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25 Ghoulishly Fun Family Friendly Halloween Ideas

October is here!  Have you picked out your Halloween costume yet?  Has your kid?  Besides trick or treating, Halloween is a great time for some other ghoulishly fun, family friendly activities.

Each year the kids and I volunteer at the local zoo during their haunted zoo event.  It's an affordable, family friendly activity for the entire family.  Our local zoo offers carnival rides, games, a haunted house and a chance to interact with creatures of the season like spiders, bats, and snakes.  

We also like to watch some of our favorite scary movies.  Not too scary though, I'm not a huge fan of scary movies.  Seriously, there are some movies that still give me nightmares so we keep it light but cringe worthy. 

Here's our list of 25 fun things to do during the Halloween season.
  1. Visit a costume shop and try on stuff
  2. Make popcorn balls
  3. Make rice crispy treats with candy corn
  4. Find the perfect pumpkin at the pumpkin patch
  5. Visit an apple orchard 
  6. Host a community Trunk or Treat
  7. Host a scary movie night and watch Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas or It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
  8. Go on a hayride
  9. Decorate your front yard
  10. Buy the "good" candy
  11. Stay in a haunted hotel
  12. Eat some candy corn
  13. Visit a state park and learn about nocturnal animals like bats 
  14. Gut a pumpkin and roast the seeds
  15. Build a bonfire and roast marshmallows
  16. Go to the Haunted Boo at the Zoo event
  17. Tour a cemetery 
  18. Read a not-so-scary bedtime story
  19. Decorate your porch
  20. Go trick or treating in a nearby neighborhood
  21. Make Halloween slime
  22. Paint small pumpkins and let air dry by the door
  23. Carve a pumpkin
  24. Visit a corn maze, be sure to take a flashlight if you're going at night
  25. Visit a pumpkin festival
There you have it 25 fab things to do this Halloween Season.  What about you?  What are some of your family's fave ways to celebrate Halloween?  




Comments

Vera Sweeney said…
These are such great ideas! I LOVE Halloween! It's one of my favorite holidays to celebrate with the family.
Jenn said…
These are great ideas! I love to have my girls over to paint pumpkins. They get really creative sometimes.
Apple picking is fun. I've always wanted to go thru a corn maze. Love watching old animated specials like Charlie Brown.
Anonymous said…
These are great things to do this Halloween season. Making Halloween slime sounds wonderful. I just picked up the ingredients to make slime the other day.
Marysa said…
This is a great Halloween bucket list. We do love some fun fall activities. I would like to try to do a bunch of these, they are all wonderful ideas.
Alli Smith said…
What fun ideas! We always participate in Trunk or Treat at our church. We have so many cute kids in adorable costumes stop by. This year, I'm going to be Pocahontas. I can hardly wait!
Sarah Bailey said…
These are some absolutely awesome ideas, I really want to do something pumpkin related this year, perhaps visit a pumpkin patch, I haven't completely decided yet.
chubskulit said…
It's been a while since we visited an apple orchard, I would love to do that again with my kids. These are great activities to do with family.
We enjoy shopping for all things Halloween. A visit to the costume section to do try-ons is a must every year!
candy said…
No little ones at home anymore so we don't have to do some of these anymore. Fall is our favorite time of year and we do so many of these thing and have so much fun.
Jeannette said…
There is a lot of fun ideas here. We just bought a costume for the kiddo and I would love to do a couple more things on this list. I will not sleep in a haunted hotel though LOL.
GeekDad248 said…
It's not Halloween without watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" on TV. One of my all time favorite holiday specials!
Mimicutelips said…
We are October and Halloween ready. The kids have picked out their costumes. We have a trip to the farm planned out and we’re looking forward to it.
Anosa said…
Such great ideas, I am not one for Halloween and often stay away from svcary movies but some of these activities I can certainly do.
Miss Angie said…
These are such great ideas! We just did the pumpkin patch, and it was so fun to go out and pick our pumpkins off of the vine.
Halloween is one of our favorite season and these are just great ideas on what else we could do.
David Elliott said…
We have done a lot of these things already. But this reminds me that I really need to watch the Nightmare Before Christmas. That is definitely on our Halloween list.
Pam said…
We've stayed at a supposedly haunted hotel a couple of times. We never saw anything but once I had some crazy dreams.
Dogvills said…
My kids are grown so probably the ones we can do from your list is to decorate the front porch and do the bonfire thing. Miss those days when they were still little!
Marysa said…
I've never made popcorn balls, sounds like a fun project. We love Fall and Halloween, and this is a great bucket list. Thanks for the ideas!
Claudia K said…
Fall is my favorite time of the year. This year, I am going to make some popcorn balls and rice crispies with candy corn as you suggested. What a fun list.
Unknown said…
My son is a teen now and thinks he's too cool for most of this, but I totally going to make candy corn rice krispie treats.
chubskulit said…
This is a great list. A visit to a pumpkin festival would be a blast!
Adriana said…
These are such great ideas for the fall! We love putting together a fall bucket list - so many fun festivities this time of year! We love to apple pick and then make a ton of apple pies! We jar sauce using tomatoes from our garden too. :)
Cyn said…
These are such fun ideas! We always make caramel corn and watch Hocus Pocus together. Such a great tradition.

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