpieces. Choose a few key holiday decor items to incorporate into your design for an elevated end design result.
DIY Halloween Skull Centerpiece
This DIY skull centerpiece is the perfect mix of elegant and spooky! Within a few hands-on minutes, you can recreate this stunning skull centerpiece at home!
Supplies Needed
- Skull Vase- You can utilize either a ceramic vase like the own shown, or you can DIY using a paper mache skull that has been carved out from the top with a glass vase insert
- Testors Color Shift Aerosol Paint (Purple Fog Shown)
- Testors Black Tie Gloss Aerosol Paint
Directions
- Spray Testors Black Tie Gloss Aerosol Paint over a clean surface (i.e. ceramic is shown).
- Spray a top coat of Testors Color Shift Aerosol Paint over the black base coat. Allow to dry.
- Using floral filler inside the vase, add your arrangement of fresh flowers to create the final look. We used a mix of greenery, black roses, thistles, light purple flowers and a hint of yellow in our arrangement. But, any combination of flowers and greenery used to create height in this type of vase would achieve a similar look.
This DIY skull centerpiece was most definitely a talking point during the party! He is definitely one of my favorite design concepts. And, I love how the coloring shifts based on the viewpoint and the lighting in the space from green to purple!
You can find Testors Color Shift Aerosol Paint (Purple Fog) used in our DIY skull centerpiece at Joann’s, Michael’s and A.C. Moore. It is also available online at Amazon.com. We hope our ideas inspired you to host an elegant Halloween party this year!
For more Halloween inspiration, don’t miss the following posts:
Spooky Halloween Charcuterie Tray
The Raven Halloween Cocktail Recipe
Stacie says
September 27, 2018 at 11:30 amThat’s the fanciest Halloween party setup I’ve ever seen. I LOVE the colors you chose, and those spider napkin rings are so cool!
Lisa says
September 27, 2018 at 1:07 pmThis is definitely the chicest Halloween table I’ve ever seen! I love that skull; it’s a great colour, and so perfect for the occasion too.
Kisha says
September 27, 2018 at 1:11 pmIts funny, but I’ve never even considered of dressing up a halloween party and I don’t ever think I’ve seen one like this before now. This is definitely a different spin on an old classic. Looks wonderful.
Christina says
September 27, 2018 at 4:54 pmElegant Halloween! I love the idea. Also, now that we have a house instead of a small condo I feel like we have more space to do stuff like this, so, YAY!
Monidipa Dutta says
September 28, 2018 at 6:10 amThese are great ideas for an amazing Halloween. The skull looks scary as well as interesting.
Lyosha says
September 28, 2018 at 6:54 amGreat guide! I personally count days till Halloween, my favorite holiday ever! Keeping your guide to consider and set up the party!
Valerie robinson says
September 28, 2018 at 12:36 pmElegant indeed! This is so cool! I never thought to dress Halloween up a bit 🙂
Mal says
September 28, 2018 at 3:06 pmComing from an event designer, I absolutely LOVE THIS!! It is truly so elegant but also festive in delightfully understated and beautiful ways. Such a great job!!
Elizabeth Gabriel says
September 28, 2018 at 3:30 pmLove it! I’m obsessed with purple and so I love how you incorporated it into the look.
Sara Welch says
September 28, 2018 at 4:54 pmThat would actually be a really fun party to throw. All decor and costumes would comply too; very cool idea!
Sam says
September 28, 2018 at 11:17 pmI don’t think I’ve seen a fancy Halloween party. I really like the skull centerpiece a lot!
Daphne' Adams says
September 29, 2018 at 3:05 amI love a Goff elegant theme party so this showed some simple yet nice ideas to spruce up a fancy Halloween dinner.
Rikki Ridgeway says
September 29, 2018 at 7:15 amHalloween is my favorite, and this is without a doubt the fanciest Halloween Party, I have ever seen! I love the colors, and the elegance. It all meshes so well together.
London Mumma says
September 29, 2018 at 8:24 amI’ve never thought to host an elegant halloween party before, but you’ve got some great tips, in order to host one.
Preet says
September 30, 2018 at 5:51 amOh, thanks! Glad I was able to read this, I was assigned to be our Halloween host with my company and I really, don’t know how. This is something that I really need.