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55 Things To Do During Halloween & Spooky Season

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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. 

  1. Have a scary movie marathon at home
  2. Go to the movies and watch a horror movie
  3. Give out candy to trick or treaters
  4. Host a Halloween party
  5. Go to a Halloween party
  6. Dance to Halloween-themed music
  7. Create Halloween-themed food, desserts, and snacks
  8. Go to a pumpkin patch
  9. Go on a hay ride
  10. Go to a corn maze
  11. Carve Jack-o’-Lanterns
  12. Paint pumpkins
  13. Bake pumpkin seeds
  14. Make pumpkin pie (or apple pie)
  15. Have a pumpkin photoshoot whether that be with pumpkins around you or a Jack-o’-Lantern on your head
  16. Visit an actual haunted location
  17. Go on a haunted tour (you can even do virtual haunted tours)
  18. Go to a haunted scare attraction
  19. Go to a Halloween theme park event like Halloween Horror Nights
  20. Drive around and look at Halloween decorations
  21. Make a DIY costume
  22. Have or join a costume contest
  23. Play with scary makeup looks
  24. Dress up your pets in costume (and do a photoshoot)
  25. Design Halloween crafts
  26. Create a short scary movie with some friends
  27. Make scary TikTok videos
  28. Make apple cider
  29. Make pumpkin spiced latte
  30. Make hot chocolate with marshmallows
  31. Make caramel apples
  32. Make smores
  33. Build a haunted gingerbread house
  34. Make Halloween cocktails
  35. Draw or paint scary pictures like monsters
  36. Host a horror game night
  37. Go to an escape room
  38. Make a spooky charcuterie board with candy and wine
  39. Decorate your yard or inside your house
  40. Go to Spirit Halloween or any Halloween-themed store
  41. Go to the bookstore and check out the horror books
  42. Curl up with horror novels
  43. Read scary stories in the dark
  44. Go camping and tell scary stories
  45. Make a bonfire and tell scary stories around the fire
  46. Go on a fall picnic
  47. Play manhunt or hide and seek at night
  48. Play in leaves
  49. Go on a hike at night on a spooky trail
  50. Go on a drive at night on a spooky road
  51. Play Halloween games like a mummy race or apple bobbing
  52. Have a Halloween scavenger hunt
  53. Go to a horror or Halloween festival
  54. Go to a horror wax museum
  55. 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!

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