My 10 yo son still loves Halloween. The farm near where we live does a "haunted field" event every year which we all go to (with the exception of last year with covid). We go pumpkin picking and make pumpkin flavored muffins. The day before Halloween he goes to his best friend's house and has a Halloween themed sleepover with her. The stay up late playing party games, watching movies and telling each other scary stories. Then they go trick or treating, this year he's going as a werewolf and she's going as zombie Elsa.

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Anonymous wrote:Apple picking
Cox farms
I make homeemade applesauce and pumpkin muffins
We dress up and trick or treat on halloween. I don't feel the need to do more than ToT

We have previously done boo at the zoo but it's not happening this year.

Oh yeah I also try to watch a halloween movie or two. We watched the new muppets halloween mansion thing.

Was the movie good?

It was ok / cute - what I expected. We are not sorry we watched it

Oh yeah - we are booing people in the neighborhood too, OP.

My kids just LOVE booing friends and neighbors in the week leading up to Halloween. We don’t do the thing where you tell recipients that they now have to boo 2 other households because a sense of obligation takes all the fun out of it. We just fill treat bags, leave them at friends’ doors, ring the doorbell and then hide. It’s actually my kids’ favorite part of Halloween.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apple picking
Cox farms
I make homeemade applesauce and pumpkin muffins
We dress up and trick or treat on halloween. I don't feel the need to do more than ToT

We have previously done boo at the zoo but it's not happening this year.

Oh yeah I also try to watch a halloween movie or two. We watched the new muppets halloween mansion thing.

Was the movie good?

Anonymous wrote:Aside from regular trick or treating of course? We usually go to a fall festival or two, go apple picking, do Hilloween and Air and Scare.

Any other suggestions for great Halloween events? My child really loves Halloween and after missing out on so much this past year, I want to help them live it up.

Is Hilloween happening this year?

So far we've gone apple picking at Homestead Farm. And taken the day off school with friends and driven out to Summers Farm Adventure for crazy-running kid time when it wasn't weekend-crowded.

Anonymous wrote:Apple picking
Cox farms
I make homeemade applesauce and pumpkin muffins
We dress up and trick or treat on halloween. I don't feel the need to do more than ToT

We have previously done boo at the zoo but it's not happening this year.

Oh yeah I also try to watch a halloween movie or two. We watched the new muppets halloween mansion thing.

Depending on your kid's age, there are some GREAT haunted forests in the DMV. Field of Screams or Markoffs are tons of fun for the early teenagers

Stay up late and go to the exorcist stairs? How old is the kid? Too young for Vodka mixed with Gatorade?

We usually do several farms and festivals, but it seems like there are less to choose from this Fall (some are still closed for Covid) and others are very crowded. There are a few trunk or treat events at the churches in our neighborhood that we usually attend, and our neighborhood association has a haunted field/woods event.

Apple picking
Cox farms
I make homeemade applesauce and pumpkin muffins
We dress up and trick or treat on halloween. I don't feel the need to do more than ToT

We have previously done boo at the zoo but it's not happening this year.

We always enjoyed doing trick or treating at one of the outdoor malls. (We went to Reston Town Center) it’s usually nice weather, in the daytime, and let’s them wear their costume more than once.

How old is your kid?

Aside from regular trick or treating of course? We usually go to a fall festival or two, go apple picking, do Hilloween and Air and Scare.

Any other suggestions for great Halloween events? My child really loves Halloween and after missing out on so much this past year, I want to help them live it up.