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I’ve been asked to post about How to Have the Perfect Halloween.
Everyone has their own idea of the perfect Halloween. To some it may be decorating, baking, or dressing up. For others it may be carving pumpkins or just the feeling the season gives them. For my family it’s all of the above!
When it gets chilly out, I love to light a fall scented candle when we bake or decorate. Pumpkin scented candles are great. I got a pecan pie scented one recently. It smelled awesome.
Carving pumpkins is something both adults and children love. This activity gets the whole family together.
When I was a kid, after the pumpkins were carved, I remember my mom always cleaning the seeds and toasting them. I haven’t really done that with my kids. Maybe I will start that this year.
We love decorating for Halloween. It’s fun to put out pumpkins, scary monsters, tombstones with silly sayings on them, and cobwebs.
My 7-year-old loves dressing up for Halloween. This year my oldest will be 12 when Halloween comes around. I’m not sure how he will be with wanting to dress up.
I love baking. We got out the fall pot holders and made some Halloween cupcakes. Cute, right?
No matter how you celebrate, you can always add new traditions to make the perfect Halloween for you and your family. I think my new tradition is going to be picking our own pumpkins every year…if the price is frugal enough 
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Decorate our entire house
YUMMY! Peanut butter cups are my little ones favorite candy! Thanks for the chance to win!
Eating candy and carving pumpkins!
My daughter could sure use these as treats for her students at school.
I love dressing up and decorating and pumpkin carving! I just love it all!
Bobbing for apples. It’s one of those things that’s only fun at Halloween!
going out trick or treating before i had kids i found kids to take out like my nieces and nephews and i always have pizza after we get home
Trick or treating! I know i know… Im 20 and no kids…. but thats what family’s for!
Going to the pumpkin patch and picking out our pumpkins! Then coming home and carving them and making pumpkin seeds in the oven!
Trick or treating~
Pumpkin Patch with my kids!!
I guess my favorite tradition would be that every Halloween morning, we make ghost pancakes with eggs and sausage.
Our Halloween tradition is that we always play our halloween music, carve the pumpkins and then roast the pumpkin seeds.
half price candy the next day
I always dress up even as a young adult. Now I have my own children and I dress up with them now.
Visiting the pumpking patch & taking the kids trick-or-treating
It is my sisters birthday and my step daughters birthday so we have 2 birthday parties.
celebrating my sisters birthday
Making the treats, eating candy, carving pumpkins. I love it all!
Going trick or treating with my kids is my favorite.
I love watching a scary movie on Halloween night.
We have a party every year to celebrate our anniversary.
My favorite thing is taking my kids trick or treating.
decorating our yard
Making goodies,.getting together at my sister’s with a fire
I love watching the kids come to the door at Trick or Treat time.
Watching scary movies on Halloween night! booooohaaaa
Taking the kids trick or treating!!
getting pumpkins!
I like picking out pumpkins.
Halloween parties.
One we just started a few years ago, taking our little one trick or treating. We also take her to pick out her pumpkin each year at one of the local farms.
I like decorating front yard with pumpkins and ghosts
Im boring but I love handing out candy and seeing all the cute trick or treaters creative costumes and then following the night with spooky halloween movies!
DRESSING UP AND GOING OUT TRICK OR TREATING
Carving pumpkins!
Going trick or treating with the kids
Dressing my kids up and taking them trick or treating!!!
make fun spooky treats
I like dressing my kids in their costumes.
everyone at my work dressing up!
passing out candy
Trick or treating & dressing up in costumes.
taking my daughter trick or treating
I just love carving pumpkins!
I love enjoying pumpkin flavored desserts
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going pumpkin picking!
Going trick or treating with my kids, nieces and nephews is our tradition
decorating pumpkins with the kids
finding the halloween candy that my husband thinks he’s hidden from me.
Our favorite tradition is visiting the pumpkin patch.
We always go to the pumpkin patch to find the perfect pumpkin and go on the hay right
carving pumpkins
I enjoy the creativity that everybody puts into their costumes.
watching charlie brown
watching kids of all ages have fun
carving pumpkins
our church festival each year
trick or treating!
I’ll be honest. I really appreciate all the candy available.
A hayride and roasting hot dogs on a open fire.
