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5 Halloween Family Activities

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Have some Family Fun with these 5 Halloween Family Activities!

Do you need some ideas for things to do for Halloween?

Halloween is just around the corner which means scary costumes, cool weather, and lots and lots of yummy delicious treats! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and times of year in general! I love to have fun with my friends and family and Halloween is a great time of year to do some really fun activities with your family! Here are just a few things I like to do with my family during the Halloween season to make the holiday more of a family holiday!

Graveyard

Make Your Own Costumes

Costumes are so expensive these days! By the time that you buy the clothing, accessories, and even your wigs you could spend up to $100 a costume and if you have multiple kids, that can break the bank just for a night of fun! It is much cheaper and more fun to make your own costumes! You can get fabric, cut up old clothes you don’t wear anymore and then just buy some simple accessories to go along with your costumes!

Trick or Treating

Instead of just sending your kids out on their own to trick or treat, go with them! Make it a bonding experience. You can even dress up yourself and join in on the fun! Maybe they will even share their candy with you! LOL  You can go with them and experience all the scares with them, it will make them more comfortable and you can spend an evening of fun with the family!

Do you have a talent for decorating cupcakes? Here are some fun ones that a friend of mine created. I do NOT have such a talent.

halloween cupcakes

Haunted Houses

If you have an older group of kiddos you could skip the trick or treating and go for some Haunted Houses! You can be there for each other through all the scares and help each other survive the terror! I am a big fan and proponent of Haunted Houses they’re a great way to celebrate Halloween after you’ve grown out of trick or treating! There are a ton of really great haunted houses all over the country, you can hit up the big haunted houses that are a huge attraction or you could even look for locally made ones that may be located in your very own neighborhood!

bat sugar cookies

Make or bake some fun treats

Aside from all of the candy, I like to make some fun treats like these Bat Sugar Cookies you can see our recipe HERE. Another fun one is candy apples!  You can make them with caramel, chocolate, candy, add whatever toppings you would like and everyone can have their own individual kind of Apple! It’s a great way to spend time together and have a yummy treat to follow! I love to dip my apples in peanut butter coating and then add crushed up Oreos, absolutely delicious!

How about our Dirt Pudding or our RIP Brownies shown below? Both fun and yummy.

Dirt Pudding Recipe GO HERE

Dirt Pudding

RIP Brownies Recipe GO HERE

Halloween Brownies

You can also make Halloween themed appetizers like this fun spinach dip one!

halloween snack

Throw/Attend a Halloween party

Halloween parties are so much fun! Whether you’re throwing one or just simply attending, this is a great way to spend time with your family! Use my first tip and make your own costumes and then all go have a really great time at a fun Halloween Themed party!

There you go, here is a few things to make the Halloween season a bit more family oriented! Have fun and be together!

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I’m Michelle aka Powered by Mom. I’m married with one daughter, my hubby was my high school sweetheart, our two dogs Nyx and Cleo and our cat Oliver. As you can see we’re a family of animal lovers. We love to travel when we can, try different food and activities all over the world and enjoy being together. My passions are writing, travelling, creating new recipes, encouraging people to adopt not shop and just to enjoy life while we can.

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Comments

  2. Kristie says

    Thanks for the treats recipes. The bat cookies are cute! I have a sweet tooth. Halloween doesn’t have to be expensive. Having fun is the most important thing. kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.

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  17. Natalie Brown says

    Between myself and my son, daughter in-law, and grandson we’re doing most of these. Halloween is truly a fun time. I hand out candy and my dog gets super excited because he thinks everyone is coming by to see him. lol Thanks for the fun suggestions!

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  18. Ashley Chassereau Parks says

    We are doing most of these!! 🙂 We love trick or treating and making baked treats! I am attempting to make the kids costumes this year…..eek!

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  21. heather hess says

    thank you for all the tips 🙂 we r just going to hand out candy this yr, the kids are going to parties with there friends

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  24. Brenda Carrillo says

    Awesome ideas! Can’t wait for Halloween I’m taking my daughter out trick or treating and then come home for my halloween party.

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  31. Joey Simmonds says

    I would love to have a party. Maybe even an adult costume party, so our friends could dress up for it. That would be fun.

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  34. Michele Ash says

    Thanks for the Fantastic Review on 5 Halloween Family Activities! We used to decorate outside like you have done (by the way, it looks great!) however with hectic schedules and not giving out “treats” anymore, we just put a few things out. I always make sure to make the kids costumes with a box of all kind of things in it (wigs, capes, snakes, rats, witches hats, old costumes, etc) and go with the flow of what the kids want to do! I always go out with the kids. I love walking around with them from house to house. I’d like to have a Halloween party, by the time I actually thought about it, it was too late to invite people! Maybe next year! Thanks so much for sharing your fantastic review, the terrific pictures, and your personal and professional opinions on 5 Halloween Family Activities with all of us! I honestly do appreciate it! Thanks again so much! Michele 🙂

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  41. Tina M says

    I love Halloween and all the wonderful decorations and goodies. I love the bat cookies. Bats are one of my favorite to use as decorations. Happy Halloween to all!

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  47. jennifer peters says

    I love baking. So we bake cookies/treats for every holiday. I bought my son’s costume but I am making him a pirate ship!1

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  48. Derrick Johnson says

    I love making up our own costumes instead of buying a whole lot of stuff. All you need is some imagination!

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  49. Hayley S says

    We are going to make Halloween cookies this weekend with some friends! That is such a good idea for with little kids when it’s too cold outside for little babies to take the older ones out!

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  51. Lauryn R says

    These are all great Halloween tips and activities! I definitely agree that making your own costume is the only way. The kids and I usually have a lot of fun with it too!

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  64. M.Clark says

    These are all great activities, I’m sure the number one activity is going trick or treating, it was definitely number one on my list when I was a child. Making and baking fun Halloween treats is fun as well. Thank you for sharing this post

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  65. mary gallardo says

    I like making my own costumes for my daughter and I. I will usually get her a store bought one for trick or treating and make one for the night we carve pumpkins and make candy apples. She loves it.. It’s usually just things and clothes found around the house, but we have a great time during the search!

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  68. Georgette says

    Homemade costumers are a fun thing to do; not only for the family to bond making them together, but it saves on money spent as well!
    The other tips are also time-proven and great ideas; thanks for posting them.

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  69. Hana says

    HOmemade costumes are hands down the best to both see and use. 🙂 I grew up making them with my family, and not spendign big money on a one timer costume.

    The cookies you posted pics of are amazing! The decorating looks machine perfect. Wow. 🙂

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  70. Robin Abrams says

    We love making our own costumes and dressing up. We bake alot of Halloween cookies and cupcakes for my grandkids friends for their party

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  72. Linda Manns says

    These sound like some great Halloween suggestions. The spinach dip looks so good. Thank you for sharing. Have a safe, fun time

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  75. Shannon says

    What fun activities. I usually watch scary movies and sometimes I get dressed up. It is just me and Chris, I don’t have kids.

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  81. Amanda Alvarado says

    We usually go trick or treating and then to our church’s carnival! I’m waiting on dd to get older so we can go to haunted houses together!! LOL I LOVE those things!

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  83. Laurie P says

    We have a few small get togethers with friends….do some baking and of course trick or treating. Can’t wait to do haunted houses once my girl is a bit older!

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