Halloween - ideas to celebrate

Halloween is a great time to celebrate and enjoy time with family and friends. Following is a list of Halloween celebration ideas. Have fun - and be safe!

Adults - dress up in a Halloween costume to pick the kids up from school, go to soccer practice or your child’s after school activities – all dressed up!
Bake and decorate a Halloween cake
Bring treats to the employees at your child’s school
Bring treats to your co-workers
Carve a pumpkin, pull out the pumpkin seeds, wash & bake, and eat
Carve pumpkins
Cook a pumpkin
Cook your favorite food
Costume parade – get the kids in your neighborhood, Church, friends or family together to show off their costumes, walk in a parade, award prizes
Create Halloween word finds, word scrambles and crosswords (or find online) for your kids
Creepy cuisine – look up recipes online for creepy looking food that you can actually eat – cook up for dinner or a party
Decorate Halloween sugar cookies
Decorate your car with Halloween decorations, put speakers on top, and drive around the neighborhood playing Halloween songs
Decorate your front door, stock up on candy, stay home & greet the trick-or-treaters
Decorate your home, yard, neighborhood, food, school, and/or family in orange & black, or Halloween decorations
Dress your child up in their costume, and visit special people in your life – especially those without children at home – Grandparents, Aunts, elderly relatives, friends
Drink orange soda
Dunk for apples
Family day! Spend the entire day as a family
Family outing
Fill clear bags with Halloween candy – tie with orange & black ribbons – deliver to your neighbors
Find Halloween coloring pages online for kids to color
Find Halloween craft ideas online, and let the kids stay busy creating
Find out if your recreation center, community center or shopping mall is having a Halloween party
Games – set up simple & fun Halloween games & invite the neighbors
Get matching Halloween t-shirts for your family
Go to a pumpkin patch
Go to your Church or school Halloween party
Have a Halloween party as a fundraiser to a local charity
Have a Halloween party! Games, haunted house, food. A few days before Halloween, celebrate - invite your neighbors, friends, family, co-workers, teammates, school mates, or people from Church.
Let the kids stay up late
Make Halloween cupcakes – decorate with orange frosting and fall sprinkles
Make Happy Halloween cards and mail to friends & relatives
Make root beer floats
Make tie-dyed shirts in orange & black
Make your own Halloween costumes
Paint pumpkins (especially good with young children, who are too young to use a knife)
Paper plate masks – decorate white paper plates to make your own masks
Play Clue as a family
Play with your children
Pull out any clothing in orange or black, and where for the week leading up to Halloween
Pull out photos of Halloweens past & enjoy the memories
Put in orange light bulbs
Read Halloween books – read a new one every day for the week leading up to Halloween – check out from the library
Rent Halloween themed movies
Scrapbook your Halloween memories
Serve an entire meal with orange food
Sit in the front yard and visit with the trick-or-treaters and neighbors
Spray paint your hair orange or purple
Start celebrating October 1^st
Take pictures of each person in their Halloween costume, and put in frames – decorate with Halloween stickers
Take the day off of work & celebrate with your children all day
Trick-or-treating party – invite your neighbors for a potluck dinner, and then go trick-or-treating together
Trunk-or-treat – instead of going door-to-door to trick or treating, have a trunk-or-treat night. Get a large group of people together, from Church or School or friends, meet in the parking lot. Everyone parks their car, decorates their trunk, and stands at their trunk to hand out candy. The kids go car to car, just like they would door-to-door. Only it is safer, not so far to walk, and you know who they are getting candy from.
Turn off your cell phone and laptop – focus on your children
Use clipart to create your own Halloween coloring pages
Visit a corn maze
Visit a haunted house
Visit a nursing home – dress up in costumes (cute, not scary), and bring home-made cookies to the residents
Visit events in your local community
Volunteer to help with the school Halloween party

Now that the Halloween fun is planned, now time for plan for safety on Halloween:

http://www.myplanninglists.com/halloween-safety-at-your-home--neighborhood.php

http://www.myplanninglists.com/halloween-and-trick-or-treat-safety-for-children.php

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