Halloween Bucket List

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100 Ways To Celebrate Halloween


1. Plan out DIY costumes
2. Knit or crochet monster feet to put on the ends of poles, mailbox legs, etc.
3. Cast a spell
4. Host a themed scavenger hunt at work
5. Buy out the dollar store for cheap (awesome) decorations and deck your house, office, car, yard, etc. out
6. Hand out candy to trick-or-treaters (on or before the last day of the month)
7. Go trick-or-treating or go reverse trick-or-treating (knock on people’s doors and give them candy)
8. Cue fog machines to go off whenever you enter the room
9. Put orange food coloring in anything you possibly can
10. Wrap your friends up with toilet paper
11. Take photos of you jumping in the air with a broom between your legs to look like you’re flying
12. Watch Halloween movies like Hocus Pocus, Halloweentown, Beetlejuice, Casper, Nightmare Before Christmas, Ghosbusters (1984 and 2016), Evil Dead, Addams Family, Addams Family Values, Halloween, The Exorcist, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Friday The 13th, Scream, It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shaun Of The Dead, Tucker And Dale Vs. Evil, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Blair Witch Project, Frankenstein, Edward Scissorhands, Frankenweenie, Teen Witch, The Witches, Little Shop Of Horrors, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Practical Magic, The Monster Squad, Ernest Scared Stupid,
13. Play candy corn cleavage throwing games
14. Throw a pumpkin carving party
15. If you don’t feel like carving pumpkins, paint or decorate them with gems an glitter
16. Knit an orange and black scarf
17. Refer to alcohol as “boo’s”
18. Put potion labels on all your bottles
19. Give yourself a spooky manicure
20. Or get fake nails that are long like a witch’s!



21. Make a wreath out of ping pong balls and googly eyes
22. Don’t feel constrained to the classic orange and black color scheme – you can rainbow your Halloween
23. Visit a cemetery
24. Cut teeth out of apples and wear them in your mouth
25. Or just wear classic plastic vampire fangs
26. Perfect your Dracula accent
27. When you cough or sneeze, do it into your elbow like a vampire
28. Fill clear plastic gloves with candy and treats
29. Play Glow-In-The-Dark Mini Golf
30. Visit a haunted house
31. Wear plastic spider (or bat) rings
32. Play the Hocus Pocus drinking game
33. Do the Zombie 5K
34. Host a costume contest
35. Award people for best costumes (funniest, scariest, most creative, etc.)
36. Blow up inflatables in your yard
37. Wear a mask under your mask
38. Dress up your pet in a costume, if only for a minute to get an adorable picture
39. Make a list of costumes you could wear with the things you already own (or could easily make with zero dollars)
40. Try some cool face paint that could be your entire costume



41. Share Halloween puns
42. Bring a broken broom into your office, throw it on the ground and say, “Sorry I’m late for work”
43. Cover your feet in three strips of paint (white, orange, and yellow) and make candy corn prints on paper
44. Dress up as a scarecrow or other prop in your yard and jump out at people as they walk by
45. Send Halloween mail
46. Learn the choreography for “Thriller” (and participate in a flash mob!)
47. Visit a pumpkin patch
48. Turn into a pumpkin at midnight
49. Replace all the food in your (or your friend’s fridge) with fake skulls
50. Play Halloween Bingo
51. Say yes to all Halloween-themed desserts
52. Make a pumpkin balloon backdrop
53. Make a piñata out of toilet paper to be a mummy
54. Break glow sticks open on some stairs for a creepy look
55. Bob for apples
56. Plant gravestones where you lay to rest negative concepts
57. Put caution tape up everywhere
58. Hang glow in the dark spider webs wherever you can
59. Try using a Ouija Board
60. Host a séance



61. Wear striped tights and red sparkly shoes and stick your legs out from under a building
62. Go on a scary hayride
63. Dance to the Monster Mash
64. Paint your hands green and put on orange nail polish
65. Cut holes in a pumpkin and put a baby in it
66. Only use orange condoms
67. Turn your house into a haunted house attraction and charge a small admission fee
68. Cover your cutlery (especially knives) in fake blood
69. Hang orange twinkle lights
70. Have a witch hat making contest
71. Play Pin-The-Spider-On-The-Web
72. Roll play as Morticia and Gomez Addams with your significant other
73. Go on a costume bar crawl
74. Explore haunted or abandoned places
75. Or go on a legal tour of a haunted place or a ghost walk
76. See a themed burlesque/sideshow performance
77. Make giant spider webs using hula hoops
78. Make ghosts out of bed sheets, tissue paper, garbage bags, milk cartons, and anything else white you can get your hands on
79. Rake your leaves and put them into bags shaped like pumpkins, bats, and spiders which you can leave on your yard as decoration
80. Bake googly eye cookies




