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Halloween is just around the corner! With the list of Things to Do On Your Birthday being one of my most popular posts, I figured I should make a list of activities for my favorite holiday and time of the year.
Celebrate the spooky season and make it a scary good time with this fun list of ideas.
- Have a scary movie marathon at home
- Go to the movies and watch a horror movie
- Give out candy to trick or treaters
- Host a Halloween party
- Go to a Halloween party
- Dance to Halloween-themed music
- Create Halloween-themed food, desserts, and snacks
- Go to a pumpkin patch
- Go on a hay ride
- Go to a corn maze
- Carve Jack-o’-Lanterns
- Paint pumpkins
- Bake pumpkin seeds
- Make pumpkin pie (or apple pie)
- Have a pumpkin photoshoot whether that be with pumpkins around you or a Jack-o’-Lantern on your head
- Visit an actual haunted location
- Go on a haunted tour (you can even do virtual haunted tours)
- Go to a haunted scare attraction
- Go to a Halloween theme park event like Halloween Horror Nights
- Drive around and look at Halloween decorations
- Make a DIY costume
- Have or join a costume contest
- Play with scary makeup looks
- Dress up your pets in costume (and do a photoshoot)
- Design Halloween crafts
- Create a short scary movie with some friends
- Make scary TikTok videos
- Make apple cider
- Make pumpkin spiced latte
- Make hot chocolate with marshmallows
- Make caramel apples
- Make smores
- Build a haunted gingerbread house
- Make Halloween cocktails
- Draw or paint scary pictures like monsters
- Host a horror game night
- Go to an escape room
- Make a spooky charcuterie board with candy and wine
- Decorate your yard or inside your house
- Go to Spirit Halloween or any Halloween-themed store
- Go to the bookstore and check out the horror books
- Curl up with horror novels
- Read scary stories in the dark
- Go camping and tell scary stories
- Make a bonfire and tell scary stories around the fire
- Go on a fall picnic
- Play manhunt or hide and seek at night
- Play in leaves
- Go on a hike at night on a spooky trail
- Go on a drive at night on a spooky road
- Play Halloween games like a mummy race or apple bobbing
- Have a Halloween scavenger hunt
- Go to a horror or Halloween festival
- Go to a horror wax museum
- Go to a horror art or theatre event like an immersive experience or horror poetry reading
I hope this list helped you find ideas to have a fun and spooky Halloween. Happy Halloween!