I love cutting the top off the pumpkin and then letting the kiddos scoop out the seeds and slime. We always do this outdoors, of course, and they love it. Then I carve the face on it and set it out on the front porch. Thanks.
trick and treating
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We like to go to the mall and trick or treat.
I like haunted houses.
Get us some customes
Making caramel apples! grammypenny@frontier.com
I love making the costumes. We always make our own and just buy the accessories and effects.
watching scary movies!!!
Caramel apples
Love carving pumpkins and eating the roasted seeds!
I like the candy and also carving pumpkins
We love trick or treating!
Baking halloween Cupcakes and Carving pumpkins!
The grandkids trick or treating!
handing out candy
Decorating! We don’t have kids and never get kids trick or treating at our house.
Watching scary movies.
Trick or treating & decorations
My dog Bandit’s birthday is on Halloween, so we spend the day celebrating together. I also like to enjoy some candy on Halloween.
carving pumpkins!!!
Dressing up! So fun!
Taking my son trick-or-treating
Carving jack-o-lanterns! and of course eating Hersheys Reese’s peanut butter cups! my FAvorite!
Loved going trick-or-treating with my sons when they were little
Now I like seeing kids especially babies decked out in costumes .. so fun .. thanks! 
Going to pumpkin farm and picking our own pumpkins
Watching scary movies, baking treats, lighting candles and having fun!
trick or treating and costumes!
I always take Halloween off to trick or treat with my kids!
taking the kids trick or treating
Decorating the house, pumpkin picking & carving, warm apple cider and trick or treating!
Picking and carving a pumpkin. Then toasting the seeds and bake a pie with the pulp. ^_^
Trick or treating with my grandkids
Scary-movie-a-thons and pumpkin patches with the kiddos!!
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I love making costumes for my kids. we have so much doing that
I love trick or treating.
The candy and pumpkin carving.
We decorate inside and outside of our house. We pick our own pumpkins and gourds and do a display with all of the lights outside and corn stalks.
baking and decorating my house and yard
Making Caramel and Chocolate Apples
trick or treating
Trick or treating
My favorite Halloween tradition is carving pumpkins. It’s always so much fun…messy, but fun
Scaring the kids (but not the tiny ones)!
Pumpkin carving and fun halloween treats.
Trick-or-treating, of course!
Now that I have a daughter it’s dressing her up in cute costumes and going trick -or-treating!!!!!
carving the pumpkins
Carving pumpkins!
We usually carve pumpkins the weekend before. Then dress up and take the kids trick or treating
My favorite is carving the pumpkin and then baking the seeds and string. I look forward to that every Halloween!
I love to hand out candy!
Well now that my teenagers are too old to treat or trea- our tradition is to get our own candy
Halloween day we get orange bagels with green cream cheese from the local bagel shop!
making treats
It used to be the candy, then it was all about decorating (which I guess it still kind of is) but now its more about loving to take my baby around & seeing it through a kids eyes all over again. Can’t wait to have more kids & do this for many years to come!!
Visiting haunted houses.
eating candy
There is a family here that goes ALL out for Halloween, i do mean ALL out!!! We have been invited for years. They do this about the Saturday before Halloween.
I was able to enjoy trick-or-treating with a friend last year. She always has chili dogs before the kiddo head out (good thing with all the walking that they do). But I was able to give her directions and ideas for places we go. There is a house on probably the highest hill here, and its a bit of a rough and tough drive up there, but it is by far the best stop!! They have a special area inside the house that is decorated for the kids to stand in front of and get their pictures taken (they are then e-mailed to the parent with in a few days).
Our church also has a “Harvest Party” with so much fun, its hard to want to leave to go out and trick-or treat lol.
We do the school activity where the school puts on a “Math Spooktacular”. it is a great family event!! We all carve pumpkins and join in on various games. It is a week before Halloween.
Regardless of what we decide to do, one of the above, or all, my favorite part is when my daught, now 16, takes her little brother, now 9, out around our neighborhood to finish trick-or-treating. They are welcomed back home with hot cocoa and a nice warm and cozy fire!
We always make a big pot of chili and cornbread to eat when we get back from trick or treating!
For Halloween, I always make molasses pocorn balls- grandkids just love to help, too!