Preparing for a Fun & Stress-Free Halloween with Kids

We’ve started preparing for Halloween, with four children it’s important and a whole lot more fun to start planning early, and I’m excited to share a few ways to help you prepare for a fun and stress-free Halloween with kids that is brought to you by our friends at Home Run Inn Pizza.

Preparing for a Fun & Stress-Free Halloween with Kids

Here are a few ways you can start preparing for a fun and stress-free Halloween with kids.

Start talking about Halloween

It helps me to accept that the year is moving by at warp speed, and it’s already October if I start talking about Halloween to the kids and my husband.  Once I can accept that it’s almost Halloween I can start planning if I don’t plan things are just too crazy, and I can’t do the whole last minute thing.

Talk to your kid’s bout costumes

I always bring up costumes to my kids at the beginning of the month because I know they are going to change their mind 621 times, and they’re going to need to talk to friends at school, and figure out exactly what they want to be for Halloween.  Understandably, the older they get the harder, it is to choose what you wish to be for Halloween.  Allowing them time gives you a little time to relax while they worry about what they want to be Halloween.  Don’t worry, once they decide things will fall back into your lap, so enjoy the time.

Figure out what you’re going to hand out to kids trick-or-treating, buy it early, and hide it!  

I say this because it’s important.  If you do not buy candy early, you risk not having enough candy to hand out.  You’ll also want to hide it from the kids, and yourself so you don’t eat an enormous bag of candy lol.  Last year I went with fun little Halloween toys because kids get too much candy from other people.  Yes, I decided to be the crazy lady handing out pencils, stickers, and things like that.  If you choose to do something like this be sure to shop early, they run out of the good stuff quickly.

Start decorating

We start decorating slowly.  Right now we have out our two light up pumpkins, and every day we put a little something out.  Whether it’s something on the widow’s, or a cute sign to remind us Halloween is on the way, it makes preparing for the holiday more fun for all of us.  It might also be wise to pick a day for pumpkin carving.  You’ll want to make it closer to Halloween, so your pumpkin doesn’t rot while you wait for the holiday to arrive.

Plan some fun activities

Whether you head to the pumpkin patch to grab some pumpkins, visit a haunted house, or my personal favorite the corn maze planning some fun fall/Halloween activities helps get everyone in the mood for the upcoming night of trick-or-treating.

Have a good time making food for Halloween with the kids

Seriously, there are so many ways you can make food more fun, especially for Halloween.  When you get the kids involved things not only end up tasting a whole lot better, they end up a whole lot more creative.

I love to bake Halloween treats, but I also enjoy letting my kids enjoy making family movie night a little more Halloween-friendly by choosing a fun Halloweenish flick and turning our Home Run Inn Pizza into a fun spooky-licious treat!

I tossed our Ultra Thin Chicago’s Best Home Run Inn pizza into the oven, and let the kids have a little fun after it was finished cooking and cooled enough for them to touch.  Check out what my kids did with the Home Run Inn Pizza I made for them on our spooky family movie night!

Bones using cookie cutters:

It all started out with Mattie wanting to use the Halloween cookie cutters!  After I had baked the delicious pizza, the girls and I started cutting some bones out of the pizza.  Which was fun, but once Mattie discovered we had a larger skull cookie cutter it wasn’t enough.  Yes, things went from awesome, to spooktacular in a matter of seconds.

Fun Halloween Skull & Bones Pizza Dude:

I don’t know about you, but I LOVE this guy.  He is so cute, and since he is made of Home Run Inn Pizza, he is Chicago’s #1 selling frozen pizza, which I couldn’t agree with more.  Home Run Inn Pizza is my husband and sons FAVORITE PIZZA EVER and one of my favorite things is that there is no preservatives, no nitrates or nitrites, and it is all natural!

A little added fun is always okay too:

Vayda and I LOVE black olives on our pizza, and she has wanted to make black olive spiders to put on our pizza for a while.  Since we had some black olives, I helped her cut them and get them all laid out on the pizza, and it turned out AWESOME!  I seriously think this is the coolest idea

Plus, the mozzarella cheese is shredded daily and not produced with dry powder milk or yucky fillers, the Italian sausage is all-natural, homemade, prepared daily and even spiced with the unique family recipes, and unlike many other competitors their pepperoni and bacon do not include fillers and nitrates, both are all natural!

If you have not tried Home Run Inn pizza I highly suggest doing so because it’s AWESOME!  Home Run Inn is Chicago’s Authentic Thin Crust and you can currently visit 8 pizzerias and grab frozen pizza in more than 35 states!  Oh, and I loved learning that Home Run Inn has been family owned and operated since 1947 and you can learn more by visiting .

What are things you do to ensure your Halloween is as stress-free and fun for you and the kids as possible?

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Home Run Inn Pizza