Emily
My favorite thing to see at Halloween is a homemade costume—not an elaborate getup produced by a seamstress mother who could have clothed all the extras in The Ten Commandments, but an outfit in which the child has obviously had some input. For example, when I was in fourth or fifth grade, I spent weeks helping color and cut out autumn leaves to be pinned on a skirt for my older sister’s self-conceived portrayal of Mother Nature. Some of my happiest Halloween memories are of foraging through the dress-up box looking for costume elements. The personal creativity of expression was part of the magic of the holiday for me.
Kristy
I love caramel apples this time of year, but I find a whole apple difficult to manage when eating. So my preferred method is to make a caramel dip that tastes much better than a store bought container and is really easy to make. Plus, it helps accomplish the delicate yet important balance of your apple to caramel ratio. Bonus! Simply mix 8 ozs of softened cream cheese with ¾ cup brown sugar, ¼ cup white sugar, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Overachievers might like to add nuts or chopped heath bars, but I prefer the pure, unadulterated caramel taste! Either way, your taste buds will thank you.
Kacy
My best Halloween memory is when I went trick or treating with my friend Rachel. It would be our last year to trick or treat. I showed up at her house and she was wearing her mother’s red button down silk shirt (and by silk I mean polyester) and a pair of red pantyhose. She was creating two horns on the top of her head with her hair and a lot of hairspray. That was her costume–the devil. She didn’t wear any pants.
Lisa
Our Halloween season, because, yes, it’s a season, begins on the first day of October and reluctantly closes on November 1st. I have more Halloween decorations than Christmas decorations, which may suggest a strong pagan influence in my home, but we all know the Christians merged with pagan rituals in this great land of ours, and the result is a glop of carved produce and spooky art, ending in a sugar-induced coma. Good times. What says Halloween more than “All I got was a rock. . .”?
Maybe “Whose that coming down the street? Are they shovels, or are they feet?”
Watching Charlie Brown’s Halloween and Ichabod Crane are big traditions our kids look forward to most around Halloween. Almost more than Owen’s vomit dance. Almost.
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