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🎃👻☠️All about Halloween 🎃👻☠️
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items It's time to get excited because Halloween is around the corner! Here's a list of Halloween decorations I love and a list of kid-friendly movies my family and I will be watching this year.
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(not so) Spooky decor
Halloween movie list 🎃
Costume Ideas for the Family
(not so) Spooky decor
I need all of these Halloween glasses. They are too cute and will match anything.
Charm Halloween Inlay Double Old Fashioned Glass - World Market
Perfect for the hallway for a little extra light at night. I love this.
Hanging Wall Ghost with LED Ball
The Michaels Halloween decor this year is top tier. I love everything in their new collection.
Mini Veiled Lady Bust by Ashland
These would be perfect bookends.
Assorted 8" Skeleton Block Tabletop Décor by Ashland®, ...
This print reminds me of Haunted Mansion or Anastasia. It's truly beautiful.
15.75" Ghost Ball Wall Décor by Ashland
I'm obsessed. I love candelabras. They give such an elegant but spooky vibe to the room.
16.75" Black Candle Holder by Ashland
I love multicolor lights. Makes me feel so nostalgic.
100ct LED Halloween Indoor Outdoor Miniature String Lights Orange/Purple/Black - Hyde and EEK! Boutique™
I love vintage Halloween and pumpkins, so this banner is perfect.
Vintage Halloween Wood Banner 6pcs Decor
It's fricken bats, I love Halloween
Metal Bats Wall Decor | At Home
Super cute kitchen mat to match the rest of the house.
Dancing Skeletons Kitchen Rug, 18x30 | At Home
I love that these placemats are beaded.
Round Orange and Black Trick or Treat Beaded Placemat
This is super cool. I love that the eyeball opens, closes, and moves around.
8" Animated Doorbell with Eye Halloween Decorative Prop Black - Hyde and EEK! Boutique™: Indoor Use
So cute and I know my kids would love it.
7" Light and Sound Dancing Skeletons Animation Halloween Decorative Prop Purple - Hyde and EEK! Boutique™
The frame and the artwork is so beautiful. I'd keep this up year round.
12" Framed Ghost Wall Art by Ashland
This would be so cool to hang in an entry way.
8" Black Hanging Bat by Ashland
Perfect to use as a book end.
9" Ghost Bride Tabletop Décor by Ashland
I love that its eyes glow and there are sound effects. This would be so cool for the front yard.
Home Accents Holiday 6.5 ft. Gruesome Grounds Animated LED Raven H17 25PA02394
I love the vintage inspiration with these.
Ayieyill Halloween Figurines Set of 3, Shelf Sitters with Dangling Legs for Halloween Decorations Indoor Spooky Decor
Awesome detail and great for inside or outside. I think this would look best as a wall sconce situation for some dim light in a hallway or entry way.
Bat Wall Candle Tealight Holder Candlestick Halloween Hanging Sculpture
Perfect for Halloween parties.
Halloween Decoration Witches Cauldron Serving Bowls on Rack Set of 3 Black Plastic Candy Bucket for St. Patrick’s Day Indoor Outdoor Home Kitchen Decoration
Not so spooky, but I love Lewis.
Lewis & Friends™ 50"x20" Large Lewis Paper Wall Decor - Hyde and EEK! Boutique™
This is not only super cute decoration, it's also functional.
Haunted House Lidded Bowl with Spoon
The vintage cat decorations are always my weakness.
Black Cat Salt 'n Pepper Shakers Boxed Set/2
All of these would look amazing with a black light.
27"x25" Halloween Monster Vac Form Sign Unframed Wall Art - Hyde and EEK! Boutique™
This is definitely giving 90's Halloween.
Eeboo Halloween Paper Chain - 120 Links Paper Craft - JCPenney
I'd use this year-round. I love the pattern and it's great for when company is over.
Halloween Patterned Tray - Threshold™
Halloween movie list 🎃
Family movie night is an every weekend activity in our house. During September and October, it is strictly Halloween movies. These are our top picks!