81. Learn the Time Warp dance from Rocky Horror Picture Show
82. Perform Rocky Horror Picture Show
83. Look into how you can get a $3 Boorito at Chipotle by dressing up in costume
84. Peel grapes, boil spaghetti noodles, and melon chunks put them in separate non-see-through bowls where someone can still stick their hand in to feel; label them “Eyeballs”, “Guts”, and “Brains”
85. Do superstitious stuff on purpose like walk under a ladder or go out of your way to pass a black cat on the street
86. Yell “BINX!” at every black cat you see
87. Bob for orange-glazed donuts
88. Go to a costume dance party
89. See a scary death metal band in concert
90. Learn more about the history of Halloween
91. Have an orange (pumpkin) balloon popping contest
92. Play a “Guess How Many” game with a jar of candy corn
93. Make a Halloween playlist and make your friends mix CDs (or listen to mine!)
94. Make a list of all your fears
95. Draw mummy faces on marshmallows (then turn them into s’mores over a bonfire)
96. Make a delicious, spooky, punny cocktail (bonus points for dry ice that looks like fog)
97. Conduct mad science
98. Walk around stores’ Halloween sections and take in the glory that for some reason fails to be there year-round
99. Go out as early as you can on November 1st to get half of Halloween candy, decorations, and costumes
100. Never believe you’re too old to celebrate Halloween the way you want


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31 Ideas For Your Halloween Bucket List:

1. Choose your Halloween Costume.

When choosing a Halloween costume one option is to choose something that’s relevant to the current year. For example, you could go dressed as a character in a trendy movie or a book that’s in vogue. Another option is to wear a costume that’s related to a news story everyone’s talking about.

You may want to dress up in a costume that complements the costume your partner is wearing. Some ideas include the following:

Sonny and Cher.
Adam and Eve.
Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
A bull and a bullfighter.
You can also try funny costumes like bacon and eggs, or peanut butter and jam.
It’s also fun to have your entire family dress up in outfits that complement each other. Here are some examples:

Dress up as The Incredibles—a family of superheroes created by Pixar.
Dress up in Star Wars costumes.
Dress up as S’mores. Mom and dad can be graham crackers, one child can be chocolate, and another child can be a marshmallow.
If all else fails, just go for the tried-and-true: witch, ghost, devil, or vampire.

The key here is to have fun: enjoy the process of picking out the costume; savor the anticipation of wearing it; and then take pleasure in putting it on and watching other people’s reactions to it.

2. Get One New Halloween Decoration.

One of my Christmas traditions is to get one new ornament for the tree each year. A few years back I decided to extend this tradition to Halloween by getting one new Halloween decoration each year.

It doesn’t have to be anything fancy. In fact, this year I think I’m going to get a small candy dish shaped like Frankenstein’s head which I saw at the drugstore. Get something that will make you smile every time you look at it.

3. Visit a Pumpkin Patch.

Go to a pumpkin patch and pick out the pumpkins you’ll be decorating and eating throughout the month of October. In addition to the traditional pumpkins, many pumpkin patches also grow white pumpkins and other gourds, such as squash.



4. Make a Pumpkin Treat.

Now that you’ve been to the pumpkin patch and you’ve returned with your bounty, it’s time to put those pumpkins to good use. You can make pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin cheesecake, and so on. You can even make pumpkin dog treats!

5. Decorate the House for Halloween.

Decorating for Halloween is just as much fun as decorating for Christmas. Of course, your Christmas decor should be jolly and full of cheer, while your Halloween decor should be creepy and maybe a little ghastly.

Decorate your fireplace mantle for Halloween with spooky signage, bats, rats, skulls, and white candles. You can even go all out and create a cemetery or graveyard on your front lawn for Halloween.

Put up a Halloween Tree and hang up ornaments shaped like Frankenstein, Dracula, skulls, and orange and black glass balls. You can also add some orange Halloween light stringers.

You can even create a Halloween Village filled with creepy, scary Halloween themed houses, figurines and accessories.


6. Create Your Halloween Soundtrack.

You need a Halloween soundtrack to listen to throughout the month of October. Include favorites such as the following:

The Monster Mash
Ghostbusters
“This is Halloween”
And, of course, J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor:



7. Have a Hot Halloween Beverage.

Get every member of your household a Halloween themed mug. Then, fill the mugs with hot cocoa and Peeps Marshmallow Ghosts; hot apple cider; pumpkin spice tea or coffee; or a witches’ brew (just make something warm and delicious and call it witches’ brew).

