Want to go all-out with a gore fest? Severed heads, arms and other body parts for a Halloween party are the perfect thing to get your guests squealing with delight. Or disgust. And there are options for every Halloween decoration budget.

Low on funds and high on creativity? Here you'll find tips for making your own Halloween body parts, whether from miscellaneous supplies or old clothes, or out of food (my favorite option!). Have a bit more to spend? You'll also find some tips on where and how to buy the best fake body parts for a Halloween party, including how to use them and the best ways to make them look even more realistic.

Of course, I own and operate a website all about food. So of course my favorite kinds of body parts for a Halloween party are made of food! With the right recipe, you can make things that look really gross and realistic. Or you can make things that are just funny and a bit silly.

And all of 'em taste good.

If you love to get gory for Halloween, a jello brain mold is one of the best investments you can make. With it, you can make some pretty realistic-looking brains, from green-and-rotting brains to fresh and bloody ones. Very gross. You can also make body parts for a Halloween party with a Jello heart mold. While a little less flexible than a brain mold, the gross red heart that you end up with looks great. Very realistic!

With some of the recipes you'll find here, you can also make body parts for a Halloween party like eyes, ears, fingers... you name it.

Mozzarella Eyeballs	Panna Cotta Brain	Halloween Meathead
Severed Finger Cookies	Severed Shrimp Ears	Gooey Shrimp Brain
Severed Fingers	Deviled Eyeballs	Morgue Stew
Human Scabs	Crisp Eyeballs	Sweet Eyeballs

There are tons of places online where you can buy Halloween fake body parts. They range from whole corpses for $3,000 (seriously, people actually spend that much!) to plastic eyeballs, fingers, and toes.

Finding a good price. The weirdest thing about shopping for body parts for a Halloween party online? The price differences. Most vendors, such as Costumes Express, Spirit Halloween, Buy Costumes, and Halloween Express have a lot of the same items. But for some reason, the prices for those items can vary hugely from store to store. There's no one "cheap" store. All of these Halloween stores will sell one body part cheaper, and one more expensive.

I've looked around as much as I can to find the best prices for individual items at the more popular online Halloween stores. Because if you don't take the time to do a price comparison, you can sometimes pay as much as $5-10 more for exactly the same thing.

Placing severed arms and legs around a room can be a great --and very effective-- way to decorate for Halloween. And is generally rather inexpensive. Most store-bought latex severed limbs range from around $8-17.

Getting the most realism. When shopping for severed limbs or other body parts for a Halloween party, remember: the more realistic the limb, the more oomph the effect will have. But even if you have less-realistic-looking severed Halloween body parts, you can make them look fresher, more gory, and more realistic with a few extra tricks. Dab a little fake blood on the bloody ends and any cuts. Set them in a pool of blood. Place them on the buffet table in a cabbage-leaf covered platter. Or rub a little oil or vaseline on them to make them look shinier, fresher, and more real.

Most of the arms, legs, and other severed body parts for a Halloween party you'll find below are pretty realistic looking. And pretty gory. If you're anything like me, you're looking for maximum bang for your buck. Which means maximum blood and gore.

When decorating for a Halloween party, severed heads can make a huge impression. The ones here can either be hung from the ceiling or a beam (I love hanging them above a buffet table, for instance), or placed on a surface. Or even used to serve food!

Buying severed heads. Full-sized severed heads tend to be one of the more expensive body parts for a Halloween party because there is so much detail involved. But they probably also make the biggest impression. You can expect to pay anywhere from $20-50 for a full-sized severed head. Generally, the heavier and more realistic the head, the more expensive.

When shopping for body parts for a Halloween party, bigger does not always necessarily mean better. Some of the funnest-to-use severed body parts are small ones like eyeballs and fingers.

Ideas for Using Small Body Parts.Place a googly eyeball in somebody's drink or hide it at the bottom of a bowl of chips. Place severed fingers among finger cookies like these to add a more realistic effect, or use one as a swizzle stick in a Halloween cocktail. Have fun with it!

Whether you're planning to make your own Halloween body part decorations or buy them purchased, a few extra accessories can go a long way towards making them look more realistic. Spread them with fake blood. Surround the area with caution tape or bloody hand prints. Or --my favorite!-- stuff a body bag like the one below with blankets and let severed arms and legs hang out of it. So creepy and fun.

If you're the crafty type or can't stand the idea of spending $15 on a plastic severed leg you're only going to use once a year, you can also make your own severed body parts for Halloween. Making body parts for a Halloween party is actually pretty simple. In general, the finished result won't be as good as the purchased one, but it'll probably be a fun project and a heck of a lot cheaper.

Below, you'll find five simple ways for making Halloween body parts, including arms and legs, eyeballs, and more, at home.

1. Easy Eyeballs. Buy little white balls to use as eyeballs, either in plastic or wood. Be sure they're not heavily textured. Then just pick up a couple of paint pens at the craft store, get some help, and get busy drawing on pupils, irises, and veins.

2. Organs in Jars. Vegetables can make surprisingly good human organs! Fill a large clear jar with water colored with red food coloring, and carve a cauliflower for a brain, a root of fennel for a heart, a bunch of lychees or carved radishes for eyeballs, etc.

3. Severed Arms and Legs. With a quick trip to the thrift store, it's easy to make body parts for a Halloween party at home. Simply buy old shirts and pants and cut off the sleeves and legs. Fill the sleeves or legs with newspaper, add shoes or blown-up gloves, and paint all over with fake blood. Easy but effective!

4. Rotting Corpses. You can make an entire rotting corpse or individual rotting body parts for a Halloween party using nothing more than a plastic skeleton, or skeleton arms, legs, or skulls. Simply spray the plastic skeleton with spray foam, allow to dry, then paint as desired with gross brown, greenish, or grey paint. Add fake guts (see below to make your own) if you like.

If you buy or make body parts for a Halloween party and want to go all-out on the gore, you've got to make some fake intestines or fake guts to go along with your body parts. These fake Halloween guts can be wrapped up like meat from the butcher, placed on and around dead torsos, or even placed in a bowl as a nice "snack" for your guests.

You don't need much to make fake guts for Halloween. The following recipe/instructions makes about a mixing bowl full of guts.

Ingredients/Supplies:
1 pair of nude panty hose
Paper towels
2 boxes red-colored Jello (any flavor-- you're not going to eat it)
1 med. jar chunky red salsa (any flavor-- you won't eat it)
Plenty of fake blood

Instructions: 1. Cut the legs off of the panty hose. Discard top part. (A good way to recycle old panty hose!)

2. Stuff the legs with paper towels until they're thin tubes, around 3 inches in diameter. Coil into a heat-safe bowl.

3. Using the instructions on the packaging, prepare your red jello. You won't refrigerate it yet.

4. Pour your hot Jello mixture over the stuffed panty hose. Refrigerate until set.

5. Use as desired, liberally decorated with fake blood and chunky salsa for effect. Looks great with any body parts for a Halloween party!