Decorations

If you are providing costumes to the kids, choose key villains and provide different outfits to the guests as they arrive that they can change into or, if you ask them to come dressed as the following characters, provide tips for their costumes in your invitation:

• Penguin: Tux, top hat, monocle, and umbrella
• Catwoman: All black with ears and tail
• Riddler: Green scrub bottoms and a green T-shirt with a purple question mark
• Two-Face: Black T-shirt and a white T-shirt. Cut both T-shirts in half vertically and sew one black and one white half together. Additionally, wear one black and one white shoe.
• Joker: Wear purple and green and make sure to create a Joker face with stage makeup.

 Just inside your front doorway, welcome your guests into the Bat Cave:

• Blow up a sea of black and gray balloons for the Bat Cave floor.
• Cover your walls with black fabric and dim the lights.
• Suspend bats from the ceiling and place cobwebs in the corners of the cave.

In a different party area, such as a basement or garage, create Gotham City:

• Use a fog machine to give Gotham City a spooky feel and dim the lights in this area or use black lights for this room.
• Use a small spotlight with a bat shape taped over the lens and shine it on a party wall to mimic the bat signal shown in the Gotham sky.
• Using large sheets of cardboard, paint the Gotham City skyline with black paint.
• Outline your cityscape with white Christmas lights.

For your party table, use a black tablecloth and yellow and black tableware for your plates, napkins, plasticware, and cups. Tie black and yellow balloons to the backs of each of the chairs, and hang streamers above the party table in the same color scheme. Use bat confetti to add festivity to your table.