8. Put Together a Halloween Puzzle.

Get a puzzle with the classic Halloween theme of a spooky run-down mansion at night, complete with a full moon, a rickety fence, and strange creatures lurking behind the trees. Spend an evening putting the puzzle together as you listen to a soundtrack of Halloween sound effects: screeches, doors creaking, chains rattling, and so on.

9. BOO! Your Neighbors

Start a Halloween Boo game in your neighborhood. Neighbors leave one another anonymous goody bags in celebration of the holiday with a note like the following:

“Just a friendly little Boo … from ‘bet you never guess who’. I have just one thing to say to you on Halloween…BOO!”.

The receivers then secretly Boo other neighbors. When a house gets booed they hang a ghost from the front door.

10. Make Caramel Apples.

Making delicious caramel apples is very easy. You just need apples (take off the stem and wash all the wax off the surface); Popsicle sticks; a bag of Kraft Caramels; wax paper; a stick of butter; water; and toppings such as Oreo cookies or peanuts.




11. Read a Classic Halloween Story.

Choose a classic Halloween short story and read it out loud. Here are three to choose from:

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart
William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily
Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
12. Watch a Halloween Movie.

I deeply dislike movies like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, but some people enjoy watching these movies during the days leading up to Halloween. I prefer movies like “Young Frankenstein”, “The Addams Family”, and “Ghostbusters”.



13. Make Halloween Cookies.

To make Halloween cookies, just do the following:

Find a good, simple sugar cookie recipe.
Get cookie cutters in Halloween shapes.
Find a sugar cookie frosting/icing recipe.
Follow along with a good tutorial for decorating your Halloween cookies.
14. Do Something Zombie-Related.

Zombie-related activities include the following:

Dance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller (there are lots of tutorials on YouTube).
You can go on a Zombie walk.
Watch a Zombie movie.


Of course, if you’re really into zombies that can be your Halloween costume.

15. Go On a Halloween Scavenger Hunt.

Just as you go out during Christmas time to look at your neighbors’ Christmas decorations, do the same for Halloween. You can even turn it into a Scavenger Hunt. Before you set out, decide what you’re going to be specifically looking for. Here are some ideas:

Witch On a Broomstick
A Mummy
A Cauldron
A Headstone with RIP Written on It
A Skeleton
A Cobweb
An Owl
A Monster
A “Happy Halloween” Sign
A Toad
Instead of driving around, you could also just grab a flashlight and do the Scavenger Hunt at night, on foot (to make it eerie, of course).

16. Play a Halloween-Themed Board-game.

I love board-games. They’re educational, fun, and a great way to bond with friends and loved ones. Here are four Halloween-themed board-games you can choose from:


17. Make a Halloween Craft.

Head to the dollar store and stock up on supplies to make Halloween crafts. You can make Lolly Pop Ghosts, Mini-Halloween Piñatas, or Mason Jar Luminaries.

If you’re ambitious, you can even make a scarecrow.

18. Have Dinner In Your Costumes.

It’s a shame to only wear your Halloween costume once. Designate a night–such as the 18th of October–and have a wear-your-costume dinner. Make it a spooky night with Halloween-themed food and drinks. You can even eat by candlelight and have everyone eat with their hands.

Another option is to make Paprika Hendl, a recipe taken from Bram Stoker’s Dracula (which I’m in the process of reading).

19. Make a Halloween Gingerbread House.

Gingerbread houses aren’t just for Christmas anymore. Here are some ideas for your Halloween Gingerbread House:

Use graham crackers.
Make a Halloween walkway with Kit Kat® bars.
Get some purple frosting and black sprinkles.
Add some Reese’s Halloween Peanut Butter Pumpkins
20. Visit a Haunted House.

Haunted houses pop up all over the place at this time of year. Find the scariest one near you and go for a visit. If you want to do something a little bit different, go on a haunted hayride.



21. Give Someone a Friendly Fright.

Pranks aren’t just for April Fools’. Play a funny Halloween prank on someone. However, keep in mind that the idea is to have some fun, not to shame or embarrass other people. You want to give people what is known as “a pleasurable fright”.

22. Read a Halloween Poem.

Every October I read “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. And I still get a little bit scared each time I read it. The man was a genius. And what could be better than Poe’s creepy poem read by James Earl Jones? Here it is:

23. Watch An Alfred Hitchcock Movie.

Alfred Hitchcock was known as “The Master of Suspense”, and he pioneered many elements of the psychological thriller. You can watch one of his movies–such as “The Birds” or “Psycho”–or watch and episode of his TV series, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”.



