Halloween Funology

October 31st

Halloween or, more correctly, Hallowe'en is celebrated on October 31st. This date marks the last day of the year on the ancient Celtic calendar and it's night being the time when all witches and warlocks walked abroad and engaged in wicked revelry. With the coming of Christianity, the feast was transformed into the Eve of All Hallows, or All Saints. Halloween beliefs and traditions survived well into the Christian era.

Crafts and Activities:

Absoulty Halloween: Construct a haunted house
Activity Ideas: Halloween activities
Alphabet Soup: The tweleve days of Halloween
Bonegarden: Virtual haunted house
Booville: Cast a spell
Bry-Back Manor: Haunted maze
Bry-Back Manor: Pumpkin concentration game
Care2: Trivia
Crafts fork Kids: Bat necklace
Crafts for Kids: Halloween activities
Crafty Vision Newsletter: Craft ideas
CTW Family Workshop: Candycorn napkins
CTW Family Workshop: Scarecrow candy jar
Digital Dementia: Digital 8 Ball
Dody's Halloween Page: Word scrambler puzzle
Family Education: Creepy pinball download
Family Education: Party games
Family Fun Magazine: Ring around the pumpkin
Family Fun Magazine: Spider pops
Free Kids Crafts: Craft site links
Gamekids: Games and activities for parties
Games Park: Halloween chess
Goosebumps: Scary Story Winners: Ghost stories
Halloween: Games
Halloween: Jokes and riddles
Halloween Magazine: The Halloween safety game
Halloween Playground: Build a Halloween monster
Halloween Tales: Story starters
Halloween Tricks and Treats: Freaky fun
Halloween Skeleton Ping Pong: Easy virtual game
Haunted America: Find a haunted house in your neighborhood
Haunted Carnival: A shockwave game
Haunted Halloween Castle: Coloring pages
Home Arts: Party Planner
Home Arts: Trick or treat jug
Home School Zone: Pumpkin patch craft
HP Printsville: Printable masks and crafts
It's the Great Shockwave, Charlie Brown: Carve your own cyber pumpkin
Jack-O-Lantern: Pumpkin carving patterns
Jigzone: Online jigsaw puzzle
Kid Crosswords: Picture crossword puzzle
Kids Exchange: 101 things to do with a pumpkin
Kids Parties: Games and party ideas for kids, families and classrooms
Kinderart: Craft ideas
Laura's Loving Care Halloween Page: Halloween songs
Making Friends: Halloween crafts
Meddybemps: Ghost walk
Not Just for Kids!: Halloween carols
Pasedana Kids Page: Ghost stories
Plaid Online: Boo Jar
Promotions: Black cat card game
Promotions: Monster matching game
Pumpkin Nook: Pumpkin fortune cookies
Sara's Halloween Page: Halloween games for kids
Sears Portrait Studios: Halloween story creations
Skeletina: Skeleton paper doll
Spooky: Fearful facts
Spooky Fun & Haunting Games: Pick a bone
Star Tribune: X's and Oohhhhhs
Styrofoam: Halloween craft projects
Suffering is HIP: Tarot card readings
Tall Mouse: Halloween projects
The Guide Zone: Candy cats
The Haunted Mansion: Draw pumpkin faces
The Idea Box: Halloween activity index
The Macscouter: Ghost stories
The Pumpkin Farm: Carve your own virtual pumpkin
Web Holidays: Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
Woman's Day: Crafts
World Wide Web Talking Page: Virtual ouija-like game

Costumes and Haunted Houses:

Clicket: Costume ideas and resources
Crafty Visions Newsletter: Costume ideas and resources
Dean & Nancy's Halloween Haunt: How to create a haunted house
Fabric Link: Costume closet
Halloween Magazine: Costume links
Halloween Playground: Construct a haunted house
Home School Zone: Tatoo paint
Kidz Korner: Mix up your own Halloween makeup
Mark Butler: Monster list of Halloween do-it yourself projects
The Costume Page: Costume ideas and resources
The Dollar Stretcher: Inexpensive costume ideas
Woman's Day: Quick costumes

Food:

A Guide to Home and Family: Toilet Jell-O
Ain't that Cute: Halloween recipes
Betty Crocker: Haunted gingerbread house
CTW Family workshop: Cauldron beverage
Family Fun Magazine: Creepy cuisine
Family Fun Magazine: Toasted pumpkin seeds
Halloween: Witches bread
Halloween Magazine: Halloween recipe links
Hershey's: Candy critters and other spooky treats
Home and Garden Television: Say Boo with hands
Jim Speirs' Cooking Page: Gross but fun recipes
Make Stuff: Pumpkin seeds
Mindspring: Pumpkin recipes
Pillsbury: Graveyard scoop tacos
Pumpkin Circle: Free pumpkin seeds for planting
SOAR: Halloween recipes
Southern Food: Halloween recipes
Spooky: Cauldron cookery

Thought You'd Like to Know:

Bat Conservation International: All about bats
Cyberpet: Halloween safety for your pets
Family Play: Keeping kids safe on Halloween
Halloween: Safety tips
Home Arts: Candy calculator
Not Just for Kids: Halloween photo tips
Pumpkin Nook: The history of the jack-o-latern
The Herald: Guide to scary movies
The Shadowlands: An index of haunted places
UNICEF: Trick or Treat for UNICEF
Wilstar: History and traditions

Virtual Cards and Gifts:

12 All 4 You: Greeting cards
A Free Greeting Card: Greeting cards
American Greetings: Greeting cards
Bear Jests: Greeting cards
Blue Mountain: Greeting cards
Booville: Send a spell
Candy: Greeting cards
Care2: Party invitations
Electronic Postcards: Retro greeting cards
Evite: Party invitations
Goosebumps: Boo-gram greetings
Peznational Post Office: Greeting cards
Virtual Chocolate: Greeting cards
Webmania: Greeting cards

Computer Enhancements:

4YEO: Animated gifs
Background and Bars by Cynthia: Web page sets
EZskins: Charlie Brown Halloween desktop theme ssset
Fontazm: Halloween dingbats
Fonts for Freaks!: Halloween fonts
Happy Haunting: Haunted melodies
Not Just for Kids: Spooky java juke box
The Pumpkin Patch: Pumpkin clip art
ZD Net: Icon set

Additional Links:

Ben & Jerry: Additional holiday fun
Billy Bear: Additional holiday fun
Black Dog: Additional holiday fun
Childfun: Additional holiday fun
Emily's Holiday Haven: Additional holiday fun
Halloween Central: Additional holiday resources
Halloween Kids: Additional holiday fun
Kids Domain: Additional holiday fun
Sir Lnks A Lot: Additional holiday resources
There's No Page Like Home for the Holdiays: Additional holiday fun
The Party Works: Additional holiday fun
University of Illonis Extension: Pumpkins links and fun
Virtual Quincy: Additional holiday links

Verifying links is an ongoing process. Links are here today but gone tomorrow.
If you come across a link that is dead or has moved, please notify us.
All links were last verified on July 23, 2001.

Click below to visit my other Holiday Funology pages:

New Year's / Martin Luther King, Jr. Day / Chinese New Year / Groundhog Day / Valentine's Day / Mardi Gras