Teen Wolf‘s mid-season finale is only a few weeks away, so now’s the time to start planning your screening party. We’ve got all the tips to make it a night to remember for your pack.
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Climactic ending moments are a great time in any fandom to get all your like-minded friends to celebrate your show and gather for a screening party. Whether it’s for the Teen Wolf mid-season finale in a few weeks time or if you’re holding out til the very end of season 3, we’re here to help you throw the best Teen Wolf party that Beacon Hills has ever seen.
Setting the scene
Music and decorations are essential for creating a themed party.
Music is the easy part. Teen Wolf is full of amazing music, so just create a playlist of your favorite songs featured in the show. Our 10 Songs We Can’t Get Enough Of feature is a good starting point, but here’s a helpful hint: TuneFind has a record of every song used in the show, along with what scene each particular tune sound-tracked. So it’s easy to pick out every one of your favorite Teen Wolf musical moments!
Now it’s time to decorate. While we don’t advise going for the “burnt-out interior” Hale house look, you could easily throw together some party decorations – balloons, streamers or bunting, candles, cups and napkins – in the Beacon Hills High School colors of dark red and white.
For those who are a bit more crafty, or, like Allison, good with knives, try potato stamping or stenciling the triskele symbol (here’s one you can use) onto everything you own.
Or if you just want to stare at the beautiful faces of our cast – and we don’t blame you, if that’s the case – collect all your favorite pictures from magazines or online, and poster your walls. Make sure to leave a random creepy Derek where your guests aren’t expecting to find him – like on the back of the bathroom door!
Costumes
One of the most awesome parts of being in a fandom is the opportunity to cosplay. Most people wear a costume once a year on Halloween, but dressing up as characters is serious business for a lot of fans. It’s also lots of fun, and we do it every opportunity we get.
For a Teen Wolf party, there are quite a few options – some people might be into serious make-up and attempt a kanima face, or add some extra hair and fake nails – not to mention yellow, blue or red contacts – to become a wolfed-out pack member. But it can be a lot simpler than that.
Grab a leather jacket, go rub your cheapest white tank top in the dirt, and practice glaring – instant Derek. A red hoodie over a funny, printed tee shirt – you’re Stiles. Try a crisp blouse, woolen miniskirt and chunky shoes – plus perfect hair, of course – to become Lydia, or a push-up bra, a leopard print top and some extreme lipstick for Erica.
Even more traditional “costume” pieces can be incorporated – a white medical coat for Deaton, a Sheriff’s badge and hat, hospital scrubs for Melissa. Plus, check out the amazing fan-made Beacon Hills uniform tees available online (try here or here.)
If you order now, you could get your Scott, Stiles, Isaac, Boyd, Danny, Jackson, or even Greenberg lacrosse shirts in time for the season finale!
Food
Moon Cookies
Take any cookie recipe that uses a cookie cutter – you can get the pre-made dough, or try something from EasyCookies (here’s a basic sugar cookie) and roll out the dough to cut round cookies with a cutter or a glass.
Once you have the basic circles, move the cutter about an inch across the edge of the cookie and cut again, to create two parts – a crescent moon and a waning moon. You could cut a few of the round cookies directly down the middle with a knife for perfect half moons, and leave a couple whole to make full moons.
Alternately, if you don’t like to bake, just grab a packet of Oreos and do this.
Curly Fries
They may be point of contention between Stiles and his father, but you should definitely indulge in some curly fries at any Teen Wolf party.
If it isn’t practical to get fresh ones from a fast food place in time for the party, you can get the oven-baked kind from the grocery store, or even try making them from scratch.
Cupcakes
When you need to adapt a party food to fit a specific theme, cupcakes are always an easy option because of the opportunity for decoration. For your Teen Wolf party, we suggest two options – vanilla cupcakes with dark red or white frosting and colored paper cases to match, for a Beacon Hills bake sale vibe, or chocolate cupcakes with green or purple cases and a butter cream frosting also lightly colored purple, to create beautiful wolfsbane cakes.
