31 Days of Halloween

1.  Host a block party.  Provide drinks and paper goods, invite others to do a dessert potluck. 
2.  Decorate for Halloween.  Put out a Halloween book basket during the decorating for kids to read. 
3.  Make Rice Krispie treat pumpkins.

 

4.  Make monster boxes for boys to store Halloween candy they collect throughout the month.  

5.   Play "Don't Eat Pete!"

6.  Make Halloween Plates.

7.  Make Caramel Apples. 

8.  For FHE, ding-dong ditch neighbors leaving your newly made caramel apples. 
9.  Make spider suckers. 

10.  Attend local fall festival.
11. Make toilet paper roll, candy-filled mummies. 
12. Attend local corn maze/Cornbelly's.
13.  Halloween BINGO. 

 14.  Decorate sugar cookies.
15. FHE: Fall scavenger hunt. 

16.  Make glitter slime monsters. 

17.  Play balloon badminton with balloons decorated as skeletons or pumpkins. 
18.  Vote on favorite candy and then go to store to buy favorites. 
19.  Halloween picture coloring contest or make pumpkin poop and take to friends.

 
20.  Bake/decorate cake (Frankenstein or pumpkin). 

21. Extended family Halloween party. 
22.  FHE: blindfolded candy-eating contest or another activity below. 
23.  Halloween tic-tac-toe. 

24.  Make witches brew. 
25.  Go to a local pumpkin patch or Wheeler Farm.
26.  Trunk or treat. 

27.  Watch a Halloween movie.
28.  Make haunted gingerbread (or graham cracker) houses.
29.  Carve pumpkins.
30.  Make glow stick balloons and have a dark dance party. 

31.  Make a special Halloween dinner either a jack-o-lantern pizza or eyeball meatballs and spaghetti with garlic skeleton bone breadsticks.

* Other activities include making spiderweb mint brownies, making caramel corn balls or stuffing popcorn in hand gloves to look like witch hands, or visiting the many attractions around your hometown.  Ours include: Heritage Park, Boo at the Zoo, witch hunt at Gardener Village, Garden after Dark, etc.