Carpe Halloween: 31 Ways to Make the Most of October 31st in the Twin Cities

Full Disclosure: I love Halloween. It’s my Super Bowl, Fashion Week, Oscar Night, and Mardi Gras all rolled into one. It’s fun, it’s weird, it’s creepy… what more could a mom of four boys ask for?

This year has the added benefit of Halloween being on a Saturday. That’s an entire day for all the usual madness and mayhem and then one to recooperate. I’m so excited it’s like the sugar high has already begun. If you too delight in Halloween night perhaps my list will add to your terrifying traditions. If you find the whole affair frightful but your kids love it, test the dark waters at one of the local events, they are sure to enchant ghouls of all ages.

1. Visit a Pumpkin Patch
2. Binge Watch Scary Movies
3. Make Your Own Costumes
4. Scare Each Other
5. Gross Sensory Play: peeled grapes=eyeballs, cold spaghetti=guts, Jello=brains
6. Attend a Local Trunk or Treat event
7. ZooBoo, Como Zoo 4:30-7:30 pm, October 17-18 & October 24-25
8. Carve or Decorate a Pumpkin
9. MOA Monster Bash, Fridays and Saturdays 5-10 pm starting October 16
10. Craft a Trick or Treat Bag
11. Goblin Hunt, The Works, 9-12 am, October 19-31
12. Turn Your Yard Into a Graveyard
13. Put Up Door Monsters
14. Hallzooween, MN Zoo October 24-25 & 30-31
15. Make Ghoulish Goodies
16. Make a Cardboard Coffin
17. Halloween at the Art Park, Caponi Art Park, 1-4 pm, October 24
18. Roast Pumpkin Seeds
19. Ghouls & Giggles, Landscape Arboretum, 3-6 pm, October 24
20. “Boo” Someone In Your Neighborhood
21. Mix a Scary Soundtrack
22. Ghost Trolley Como-Harriet Streetcar Line 6-9, October 23 & 24
23. Tell Ghost Stories
24. Great Pumpkin Halloween Festival, Landmark Center, 1-3 pm, October 25
25. Trick or Treat for UNICEF
26. Trick-ART-Treat, MIA, 6-8 pm, October 30
27. Anoka Grand Day Parade, 1 pm, October 31
28. Stay Up Past Bedtime
29. Trick or Treat at a Mall, MOA Howl-O-Ween, Maplewood Mall, Rosedale Mall
30. Boo-ology, MN Science Museum, 12-4 pm, October 31
31. Host a Halloween Scavenger Hunt

Happy Haunting!!