Parents can find exciting activity tips for Halloween family fun.
October 9, 2006 (Press Release) --
KiddingAroundToronto.com’s Top Ten List for a ‘Spook’tacular Halloween!
We are giving you permission to use our suggestions as long as credit is given to www.KiddingAroundToronto.com.
1. Halloween Events: There are many spooky Halloween kids’ activities taking place in Toronto and the GTA over the month of October. Plan a fun event by visiting the events calendar at KiddingAroundToronto.com.
2. Halloween Safety: Discuss Halloween safety with your children to ensure a successful evening. Make sure you deal with subjects including: Trick-or-treating with a few friends or a parent; planning out your route; stranger safety; being cautious of jack-o-lanterns and sorting wrapped versus unwrapped candies.
3. Dress-up Time: There are an abundance of Halloween costumes for sale in stores ranging from grocery and drugstores to costume stores. They are generally more reasonably priced in October than the rest of the year. It is the perfect time to expand your child’s dress-up trunk.
4. Mask-making: Help children make their own Halloween masks. Let them decorate the underside of a paper plate. Cut out eyes and a mouth with scissors. Then tie one string to each side, and the two strings together at the back of their head for a perfect Halloween fit.
5. Home-Made Haunted House: Make your own haunted house effects. Take three bowls and fill one with shelled hard-boiled eggs for eyes (keep wet), one with spaghetti for snakes (keep wet) and one with jello for brains. Then blindfold older children and guide them through each bowl with ghoulish descriptions.
6. Last-Minute Costumes: It is always good to have a few last-minute costumes in mind in case you find yourself in need at the last-minute … a) A Domino – Dress your child in black and cut out big white dots for their top and bottom half; b) A Tree – Dress your child in brown and attach leaves to a hat; c) A Cat – Dress your child in a solid colour, attach ears to a head band, a long tail and whiskers with an eye pencil.
7. Pumpkin Decorating: Let your child decorate pumpkins with markers or paints for Halloween.
8. Baking Fun: Make ‘spooktacular’ cookies for Halloween. Take tea biscuits and spread orange icing on top (or pre-made vanilla icing with food colouring added). Then let the children decorate the icing with black candies.
9. Punch: Make a special Halloween drink. Mix together cranberry juice and gingerale for a sparkling red delight.
10. Party Games: Play pass the parcel Halloween style. Make enough Halloween goody bags for everyone and wrap them up in layers and layers of newspaper. Pass the parcel and let the person who receives it when the music stops unravel a layer. After the last layer of paper comes off, let everyone have a goody bag to complete the excitement.
KiddingAroundToronto.com is a free comprehensive parenting website offering a detailed calendar of local events and activities, feature articles, reviews, activity suggestio
We are giving you permission to use our suggestions as long as credit is given to www.KiddingAroundToronto.com.
1. Halloween Events: There are many spooky Halloween kids’ activities taking place in Toronto and the GTA over the month of October. Plan a fun event by visiting the events calendar at KiddingAroundToronto.com.
2. Halloween Safety: Discuss Halloween safety with your children to ensure a successful evening. Make sure you deal with subjects including: Trick-or-treating with a few friends or a parent; planning out your route; stranger safety; being cautious of jack-o-lanterns and sorting wrapped versus unwrapped candies.
3. Dress-up Time: There are an abundance of Halloween costumes for sale in stores ranging from grocery and drugstores to costume stores. They are generally more reasonably priced in October than the rest of the year. It is the perfect time to expand your child’s dress-up trunk.
4. Mask-making: Help children make their own Halloween masks. Let them decorate the underside of a paper plate. Cut out eyes and a mouth with scissors. Then tie one string to each side, and the two strings together at the back of their head for a perfect Halloween fit.
5. Home-Made Haunted House: Make your own haunted house effects. Take three bowls and fill one with shelled hard-boiled eggs for eyes (keep wet), one with spaghetti for snakes (keep wet) and one with jello for brains. Then blindfold older children and guide them through each bowl with ghoulish descriptions.
6. Last-Minute Costumes: It is always good to have a few last-minute costumes in mind in case you find yourself in need at the last-minute … a) A Domino – Dress your child in black and cut out big white dots for their top and bottom half; b) A Tree – Dress your child in brown and attach leaves to a hat; c) A Cat – Dress your child in a solid colour, attach ears to a head band, a long tail and whiskers with an eye pencil.
7. Pumpkin Decorating: Let your child decorate pumpkins with markers or paints for Halloween.
8. Baking Fun: Make ‘spooktacular’ cookies for Halloween. Take tea biscuits and spread orange icing on top (or pre-made vanilla icing with food colouring added). Then let the children decorate the icing with black candies.
9. Punch: Make a special Halloween drink. Mix together cranberry juice and gingerale for a sparkling red delight.
10. Party Games: Play pass the parcel Halloween style. Make enough Halloween goody bags for everyone and wrap them up in layers and layers of newspaper. Pass the parcel and let the person who receives it when the music stops unravel a layer. After the last layer of paper comes off, let everyone have a goody bag to complete the excitement.
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