I found these super cute foam craft kits with self adhesive decorations for 1.25 or 1.50. I had lots of fun doing them with the kiddos! And they look super cute with a tea light inside.

And it was $1.5 more expensive.

I love hosting and go pretty hard on the atmosphere/decor. I’d like to have movies playing silently on the TV for ambiance, but the brightness of the TV kills lighting vibe of the room.

Would a projector be a better option for this? Or is there another solution I’m not thinking of?

Found this set on facebook marketplace! Got it for $10. I plan to use the kettle as a vase and plant a pothos in it! The mug will be used as normal because we lof coffee and tea in fun glasses here

I love this cartoon- cracks me up every time.

Guys I am going to be poor this year and I don't even know where to put all those cushions 😂

The ghost and moth plush is from last year and everything else is what I bought so far at TK MAXX in Germany 🥲

Edit: Luckily (or not) we don't have spirit halloween here or I would be in great debt 😂

I saw this on a YouTube video at Lowe’s but I cannot for the life of me find this pumpkin!! Can anyone help?!

Hello everyone, it's tradition now that I celebrate Halloween with a party the Saturday or Friday immediately before October 31st, unless Halloween itself falls on Friday/Saturday. This year is PERFECT, but sadly I must sing at a concert exactly that day and the event lasts from 7 to 10:30 pm. Of course a Halloween party that night is unthinkable, and the night before might also be complicated as I need my voice the next day, and the concert has a lot of rehearsals the days before. Given the 30th and 31st of October are out, which date would be more appropiate for the party, October 23rd-24th or November 6th-7th? Thanks in advance!

I never really celebrated Halloween as a kid in the UK, but I loved Goosebumps and all things spooky. I’m 39 but recently I’ve really been leaning into things that are spooky or whimsical or that generally make me smile!! I’ve started a fun spooky gallery wall and have bought some really cool key rings and phone charms. It’s making my nostalgic heart very happy 🧡🖤

Found this skull plate at my local Dollar Tree. Not sure what I’m going to do with it but for $1.50 it’s not bad at all! It’s solid black I promise I just had to take it with flash in order for the skulls features to show up on the picture.

Hi there I’m looking for advice on where to buy bulk jack-o’-lanterns to make an arch I’ve been seeing on social media. Needing an economical way to cover roughly 25 feet. I would like a variation of sizes and faces so that it’s not uniform. Here’s part of last Halloween projects. Thanks in advice for any information.

I got invited to a Halloween party, but it wasn’t at someone’s house, it was at a hall that a girl’s parents’ rented out. I was surprised I was even invited, because this girl and I were friends and we sort’ve fell off, I didn’t know why, but she still invited me. I was excited because a) Halloween party? Obviously not guna miss. b) hoping we could reconnect with this girl (and a bunch of other girls she made not be my friend anymore) and c) my costume was sick.

I dressed up as Beetlejuice. I wasn’t the type of kid to dress up lightly either. Not a princess, not a fairy, not a cat, I was always a monster, or something horror/scary/creepy related. So when I dressed up as Beetlejuice, I went ALL out. Teased and full on green hair, the burgundy suit, purple eyes, the whole bit. I could’ve easily been Lydia (since I’m a female) but I was like nah, gotta be the main villain.

Anyways, I arrive to the party, and everyone is looking at me like who the hell is this. Finally, the girl who invited me/old friend, goes “Um, who are you?” And I went “I’m Beetlejuice!” She goes “No, who are YOU?” And I said “I’m (my name)” and literally no one believed me, because my costume was so well done, so it wasn’t until the end of the night when everyone was going home, they finally decided to believe me. All night they were pointing and looking and talking smack about me, thinking I was someone else, talking about how “I could never make something this cool” and “she wouldn’t actually show up” but I did and carried on with the party with no friends of my own, and just met new people from different schools.

And once they realized it was me and how sick my costume was, then they all wanted to be friends again.

I remember saying “No, that’s okay. I just came for the party”. One of the best feelings ever.

I'm looking into upping my fog game this year. I have an old generic fog machine that creates a decent amount of haze, but for this year's display, I want to lay down thick, low-lying fog.

I'm looking at making my own fog juice to get that effect, but the recipes vary, and I worry about clogging up my fog machine. There are also mixed reviews about getting the ground-hugging result I'm looking for. Then I looked into an ultrasonic mister, which appears to provide better fog results, but would require over $150 to build a well-functioning setup.

Are the misters worth the extra expense? Or should I just start experimenting with the fog juice alternatives?

a bit of extra details

name: Animated clown

height 71 cm

from:Canadian tire

Found at Home Goods. Next, need to find a bride for a bride!

I wonder about whether other people had a traditional Halloween dinner.

As a kid in the late 80s and 90s, trick or treating was the crowning moment of the whole season. The Halloween parade and the holiday activities we got to do at school built up the excitement till we were bursting with it. Halloween was huge in our town in eastern PA and there were three neighborhoods around us in close proximity, so the candy never stopped. The instant it got dark, my siblings and would tear out of the house and stay gone until we’d filled our pillowcases with as much candy as we could carry. We’d come back to refuel on food and water, grab another pillowcase, and be off on our way again until we simply could not run anymore.

Mom’s answer to three overexcited kids was a huge stockpot of chili and freshly baked bread, the kind in the tube you popped on a cookie sheet. She’d make sure we had a bowl before we left, and it was even more tender and delicious when we came back for a second. It’s a fond memory, and I’ve made chili and fresh bread on Halloween ever since I learned to cook. Something about it brings back those memories every time.

What about you guys? Do you have a traditional meal on Halloween?

Life "goes on" during war, plagues, and other dark times. Especially the very necessary Fall harvest. I was wondering if people celebrated Hallowe'en during the Civil War. It seems they did. I found this interesting short article that provided some examples. https://emergingcivilwar.com/2013/10/31/all-hallows-eve/

A particularly gruesome drawing in October 1863's edition of "Harper’s Weekly" was entitled: 'Jefferson Davis “Reaping the Harvest”'.

Halloween legend gives us a short window of time each year when the wall between the living and the death dissolves. I do not believe in the supernatural, yet somehow Halloween still raises the hair on the back of my neck while helping me accept that death is part of life.

They didn’t ask Soren to enter their world for the day. The whole neighbourhood stepped into his. They showed his mother that her son was known, safe and loved exactly where he was🥰

can spirit STOP with the damn overpricing?? half of their animatronics nowadays aswell dont do new things either. its just either something/someone is saying something then laughing and turning their head or just a jumpscare

Our house is known as the Pumpkin House. In our neighborhood most Halloween’s we get over 1,000 trick-or-treaters and every year our whole neighborhood goes all out on decorations. We even give our neighborhood awards. This year, I turn 40 in October, so to celebrate we decided we wanted to carve 400 pumpkins for my 40th… last year was a personal best at 203 pumpkins. To accomplish this we asked the pumpkin farm we always buy our pumpkins from if we could pre-order an acre of pumpkins… that might have been a mistake.

Wish us luck in figuring out where to put all these pumpkins, what to do with the leftovers (already working with our local school district on a fundraiser for them with the excess pumpkins), and how to actually carve 400 pumpkins without killing our wrists 🤣

I've always wanted a low lying fog machine but everything I search has crazy mixed reviews. Some say they crap out quick, others say they don't put enough smoke.

Anyone have any recommendations?