Just in case you want to make Halloween less scary this year, here is our Happy Halloween Five-List. These five simple suggestions should help make October 31st a delightful holiday rather than a frightful holiday.
- Invite the little ones in your neighborhood to join your family for a happy Halloween classic, like Peanut’s It’s a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown or Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
- Serve a unique Halloween dinner to your family—pumpkin soup using a hollowed-out pumpkin as a serving bowl. For desert, consider apple crisp or mini donuts with cider.
- Encourage the kids to choose costumes that are happy–perhaps an angel, a fairy, Goofy, or Happy the Dwarf.
- Before Halloween night, perform some simple acts of kindness. Get friends together and make colorful placemats or favors for a local nursing home or carve a cheerful pumpkin to deliver to someone who is homebound. This is a wonderful way to set an example for the kids, so encourage them to participate.
- And finally, be absolutely certain that all your jack-o-lanterns are HAPPY ones.
Meet Esmeralda: Below is our family’s favorite decorating style for pumpkins. It was made yesterday and delivered anonymously to the office of our local high school. A small pick was used to punch holes to insert her hair. One small gourd became a nose, and another cut in half made nice little ears, and her eyelashes are sections of a large pine cone.
May all your pumpkins smile back at you this Halloween!
