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.

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!