Children love Halloween. Picking out costumes, carving pumpkins, eating sweets, and trick-or-treating makes Halloween a favorite children’s holiday. Projects are also a good idea at this time of year.

For example, making a scrapbook makes children’s imaginations run wild. Go to a store, pick out a scrapbook, and let the kiddies pick out the paper and materials. Back home, use a plastic theme Halloween container to hold the materials and let them go to town copying, pasting, coloring and drawing.

Some materials they might use:

1. Autumn leaves they have collected.
2. Pictures they take themselves.
3. Poetry and songs about Halloween.
4. Pictures of them and their friends doing Halloween activities that you take.
5. Pictures of ‘Halloween past’ as a memory scrapbook.
6. Pieces of Halloween cakes and flowers that are dried and saved.
7. Halloween artwork that they collect.
8. Halloween sweets they got by trick-or-treating.

The list is endless so let your imagination run wild and each year review the ‘previous’ Halloween for unsurpassed memories.

Pick a New Theme for Your Halloween Party!

How? Check your bookstore. For example, using ‘The Complete Jack the Ripper’ as a guide can turn your home into the dreary streets of Whitechapel, England in the late 19th Century. Make a display then for your window or yard, and have others dress up as the characters. The book, written by Donald Rumbelow, an investigator tied deeply into the case, can provide real insight into the happenings at the time and therefore set up a perfect scene.

You can then re-enact the scenes one by one or make up your own. Other books can also be used that are just as great to theme your Halloween. Imagination is the key!

Halloween can be romantic too! If you’re seeking something special for your partner for Halloween, here are some really good tips:
1. Buy a special gift that is not Halloween related
2. Wrap the gift in Halloween colors.
3. Get VIP tickets to any Halloween gathering you had in mind.
4. Rent a hearse for driving around town on Halloween.
5. Throw a Halloween surprise party for your partner.
6. Take a romantic getaway Halloween weekend trip.

Halloween memories are made forever using any methods above!

Halloween is a true movie buff’s holiday! Historic events on Halloween include ‘The Witch’s Dungeon’, located in Bristol, Connecticut. This museum is privately owned by Cortlandt Hull, professional makeup artist and illustrator since 1966. An old witch’s house is constructed on the property deep in the woods, and several classic American icons ‘populate’ this ‘fairy tale home.’

A dungeon exists where visitors encounter the ‘Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Dracula’, the ‘Mummy’ and other well-known movie ghouls and goblins. Replicas of the famous classical movie icons are in each nook and cranny and the replicas are created from live casts of the character’s head. Artistic painting, natural hair, and original costumes complete their ‘real life’ transformation. Voice tracks add realism using voice talents such as Vincent Price and John Agar, as well as June Foray and Mark Hamill.

Striking detail makes this a ‘must have’ Halloween visiting spot, and traveling through the dungeon brings a visitor ‘up close and personal’ with each character.