How to Celebrate Halloween (besides eating candy)

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