Step 1
Decorate your house for Halloween.
You should put up your Halloween decorations during the first week of October. This will give your family the entire month of October to get into the Halloween spirit.
Get your kids involved when decorating the house for Halloween. You can take your kids with you to a Halloween store and let them pick out a decorative item. Bring the items home and let your children choose where they will place the Halloween decoration that they've chosen.
Step 2
Take your kids to a pumpkin patch.
Pumpkin patches usually open during the first days of October.
Most pumpkin patches have entertainment, snacks, drinks and food. Pumpkin patches sometimes offer hay rides and other fun games for kids.
Your children can pick-out their own pumpkins at the pumpkin patch and bring them home to use later.
Step 3
Help your children carve their pumpkins.
A pumpkin carved with a scary face on it, is called a Jack-o-Lantern. You can carve almost anything into a pumpkin, such as a goofy face, names and words or even an image.
Place the carved pumpkins in your front yard and add a small candle inside of each pumpkin. You can light-up the candles at night, throughout the month of October.
The candles should definitely be lit on Halloween night.
Be very careful and always supervise your children while they are carving the pumpkins.
Take special care when lighting the candles inside of the pumpkins, to prevent anything from catching on fire.
After you've finished carving the pumpkins, you may want to roast then lightly salt the pumpkin seeds for your children to eat.
Step 4
Make Halloween themed foods for your children throughout the month of October.
It doesn't take more than a cupcake with orange icing and a black-plastic spider- ring on it, to make your kids get into the Halloween spirit.
Step 5
Watch Halloween movies and TV shows with your kids.
Spooky movies will get every one of your family members into the spirit of Halloween. You can easily find Halloween themed cartoons, movies and TV shows for younger children and you can even find horror movies that you can watch with older kids and teenagers.