24. Tell Ghost Stories.

Gather around a bonfire and tell ghost stories. Be sure to use a scary flashlight face for greater effect. M.R. James is one of the greatest ghost story authors of the past 200 years– look for one of his stories.

25. Write Your Own Ghost Story.

Here are some tips for writing your own ghost story:

Set your story in the present and in a location that your audience is familiar with (make them think it could happen to them).
Make the characters seem real–a normal person just going about their business. In fact, you could say this was something that happened to you.
Hint at the terror, instead of filling your story with gratuitous bloodshed. You’re trying to guide your audience’s imagination down a certain path.
Don’t be afraid to leave some questions unanswered. This will create doubt in your audience’s mind and will ensure that they’ll continue thinking about your story well after you’ve told it.
23. Watch An Alfred Hitchcock Movie.

Alfred Hitchcock was known as “The Master of Suspense”, and he pioneered many elements of the psychological thriller. You can watch one of his movies–such as “The Birds” or “Psycho”–or watch and episode of his TV series, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”.

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26. Get Ready for Trick-or Treaters.

Are you one of those people who turns out all the lights on the 31st and pretends not to be home? That’s not fun! Plus, it could get you egged. Do the following:

Decide what you’re going to hand-out to the trick-or-treaters. It could be traditional Halloween candy, stickers, or even cans of fun-sized Play-Doh or small boxes of crayons.
Once you’ve decided on your treats, go out and buy them.
Your door should be decorated so the kids know it’s a Halloween-friendly house. You could also put up a sign in the window that says “Trick-or-Treaters Welcome!”
27. Carve a Jack-o’-lantern.

Carve Jack o’ lanterns, or just decorate pumpkins. You can get a pumpkin carving kit, make glitter pumpkins (apply glue and cover the pumpkin with glitter in autumn colors), get a jar of black buttons and use them to write “BOO” on the pumpkin, or glue rhinestones on a pumpkin to create a faux spider web.

28. Have an Orange-and-Black Day.

Orange and black are the traditional Halloween colors, so wear those colors for a day in October. Add some Halloween jewelry, a Halloween-themed tie, or some other accessory.

Another option is to just wear a Halloween sweater.

29. Watch a Halloween Cartoon or Animation.

There are so many Halloween cartoons and animations to choose from. Here are my favorites:

The Corpse Bride
It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
The Nightmare Before Chrismtas
Frankenweenie
Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania 2


30. Tell Halloween Jokes and Riddles.

Look for Halloween jokes and riddles online. Here’s one I like:

Q: What do you do when 50 zombies surround your house?

A: Hope it’s Halloween!!

31. Go Trick-or-Treating.

This is it! The big day has arrived. Dress up, have a photo shoot with everyone in their costumes, and then head out with your trick-or-treat bags.

Conclusion
There you have it: everything you need to have a fun-filled October. Live your best life by filling your October with simple pleasures.

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The Halloween Season is upon us and there’s endless amounts of fun to be had all throughout Fall! Try something different this year and create your very own October Bucket List full of seasonal fun and see how many items you can check off the list before the month comes to an end. You never know, some activities may turn into an annual tradition! If you’re not sure what to add to your list, check out some of our fun ideas below:

Go to a Haunted House
Visit a Pumpkin Patch
Carve a Jack O’Lantern
Make pumpkin pie
Make your own costume
Throw a Halloween party
Throw a Murder Mystery dinner party
Enter a costume contest
Visit a Haunted Corn Maze
Go on a Haunted Hay Ride
Make apple pie
Paint pumpkins instead of carving them
Read a classic Halloween novel
Host a Halloween game night
Make your own Halloween candy
Host a spooky movie night
Make pumpkin bread
Try out an Escape Game
Sip on seasonal beverages
Have a bonfire
Go apple picking
Go to a football game
Check out the Fall foliage
Have a Fall picnic
Make a seasonal wreath
Enjoy some seasonal crafts
Collect leaves
Go on a ghost tour
Shop at a local farmer’s market
Go on a nature walk or hike
Try apple bobbing
Make your own cider
Make caramel apples
“BOO” your neighbors
Have a Fall scavenger hunt
Visit a Fall festival or fair
Tell ghost stories
Knit your own scarf
Participate in a Fall run or walk
Celebrate Oktoberfest
Plan a weekend getaway
Start a Fall garden
Make a nature shadowbox
Make your own applesauce
Try out some crock pot apple cider
Make pumpkin butter
Go on a Fall camping trip
Stay up late and watch the Harvest Moon (Occurs the Saturday nearest to the Fall equinox)
Get rid of old stuff with some “Fall cleaning”
Read a Fall themed book
Play flag football
And of course, have fun!


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