We’ve officially entered October, which means that children in America are busy counting down to Halloween! In addition to the costumes and the candy, the most beloved Halloween tradition in America has to be the annual airing of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! And this year marks the 50th Anniversary of that beloved television special. (I know: Impossible to believe that Linus has been waiting for the Great Pumpkin for 50 years!)
So we have a special Halloween-themed giveaway this month, featuring all the charm, warmth, and delight of a Great Pumpkin night:
First, put the spice in life with adorable Linus and Snoopy salt and pepper shakers from Hallmark. Aren’t they they cutest?! I just keep them on the kitchen table between meals because they double as decor.
There’s also a really fun coloring set for the kids. My son has run off with this and is coloring up a storm with an It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown coloring set, containing 10 colored pencils and 46 illustrated cards with text and images to color.
Finally, bring all the warmth of Peanuts into your life with a “velvetsoft” Snoopy blanket from Berkshire Blanket. Measuring 55 inches by 70 inches, it is sure to keep you and the family cozy on cool fall nights. My daughter has claimed this as her own and has been sleeping with it on her bed each night. We took it to a soccer tournament last weekend and it kept the girls cozy on a windy day. SUPER soft!
Happy Halloween to you and your family!
The Giveaway
The generous folks at Peanuts are offering this prize that includes the salt and pepper shakers, coloring set, and blanket as a giveaway to one of my readers! This stuff is SO cute!
This giveaway is open to US residents only ages 18+ and will end at 11:59pm on October 20, 2016.
Good luck!
I go to a Halloween parade at my kid’s school.
Trick or treating at my moms and a parade at my son school
Our entire family dresses up and then we walk the kids through the neighborhood and visit grandparents to trick or treat. Visiting the pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins, and decorating are a must as well. Love Halloween!
We trick or treat, have pizza take out and go to the Halloween parade. Loving Halloween!
This year my son will be in his first Halloween parade! 😀
I have always taken my son trick or treating but this is the first year he is too old to do that so we haven’t decided what we are doing yet.
Halloween is a big deal at our house. We all dress up. I take my granddaughter trick or treating. I decorate the house inside and out. I also try to make Halloween themed foods. I do some sort of craft with my granddaughter as well. On a fun note, over thirty years ago, Halloween was hubby and my first date…back in junior high school!
Craving pumpkins with the kids , has always been my favorite.
I like to decorate the house for the Harvest season. We love Snoopy and friends who belong in every holiday celebration decor!
I love to pass ot the candy in costume
Love Halloween dinner, i make mummy dogs
We go to the community Halloween party each year and then come home and hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters!
We spend Halloween at our friends’ house. They go all out and decorate their entire yard .
Generally, my Halloween tradition is to dye my hair red and hand out treats while wearing some goofy outfit.
For years it was designing and making costumes for my grandson and then for my daughter and son-in-law. Now I make a costume for my dog
We usually stay home & hand out candy to the neighborhood kids!
Halloween is my favorite holiday! We always put up lots of decorations and go trick or treating in a lovely neighborhood. We just moved and are looking forward to having trick or treaters at our house for the first time!
We have the family over each year for a big pot of chili and then the kids go trick r’ treating.
We go to a church Harvest festival and trick or treating with my son!
My grandsons always go out trick or treating for Halloween. I usually go with them around the neighborhood while my husband stays home to pass out candy to the other kids in the neighborhood.
I take my kids trick or treating
Carving pumpkins, making costumes, trick or treating-good times!
We always take the kids to a few house and then we hand out candy to the rest of the kids!
We always got to a trunk or treat the night before Halloween that has a bonfire, hayrides, and all sorts of games for the kids. On Halloween night we go out trick or treating.
My kids go trick or treating and I hand out candy.
we always visit the pumpkin patch and go through a corn maze. we carve pumpkins together and go trick o treating at least once! we also always watch IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN and this year we’re making it into a bit of a party with friends invited. fall and halloween are two of our favorite things.
The kids are older now so I like handing out candy.
We like trick or treating.
We like to make our own costumes, carve a pumpkin, and either trick or treat with kids ourselves or just hand out candy for other trick or treaters.
Staying up past our bedtime watching scary movies.
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We decorate the house and watch scary movies. Since we have dogs, we don’t usually hand out candy.
We take our kids to a local Trunk or Treat every year!
We always have a huge family pumpkin carving party
We build a campfire, roast hotdogs and tell stories on Halloween. We found a family friendly haunted hayride that we have enjoyed the last couple of years too.
We like to decorate the house and hand out candy every year.
I stay home and give out treats to the little folks. They are so cute.
We have a party every year and we go camping the weekend before Halloween.
We spend the evening with our grandsons and enjoy all the trick or treaters!
Our Halloween traditions consist of pumpkin patch and carving pumpkins. And also taking the kids trick or treating.
We have the kids and grandkids over for a costume party and have a weiner roast. Something we always look forward to.
We always take our daughter trick-or-treating at a local neighborhood. It’s one of the last subdivisions around our area that still get excited about Halloween and each house competes to see who can have the best decorations.
Our tradition is pizza and trick or treating.
I usually go to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party every Halloween. Thanks for the giveaway. I hope that I win.
Our tradition is visiting our favorite pumpkin patch. They have a big petting zoo area and it is really well done. Thank you for the wonderful giveaway
Erin
Our tradition is to go to our friends house! We have dinner and the kids get ready together. We have been doing this for the past 10 years!
My tradition is passing out candy to over 350 trick or treaters on Halloween night in a tourist town.
We don’t trick or treat anymore – we usually just buy some goodies and sit at home watching scary movies.
Love to watch It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown while handing out candy.
I take my son trick or treating. We’ll likely start carving pumpkins once he is a bit older.
Watching scary movies with my family on Halloween night.
I like carving the pumpkins and taking the kids trick or treating. My son right now wants to be a super hero.
My family decorates, trick or treats and watches halloween tv shows.
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We are just starting to create our traditions since my daughter was a bit too little to go last year but we do watch Hocus Pocus and other kid friendly Halloween movies every year and I make a point to read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow!
handing out treats to the kids
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We like to go trick or treating and head down to the river fire here in our hometown. They do hay rides and haunted houses and have vendors set up. At dark they light the river on fire.
We host a community Halloween Party 2 weeks prior to Halloween. People from the community attend where they can participate in a raffle, carve pumpkins, enjoy hot chili and pumpkin pie, karaoke, dance to the monster mash, and enjoy candy and fun games!
We love spending Halloween in Salem, MA. So much fun! Also, scouring the neighborhood for the best decorations. Oh, and, trick-or-treating with the little ones is a must ?
we usually just trick or treat since we have toddlers 🙂
thank you! xoxox
Everyone meets at our house and we go trick or treating and then have a party afterwards
We carve pumpkins the night before and go out with friends
We trick or treat and then attend the neighborhood party.
I love to decorate the house and yard. I enjoy giving out candy to the neighborhood kids.
My girls love to decorate our house and yard for Halloween — handmade spooky characters, painted pumpkins etc
We always pick pumpkins together and carve them. We also trick or treat.
Traditions for me? Stealing candy from the kids and watching It’s A Great Pumpkin. I know, bad Mom.
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All 4 of us dress up and go trick or treating…my husband and I love dressing up as much as the kids!
Trick or Treat is our Halloween tradition.
We do trick-or-trunk with our church at the last week of October. We carve pumpkins too.
We like to go trick or treating as well as trunk or treat!