Fun Trick-Or-Treat Alternatives (NAPSA)—As a fun and safe alternative to the trick-or-treat *Hide trick-or-treat candy around the house and have kids seek it, like an Easter egg hunt. *Tell ghost stories. Dim the lights and take turns telling scary stories around a flashlight. Or entertain young party goers with a new DVD featuring stories based on R.L. Stine’s children’s books. The three new Goosebumps tales, “My Best Friend Is Invisible,” “Perfect School” and “Shocker on Shock Street,” feature familyfriendly scares and kid-friendly themes such as homework angst, & 9 pam rl scares you, however, consider winner. 2) parties held at home are a popular idea. If the thought of throwing a Halloween party for your children these frighteningly good ideas for throwing a ghoulishly great gettogether. *Decorate with fake spiderwebs andcut-outbats. *Create a mad scientist lab where blindfolded children can touch “brains” (cold spaghetti), eyeballs (peeled grapes) and severed fingers (hot dogs). Offer each child a small pumpkin and a magic markerthat he or she can use to draw a face on it. You can also supply additional craft materials for further decoration (e.g., glitter, pipe cleaners that can be used to make a mustache). *Play a seasonal guessing game. Fill a jar with candy corn and have guests guess how many are in thejar. Play Who’s Got the Pumpkin? Place everyone in a circle. Start a Halloween-themed song and toss a minipumpkin to one person. The pumpkin gets passed on until the music stops. The person whois holding the pumpkin has to leave the circle. The last one left is the Seepage 2) |] traditions of Halloween, theme < gow TACK AE oep Me aes AG) lak xa [== offs ~ & ‘J ae Ve ( _ | we 2fS AN If you want to spook up some fun this Halloween, considertelling ghosttales or watching a DVD with spine-tingling stories. best friends and suburbanlife. In “My Best Friend Is Invisible,” Sam Jacobs has been talked into doing his term paper on Hedge House, the spookiest, most terrifying house in town. When he leaves the haunted house to head home, he suddenly realizes he is not alone. In “The Perfect School,” Brian O’Connoris not a perfect child, but is that any reason to send him away to boarding school? Brian’s parents send him to the “Perfect School,” where the students that graduate really are perfect— maybea little too perfect.... In “Shocker on Shock Street,” Erin Wright and her friend Marty love the Shocker on Shock Street horror movies and all the gruesomelifelike movie monsters that Erin’s dad creates for the Shocker Movie Studios. But when the girls ride the new Shocker Studios Tour Ride, the movie creatures becomea little too lifelike. Whenit’s time to go home, give each child a goody bag containing a Polaroid of themselves in costume. For more information, visit www.foxhome.com.
