It's October! It's going to be Halloween Time! I'm getting excited for Fall.
Although we haven't Boo'd
anyone yet, I do have the Boo Bag ready to go. I'm going to wait until a
little closer to Halloween this year. Since we are in a campground this
year, I am only doing one Boo Bag. (If you are wondering why we are in a
campground this year, check out our family trip website at Tepe Travels).
We
are still floating easy costume ideas, decorate, and need to find a
local pumpkin patch. Although the RV kitchen can be challenging, I think
we will probably still be able to roast the seeds.
I did find some easy decorations at the local dollar store and now need to figure out how to put them up.
I
know COVID may change a lot of Halloween plans around the country. If
Halloween is cancelled, we can still make it fun for the kids: maybe by
booing the neighbors or friends/family, trick or treating within your
tribe, or having a movie night and decorating cookies. Some of my past
Halloween posts would be good for staying home Halloween fun.
ACTIVITIES:
- Coloring Page.
- Pumpkin Soccer or Bowling. Use a small pie pumpkin as the ball.
- Soccer: Split into two teams and create goals (small plastic cones work well). Have kids spider walk (aka crab walk) and kick the pumpkin soccer ball with their feet.
- Bowling: Make pins from rolls of toilet paper.
- Ghost pins: Decorate rolls with black paper eyes and mouth.
- Mummy: Wrap a piece of toilet paper around a roll and add eyes.
- Witch: Wrap in green tissue paper, add construction paper eyes/nose/mouth, and top with paper hat.
- Vampire: Add fangs/mouth/eyes, and a black paper cape.
- Frankenstein: Wrap in green tissue paper, draw with sharpie or add black paper stitch marks/scars. Add eyes/nose/mouth.
FOOD:
- SNACKS & DESSERTS:
- Apple Cider Donuts.
- Witchy Pretzels.
- Ghost Pretzels.
- Spider and Eyes Sugar Cookies.
- Pumpkin Oreo Cookies.
- Candy Corn Jello.
- Ghost Brownies.
- Jello Worms.
- Cookies and Monster Donuts. (Frankenstein, Eyes, and Spider cookies)
- Candy Corn Brownies.
- Roasted Pumpkin Seeds. We roast the seeds every year after carving the pumpkins. The kids love eating them!
- Frankenstein Cups. Super cute Frankenstein snack holders made from green ice cream cones, pretzels and candy!
- Rice Cereal Ghosts, Frankensteins, and Mummies! Great if you love Halloween and Rice Cereal Treats!
- Haunted Parfaits.
- Monster Apples.
These are a great snack! For an extra sweet tooth, add a fruit roll-up
or fruit leather tongue. You could also dip in chocolate and add candy
eyes. (TIP: slice apples, soak in lemon water for a few minutes, dry off
really well. Dip in chocolate, place on wax paper to let chocolate set.
If you are going to store them in the refrigerator, let them set up in
the fridge as the chocolate will harden faster.
- Caramel Apples.
- Jack O'Fruit Bowls.
- Pumpkin Dip. Great at Thanksgiving, but works well with pumpkin theme at Halloween too!
- Rainbow Cupcakes.
We made these for St. Patrick's Day, but they will work great for a
Candy Corn Halloween cupcake too! Use a white cake mix/recipe. Divide
batter into 3 bowls. Color 1/3 of batter yellow, 1/3 orange, leave 1/3
white. Layer the different colors in the cupcake pan and bake according
to box/recipe directions. (Link to post has more detailed directions.)
- Spider Suckers.
- Monster Eggs.
- Orange and Pepper Pumpkins.
- Candy Corn Spiral Cookies. See my Christmas Swirl Cookies post for directions. Instead of using red coloring or Christmas, use orange or yellow food coloring in half the dough. If you are really ambitious, divide the dough in thirds and color 1/3 yellow, 1/3 orange, and leave 1/3 white. Or use fun colors like purple, lime green, black, and orange and make Tie Dye cookies.
- Dog Treats: Peanut Butter Pumpkin Dog Treats
(It might be fun to have a water bowl and a bowl of dog treats out for
any dogs that are walking around during Trick-Or-Treating too!)
- Dog Yum: Roasted Pumpkin.
I take the freshly cleaned out pumpkin guts (minus the seeds) and
roast/puree them for J. She loves getting pumpkin on her dog food.
- DRINKS:
- MEAL IDEAS:
- Breakfast:
- Ghostly Toast. Check out my Egg in Toast post, but use egg whites instead of a regular egg. Use a ghost cookie cutter to cut out the shape to make it Halloween themed! If you don't have a ghost cutter, scramble an egg, and use a pumpkin cookie cutter!
- Pumpkin Face Pancakes. Easy Halloween themed breakfast: decorate pancakes with whipped cream, berries, and candy corn.
- Pumpkin Face Oatmeal. Easy Halloween themed breakfast: Add banana slices and blueberries for eyes, candy corn for teeth.
- Pumpkin Muffins
- If you don't feel like making breakfast, IHOP has a Mummy Face pancake through 11/2 for $3.99. I am not sure if they are doing the free pancake on 10/31 this year.
CRAFTS:
TIPS:
Some of my Fall Fun links work great for Halloween too!
OTHER FUN LINKS: (Links are external links, not to DailyMesses.)
What are some of your fun ideas/traditions for Halloween? Share in Comments!
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