How to celebrate Halloween without celebrating Halloween?

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Number 1, it’s ok for your kids to miss out. The same way they may ask to go to a party in their teens and you say no and feel they may miss out, why not Halloween. I personally will treat Halloween the way I treat St Patrick’s day: don’t celebrate, not my culture, not my thing. Just a bit of perspective. But a few activities you can do is: have them evangelize the night of Halloween, do a Christian movie night, do a family Bible study etc..

I would say make sure your husband is okay with whatever you do, because there are varying levels of people not celebrating or being completely against anything like it. That said, some alternatives that some Christians who don't celebrate Halloween allow: -Fall or Harvest parties. Lots of churches put these on. -Painting rather than carving pumpkins -Hide candy around your house and have your kids find it -Have a costume party with friends, but no witches/ghosts/horror etc. costumes -Get your kids a bucket of their favorite candies and do an activity they enjoy the day everyone else is trick or treating That last one is my favorite. They don't miss out on the candy and they still get to have fun, but you're not participating in anything even remotely evil. But I also agree with Wis. Missing out is okay. If you explain to them as they grow up that we need to honor the Lord in what we do and that Halloween is not honoring to the Lord, that's a great lesson for them to learn.

Definitely check to see if your church or another in the area is holding a harvest party. The one I grew up at always did & they had cute bible games where you could earn candy. Also, if someone you know & trust is having a party or hold a party yourself are always options. We would do a movie night w/ candy & fun snacks & stick a blanket over the glass in our window & turn off the porch light so no one came knocking. Movies ranged from a festive fall kids movie (think Charlie brown & the great pumpkin) to just whatever was out that we had been wanting to watch. We got to dress up for school (Christian school) which did a harvest of books (dress up as your fav book character & bring the book in). That would make a good theme if you did hold a party or just a stipulation you could put on their costumes to even further it from Halloween

We watch passion of Christ to remember our savior and focus on him rather than the abundance of pagan traditions going on outdoors

I think what’s important is to remember the origin of Halloween and explaining that to the kids in simple terms. You’re not of this world. And it’s a highly demonic and spiritual day. I would not engage with it what so ever. I would actually pray and worship on they day instead to set the right atmosphere

@✨Wis 🇭🇹 that is true but I’m an extra mom I’ll literally celebrate national icecream day and I do dress them up in green on st.pattys just for the fun

@Fallon yes I agree and I don’t plan on doing anything that exact day I just feel like if I could do something fun then as my kids grow up they won’t ever feel like they missed out or try to convince me to let them celebrate Halloween instead they will tell their friends to do what we do and even want to carry on do it with their kids in the way way future

@Piper I think that’s fine!!