Every October, children get excited and prepare themselves for Halloween! Kids wait all year long to dress up in their spooky costumes, craft pumpkins, trick-or-treat with neighbors, torture their parents with their sugar rushes, host a glow-in-the-dark party, and read spooky books. 

On Halloween, parents need to provide opportunities for children to express themselves and have fun. Back in your day, you must have celebrated Halloween by having spooky costume parties and playing spooky games. Remember how much fun it was? Now, it’s your turn to reignite your nostalgia and that feeling in your child.

Here are some tips to prepare your children for a Halloween extravaganza:

1. Become a Pro at Trick-or-Treat

Trick or Treating can be scary for some kids. Encourage your kid to practice Trick or Treat at home with a friend or neighbor before they go knocking on doors. Ask them to be polite and never be greedy when asking for candies. 

2. Carve the Pumpkins

Pumpkins truly epitomize Halloween. Halloween without pumpkins is like Christmas without Santa. Kids love playing with pumpkins. Make the event memorable for the kids by carving out pumpkins and setting them up to give the perfect spooky vibes. 

3. Create Fun Costumes

Kids love to dress up in their favorite spooky costumes on Halloween. Be creative in creating a costume for your child. Make sure it goes by the theme.

4. Stack Up Candies and Treats

Ensure to pick up candies and treats before Halloween. Every kid loves yummy treats to savor on holiday. So, give them that!

5. Gift Them a Scary Halloween Read

Whether your kid loves to trick-or-treat neighbors or dresses up as a Jack-O-Lantern, your kids will also love to read our spooky Halloween books. Halloween is a time where childrens imaginations run wild, but so will reading taking them on a rollercoaster of thrill and excitement.

This Halloween, we share a list of our spooktacular selection of scary (but not too scary) books for children of all ages. Check out our book roundup of spooky stories here:

Crystal Palace

What would you do if you could meet Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Robert Koch, Rudolf Diesel, and Joseph Tyrrell? Well, hop on this adventure with young Charlie Richter to Crystal Palace to explore more.

Luffle McScruffle

Appearances can be deceitful, and if you're afraid of the dark, things can get ten times worse. This is the story of a little monster Luffle McScruffle and a boy named Rylan who is scared of the dark. Little did he know that the little monster will be a  friend in disguise and not a foe.

The Town of Halloween

This book is perfect to get the little ones get to experience the eerie, spooky Town of Halloween. Wait! There is more. They'll also get to trick or treat with ghosts and skeletons and have an adventure in The Town of Halloween.

Halloween Night

We all get super excited to decorate our houses and starting planning our terrifying outfits for Halloween. But have you ever wondered what goblins and ghosts do to prepare for Halloween Night? Want to know what they do? Well, read this book to find out.

The Monster Under My Bed

Could there be a monster living under your bed, or is it something that you make up in your head? If you want to discover and learn about the monster living under the bed, then get a copy of this book.

A Hairy, Not-So-Scary Place

Halloween doesn’t have to aways be terrifying. A Hairy, Not-so-Scary Place is a fun and whimsical story about a dark and curious place that kids may find funny. Could this hairy, scary place be on your face? Well, let's figure it out...

Detective Roxy

When the little detective Roxy Roberts gets stuck at home on a rainy day, she thinks it's going to be a boring day until her brother, Liam, hears an animal in the house. From there, an adventure unfolds to discover who or what is growling in their home. What could it be?

The Panther and the Magic Swan

Who doesn't like their wishes coming true? This amazing and a bit spooky story of a Magic Swan who can grant wishes teaches little ones a moral lesson that greed is never good.

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