Halloween this year is definitely different for most of us, but I tried to have a fun day at home for my daughter.
To begin with, last night me and my daughter made dirt brownies with gummy bugs and Oreo cookie crumbles. She helped from start to finish, and she loved decorating the brownies with the bugs and Oreos.
This morning for breakfast I made eggs, baked beans, and toast, which is one of my daughter’s favorite breakfasts. After breakfast, we did a candy hunt since we would not be going trick or treating. I hid candy around our living room, and my daughter would find them. We played for several rounds, and afterwards we painted a white pumpkin. My daughter painted an apple, broccoli, coins, the sun, and things like that. She wanted me to paint with her, so I painted an apple tree and cat.
After painting the pumpkin, we made plans for an easy lunch because I already cooked breakfast and I would be cooking dinner as well, so we decided on takeout sushi. When I celebrated my birthday in September, we had sushi, and my daughter loved it, so I knew she would like sushi for lunch. I got my favorite vegetarian rolls with tofu, avocado, cucumber, and seaweed salad and my daughter had salmon and avocado nigiri and we shared avocado rolls.
After lunch, we carved the big pumpkin. My daughter helped clean the inside of the pumpkin, and I carved it. I always let my daughter pick the design, and for this Halloween, she chose a bat. Two Halloweens ago she chose Peppa Pig, but this year she wanted something Halloween. I did not have a stencil nor an actual pumpkin carving kit, but I think the bat turned out cute, and it looked great light up with candles.
After I had carved the pumpkin, I cleaned up the living room of pumpkin bits, and afterwards I did my makeup and we changed into our costumes. I wore my orange pumpkin sweater and my skirt with bats, so I did an orange makeup look. Earlier this month I also did a Dark Alice Makeup Look if you would like to check it out. My daughter wore her witch costume and carried around a cat.
My daughter was getting hungry, so I made jack-o’-lantern faces on a red and yellow pepper and filled them with red pepper and cucumber slices and served them with a ranch dip and hummus, which she loved. After eating the snacks, I worked on making dinner and she played the candy hunt again. She also played Animal Crossing New Horizons for a bit because they have a Halloween event in the game. For dinner, I made pumpkin soup, garlic bread, bacon-wrapped asparagus, and since I was not sure if my daughter would like the soup, I made hot dogs as well. Now my daughter is asleep, and I am finishing up this post. I will also play ACNH for a bit and finish watching Spirited Away on Netflix.
What did you do for Halloween?
Looks like both you and your daughter had an amazing time! Great pictures, and the food looks delicious! Surprisingly I didn’t do much this year, as I already did a lot when I was counting down on my blog for Halloween lol. As anime month is starting in November I’m watching some anime, and have also read a bit. All in all a bit of a different but altogether still fun Halloween!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and of course happy Halloween! 🎃
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Thank you! We had a great Halloween & the food was yummy!
Yes you did a lot with your countdown haha, but watching anime & reading sounds fun!
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The sushi you made looks delicious! Our sushi never turns out that nice. I also played ACNH today – if you would like my friend code let me know and I can share it with you in the comments!
This year, we are going to have dinner at IKEA for a change of scenery. No pumpkins this year, sadly but I do enjoy carving them.
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The sushi was actually takeout haha but the sushi I make doesn’t look that good either
It would be nice to have your friend code!
I hope you had a nice dinner at Ikea!
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Looks super fun ! I need to chop up my sugar pumpkins for pies soon .
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It was! Ooo that sounds yummy!
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It sounds like you had a lovely Halloween 🙂 It’s amazing seeing how happy the kids gets with everything. Pumpkin painting is one of my favourites when it comes to the activities, looks like you’ve had a lot of fun, and that sushi sounds delicious!
Jordanne || Thelifeofaglasgowgirl.co.uk
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It was a fun Halloween! Yes my daughter loved painting the pumpkin & she said it was her favorite thing we did haha
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Sounds like you had such a lovely day together! Honestly, your homemade sushi looks AMAZING!
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It was nice! It was takeout sushi haha
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Aww, you and your daughter really spent some quality time together this Halloween! Over here, we don’t celebrate Halloween, so my Saturday went along quite uneventfully with group project meetings and schoolwork. Thanks for sharing about your day with us! 🙂
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Yes we had a great day together!
It sounds like you had a busy Saturday, but I hope you had some time to relax!
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Sounds like a wonderful day! We stayed at home too. A friend came for dinner and my belated birthday party. We ordered pizzas and watched scary films. It was fun xxx
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It was a great day!
That sounds lovely! Pizza & scary movies is a great combo haha
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It sounds like you had an amazing Halloween and did so many lovely activities. Sometimes its good to do something different, which I think this year has shown us, if not by choice.
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We did have a great Halloween & I agree!
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What an absolutely lovely Hallowe’en – so much fun stuff and some absolutely delicious looking food – and quality time with your daughter, it looks perfect 🙂 x
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It was a fun day & it was great spending time together!
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Looks like you had a lot of fun! Crafting is always great fun for any age. Thank you for sharing.
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We did have a lot of fun!
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The sushi looks absolutely delicious, wow! Great bunch of activities, looks like fun 🙂
Anika | chaptersofmay.com
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The sushi was delicious & we had lots of fun!
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I’m glad you had fun for halloween! it sucks that no one could really go trick or treating or anything but it’s good that she still got to hunt for candy anyway! And the bat turned out so cute, it kinda looks a bit like toothless with its big eyes.
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Yes hopefully by next Halloween things will be better & they’ll have events for kids!
Aw thank you haha
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That sounds like the perfect halloween! And how fun and festive are those dirt brownies?!
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It was a great Halloween & yes!
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Spookingly amazing and looks like you had a great time! Some wonderful ideas!
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Thanks & it was a good Halloween!
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What a lovely day! You really fit a lot in.
I spent the day cleaning and washing after being on holiday, but I also baked lots of Halloween treats as my Bridesmaid and Maid of honor came over to celebrate what should have been my Hen weekend.
We had such a lovely time and I really enjoyed baking with my partner, something we never do x x
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It was nice!
That’s lovely you baked treats with your partner & had your bridesmaid & maid of honor come over!
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Ah it looks like you both had a lovely Halloween. I love how crafty and hands on your activities are!
Rosie
loverosiee.co.uk
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We had a wonderful Halloween!
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I’m honestly pretty envious of your Halloween. It sounds like it was so much fun! I had these big plans to carve pumpkins with my husband and make “bloody” cocktails – but I ended up with a chronic illness flare-up and spent the day in bed instead. I watched the two Twitches movies alone and then watched Hocus Pocus with my husband in the evening and that was the extent of my day haha.
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It was a fun Halloween, but I’m sorry to hear that. It was nice that you got to watch a few movies & Hocus Pocus is a classic!
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Aw! Your Halloween looked perfect! I would’ve done the same things as a mom! My husband and I made pizzas and watch some movies 🙂 Lovely reading this!
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It was a great Halloween!
It sounds like you had a nice Halloween with your husband 😊
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