Halloween might look a bit different this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun! Here are some activities you can do in the comfort of your own home:
- Have a virtual Halloween Costume Contest over Zoom. You can set a theme like Disney, Monsters or Inanimate Objects. Each person gets to vote for the funniest costume, most creative, the scariest and even best pet costumes! Don’t forget to make your Zoom background spooky!
- Halloween Movie Lucky Dip. Write down your favourite Halloween movies, put them in a hat and pick one out at random. Enjoy your movie with some homemade sweets and treats (see below). Here are some Halloween Movies you might enjoy:
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Young Frankenstein
- Friday the 13th
- Nightmare on Elm Street
- Ghostbusters
- Beetlejuice
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Halloween
- The Exorcist
- The Ring
- The Sixth Sense
- Insidious
- Cloverfield
- Poltergeist
- Clue
- The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror specials
- It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown·
- Hocus Pocus
3. Make some homemade spooky snack. Here are some recipes our young people have suggested:
- Toffee Apples https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/homemade-toffee-apples
- Halloween Cookies https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/scary_halloween_cookies_86970
- Chocolate cobweb cake https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chocolate_marshmallow_51574
- Loaded veggie fries https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/dirty_veggie_fries_08935
4. Go on an eery virtual tour. We have collected some 360o views of some creepy places around the world:
- Chernobyl Virtual Tour on Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4079501,30.055618,2a,60.4y,12.51h,85.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srsTwflJItdINZKFWg24SaQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
- https://www.google.com/maps/@51.406428,30.0577226,0a,60.4y,287.69h,86.13t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sDGMaulcy66rgLOE3bEKOXw!2e0?source=apiv3
- Catacombes virtual tour https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/visite-virtuelle/
- Island of the Dolls https://www.google.com/maps/@19.2727969,-99.0879907,2a,37.5y,309.17h,93.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAJnSjTssk_eWazP3hYqSNw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
- Bodie State Historic Park (abandoned mining town) https://www.google.com/maps/@38.2119126,-119.01251,2a,75y,299.21h,85.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOFJNfY1x5Qa5rQ1NM05NAw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
- Bran Castle (home of Dracula) https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5150902,25.3670174,2a,75y,222.69h,77.79t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZh5SCPhpknYAAAQfCY59Fg!2e0!3e2!7i13312!8i6656
4. Scary Story Writing. With your family or friends over Zoom, go around and take turns telling a short part of a scary story. You will probably end up with a very funny story at the end of it. You might want to kick off the story telling with one of these:
- It was a dark and stormy night…
- The house stood empty for as long as anybody could remember…
- It all started when he died…
- I was sure I was alone, until…
- I couldn’t shake the feeling that someone, or something, was watching me…
- A scream rang out through the silence…
- They came from the sea…
- Murder is never a pleasant affair, but this one was especially foul…