The Most Amazing Ways to Throw a Halloween Tea

Put a twist on your typical Halloween party and host a Halloween Tea, instead! We have a ton of creative and exciting Halloween Tea Party ideas — from the classic spooky tea party to cute and festive fall leaves and pumpkins to celebrate the harvest.

Stay tuned to the end for a super helpful and affordable starting point to make any of these tea party themes come to life. But first, let’s look at 13 of our favorite themes that will bring your ghoulish gathering to life! 

We’ll start with a timeless theme that highlights the festive, spooky holiday season.

1. Classic Haunted House Tea Party 

You have an appreciation for all things classic monsters — like vampires, werewolves, and mummies — which makes a Classic Haunted House Tea Party the perfect theme for a Halloween celebration.  If you prefer the cheerful, bright, and playful look of Halloween, add bright colors and happy details to your decor. 

But if you adore the dark and scary, you can throw together a haunted, mysterious, and spooky tea party. Delicate spider webs stretch across the chairs and decor. Ghostly apparitions move hauntingly across the walls while candelabras and old books grace your tablescape. 

Fill or top antique decor pieces with dead flowers and scatter spooky-inspired treats all around.

2. Ghostly White and Ghoulish Tea Party

Instead of including all of the classic monsters, focus on just one and build your event around them. With a Ghostly White and Ghoulish Tea Party, your event comes together with classic white decorations for a haunting monochromatic look. 

Instead of including all of the classic monsters, focus on just one and build your event around it. With a Ghostly White and Ghoulish Tea Party, your event comes together with tones of classic white decorations for a haunting monochromatic look. 

Break up the many textures of your white decor with splashes of black. White tulle mixes effortlessly with black. And silver accents add a cold feel to the ambiance. 

This theme can be as elegant or as casual as you like. It works well as an upscale and classy gathering. But if you are a fan of cute, there’s room for googly eyeballs and adorable cartoon ghosts as well.

When it comes to the food, try to make all of the scrumptious offerings ghostly white. Think coconut macaroons, sandwiches on white bread, or white cupcakes piped with white frosting and glittery sprinkles. You can even serve varieties of white tea to complete the theme.

3. Hollywood Horror Halloween Tea Party

Are you and your crew fans of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, or even Batman Returns? Adorn your tea table with trinkets and quotes from your favorite Tim Burton characters and films. 

Another spin on your Hollywood Horror Halloween Tea Party is niching down to Classic Disney Villains. Did you know that green is a common color paired with Disney villains? Use it as a base for your decorations and mix it with black elements.

When piecing this party together, a color palette of black, green, purple, and red is a perfect backdrop for all things evil in the world of Disney. Get creative with snacks and treats inspired by specific characters and props. Evil Witch, Poisonous green apples, and purple frosted chocolate cupcakes with Maleficent horns are some of our favorite ideas.

4. Witches and Wizards Halloween Tea

No Halloween is complete without witches. It’s a timeless theme that’s great for both creepy and cute tea parties. You can stick with a classic witch and wizard theme or incorporate some of your favorite characters and stories, like Harry Potter. 

If you have a Harry Potter-loving crew, invite people to dress in their house colors. Butterbeer scones, chocolate frogs, and Hagrid’s rock cakes are some of our favorite ideas for menu items.

But we are fans of a classic witch and wizard tea, too! 

We love witches so much that we made a whole blog just about throwing our own witch-themed party — complete with food, decor, and entertainment ideas. From sand-witches to charming scones, your guests will cackle with joy. You can even set up a station for your coven to blend their own potion-like teas as a party favor!

5. Carnival Halloween Tea Party

How fun does a vintage carnival theme for a tea party sound? Go all out with striped decor, candied popcorn, and caramel apple tarts. Pair your sweets with a delicious Caramel Almond Blossom tea.

Mix up the menu with unique carnival-themed flavors like cotton candy cupcakes. Popcorn scones have a fun, buttery flavor — add caramel sauce for an extra decadent treat. Invite your guests to come dressed as circus performers, sideshow spectacles, or patrons from a bygone turn-of-the-century era. 

6. Historical Horror Tea Party

If you like the historical look mixed with a tinge of horror, a Victorian Gothic Tea Party is your ideal theme. You love all things gothic, dark, and haunting, which means you’re all in when it comes to draping black lace and fluffing up vases of blood-red roses. 

To make this theme come to life, seek out tarnished or vintage candlesticks. Drape tulle or silk chiffon around your tablescape to really set the mood. 

Victorian-inspired costumes are highly encouraged for this outing. Bustles and top hats are welcome here. 

It takes a lot of effort to tie those corsets and layer up with vests and accessories. Host a costume contest and give the winner a beautiful tea set or a tea gift they’ll love to use every day.

7. Masquerade Tea Party

Are you all about an upscale Halloween tea party that’s both glittery and fancy? A Masquerade Tea Party is an irresistibly beautiful theme. Feathers, masks, glitter, and elaborate decorations collide to create a spectacle that is as haunting as it is mysterious. Twist this theme and make it a spooky tea party by calling it an “Undead Masquerade”. 

