40 Halloween Bucket List Ideas To Do This Fall

Tis the season to be spooky.

Are you ready for some Halloween fun?

The spookiest season of the year is finally here.

If you’re looking for some fun and scary activities to do this October, then this Halloween bucket list idea is your must have for this fall season.

Whether you enjoy the spooky thrills or prefer a more low-key celebration, here are 40 activities you can do starting from late September and all the way into November.

Halloween Bucket List Ideas

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1. Visit a hunted mansion
2. Decorate Halloween pumpkins
3. Go on a spooky cemetery tour
4. Roast pumpkin seeds and make pumpkin soup after carving
5. Do a pumpkin collection (200+ varieties!)
6. Carve a pumpkin or make a jack-o-lantern
7. Host a Halloween scary movie marathon night. Movie suggestions:
   • Hocus Pocus
   • It
   • Casper
   • The Nightmare Before Christmas
   • Beetlejuice
   • The Exorcist
   • The Shining
   • The Ring
   • Scream
   • Halloween
   • Carrie
   • The Conjuring

8. Attend a Halloween costume party
9. Host a best dressed Halloween costume contest
10. Create a Halloween playlist
11. Get lost in a corn maze
12. Make your own pumpkin planter
13. Visit a pumpkin patch and take tons of photos
14. Host a campfire night with friends and share scary stories
15. Do a neighbourhood Halloween light tour
16. Make a Halloween-themed charcuterie board
17. Spice up your home with some spooky Halloween decorations

18. Go on a ghost tour and learn about local hauntings and paranormal stories
19. Get creative and make your own DIY Halloween costumer
20. Go for on eerie night hike on Halloween night
21. Gather friends and do a Halloween-themed escape room challenge
22. Dress up your pet. To make it more fun, dress up in matching costumes

23. Do a one book a week reading or audiobook marathon. Book suggestions:
    • Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
    • The Shadows by Alex North
    • Joyland by Stephen King
    • The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor
    • Midnight Mass by F Paul Wilson
24. Create your own sock pumpkins

25. Visit a Halloween-themed farmers market
26. Decorate the corners of your room with spiderwebs
27. Create Halloween-themed cocktails or mocktails
28. Paint your nails with Halloween colors and designs
29. Create your own unique Halloween makeup look
30. Host a murder mystery party
31. Dress up and go trick-or-treating!
32. Bake Halloween-themed treats and snacks

33. Go on a hayride
34. Make your own Halloween craft
35. Meditate on Halloween night with lit candles
36. Go see a Halloween light show
37. Create a Halloween countdown calendar and treat yourself to a small candy or reward each day leading up to the 31st
38. Get a psychic or tarot reading done on the night of Halloween
39. Temporarily change your hair color for Halloween
40. Make your own ghost candles

Happy Halloween!

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