Halloween is taking on a new look this year, but that doesn’t mean the Halloween hoopla has to stop. In fact, it just means we can go wild with our imaginations and try something new! Whether you are planning a stay-at-home celebration (we can help you out with movie ideas) or you are doing something with your social bubble, the wizards of keeping children entertained, PLAYMOBIL and the Dough Parlour, have some great ideas for you! What’s even better is that these toys will keep your child interested for months to come. 🙂
Creepy Crafts
The Dough Parlour wants your kiddos to get crafty with Halloween-themed modelling dough by making some creepy creatures or maybe some gruesome ghosts! Their Halloween Gift Set features four Halloween-coloured dough tubs, including Black Licorice and Pumpkin Spice, as well as 3 cutters in the shape of a Bat, Pumpkin and a Ghost! This delightful set is packaged in a black hat box and comes wrapped in a bright orange ribbon, all set for the Halloween hoopla to begin!
Parents will be pleased to know that Dough Parlour’s premium modeling dough is made with 100% non-toxic, food-grade ingredients, however it is NOT edible. Handcrafted right here in Canada, you can purchase the Halloween Gift Set at Indigo, along with their other lovely pieces. Dough Parlour even offers up a Seasonal Sensory Box you can subscribe to!Â
Scary Stories
Halloween is all about ghosts, goblins and ghouls (and candy, we mustn’t forget the candy 🙂 ) and what child doesn’t love the idea of being spooked by a scary story or two. This year since we have to get our scares on in a less mobile way (no house-to-house trick-or-treating,) why not encourage your kiddos to use their imaginations to create their own terrifying tales at home. PLAYMOBIL’s Take Along Haunted House or the Take Along Pirate Skull Island are the perfect way to set the scene for some Halloween mayhem.
PLAYMOBIL playsets are a fun way for your child to test out any idea they come up with, whether it is scary or not. With plenty of accessories on hand in the Take Along sets, your kiddo will be able to come up with plenty of story ideas and then some. 🙂 The best part is the fun can go wherever you go! The sets fold together, with all of the figures and add-ons kept safely inside. The handy handle lets your little pumpkin carry their playset AND their candy bag too.
Spooky Scavenger Hunt
This form of Halloween hoopla is great for children of all ages. You could even set up teams and pair a smaller child with an older one. You just need to hide some small items around your house or even the backyard if you hunt in the afternoon. Everyone loves a scavenger hunt and it could even be a great social distancing event if your neighbours want to participate.
To help get you started, the Dough Parlour’s Assorted Cutters and PLAYMOBIL’s variety of single figures, like the Ghost Pirate Captain, are the perfect treats to hide. And I guarantee your kiddos will be thrilled to find them. 🙂 Stuck for some more ideas of things to hide? Check out this post for Non-Food Halloween Treats. Most items can be found at your local party store or dollar store.
The Giveaway
One lucky MapleMouseMama reader will win PLAYMOBIL’s Take Along Pirate Skull Island! To be eligible to win please complete the Rafflecopter below with your qualifying answers. This giveaway is open to Canadian residents over the age of 18. Please read our giveaway rules before entering. This giveaway will end on November 10th, 2020 at 11:59pm. Good luck!!
What are your plans shaping up to be for Halloween this year? Do you have any new ideas you would like to share?
FT&PD
Suz
**If you would like me to review your product, service, restaurant or travel destination, please send me an email at rudges2@gmail.com or tweet me at @MapleMouseMama.
we have decorated the basement in Halloween everything and I have a table set up for all our halloween chocolate and chips and apps and we will party all day and all night
We are planning on doing socially distanced trick or treating, wearing masks of course.
We will be doing an indoor haunted house and scavenger hunt for candies
We will set up a scavenger hunt with treats at home!
we will celebrate with pumpkins and have a special bag made for our GrandDaughter as its her moms year to have her..She does however have an elsa Costume.
Halloween will be watching a movie & having popcorn & chocolate!
We will wear costumes for photos and eat candy at home.
My kids really enjoy Halloween and I make their costumes with their help. Our area isn’t as high with cases and I think being outside and wearing masks they can trick or treat safely.
Dressing up and decorating. Made spiders, with chow mein noodles, melted chocolate and marshmallows! So good!
Being in a red zone we’ll walk around in costumes to see the decorations, then the kids will do a scavenger hunt in the backyard lit with candles.
the only thing I will be doing is handing out treats to kids who come to my door
We are going to my sons’ to watch my grandsons do a scavenger hunt.
It’s my grandson’s birthday on the 29th and his party is being held on the 31st, so we’re dressing up in costumes, playing frisbee golf, bobbing for apples, in the evening taking him trick-or-treating on their street.
We will be watching Halloween movies and enjoying a special dinner and treats!
We’re staying in and watching scary movies and gorging on halloween candy!
Staying home and watching Halloween movies
We will do a candy hunt!
I am having my 3 grandsons over to celebrate my birthday.
We’re trick-or-treating with masks and handing out candy with BBQ tongs (and Hallowe’en themed face masks) – it’s outdoors and in a small group, so the safest of the holidays!
This year is going to be quiet, my grandchildren are not coming over, their parents decided that it’s best that they stay home this year, but I will be going to drop off their goodies
We will be trick or treating in our townhouse complex – most of us are planning to leave out candy, for a contact-free experience. Normally we’d go with many of the neighbours, but our family will just stick together this time and go on our own. It’ll be pretty easy to distance in our complex, then we will go back in and watch a Halloween movie.