Young Victor Frankenstein is a science nerd and outsider at school and his only friend is his dog, Sparky. When Sparky passes away, Victor finds a way to bring him back, only now the neighborhood kids also want to bring their deceased pets back as we...
Frankenweenie (DVD)
The Nightmare Before Christmas is a classic that everyone loves. We make it a point to watch it every year around Halloween time.
The Nightmare Before Christmas [DVD]
While exploring her new home, Coraline discovers a secret door that takes her into another version of her life. She's excited to find another, better life until the "other mother" tries to keep her in the alternate life forever. She must work with he...
Coraline
Perfect movie to watch with the family during the spooky season. This movie is about a family who gets stuck inside a mansion and must uncover mysteries to help the ghosts trapped in the mansion to find their own way out.
The Haunted Mansion
No adults believe when three kids find out that a neighborhood house is actually a living creature that means them harm. The three kids must find a way to destroy the house before Halloween so no trick or treaters are harmed.
Monster House (DVD)
Both The Addams Family 1 and 2 are cute spin offs from the original Addams Family. This is a great option for family movie nights .
The Addams Family 2-Movie Collection (DVD)
Victor and Victoria's families have arranged their marriage. Though they like each other, Victor is nervous about the ceremony, so he goes to the forest to practice his vows. When a hand comes from the ground and drags him to the land of the dead, he...
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride [Blu-ray]
My kids absolutely love this movie. They watch it every year. 3 kids find a mummy in an abandoned house. They must return him to his final resting place before midnight on Halloween. The problem is, criminals are also trying to find the mum...
Under Wraps
All 3 of these movies are so funny and great for the whole family. There's some adult humor that I personally love.
Hotel Transylvania: 3-Movie Collection (DVD Sony Pictures)
I love all Scooby Doo, but Zombie Island is my all time favorite.
4 Kid Favorites: Scooby-Doo Summer Break (DVD)
Halloweentown is one of my top favorite Halloween movies. They make me feel like a kids again and I love being able to show my kids. I remember watching these every year when they premiered on Disney Channel.
Halloweentown 4 Movie Collection DVD Set
Am I the only one that remembers Mickey's House of Mouse? I used to love watching it on Disney Channel. They turned Mickey Mouse into, basically, a comedy club owner. So fun and I love that the whole show is just a bunch of short videos mashed togeth...
Mickey's House of Villains
Wallace and Gromit face a giant, vegetable-ravaging monster just before the town's Giant Vegetable Competition. They must uncover the mystery of the creature and save the competition.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Costume Ideas for the Family
Here's a list of costumes that I think are cool and different from what I usually see every year.
Spirit Halloween has all the costumes for Shrek. Shrek, Fionna, Lord Farquaad, and so many more. This is a hilarious group or couples costume idea.
Shrek Group Costume
Clowns are always super creepy and there's always one person terrified of clowns. If you don't want to be something cutesy, this may be a good option.
Clowns
This would be such a cute couples costume.
Corpse Bride
Okay, hear me out... A knight and a lady in waiting. Very bookish, different than other costumes.
Knight and Lady in Waiting
I love Spongebob. There's not a day where I don't quote it.
Spongebob
My kids love My Little Pony. This would be a cute idea to do with the kids. Dads, you're gonna have to be Spike.
My Little Pony
This is a really cool, dark, mysterious costume idea. I love costumes that stem from History.
Plague Doctor
The Flintstones are a classic. This would be a unique idea.
The Flintstones
The Powerpuff girls are so nostalgic and it's really cool that they're starting to come back.
The Powerpuff Girls
With the new movie that just came out, I'm sure this would be a great idea for some families. I know all the kids in my family love How To Train Your Dragon.
How to Train Your Dragon
Scooby Doo would be a great group costume idea. There's so many options, you can even go as far as dressing up as some of the villains.
Scooby-Doo