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!
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.
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!
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
RIP Brownies Recipe GO HERE
You can also make Halloween themed appetizers like this fun spinach dip one!
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!
Andrea T says
Cute bat cookies!
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.
Shannon Wilkovich says
I love all the ideas!
Teresa Archer says
I love the halloween food ideas
Kathy Haury says
I like the treat ideas and the dip! Yumm.
Tracy H says
Love the decorations & cookies
JLin says
cookies look great and yummy
Jennifer Essad says
I like your decorations and ideas, thanks for sharing
Sarh S says
Great post! We love trick or treating, thankfully ours is at night so we can see all of the decorations in the dark.
Michelle Elizondo says
We love doing things like these!
Colleen Maurina says
These are great Halloween ideas! We always go trick or treating with our kids and love to carve pumpkins!
Mia says
I like the graveyard decoration and the bat cookies. Makes for a fun party.
heather e.g. kaufman says
Those cookies are adorable.
jamie anders martin says
Love all your info thanks
Darlene Sullins says
The bat cookies are ADORABLE!!!
Laura B says
Homemade costumes are the best
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!
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!
Laura says
I love the bat cookies! How cute! 🙂
Stacey A Smith says
I love the grave yard in that one pick.cool ideas!
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
Christina says
These suggestions are great. This year my son and I made his costume for the first time ever.
Lori Williams says
These look like lots of fun!! Would love to do some of these with the grands!! Thank you for sharing!
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.
Rebecca W says
We like to bake cookies for my daughters classroom party
Deborah W. says
These are all cute ideas. You could do as much as you’d like with a party or just celebrate with family.
Michele Cupp says
We love to go to the Halloween Haunted Houses and in Ohio, Corn Mazes are pretty big too.
Noreen says
I love the bat cookies, they are almost too cool to eat!
Sandra Watts says
Great pumpkin and other decorations. Love the cookies. Yard looks awesome. Spooky!
Rose Santuci-Sofranko says
I can’t stand halloween. Prayers for all involved in evil are in order.
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.
Marie E Nixon says
my kids are too young this year for a party but i can’t wait until they’re old enough!!
Deborah says
Thanks for the great tips and ideas, it is all about making memories for our children!
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 🙂
Beth says
Halloween and autumn are fun for all ages and especially for me because its my bday! Great ideas!
william gossage says
These are some great ideas. Thanks
Rhonda G says
Just giving a little candy to the kids I know that will be coming to my door.
chris z says
great ideas for halloween!
Haley Cook says
We love to go trick or treating with the whole family.
sandra says
I love to bake and decorate Halloween cookies
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!
Julie Murphy says
my kids could only make their costumes.
jeanette sheets says
DIP LOOKS DELICIOUS AND THE YARD IS SO CUTE !LOOKS REALLY NICE AND FUN
Sandra Watts says
I love Halloween. Those are awesome bat cookies!!!
ken ohl says
this yard looks amazing
Alicia D says
We will be going trick or treating!!
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
Derrick Johnson says
I love making up our own costumes instead of buying a whole lot of stuff. All you need is some imagination!
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!
Jessica Lodge says
I have never been to a Halloween party. It sounds like it would be a lot of fun.
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!
Aly says
Those bat treats are adorable!
Kelly Nicholson says
im down for the sweets and all..but i like a quiet horror flick
Linda Kinsman says
I love the idea of baking together. Fun!
lisa says
Those are good ideas. Especially making your own costume. Those made at home can be very creative.
Abigail says
The dip is super fun! Im excited Halloween is on a Saturday this year!
Amanda Morris says
looks like alot of fun
lei says
carved pumpkins already. lots of fun
Michelle Macaluso says
We love making Halloween themed foods like Mummy dogs.
amanda hardesty says
We always make fun candy and decorations for Halloween so this gave me some new ideas
Lisa Williams says
We always find some new creepy treats to bake in the cookbook,usually sugar cookies in scary shapes.
janet aycock says
these our awesome
Sophia,M.,McConnery says
I do so love the look of the spinach dip.Do drool over it.Have a thing for garlic,onions,and spinach!
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
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!
Yolanda says
These are aawesome ideals. My family and I go all out for Halloween.
Kim Pinch says
We love making our own costumes. My daughters have great imaginations.
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.
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. 🙂
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
Jennifer M says
Halloween is so fun! Thanks for the great ideas.
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
Bento Ninja says
I can’t wait for my kid to be ready for haunted houses! Love Halloween!
MeltheCrafter says
Great post, thanks for sharing!
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.
Kelly D says
I love the bat cookies.
Lauren says
I definitely want to bake some Halloween cookies.
rochelle haynes says
This is so nice real cute
Julie Lundstrom says
Lots of good ideas for Halloween. It is so much fun for our kids.
Richard Brandt says
Another excuse to make spinach dip! Awesome!
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!
LeAnn H says
I like making cookies with the grandkids and then going trick r treating
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!
Sophia,M.,McConnery says
Oh YUM spinach dip! DROOL!!!!!!!