The day of the dead is coming! People decorating their houses with pumpkins, cobwebs, and creepy spider toys will appear as they celebrate the day before the All Saints' Day, Halloween. Kids will wear costumes and ring the doorbells for trick-or-treating. Halloween parties will be organized. Celebrate your Halloween with a party and make a flyer with the help of our spooky 100% customizable, high-quality, and beautifully designed templates. You can download them in different file formats including Adobe Photoshop (.psd), Adobe Illustrator (.ai), Microsoft Word (.docx), Microsoft Publisher (.pub), Apple Pages (.pages), and Adobe Indesign (.indd). Lure the evil spirits away and celebrate your Halloween with spooky treats!
How to Make a Halloween Flyer in Microsoft Word
Halloween is a holiday celebrated every October 31st each year. This tradition originated from the Celtic festival of Samhain, in which people light up a bonfire and wear costumes to ward off the ghosts lurking around. Later on, All Hallows Eve was eventually called Halloween as Pope Gregory announced in the eighth-century that November 1 would be all saints' day. As time goes, Halloween evolved into a day of activities such as carving jack-o-lanterns and trick-or-treating.
The GoodHousekeeping.com reveals that Americans spend about $86.79 during Halloween every year, which already includes the costumes, candies, and decorations. If you are about to promote a product or an event for Halloween, make sure to use holiday flyers. Holiday flyers are handouts that contain information about a particular product, company, or event. It will surely help you grab people's attention.
Below we provided you a step-by-step guide and tips on how to make a Halloween Flyer in MS Word.
1. Download a Template and Decorate It with Spooky Designs
Outline the details of your Halloween flyer. Afterward, go to our site and download the sample flyer template of your choice that best fits your needs. Make sure to check the available file formats if it's compatible with MS Word. You can download them with no tricks, just treats, and offering a deal to die for. Edit it starting with the background by filling in with a color gradient or a stunning image. Insert some vectors and clip arts that are related to Halloween, such as pumpkin, bats, vampires, and zombies.
2. Insert the Chilly Font Styles
Insert the details of your Halloween event and chilling headlines that can surely grab your readers' attention and can give them goosebumps. Include a call to action phrases such as "Join now!" or "Register now at ....." to help you to invite more people. Use equally scary font styles. Include the contact details, location, date, and time for the people to have easy access. You should also indicate the venue where you will celebrate your Halloween party—whether in a nightclub, in a mall, in an apartment, or a bar. Remember to indicate the spooky theme of the Halloween party on the flyer.
3. Be More Creative
Consider filling your flyer with colors. Colors with darker shades or shades of black are perfect for your Halloween event flyer for it associates death, mystery, power, and elegance. Aside from black for being the best color for Halloween, orange, on the other hand, is the polar opposite of black and lively color that celebrates the life and the bounty of the autumn harvest. You can fill more colors other than that that meanings are associated with Halloween. Limit the colors into two or three shades of color and avoid overboard with colors.
4. Finalize Your Work and Fix the Skeletons
Finalize your work by rechecking your work and look for the errors. As you spot them, edit them as soon as possible. Make sure to organize the layout before printing out. Afterward, save the file and print dozens of it. As soon as you are done, distribute the flyers to the people passing by as an invitation for them to join the event.
