1. For the crafty mom - make the perfect kids costume, see 25 Totally Awesome DIY Costumes for Boys or Girls for some inspiration.
2. Take the kids trick or treating
3. Watch a children's special like It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown or Scared Shrekless
4. Print out some free pumpkin patterns like these Disney templates and cut out jack o lanterns
5. Then season and roast the pumpkin seeds
6. Go to a pumpkin patch and pick out your own pumpkin
7. Get lost in a haunted corn maze
8. I let my toddler decorate her pumpkin with markers and stickers or you can buy plastic faces (similar to a Potato Head) at the store
9. Decorate with balloons: Learn how to put Spiderwebs in balloons from Crafty Crafty make glow in the dark balloons using glow sticks or draw faces on orange balloons with black magic marker
10. Hollow out a pumpkin and put in a punch bowl - Martha
11. Have a scary movie marathon with classics like Friday the 13th or Halloween
12. Download a free digital scrapbook kit a BOO-tiful Night from Summertime Designs
13. make gingerbread men skeletons - buy here
14. Find a collection of 25 wreaths from Lil Luna
15. Decorate your door with a panel insert from Heritage Lace
16. Make your own handmade cards
17. Make a Spooky Banner from the DIY Network
18. Make your own lanterns out of mason jars or paper cups with tutorial from The Australian Baby Blog
19. Grab some tree branches and put them in a vase or pumpkin and decorate with spooky ornaments. Or check out 20 Halloween tree ideas from Shelterness
20. Get free printable 2L pop labels from CM2
21. Decorate your house with pumpkin, skeleton lights or make your own ghost lights with tutorial from Craft Passion
22. Make cute mini ghosts from tissue paper bells from Country Living
23.Decorate your entryway with a flock of felt bats from Country Living
24. Get a free printable Spell book cover from Chickabug
25. Get free party printables including water bottle labels, banner, invitations and food labels from CatchmyParty
26. Get free printable Halloween Bingo cards from Makoodle
27. For a creative and edible Halloween decoration check out this gumball machine from CrowsFeetChic
28. Check out local Halloween events like a parade, Zombie walk, Boo at the Zoo or more.
29. Make some healthy Halloween snacks, use mini chocolate chips to make a face on a banana, draw faces on tangerines or peel them and add a mini green stem to the top
30. Make your guests some "Zombie Boogers" get the recipe for this delicious green popcorn from Paper & Parcel.
31. Send your friend and relatives photo cards of the kids (or yourself) in their Halloween costumes with free printable card templates from iheartfaces
32. Find 10 Halloween cocktail recipes from White Lights on Wednesday
33. Create your own Halloween dinnerware with tutorial from Brooklyn Limestone
34. Get Hello Kitty or a collection of 24 colouring pages from MommyGaga
35. Find 10 minute to win it games from Children's Ministry Deals
36. Visit a haunted house in your town or city
37. Download free Halloween fonts from Ella Claire
38. Have a Halloween Party
39. And send guests home with a fun treat bag with 10 DIY treat bag ideas from Babble
40. Wash some plastic spiders and put in your ice cubes to give guests a fright
41. Make a spider web cake
42. Make a Ghostly Pizza from My Recipes
43. For a more modern look paint your pumpkins from Too Cool Stamping
44. A lot of kids are no longer allowed to wear costumes to school so why not make them (or the expecting mother you know) a skeleton T-shirt instead with pattern and tutorial from My Little Secrets
45. Get the tutorial to make Witchy Finger Cookies from Domestic Sugar
46. Get some general Halloween Make-up tips from KidzWorld
47. Get a tutorial to make pumpkin, mummy and candy corn Cake Pops from Williams Sonoma
48. Decorate your mantel, and get inspired by a round up of 20 Halloween mantels over at Home Stories A to Z
49. Loving this clever idea fro Growing your own Zombie
50. Make some vintage wooden blocks with Mod Podge Rocks how-to
51. I don't know about you but I'm a sucker for tutu costumes, find 16 costume ideas from CosElite
52. Make a spooky Mirror from No Biggie
