Halloween Tips for Preschool Moms

Is anyone else looking for fun ways to celebrate Halloween with your preschooler? I love to bring fun to our holiday traditions, but it’s hard when you have a complicated holiday like Halloween. Whether you dress up or not, eat candy or ban it or put pumpkins on your porch or not, there are easy ways to use Halloween and October for moms to make fun memories kids.

Growing up, we always dressed and went to our church’s fall festival. We didn’t really trick-or-treat door-to-door much beyond a few friends. And as a kid, I loved having tons of candy around. But, as a mom, I keep thinking how can we celebrate this fun holiday without all the candy coming into our house???

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Preschool Halloween Tips

Make it about Fall. – I’ve loved hitting the pumpkin patches the last couple of weeks. Halloween and scary things don’t have to be the only thing. Halloween season also marks the usual pumpkin patch experiences with corn mazes, apple blasters, hayrides, and deer corn digs. My kid loves these things more than the Halloween stuff too.
Let them dress up. I mean, more than any other time in your kid’s life, you probably already have 5 Halloween costumes ready at your house in a dress-up box. Let them use their imagination and have fun. This is one of the highlights of being a kid!
Get the pumpkin shirts and bones pajamas – these silly little things are easy ways to pull kids into what you are doing. These are the perfect kinds of clothes to take as a hand-me-down or buy at a consignment store. They are only worn a couple of times in any one size, so they are easy to buy cheap and then pass along to a friend.
Halloween Bath – oh goodness this is one of our favorite things. Fill the tub with a bubble bath and add glow sticks, plastic eyeballs, and spider rings. Your kid will love it. And it might just be the thing that inspires them to take a bath!
Fun Halloween dinners for several nights. – Halloween meals are one of my fun ways to bring a little variety and fun to our dinners in October. I’ll link to some of our favorite ideas below.
Host a fall party at your place. – last year we were in a new neighborhood, and not sure what the traditions were with mostly older kids in our neighborhood. So, we just invited neighbors and friends over and had them come to us. Last year, we also had a Halloween playdate on the Friday before Halloween. I invited some mom friends and their littles over. We encouraged everyone to wear their costume, painted pumpkins and did a few crafts. Then the kids played outside. The kids had corndogs and chips, and the moms had beef stew and cornbread. Just an easy excuse to get together and hang out.
Plan a Mcdonald’s lunch to get your Halloween bucket happy meals. – it doesn’t have to be complicated. I used this day as a reward for good behavior, and the bucket has added all kinds of creative fun around our house.
Make Crazy Eyeball Chocolate Chip Cookies. – A few years ago, I developed the Best Chocolate Chip Cookie You Will Ever eat, and this Monster cookie version of it is perfect for your Halloween festivities.
Make Mummy Dogs – I’m sure it will be harder as Little Man gets older, but for now, planning a fun dinner of mummy dogs, cheese dip and Creepy Eyeball cookies makes us feel festive. – I just take cheap hot dogs and cut strips of crescent rolls with a pizza cutter and wrap it around the hot dogs. Premade pizza crust works well too. Just keep it simple; the kids don’t want fancy anyway…they won’t eat it!