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How to Celebrate Halloween (besides eating candy)

10/20/2021

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How to celebrate Halloween (besides eating candy) by The Island Octopus
Traditional Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving pumpkins, telling scary stories, and visiting haunted houses. Continue reading for some other ways to continue the Halloween fun throughout the month of October! Check out our Pinterest board for related recipes and tutorials.

Activities and crafts:
  • Make an autumn feast
  • Bob for apples
  • Visit a pumpkin patch
  • Carve a pumpkin (or turnip!)
  • Make a mask
  • Attend a bonfire
  • Watch a scary movie
  • Read your fortune
  • Make pumpkin bread
  • Decorate candy apples
  • Watch a scary movie, or read a scary story
  • Color some Halloween coloring pages from our free selection, or our Halloween Coloring Book!

Decorations and accents:
  • Gourds
  • Ghosts
  • Tombstones & coffins
  • Skeletons
  • Cats
  • Bats
  • Cauldrons
  • Ravens
  • Owls
  • Monsters
  • Vampires
  • Dry leaves and flowers

Food to make and enjoy:
  • Everything pumpkin!
  • Root veggies
  • Apples
  • Pears
  • Herbal teas
  • Cider
  • Soup or stew

Scents:
  • Sage
  • Mugwort
  • Pumpkin
  • Burning leaves
  • Clove
  • Vanilla
  • Dragon's blood
  • Cinnamon
  • Rosemary
  • Benzoin
  • Copal
  • Patchouli
  • Sweetgrass
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October News

10/12/2021

 
Halloween art from The Island Octopus
New arrivals in the shop this month include: Halloween art, incense, and stickers!

Join us for two events this month:
  1. ShopColumbia, at Columbia College Chicago (Melissa's alma mater), is hosting Dark Market, a spooky collection of works by Columbia artists with an emphasis on the macabre. Find a handful of Melissa's creations at this event. The Dark Market will feature all things spooky and magical with mediums including art prints, zines, books, stickers, enamel, patches, soft sculpture and more! The Dark Market should delight anyone who loves Halloween or hand made, one of a kind artwork. Enjoy a sampling of spooky items on display now in store through November 5, 2021. Shop online or in store.
  2. Join us Saturday October 16th for a Cat Art Fair at Mauhaus! Melissa, along with other local artists will be outside the cafe with all sorts of cat-themed goodies! Event runs from 10am-6pm, and the address is 3101 Sutton Blvd., Maplewood, MO 63143.

Follow our journey on Patreon! On our page this month, we will be releasing Halloween coloring pages, discussing a recent trip, and sharing behind-the-scenes photos of our current projects! Learn more about Patreon here.

Halloween art and accessories available at Virtual Halloween Market

9/20/2021

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Halloween art and accessories available at Virtual Halloween Market on October 1-3.
The Island Octopus gift shop hosts online event to help artists and small businesses this autumn.

St. Louis, Missouri - The Island Octopus gift shop will host a Virtual Halloween Market, an online shopping event featuring a variety of artists and makers, virtual activities, and freebies. Shoppers will find Halloween art, accessories, apparel, and home decor from 6 artists and small online businesses at this unique event. The Virtual Halloween Market runs from October 1-3, 2021. Shoppers can join the Facebook group or The Island Octopus website  to view the event.

​The Island Octopus was founded in 2021 by husband-wife team Matt and Melissa Gindling. The online gift shop offers whimsical critters, beachy art, coloring books, apparel, and handcrafted incense.
The Island Octopus' Virtual Halloween Market
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