Full Disclosure: I love Halloween. It’s my Super Bowl, Fashion Week, Oscar Night, and Mardi Gras all rolled into one. It’s fun, it’s weird, it’s creepy… what more could a mom of four boys ask for?
This year has the added benefit of Halloween being on a Saturday. That’s an entire day for all the usual madness and mayhem and then one to recooperate. I’m so excited it’s like the sugar high has already begun. If you too delight in Halloween night perhaps my list will add to your terrifying traditions. If you find the whole affair frightful but your kids love it, test the dark waters at one of the local events, they are sure to enchant ghouls of all ages.
- Visit a Pumpkin Patch
- Binge Watch Scary Movies
- Make Your Own Costumes
- Scare Each Other
- Gross Sensory Play: peeled grapes=eyeballs, cold spaghetti=guts, Jello=brains
- Attend a Local Trunk or Treat event
- ZooBoo, Como Zoo 4:30-7:30 pm, October 17-18 & October 24-25
- Carve or Decorate a Pumpkin
- MOA Monster Bash, Fridays and Saturdays 5-10 pm starting October 16
- Craft a Trick or Treat Bag
- Goblin Hunt, The Works, 9-12 am, October 19-31
- Turn Your Yard Into a Graveyard
- Put Up Door Monsters
- Hallzooween, MN Zoo October 24-25 & 30-31
- Make Ghoulish Goodies
- Make a Cardboard Coffin
- Halloween at the Art Park, Caponi Art Park, 1-4 pm, October 24
- Roast Pumpkin Seeds
- Ghouls & Giggles, Landscape Arboretum, 3-6 pm, October 24
- “Boo” Someone In Your Neighborhood
- Mix a Scary Soundtrack
- Ghost Trolley Como-Harriet Streetcar Line 6-9, October 23 & 24
- Tell Ghost Stories
- Great Pumpkin Halloween Festival, Landmark Center, 1-3 pm, October 25
- Trick or Treat for UNICEF
- Trick-ART-Treat, MIA, 6-8 pm, October 30
- Anoka Grand Day Parade, 1 pm, October 31
- Stay Up Past Bedtime
- Trick or Treat at a Mall, MOA Howl-O-Ween, Maplewood Mall, Rosedale Mall
- Boo-ology, MN Science Museum, 12-4 pm, October 31
- Host a Halloween Scavenger Hunt
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Such a fun list! Airika, those costumes are amazing! Loved each picture-so fun! Happy Halloween!