53. Make Glow in the Dark Slime from Domestic Charm
54. Buy some Halloween candy eat it all then go buy some more to hand out to the kids
55. Turn out the lights and tell spooky ghost stories
56. Make a gingerbread or graham cracker haunted house
57. Make some spooky chocolate covered strawberries, Love. Luck. Kisses & Cake
58. Put a Halloween spin on classic kids games like hot pumpkin, use Halloween music for musical chairs or pin the bone on the skeleton
59. Make a mix of Halloween music like Monster Mash
60. Dance to Thriller - with instructions here
61. Make your own treat bag with instructions from CraftyScrappyHappy
62. Make your own spiderweb treat bowl with instructions from merrimentdesign
63. Make some monster and Frankenstein sugar cookies with tutorial from somewhatsimple
64. Pack a special lunch: cut a pumpkin or ghost from a sandwich, wrap a juice box with gauze and add googly eyes to make a mummy and draw a pumpkin face on an orange
65. Print out a Halloween dress up printable girl or boy from Babalisme
66. Surprise your neighbours, find 16 versions of you've been Booed from It's Written on the Wall
67. Why not give your coworkers or hand out some tic tacs with fun printables from Somewhat Simple
68. Make specimen jars using doll parts, free printable labels, or check out how Martha makes specimen jars using veggies
69. Get free printable candy kiss stickers, bottle labels, party circles and more from Three Little Monkeys Studio.
70. Make 'Candy Corn' fruit cups by The Kitchen Life of a Navy Wife
71. Make Mummy Cookie Bites with recipe from The Recipe Critic
72. Find 45 Cool Halloween centerpiece ideas from Shelterness
73. Find 10 DIY countdowns from Curbly
74. Check out 10 cute hairstyles from Untrained Hair Mom
75. Make your own spider tablecloth with tutorial from Eclectically Vintage
76. Make ballpoint pens look like fingers using modelling clay, get the tutorial from Ardor
77. Make soap with creepy crawlers in it with directions from Country Living
78. Make glowing eyes by putting glowsticks in toilet paper rolls with cut out eyes, see the pin here
79. Go trick or treating at the mall - most malls have a tick or treat day for young kids a few days before Halloween
80. Play a game of Trick or Treat via B - inspired Mama and write either Trick or Treat on a piece of rolled up paper. Choose a candy for treat or do the written trick. Would be good for an adult only party or you could have different coloured paper if your children are vastly different ages.
81. Recreate a spiderweb doormat from Better Homes and Gardens
82. See how to make your own Window silhouettes for only $5 from Who-arted
83. Make jello earthworms from food.com
84. See how to make a tombstone out of Styrofoam at the DIYNetwork
85. Get some ideas for adult costumes with 40 best costumes of 2012
86. Make your own house into a haunted house or use PVC pipe to create a haunted house or long hallway
87. And find 10 Terrifying DIY prop ideas for your haunted house from Babble
88. Make some Mummy Hot Dogs use cocktail wieners or hotdogs and Pillsbury crescent rolls and attach eyes, seen here at Hugs & CookiesXOXO
89. Make Candy tubes from Hostess with the Mostess
90. Make some rice Krispy pumpkins (and other cute treats) from the Baby Center Blog
91. Make cupcakes and decorate them like pumpkins, mummies or Jack from the Nightmare before Christmas
92. Make jello shots in plastic syringes
93. Make ghost pancakes with chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth
94. Go on a local ghost tour, to find all the real ghost stories in your city
95. Make this adorable mummy onsie with tutorial from lissables
96. Dress the kids up in their Halloween costumes and have a photo shoot in a pumpkin patch
97. make the kids a fun snack with Monster Fruit Dip and Apple Mouth Bites, find this simple recipe at Thirty Handmade Days
98. Turn any candle into a cute Halloween decoration with free different candle wrappers from Mr. Printables
99. Print out some subway art from All I Create
100. Make mummy cookie bites with the recipe from the recipe critic
101. Kids on candy overload? Why not hand out some glow stick bracelets with free printable from Eighteen 25
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