Halloween Activity and Recipe Ideas

There's still time to plan a little Halloween fun for your family if you haven't already! I hit the 'net and Pinned a bunch of fun Halloween Activity and Recipe Ideas to share with you today. It's a real Pinfest of games, printables, crafts, recipes, and more! Enjoy, and please be sure to Pin these awesome ideas from their original sources (listed below each photo). Happy Halloween!

Parents.com had a great line-up of easy crafts:

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Does your preschool or church do "trunk or treating"?

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Pumpkin Carving Tips:

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Pass treats out at school or work!

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Dinner before trick or treating?

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Send a little treat in for the teachers!

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Kids' Craft Ideas from Martha Stewart:

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Puffy Candy Corn Craft:

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Printable Halloween Games:

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Activities and Games from Family Fun:

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Printable Coloring Pages and Reading Activities:

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Awesome Halloween Recipe Round-Up!

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Halloween Treat Recipes from Better Homes and Gardens:

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Halloween Crafts and Activities:

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Adorable Pumpkin Bean Bag Toss:

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55 Kids' Craft Ideas from Country Living:

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31 Days of Halloween fun from Disney Family:

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Halloween Treat and Party Favor Ideas:

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Lots of fun, huh? What are your favorite Halloween activities and recipes?

*I'm sharing an easy weeknight dinner recipe at Imparting Grace today. Please pop over and say "hi" to Richella!

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If you're here to link up to Weekend Bloggy Reading, it's open for new links until 10 pm (ET) tonight. Please share your best post of the week with us...crafts, recipes, home decor, book reviews--all kinds of posts are welcome.

On Saturdays and Sundays, I like to share fabulous projects from the link party with my readers. I add many of these Features to my Pinterest page as well as Facebook, so be sure to link back in your post!

Here are a few links from Weekend Bloggy Reading that caught my eye.

~Autumn House Tour via Imparting Grace

~DIY Glitter Flats via Michaela Noelle Designs

~"Grown Up" Caramel Apple Cider Recipe via The Pink Flour

Highlighted Weekend Links--Share Your Best Post!

Happy Saturday! Please pop in to link up YOUR best post of the week at my Weekend Bloggy Reading link party. More Features on the way tomorrow!

All kinds of posts are welcome here: We have recipes, party ideas, room makeovers, crafts, tips and tricks, home decor, fashion advice, and more! The code for the button is near the end of this post, or you can add a text link back to me within your post.

Keep reading to see just a few of the posts that caught my eye so far.

~Master Bedroom Reveal via Southern Chic Love

~Painted Acorns via Just Grand

~Pumpkin Coffee Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze via Life in My Empty Nest

::Weekend Bloggy Reading:: Link Up!

Welcome to my Weekend Bloggy Reading link party. This is the day of the week where bloggers stop by to link up their best post of the week, and readers get to browse tons of fun project ideas. If you're new here, don't forget to "Follow" or subscribe so you don't miss future parties and projects! Please be sure to read my guidelines before you add a link.

This party is a great place to showcase your very best post of the week (home decor, crafts, party ideas, recipes, DIY, etc.) and to see what else is out there.

Here are a few of my faves I spotted around the web this week:

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~DIY Brooch to Necklace via Dans le Townhouse

~Iron and Rope Mirror via Storefront Life

~Pottery Barn Inspired Storage Lockers via Chalkboard Blue

~Halloween Bouquet via Saved by Love Creations

~And Me? This week featured:

•  Chocolate and Butterscotch Chip Pumpkin Bread
• Gallery Wall Inspiration and Ideas
• Scenes from the Pumpkin Patch
• The IKEA House

Time to link up your best post of the week!

The IKEA House

If you follow me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, you may have seen the news that apparently IKEA came and painted a house up the street from us:

Not only did the homeowner choose a seizure-inducing shade of yellow for his base, but he decided to accent the hideousness with BOLD! BLUE! To add insult to injury, he added a "Lego Block" trim to all the windows and doors. While these colors are great choices for a company logo, they don't translate particularly well to house paint colors.

I was, for a short time, hopeful that maybe the guy was experimenting with drugs and that when he came down from his trip he might see the error of his ways and go back to nice, plain white. No such luck. Not only did he complete the paint job, he left it up.

I find this permanent memorial to bad design unsettling. I feel particularly awful for the owners of the house next door, who just recently renovated their home and finished it out with new landscaping and tasteful gray siding.

I've never wished for an HOA more than when I saw this poor house being slaughtered by poor paint choice. Technically, this home is in a different neighborhood that borders ours...but it still offends my eyes when I drive by. I'm shocked there haven't been any accidents yet from rubbernecking.

Are there any eyesores in your neighborhood?

Scenes from the Pumpkin Patch

My girls look forward to our pumpkin patch time every Fall. We have several great pumpkin patches in our area, but our favorite has free admission on the weekdays...making it the perfect spot for pumpkin picking. Michaela Byrd and I visited one morning earlier this month with our MOPS group. We had so much fun we went back over the weekend with Natalie, my mom, and my sis and niece, who were visiting. While Michaela Byrd was convinced we'd see The Great Pumpkin (too much Charlie Brown, perhaps?), we did see loads of pumpkins, fun farm stuff, animals, and some great Fall vignettes. Here are some Scenes from the Pumpkin Patch.

I just love the sight of lumpy Fall gourds, mounds of corn, fresh apples, and bright orange pumpkins.

The animals are always a big draw for pumpkin patch visitors:

It's not a trip to the farm without a hayride and a look at the scenery!

And the grand finale, the choosing of the pumpkins...

Some people go for the "cleanest" pumpkin they can find:

Others hunt for the absolute largest thing they can possibly carry and then hand it off to their mom to lug to the car:

We certainly had our fill of Fall fun over those two trips!

What's your favorite Fall activity?

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