- How do you celebrate Halloween?
What kind of Halloween traditions do you have? If none, maybe you could get into some of the traditions of others!
We do a sp00ky movie marathon starting late September all the way up to Halloween! We try to watch one movie (or show episode) per night. And we usually carve pumpkins on actual Halloween. ?
Old jack-o-lanterns are to be dispatched by swords. Only time I get to
use them. And I take on a large decoration project that I completely underestimate.
We would carve pumpkins as a family a few nights before and roast the seeds. Halloween was always quite chilly where we lived, often times we had to wear a snowsuit under our costumes. Mom always made a hot meal for dinner. Stews or Chilis were the usual. Me and my siblings weren’t allowed to wear masks and thankfully mom was quite artsy. We’d all have our faces painted to go with our costumes. After trick or treating we went to our local “Spook House” and would end the night with hot chocolate and fire works every year. 🙂
I bring the grill out front and cook hot dogs and hand out water (along with candy) for kids and parents. Often, in the Halloween frenzy, no one gets to have dinner until afterwards. I usually hand out about 120 hot dogs. People act like I’m handing out gold. It probably costs around $130, but really helps build a good neighborhood.
Every year for the past decade I’ve read the novella The Gatekeeper: A Halloween Tale by Joel Rickenbach (it’s like $1 on amazon) over morning coffee while I listen to spooky seasonal records.
21 and I still plan on trick or treating with my friends! Is this still a part of your Halloween traditions?
I lived in a cul de sac with an empty lot across the street from our house. Every year after the trick or treating was done, the family next door to the empty lot would set up a table with a slow mcooker full of chili, carafes of coffee and hot chocolate, and probably a ton of other stuff. I was little and I just remember there was a feast if you weren’t already too full of candy. We would all gather in the street and watch our town’s little fireworks show. Then every family from the cul de sac would come to the empty lot and we’d have a bonfire. There were 7 or 8 of us kids running around all sugared up. Every family would bring one of those big fireworks boxes and try to out-do each other. We would wheel out a big wheelbarrow full of sand into the middle of the cul de sac and the dads and older kids would get to set them off. Suuuuper good memories.
Stay up until midnight to savor a pumpkin beer and a handful of candy!
Every year, I make chili and mummy dogs before or after trick or
treating. This sounds like such a delicious and hearty dish to add to Halloween traditions.
Cooking and binging on Halloween themed YouTube videos. I get myself a few things of candy and put out decorations as well.
We lived in the country so my parents, brother, and I would go to my grandparents house every year for dinner, scary movies, and trick or treating. There was a house down the road who gave out full sized candy bars every year and I remember being so excited to go see them. After we got “too old” to trick or treat, we still went to my grandparents every halloween to hand out candy to the younger kids. Now that I’m older and have a house of my own, everyone comes to my house instead, and I hand out full sized candy bars to our little trick or treaters. The kids have got to LOVE this Halloween tradition!
Usually in the two weeks leading up to Halloween my daughter and i find a Halloween event in the city, usually it involves haunted houses, its always a blast and gets us into the spooky season 🙂
I like to take off the last Friday in September, hit all the stores for new Halloween supplies I might enjoy, then decorate my house inside and out. Gets me super excited for the season.
What do you think of these Halloween traditions? Tell us all about yours or what you want to do in the comments!