It’s no secret – Halloween isn’t just for kids. There are so many ways to celebrate this special, whimsical and creative time of year with your children or just among adults. And, best of all, enjoying the day or weekend usually only requires very little. Don your best witch’s hat and jump on your broom with us to try five fright-acular activities that will make the spooky season even better.
1) Costume store fun. With the kids or without—head to your local costume store and try on the gamut of fiendish attire, just for the fun of it. Try the one you always wanted but never dared—and own the role as ghoulishly as you can. If you’re bringing the kids, let them amp up their shuddersome and help them pick the coolest costume in the store.
2) Give out candy decked out in your new costume. Be a kid for real on All Hallow’s Eve and greet your candy-seeking guests in your ghastly new garb. You don’t have to save it for a costume party and you don’t even have to leave the comfortable confines of your own home. Put on your best ominous voice as you drop bonbons and chocolate into the bag of your visitors and give them a fond and vivid memory of you that will last months, if not years.
3) Halloween cooking. Make your cauldron bubble with witch’s brew stew—made from skull mushrooms and pumpkin carrots. Make eyes in your mushrooms using a standard straw to poke the holes and with a knife, make two slits for the nose. To carve pumpkin stems into your carrot rounds, first make two straight slits for the stem, then cut two triangles from the sides of the stem and remove them. An eerie family meal!
4) Serve a phantasmal dessert. Unveil the Trixie the Ghost cake, custom made to order at Baskin-Robbins, available until October 31, so that it can be served up to all ghoulish household tricksters—making Halloween night as bone-chilling as possible. Fill it with one of 16 favourite spooky flavours.
5) Take home decoration to the next level. Traditional pumpkins and gourds are great but how about stepping up the witchy accoutrements, sawed-off plastic limbs, orange-and-black light shows and broken (styrofoam) gravestones on your lawn and porch? Don’t forget to spread a little cobweb love over your car just for good measure!
