There is so much to do now-a-days that many people do not get to spend time at home. A daily schedule can include work, grocery shopping, taking care of the kids, going to a sporting event for the kids, cleaning the house and cooking dinner for the family. With so much to do, it is sometimes nice to spend time at home with the family. So, rather than leave the house, again, and participate in the different fall and Halloween activities in your area, celebrate it right in your own home.
There are different ways to celebrate Halloween right in your own home. Here are the top 10 ways to celebrate Halloween without leaving the comfort of your own home.
1. Decorate your house from top to bottom, including setting up a spooky graveyard in the front yard. Mini-black Christmas-type lights can be hung in all of the windows and around doorways. Spider webs can be created out of cotton pieces and strung around the house and over the garden in the front yard. Nail up boards that say “Keep out” over the windows to make the house look abandoned. However you choose to decorate your home, make sure to get the entire family involved with the decorating process.
2. Continually play spooky music throughout the house. Purchase a CD that has sounds of doors creaking, ghosts moaning and wolves howling and play it softly throughout Halloween. If possible, set up a set of outdoor speakers near the front door to play the sounds of Halloween for when guests and trick-or-treaters come by.
3. Watch a horror movie with the lights off. Horror movies are available in all ratings, including some family-friendly animated movies you can watch with the kids. Then, when the kids fall asleep, make things scarier by playing your favorite horror movie.
4. Carve a pumpkin, or two, or three. Lie newspaper across the kitchen floor or over the dining room table where you and the kids can carve as many pumpkins as they can. Make pumpkins that can be set out on your front patio. If you do not feel comfortable carving a pumpkin you can always use paint or markers to draw Jack-O-Lantern faces on them.
5. Set a small campfire in your backyard and at night gather the family around it to share spooky stories. Bring out the apple cider and marshmallows to enjoy around the fire.
6. Set up a haunted house right in your garage for your kids and their friends to go through. Set up different areas where you can jump out from and scare the kids, play creepy music and a touch and feel area. For the touch and feel area put worms in a jar for kids to feel some brains or Jell-O in a bowl for kids to feel and use their imagination to say what it is.
7. Dress up on Halloween night when you hand out candy to neighborhood kids.
8. Turn out the lights in the house and play a game of flashlight tag.
9. Roast pumpkin seeds in the oven after carving the pumpkins.
10. Make gift bags with Halloween treats and surprises in them to give to friends when they come over to visit, to take to school or to give to parents when they come trick or treating with their kids.
Many of these activities can be done on the days leading up to Halloween, as well as on the “Spookiest” day of the year. Enjoy time at home, with the family while preparing for this year’s Halloween festivities.