Every year, our family looks forward to Halloween. It’s one of those holidays that can be fun for all ages; we love everything about it! While we try to fit in as much as we can during the month of October, we have specific Halloween traditions that we never miss. From the pumpkin patch to counting their candy at the night’s end, my kids look forward to Halloween every year.
Visit a Local Pumpkin Patch
Pumpkin patches are a great opportunity to get out into your community, take some pictures, meet some neighbors and pick out the perfect pumpkin for your family. In our case, we always get one for each of our daughters. From petting zoos to hay rides, pumpkin patches should be on your to-do list every October!
Fun Fact: Not all pumpkins are orange. Some pumpkins are white. Others are red, blue, or yellow. Traditional orange pumpkins change color from green to orange for much the same reason that leaves do. The “underlying” orange color is revealed when they lose their chlorophyll. The orange color is caused by carotenoids, a healthy source of vitamin A and the same thing that makes carrots orange.
Create Spooky Treats
While it’s fun to buy giant bags of candy, there is nothing better than creating fun, spooky treats for Halloween. A must-have for our family is caramel apples. This year, we found some fun decorative fingers to add to them and give them something extra. You can also add eyeballs to take it up a notch. For our youngest, the creepier, the better.
Fun Fact: The average parent eats one-fourth of their children’s Halloween candy.
Decorate Pumpkins
Whether you carve, use stickers or paint your pumpkins, it’s so much fun allowing your kids to decorate their pumpkins. Let them use their imagination to create, and you’ll be surprised by what they can come up with.
Fun Fact: The heaviest pumpkin in the United States was grown in 2014 by a man named Beni Meier, and it weighed 2,323 pounds.
Going Trick or Treating
While my kids love everything about Halloween, the thing they look forward to the most is trick or treating. Choosing their costume is usually an ordeal, but once that’s done, they can’t wait to get out there and get as much candy as they can. At the end of the night, they dump their goodies onto the floor and separate them into four piles (one for each and one for Mom and Dad).
Fun Fact: Americans spend about $3.8 billion on Halloween candy yearly.
Making Sure Our Teeth Stay Healthy
Once all of the candy and treats are gone, it’s time to ensure we take care of our teeth. Halloween wouldn’t be the same without Halloween candy! Crest proves this point by bringing a group of school-aged children together for a focus group where they are asked to test out some new healthy alternatives for the season, and it’s hilarious. I’m sure my kids would have acted the same way. Check out the video here.
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Fun Fact: Only 48% of adults enforce a stricter teeth brushing/flossing routine on Halloween for themselves; however, 70% of parents enforce stricter teeth brushing/routines on Halloween for their children.
What are some of your favorite Halloween traditions? Comment below and let us know!
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I would LOVE to experience Halloween in the US – it seems so much fun and such a fabulous experience. it is a much minor celebration here in the UK.
A mix of fun and healthy hygiene sounds good to me!
Halloween is a big deal around here where we live. We don’t do much anymore since it is just the tow of us now and we live so far out in the country. Every year we do a weiner roast which everyone looks forward too.
These are some great traditions to partake in around Halloween, I would love to make it to a pumpkin patch one year I have to say.
Trick-or-treating is a must for the kids. We also try to visit a pumpkin patch each year to develop that sense of tradition.
I think it is fun to have traditions for the holidays. I really like a couple of these traditions. We will definitely incorporate some of them in our traditions.
Fun traditions. We go to a pumpkin patch every year, but my boys are getting older so I am afraid this might have been our last