Halloween Fun!

How do you have fun with your family on Halloween? I was always trying to come up with a new fun activity to do with my kids. One year we did a Mummy Wrap with my Cub Scouts when I was a Den leader. This is where teams race to wrap one of their members in toilet paper to make the best mummy. It was great fun! Is there a favorite game or activity that you do each year? Maybe you'll find a new favorite below!

Here are some fun ways to celebrate Halloween with your family:

• Have a Jack-O-Lantern carving contest and give prizes for the most creative, spookiest, funniest, etc.

• See who can make the best DIY costume

• Play flashlight tag

• Play flashlight hide and seek (turn off the lights in the house)

• Make and decorate sugar cookies in Halloween shapes

• Take some treats or gifts to friends that you know have allergies and have a difficult time with Trick-or-Treating

• Visit a Haunted House

• Make up spooky stories

• Bob for apples

• Donut eating races: Hang mini donuts by strings, players must eat the donuts without using their hands

• Read a Halloween book

• Put on a Halloween play

• Try face painting

• play Tic-Tac-Toe with pumpkins (this could be a big or little game depending on the size of your pumpkins)

• Watch a Halloween movie/show

• Drink apple cider

• Host a murder mystery party

• Visit the corn maze or pumpkin patch

• Send out Halloween cards

• Decorate your sidewalk with glow-in-the-dark sidewalk chalk

Go on a Halloween Picture Scavenger Hunt

Walk through neighborhoods either before it's time to Trick-or-Treat (or during) and see who can take pictures of the most items on the list:

• spider

• ghost

• cobweb

• scarecrow

• jack-o-lantern

• scary mask

• cute mask

• cauldron

• Trick-or-Treat sign

• scary pair of eyes

• pumpkin that isn't orange

• sign that says "fall"

• a spooky tree

• gourd

• tombstone

• skeleton

• bat

• witch hat

• add specific costumes for bonus points Ex: a dragon, a Pokemon, a dad dressed as Darth Vader