We will be watching movies and doing a Halloween scavenger hunt.
We are having a small party with the grandkids
I’m making cupcakes with my granddaughters and having a party.
I have no personal plans but I’ve been printing off Hallowe’en activities for the children I work with.
I’ll be helping to carve pumpkins at one of their homes 🙂
No big plans, but we do decorate. My husband has one of those huge dragons which, weather permitting, he set up on the porch beside the door.
I plan on taking my granddaughter and a couple of her friends to a corn maze, then we will carve pumpkins and I will have a full candy bowl for the kids to enjoy!
We plan on staying home & eating alot of chocolate.
Going to celebrate Halloween at home with family!
staying home, movies and pizza
I don’t plan on doing anything is Halloween.
I think it will be quiet here this year with just a few children out and about.
This Halloween we will be binge-watching scary movies. We have a playlist that consist of wholesome family movies early in the night and the more scary and gruesome horror movies later in the night.
Do my normal decorating and hopefully handing out treats to the little ones.
I will be handing out candy and I made special Halloween bags to my grandchildren.
We do not have many kids going door to door in our neighbourhood so probably this year there will be even less. We are going to buy a box of chocolate bars and lay them out in bags on the steps or else we will clothespin them to the hedge with a sign that says “Have a safe night and please take one per child” Hubby will watch from behind the screen door and restock if necessary.
probably quiet here, not many kids in our neighborhood so will watch scary movies
We have decorated the yard and will be dressing up in theme on Saturday as well. Then we will be handing out treats (via a socially distanced table for the kiddies to grab). We went full sized bars this year – the kids deserve an extra special treat this year.
I’ll be at my daughter’s place, celebrating Halloweenl with a small party (with my grandchildren.). No trick-or-treating this year.
Just a family gathering dressing up and hunting for candy inside!
We don’t have much planned. I’m hoping we get to see our grandson in his Halloween costume.
It will be a quiet night with family as we celebrate birthdays and maybe have a scavenger hunt in the house
We’re getting dressed up in costumes and taking pictures outside.
We live in a rural area, so it is easy to social distance the kids will go from farm to farm with us driving them Most people will have the candy out on their step.
We’re staying in and watching a movie
Not much here, maybe watch a movie.
This year, we will be playing it safe with candy, games and scary movies at home. Happy Halloween!
We plan to celebrate Halloween this year quietly watching movies and eating some tasty treats
We’re watching scary movies on TV – that’s about it really
Pizza and movie and candy at home.
We had our own little Halloween thing here, we did a scavenger hunt, a dance party, some crafts and baking. We decorated our house and just had an evening of fun. We watched some movies as well.
we had a halloween party at home, we went for a walk around the neighbourhood and looked at the decorations, we also had a pinata
We had a very quiet Halloween. No kids.
We spent Halloween at home with our kids having treats and watching movies.
We stayed home and watched a couple of scary movies.
We celebrated the entire month of October with weekly costume themes, food, movies, books and fun Halloween music. We didnt go trick or treating and we still had the best Halloween ever.
We didn’t really. We stayed in and made homemade pizza.
A movie night with a lots of candies
we did go trick or treating, however we live in a small town, and most people here know everyone or who you are, we were all safe
we live in a small town so we went trick or treating, everyone was safe, everyone knows everyone or who you are where you live type of town, it was good
I made up Halloween boxes full of mini chocolate bars to hand out to all the children.
WE didn’t celebrate this year, really! It was a quiet night at home with movies
We stayed home and watched scary movies.
We took the kids out trick or treating!
didnt do anything for it this year
We did a glow in the dark scavenger hunt and I hid candy throughout the house! My 3 kiddos enjoyed it!
We stayed in and had a movie night with lots of candy. The kids still had fun.
We stayed in this year. We had a hunt in the basement with flashlights. The kids had so much fun.
We went Trick or Treating. The Covid situation where we live is very different from most of Canada. No active cases in our town, very few in the Territory. The kids were so happy to go out. Most of the neighbours gave them handfuls of candy and several gave full size chocolate bars! Lucky kids. 🙂
we didn’t do anything for Halloween this year. We just stayed in.
We took our children to their grandparents (with masks) for a few treats and thats it!
We celebrated by handing out treats and watching some not-so-scary movies.
We ended up handing out candy, walking around the block and playing some halloween games at home.
We had a month long Halloween , each day kid got a treat . On Halloween I had a puzzle game set up and once he collected his pieces from stuff throughout the day , he got his big gift end of the night. No candy loss or Halloween spirit here at all. Still made our home costume, watched all the free lives of cool stuff from all over the World throughout the month.
I wasn’t really into Halloween this year unfortunately…but, I was definitely ready tog et into the Christmas spirit! I was playing carrols while driving the kids around trick or treating(yes, they went out and their treats are still in quaruntine)…decorations went up the next day and we will start watching holiday movies soon!
Halloween will be watching scary movies & having popcorn & candy
I just put a bowl of candy out side and then a few hours later got the empty bowl and that was it.
because there are many outbreaks in our community currently, we kept the trick or treating to a minimumk and just had a good time at home,…. pizza, movies, and spooky snacks.