Halloween Playlist & Play

So for those of you who read Parent Club at work (we've turned off the autoplay feature for the songs). For all others interested in a little Halloween Playlist - we've put together some - Parent Club picked - not so scary theme music. Enjoy.

Découvrez la playlist Parent Club avec Calvin & The Chipmunk Rock Stars

And during your Halloween play remember:

• trick or treat with an adult
  
• trick or treat at houses that have their pumpkins out or porch lights on (if it's dark - most likely they don't want to give out treats - so don't waste your voices singing "...not too big, not too small, just the size of Montreal")
  
• Parents - look through candy before kids touch candy (look out for razor blades, opened boxes, nut stuff)
  
• Kids - trading treats with a sibling is fun (trading with your parents is even funner as they have privillege authority...as in "if I give you all my kit kats can I watch cartoons tomorrow morning?"

PARENT CLUB tip: Parents carry an empty bag whilst trick or treating. As your child's halloween bag gets full (and heavier) allow them to dump candy into your bag to carry. Specifically good in 'hoods where they give out cans of pop 'cause those get heavy!

Halloween TV

On October 31, Teletoon will be airing a 13-episode marathon of 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo airing from noon to 6 pm.

Every Thursday in October, a spooky new Scooby game will debut on teletoon.com. These Halloween-themed games include Scooby-Doo: 1000 Graveyard Dash, Scooby-Doo: Mystery Machine Street Race and Scooby-Doo: Wack a Ghost.

Halloween Activities

Halloween activities...bah humbug. Apparently, some people LIKE Halloween crafts (me not so much)...

I also don't make costumes from scratch (except for that year Thing 1 went as "mommy in the morning" - wearing a housecoat, slippers, a pony tail, glasses {lens popped out} and carried a Tim Horton's medium coffee cup). Now, I also don't buy elaborate costumes...whatever is in the dress up box is good enough in this house.

However, if you are so inclined to partake in Halloween activities - here are a few good resource sites...

• http://www.freekidscrafts.com/ has a great assortment of DIY costume ideas/crafts. Follow on twitter at @kidscrafts.
  
• HGTV Canada has free printable pumpkin carving stencils as well as ideas for quick Halloween decorations
  
• Notes from a Cookie Jar over at everythingmom.com has a good recipe for Ghoulish Halloween Brownies

Hey Parent Club - if you have a Halloween link or resource to add to this list - share it with the club in comments.

Halloween at Parent Club

Good Ghandi - could someone please congratulate me on the Halloween Decorations for Parent Club?...or my house?...anyone?...

Halloween is a parental slippery-slope. Kids love Halloween but some of those Halloween decorations are down right creepy. Walking through the 'hood - I am taking mental notes on where NOT to trick or treat this year. Like the house with the corpse hanging from the scaffolding. See, that house, nope we're not going to that house...

When Thing 2 was a toddler - on Halloween night - a grown-up man (dressed as a corpse) jumped out of a chair when we trick or treated at his house. This was the one - and only - time in my life where I yelled at a complete stranger "What are you DOING? You don't scare TODDLERS?!"

The whole "creepy factor" of Halloween is beyond me. My prince calls me overprotective - but I'm not cool with my kids getting scared (to the point they won't go to sleep, won't go into the bathroom alone, ask if zombies really exist...)

This week's Parent Club theme is keeping the creepy out of Halloween...call me overprotective...