Halloween Hits & Bits
Halloween celebrations are never ending with these ideas.
Add a touch of magic to your windows with Halloween Easy Sparkle Window Art from Creativity for Kids by Faber-Castell. Make seven self-adhesive foil window art designs with a pumpkin, skull, candy corn, cat, Frankenstein, witch’s hat and ghost. Fill in the outlines with window paint and decorate with rhinestones and wiggly eyes before glamming up your windows.
Make delicious cookie creations for the holiday with this Create-A-Treat OREO DIY Halloween Cookie Kit. The kit includes OREO cookies and mini cookies, frosting and assorted candy to create your own spooky concoctions, such as ghosts, spiders and more.
Double, double, toil and trouble! Young witches and wizards can practice their potion-making abilities with Uncommon Goods’ Woodland Witch Pretend Play Set. Use the cauldron, ladle, tongs and bowls to mix up brews from the wooden-and-felt ingredients, including mushrooms and eyeballs. The recipe cards will help little ones develop matching and recognition skills.
The joy of jack-o’-lanterns isn’t over as quickly with Crayola’s Light-Ups Jack-O-Lantern. This light-up pumpkin comes with vibrant washable markers, so you can redecorate again and again for different Halloween décor throughout spooky season. Draw your design, flip the switch to light up the pumpkin, and then, wipe clean with a damp cloth to start over.
Build mini monsters with LEGO Creative Monsters. This set includes all the pieces needed to build five monsters, including a dragon, with a step-by-step pictorial guide.
Customize your very own treat bag for Halloween with Color Your Own Large Halloween Nonwoven Tote Bags from Oriental Trading. Featuring Halloween illustrations, color in the design on the bag for a unique night of trick-or-treating.
Learn about spooky festivities from all over the world with Spooky Celebrations Around the World by Matt Ralphs. Across every continent, there are festivals celebrating and honoring spirits, and this book includes fun facts and beautiful illustrations to explore cultural traditions from around the world, including Nigeria, Mexico, Scandinavia and more.
Get creative with this Halloween Craft Collection from Highlights. All the supplies kids will need come in one collection with a customized treat bag, pumpkins and an activity guide. Decorate with more than 150 stickers, neon glow sticks, pumpkin embellishments and more.
Cook for your Halloween party with all of the ingredients in one box. This Kidstir kit has everything needed to make fun and spooky treats, including Witch’s Brew Soup, Jack-O’-Lantern Peppers and Potato Mummies.
Make decorating pumpkins easy with Crayola’s Galaxy Paint Stick Pumpkin Decorating Kit. Create ghoulish decorations without carving with four paint sticks, glow-in-the-dark stickers and regular stickers.
Welch’s Halloween Fruit Snacks make a healthier pick for all of the classroom Halloween parties and as a treat on Halloween. Made with real fruit and shaped like your favorite Halloween pumpkins, ghosts and more.
Get in the spooky spirit and change up playtime with Fun Little Toys’ Halloween Squishy Toys. The 12 themed designs include bats, ghosts, mummies and more. Non-toxic and durable, these tiny toys provide fidget fun for kids or could be used as a non-foody treat in a gift basket.
Give the kids something to do with Big Dot of Happiness’ Jack-O’-Lantern Halloween Gamerific Bundle. Guests can play This or That?, Photo Scavenger Hunt, Color by Number and Alphabet Code for themed fun. Each game is printed on cardstock paper shaped to look like a pumpkin and comes with instructions for play without parental guidance.
Enjoy kitchen creativity with “Spooky Snacks and Treats: Frightfully Fun Halloween Recipes for Kids” by Zac Williams. This cookbook features 42 recipes for creepy and delicious snacks, treats and drinks, including Wolfsbane Elixir, Coffin Crunchers, Eye-of-Newt Salad and more.
Create the best jack-o-lantern on the block with Comfy Mate’s Pumpkin Carving Kit. The kit comes with a saws, an etching tool, poker drill, scoops and detail sculptors, and they can be stored inside the leather bag for extra protection. Make your pumpkin lantern the cutest or spookiest with tools for creating hair, teeth, nose and eyes.
Even the littlest ones in your family can join in the Halloween fun with Slumberkins’ Halloween Fright Set. Packed with lessons on following your intuition and discovering your inner bravery, play with Pegasus Unicorn, read the Halloween book and affirmation cards.
Carved or decorated a pumpkin you’re proud of? Display it using the Stack-O-Lantern Pumpkin Stacking Kit from Hey Buddy Hey Pal. This kit makes it easy to creating a pumpkin tower to show off your seasonal spirit.
Head to a movie showing from a metro Atlanta city for an exciting and spooky movie night. You can see “Hotel Transylvania,” “Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!” and “Hocus Pocus.” Find more events celebrating the holiday here.