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Halloween Family Fun Week
by W.Holidays

This is a seven day countdown with recipes, crafts, and activities for the family to enjoy each day.

• Ghost stories for kids that may be read to them and that they can read to themselves.
• Age appropriate Halloween movies.
• Reference books on pumpkins, spiders, and bats.

On the Menu

• Breakfast: make oatmeal or cream of wheat, tint it orange and decorate like a jack-o'-lantern with raisins, dried fruits, and bananas.
• Lunch: Ham and cheese sandwiches cut out with pumpkin shaped cookie cutters.
• Dinner: Pumpkin Stew followed by Pumpkin Spice Cake

Family Time:

• If you have not done so already get your costumes together.
• Go and search for the best pumpkin.  Get two or three.  Pick up some of those odd looking gourds as well.  Arrange them in a basket and set out for decoration. Gourds are good for Thanksgiving too.
• Make guess about the circumference (the widest part) of the pumpkin.  Then measure it with a measuring tape.  Who was the closest?.  Graphs the results.
• Due the same thing with the weight of the pumpkin. 
• Fill in this pumpkin worksheet.
• Learn more about pumpkins.
• Make a Pumpkin Votive.  Be sure to talk about fire safety and candle safety.

On the Menu

• Breakfast: omelet and hash browns
• Lunch: meat sandwiches, chips, and fruit
• Dinner: Tomato Soup with cooked lentils and ham and a sour cream spider web and spider.
  • Whisk 1/3 cup sour cream with 2 tablespoons of milk until smooth; pour into a squeeze bottle.  To serve ladle soup into bowls, squeeze sour cream in concentric circles on top of soup in each bowl. Create web by pulling wooden pick from center of bowl to edge. Serve immediately.
  • For spider, shape refrigerator breadsticks into balls and press in pretzel sticks (4 on each side) and bake.
• Snack: leftover cake

Family Time

• Yarn Spiders
• Learn about spiders.

On the Menu

• Breakfast: eggs and toast
• Lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chips, and carrots
• Dinner: Gnarled Witches Fingers on a bed of rice, green salad, Dragons Blood
• Snack: candy corn

Family Time

• Candy Corn Magnet/Pin
• Read a ghost story

On the Menu

• Breakfast: pancakes & bacon
• Lunch: English Muffin Pizzas
• Dinner: Brains On The Half Skull, Franken-Jell-O-steins

Family Time

• Clay Pot Frankenstein
• Watch a spooky movie

On the Menu

• Breakfast: muffins and sausage
• Lunch: grilled cheese batwiches (cut out sandwiches with bat cookie cutter)
• Dinner: sauted steak, corn, green beans, and Bat Biscuits

Family Time

• Clay Pot Bat
• Learn about bats

On the Menu

• Breakfast: scrambled eggs and toast
• Lunch: ham on biscuits
• Dinner: Chicken & Pasta, Ghostly Smoothies
• Snack: Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Family Time

• Carve your pumpkins and set them outside.
• Read a ghost story.

On Halloween

On the Menu

• Breakfast: French toast sprinkled with powdered sugar over a web pattern.
• Lunch: Turkey, mayo, cheese and lettuce wraps
• Dinner: Mummy Wraps: wrap hot dogs with breadsticks leaving a small opening for eyes; bake, dot mustard on for eyes, green colored milk

Family Time

• Go trick-or-treating
• When you get home have the kids sort their goodies (classification skills).