That's what my 3-year old keeps saying, "Ha-wo-ween is coming, mommy!" Nearly every morning he asks me if it's "Ha-wo-ween" yet. He's can't wait to dress up as Buzz Lightyear, for D to be Woody, and mommy and daddy to be potato heads. Ha! "All these things, mommy! Dress up all together and get candy!"
I guess that about sums it up.
Halloween is probably my least favorite holiday, not far behind Valentine's, but I am a sucker for any excuse to do fun things with my family. Halloween isn't a free pass to celebrate death (what is this zombie thing?? I really don't get it) or scare the stink out of the little people, but it is fun to dress up goofy, play pretend, visit with neighbors, do silly things with pumpkins, and eat as much sugar as your tummy will allow.
So, with this weekend being the last one before the big night, I thought I'd share some ideas to get in the Halloween-mood with your little ones:
put on a costume and have a picnic at the park
get outdoors! this is the best season of the year, and it's beautiful outside. who says you have to wait until halloween to play dress up. the little ones love it, and they love it even more when someone else will play along with them. pick up some candy corn, a pirate patch, and enjoy the cooler air!
make a costume
speaking of costumes, if you don't have one , you could make them together this weekend. in this great age of pinterest, we don't even have to be creative to come up with something. just search on pinterest for "homemade halloween costumes" and you'll find all sorts of ideas, see here, and here, and here, and here, and here. now you don't even have to search!
visit a pumpkin patch
here are some toddler-friendly patches we enjoy in the Dallas area: Dallas Arboretum, Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch, The Big Orange Pumpkin Farm
go to the zoo
most have some sort of halloween-related activities, I'm taking the little men to the Fort Worth Zoo with my parents this weekend
decorate a pumpkin
decoupage with tissue paper (we all remember how well ours went), carve it, paint it, whatever your little heart desires to give that fruit some personality! better yet, invite neighbors over and do it together.
build a fort with your kids and play pretend
put that eye patch back on, build the biggest fort you can make, and pretend like you're captain hook trying to find peter pan and tinker bell. or, put on that plastic tiara you still haven't thrown away and pretend the fort is your castle for a tea party or protection from the big bad dragon that's trying to take it down. this is the best part of halloween--using your imagination!
Anything I missed on my list? What other fun things will you do this weekend to get ready for Ha-wo-ween?
No comments:
Post a Comment