When it comes to food, think gold-painted French macaron cookies, intricate petit fours, and delicate finger sandwiches. Encourage people to arrive masked. You can also set up a DIY mask table so people can create their own as they socialize around the room in all of their decadent garb.

8. Haunting Literature Tea Party

Does Edgar Allen Poe soothe your soul and light up your gothic heart? If you and your friends enjoy dark and classic haunting stories from the prince of horror himself, a Haunting Literature Halloween Tea Party will capture the eerie mood of the season.

Seek out black ravens, feather-adorned decor, old books, black cat silhouettes, and other items that whisper of Poe’s tormenting short stories. Pair “Nevermore” cookies and “pit and pendulum” pastries with strong black teas. A spooky tea party will bring a smile to everyone’s face this season — even poor tormented Edgar would crack a smile at this one.

9. Pumpkin Patch Tea Party

Do you wait all year long for pumpkin spice everything and all things autumn? This means a Pumpkin Patch Tea Party is your ticket to Halloween happiness. You might not be a fan of scary horror, but you absolutely love adorable harvest decor and tasty fall flavors. 

Invite your guests to dress in pumpkin-inspired costumes or attire, or even as scarecrows. This is a Halloween tea theme rich in pumpkins, gourds, the vibrant colors of autumn leaves — everything that reminds you of the harvest season. Some favorite food ideas include pumpkin scones, pumpkin-shaped chai cookies, and either pumpkin tea or chai spiced teas.

10. Black Cat Tea Party

If you're a crazy cat person, a Black Cat Tea Party is purr-fect for you. Fill your space with cat decorations, paw prints, and black cat everything. Cat-shaped cookies, paw-shaped sandwiches, and black frosting cupcakes with ears and cat eyes are just a few ideas.

Guests can wear cat-inspired clothes or costumes. Or, provide your guests with ears upon arrival. Decorate your space with silhouettes of black cats made from black construction paper. 

Cats are entertaining and moody creatures with their own wild sense of humor. Post quotes and cat sayings around your space to bump up the playfulness of this adorable and unlucky tea party theme.

11. Celestial Halloween Tea

Do the stars and celestial bodies mesmerize you and leave you feeling haunted? A Celestial Tea Party captures the magic of twinkling lights, twilight ambiance, lanterns, and whimsical decor. You can even include elements of the zodiac if you like!

Starry cupcakes with black, blue, white, and purple frosting are sprinkled with star sugar confetti and sparkling sugar crystals. Serve your guests star or crescent-moon-shaped sandwiches and scones. Your cookies can even be celestial-themed. 

To complete the feel of the party, name treats, and teas after celestial inspirations like “Moonlight Sonata Cookies” or “Starry Night Sandwiches”.

12. Cozy Harvest Tea Party

If you enjoy the harvest season more than pumpkins, a Cozy Harvest theme is a fantastic Halloween tea party idea. Think mason jars, cozy sweaters, and scarves.

For this theme, rustic decorations with a country element add to the feeling of cozy comfort and harvest calm. Prop up a hay bale at the front door with stalks of corn and a cute and smiling scarecrow to welcome your guests inside. 

The dress code for this theme is simple: be comfortable. Have your guests dress in flannel shirts, their favorite chunky sweaters, or wrapped in their favorite knits. For food, consider making scrumptious apple pie tarts or serving apple spice tea or other flavors inspired by fall.

13. Fairy Tale Tea Party

You are all about the whimsical and fantastic world of fairy tales. Create an enchanted tea room for your guests that twinkles with magical fairy lights and glittering decorations. Adorn your space with trinkets and vials of fairy dust and magic potions. 

Invite your guests to dress up as their favorite storybook characters, princesses, or princes. Food and treats inspired by fairy tale elements are a must: crown-shaped sugar cookies, fairy dust scones, or spellbinding savories. It’s all so magical!

The Best Place to Start with Your Halloween Tea Party Planning

We know you’re as excited as we are for Halloween Tea. But, you might be wondering how to even begin planning and gathering all your teaware. We have the perfect place for you to start!

It doesn’t matter if you choose a classic scary Halloween Tea Party or decide on the cute pumpkins and harvest garlands. Whatever theme you pick, you’ll start in the same place: with the tea set.

We’ve been around the Halloween Tea Party block a few times, and there’s nothing more convenient than a tea set that will blend into every tea party you host. And when we mean every tea party, we mean every tea party — from Valentine’s Day to the Holidays, and even Mother’s Day. 

Teabloom is your home for high-quality and affordable teaware that is elegant enough for your high-end afternoon teas, and neutral enough for your casual and cozy everyday moments and tea rituals.

Teabloom’s borosilicate glass teaware has a completely neutral design that’s the perfect base for every tea party theme you want to host. These tea sets work for all of your tea parties. 

Choose your favorite teaware collection that’s as gorgeous as it is functional. With a quality tea set from Teabloom, you can make every tea theme come to life.

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Which Halloween Tea do you want to host this year? 

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