How To Celebrate Halloween The Cute And Spooky Way!
How To Celebrate Halloween The Cute And Spooky Way!
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How To Celebrate Halloween The Cute And Spooky Way!
Hello friends. As I continue to post my regular content, please know that nothing is normal for Israel and Jews around the world. Please continue to keep the people of Israel in your prayers.
I hope you all had a lovely weekend! Jacob and I actually enjoyed a mini-babymoon with his parents at a hotel down in Miami and we had the best time. We visited the aquarium, enjoyed the pools and the beaches, toured the local restaurants, and I even got a prenatal massage and manicure! Jacob and I went out and had some lovely date nights together while his parents watched Little Man as he slept, and overall it was a wonderful chance to reconnect before our new addition arrives in December! Little Man did get sick which was no fun, but he still had a good time and loves the water.
On Sunday, we all went to my niece’s bat mitzvah which was so lovely! What a huge milestone in a young woman’s life. I am so proud of her and I can’t believe she’s already twelve years old! I mean, how old does that make me? 😂
Today, I want to share a few ways to celebrate Halloween the fun and spooky way! Now, I know for many people Halloween is a questionable holiday, so I wanted to share my perspective on it. I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below, though, so make sure to drop your thoughts!
If you’re interested in the history of Halloween, here’s a post I found on History’s website that explains the transition from Samhain to All Saint’s Day to All Soul’s Day and finally Halloween as we know it today. Many people feel that Halloween is a pagan holiday, while others feel that because it was absorbed by a Christian holiday, it isn’t as much of an issue. But I thought this passage in the article was particularly pertinent:
In the late 1800s, there was a move in America to mold Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly get-togethers than about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft. At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season and festive costumes.
Parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything “frightening” or “grotesque” out of Halloween celebrations. Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century.
As a resident of America in the present, I find that Halloween is mostly a fun commercial holiday for children where they can dress up, meet their neighbors, and collect candy. Of course, there’s a whole other side of Halloween that I personally HATE: the scary, bloody, demonic element that is not fun and is not child-appropriate. I do not like walking around my neighborhood and seeing dead bodies hanging from trees, or bloody carcasses strewn on people’s lawns. I do not like watching horror movies. I do not like haunted houses that are really, truly scary. And I do not like adults’ costumes that are just an excuse to wear as little clothing as possible. That is the part of Halloween I can’t get behind.
But there’s another part of Halloween that I think is so cute! For example, Disney World’s Halloween parties are just the kind of spooky, fun energy I think kids can enjoy. Halloween classics are such fun to listen to, and carving Jack O’ Lanterns is such a sweet activity with kids. I personally love the vibes of October and always call it Spooktober just because the silly version of Halloween is so adorable to me!
So today, I want to share a few ways I think you can celebrate Halloween in a sweet way and get out of it what you want to get out if it. I think there’s a fun way to celebrate Halloween - by making it family-oriented rather than an adult scare-fest.
Put on a “Halloween Classics” playlist. I love classic Halloween music. Songs like Monster Mash and Spooky, Scary Skeletons get me in the mood for some Spooktober fun! I love putting on a Halloween playlist with old classics which cater to children and dancing with my son, spinning around and getting goofy with it. Find a playlist you enjoy and set it up to play throughout your home as you get in the Halloween spirit!
Buy candy to hand out to children and take your own children trick-or-treating around your neighborhood. It is so sweet seeing little children dressed up and ready to collect their candy haul! I love handing out candy to children and seeing their costumes and happy little faces, and I love trick-or-treating because it forces neighbors to get to know one another and really embrace the vicinity they are in. It’s nice to remember the number of kids that live around you and to see how many nice people are in your neighborhood!
Wear a family costume. Get into the cute, spooky mood by all dressing up together! There’s nothing that brings a family together like a family costume. Find something everyone enjoys and hand out the parts accordingly. There are so many fun options and it makes everyone feel included! Plus, getting the parents in on the fun gives kids such joy and makes them feel like you are just as into the whole process as they are.
Bake a “spooky” treat. I love making chocolate cupcakes and decorating them with colored frosting and spooky sprinkles, but find something that your whole family can participate in! Everyone can bake together and then you get to enjoy the treats at the end. What a fun way to celebrate!
Play a Halloween board game! Last but not least, find a spooky board game you all enjoy. Of course, there are games that are more on the haunted, scary side but if you’re looking for something more family-friendly, check out The Haunted Mansion: Call of the Spirits board game. I’ve never played it myself but I’ve heard good things.
What do you all think? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!
Thanks Abbey! Love your opinion about Halloween. As a Catholic, I also denounce the evil, gory, and death obsessed version of Halloween and embrace the sweet and cute halloween focused on family and neighbours!
Here’s a really fun more adult Halloween game that is focussed on death, but is meant to be really silly! You basically tried to kill your family in silly ways while trying to keep other peoples families alive. It’s really funny and fun to play!
Atlas Games Gloom-2nd Edition Card Game https://a.co/d/dBNPPMl
I hate Halloween so much 😅 I participate for the benefit of others, but if I had it my way I would just skip the whole scene. I enjoy costumes, but I don't think you need Halloween as an excuse to dress up. I think Jack o lanterns are a waste of good pumpkin and collecting candy is a waste of an evening and a lot of candy (and therefore money). I don't like anything scary, and I hate that Halloween means seeing ghosts and spiders and skeletons and all manner of gross, grotesque, and scary decorations all over town. I don't think that Halloween as a holiday adds any value to my life, and I spend most of October waiting for it to be over with. The only Halloween movies I enjoy are the corpse Bride, the nightmare before Christmas, and the Halloweentown series on Disney. But I also don't need to wait for Halloween to watch any of those 🤷♀️
Don't get me wrong, I love fall and I do decorate for fall with wreaths and scarecrows and other such things, I just don't like Halloween itself 🙈