If you can find any purple sugar flowers – or even harmless real flowers – to top these with, so much the better.
Punch
If you’re going to need a drink at a Teen Wolf screening, you can’t go better than Lydia’s special pink punch – depressing hallucinations optional.
Punch is, obviously, a drink that anyone can make by adding your favorite juices, syrups and sodas together, but we do have a few suggested recipes to make a gorgeous pink punch that will taste great with a few shredded mint leaves added to create the effect of Lydia’s little wolfsbane addition.
There’s a sparkling lemonade/cranberry punch, or this strawberry/pineapple variation. If you’re over 21, you can try this pink grapefruit/bourbon cocktail. In general, if you’re using fresh mint for your wolfsbane, any punch with a lemonade or pineapple base will work well.
Games
‘Teen Wolf’ Twenty Questions
A simple twist on your standard Twenty Questions, Celebrity Heads, “who am I?” type guessing games. One at a time, a guest is singled out and given a secret identity – a famous figure, celebrity or character – by the rest of the group. The guest in question doesn’t know their identity, and must ask “yes or no” answered questions to discover who they are. Of course, in your game, you’ll give every guest a Teen Wolf identity – the more obscure the better.
An easy way to prepare this game in advance is to write out all the identities on index cards or Post-it notes and have them ready for each player to select and show the group. Include anyone and everything – from the actors and main characters to things like Stiles’s Jeep, Deucalion’s aviators, or the dead body found in the trash can fire.
If trivia is more your thing, put together a list of your favorite obscure Teen Wolf facts and references and give your guests a pop quiz!
What’s The Time, Mr. Wolf?
In the United States, this old kids’ game is called “What’s The Time, Mr Fox,” but everywhere else in the English-speaking world calls it “What’s The Time, Mr. Wolf.” The idea of adapting this wolfy game to become Teen Wolf-centric is too good to pass up, so how about this: “What’s The Time, Derek Hale?”
The person selected as Derek Hale stands (sulkily, with his legs apart) on one side of the room, facing away from the rest of the pack. The pack asks “What’s The Time, Derek Hale?” and you could either stick with the traditional “one o-clock,” one step forward, “two o’clock,” two steps forward, and so on, or you could make a list of pre-arranged Derek responses, such as “that time my family was dead,” “that time my girlfriend tortured me,” “that time I got impaled on a pole,” “that time I stalked teenagers,” or “that time I couldn’t use stairs.”
Of course, when Derek Hale finally decides to stop moaning about his life and chase after the betas creeping up on him, instead of declaring “Dinner time!” he must shout “I’M THE ALPHA NOW!”
Living Room Lacrosse
Despite the absence of game scenes in season 3, lacrosse is a permanent feature of Beacon Hills High, and therefore it’s a must-have at any Teen Wolf fandom event. We doubt that most of you have access to a field, a full set of pads and a stick, so we’ve devised an impromptu version that anyone can play at home. You’ll need a light ball of some sort – maybe a ping pong ball or a soft foam stress ball. Simply divide yourselves up into two teams and grab a couple of buckets for the goals.
Of course, the most unique factor of lacrosse is the netted stick used to catch and throw the ball, so to replicate this aspect, grab anything from your house that can be held with one hand and that has a wide, open cup that you can use for play! If you have a little fishing net, all the better, but may we suggest a baseball cap (hold it by the brim) or a long-handled kitchen strainer? We draw the line at a saucepan – if someone loses their grip, this may cause as much damage to the players as a real lacrosse game.
Once everyone has their “stick,” you can commence play, passing to your team – no throwing by hand! – and seeing who can score a goal. When the first vase gets broken, er, don’t blame us, but you may want to move the game to the back yard.
Now that you’re all worn out from food and activities, it’s time for the most important part – watching the episode. Turn off the lights, grab the popcorn and the Kleenex, and make time, once it’s finished, to re-watch your favorite parts and discuss the conclusion with your fandom friends.