🦇 HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🧛
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Make the festivities extra special this year by changing things up a bit
TRICKS FOR TREATS
If you're staying home to open the door for trick-or-treaters,
make them earn their candy or stickers or novelty gifts
- Ask them what they're dressed as
- Have them do something silly
such as howl like a werewolf, cackle like a witch, or flap like a bat
- Ask them to recite a nursery rhyme or sing a simple tune
If you're the one hitting the streets, take tiny pre-written thank-you notes with you to hand out to the people who give you candy. They're sure to be mighty impressed and grateful
SING SCAROLS
Instead of just walking house to house, why not sing?
Once upon a time, Peanuts comic-strip creator Charles M. Schulz came up with a delightful little book of half-a-dozen Pumpkin Carols. They're easy to learn, easy to remember, easy to belt your heart out to as you march down the street
I’M DREAMING OF THE GREAT PUMPKIN
(sung to the tune of “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas”)
I’m dreaming of the Great Pumpkin
Just like I do this time each year
When he brings nice toys
To good girls and boys
Who wait for him to appear.
I’m dreaming of the Great Pumpkin
With every pumpkin card I write;
May your Jack-o’-lanterns burn bright
When the Great Pumpkin visits you tonight!
PUMPKIN BELLS
(sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells”)
Dashing through the streets
In our costumes bright and gay,
To each house we go
Laughing all the way!
Halloween is here
Filled with lots of cheer;
What fun it is to trick-or-treat
Singin’ Pumpkin Carols each year!
Oh, Pumpkin Bells, Pumpkin Bells,
Ringing loud and clear,
Oh, what fun Great Pumpkin brings
When Halloween is here!
Oh, Pumpkin Bells, Pumpkin Bells,
ringing loud and clear,
Oh, what fun Great Pumpkin brings
When Halloween is here!
DECK THE PATCH
(sung to the tune of “Deck the Halls”)
Deck the patch with orange and black;
Fa la la la la, la la la la!
Take along your goodie sack;
Fa la la la la, la la la la!
Don we now our gay apparel;
Fa la la la la, la la la la!
Troll the ancient Pumpkin Carol;
Fa la la la la, la la la la!
See the Great One rise before us;
Fa la la la la, la la la la!
As we sing the pumpkin chorus;
Fa la la la la, la la la la!
Follow Him as lo, He ascend!
Fa la la la la, la la la la!
Join with true Great Pumpkin friends;
Fa la la la la, la la la la!
THE TWELVE DAYS OF HALLOWEEN
(sung to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”)
On the twelfth day of Halloween my true love gave to me
Twelve bats a-flying,
Eleven masks a-leering,
Ten ghouls a-groaning,
Nine ghosts a-booing,
Eight monsters shrieking,
Seven pumpkins glowing,
Six goblins gobbling,
Five scarey spooks,
Four skeletons,
Three black cats,
Two trick-or-treaters,
And an owl in a dead tree.
I HEARD THE BELLS ON HALLOWEEN
(sung to the tune of “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”)
I heard the bells on Halloween,
Their old familiar carols scream
And wild and sweet
The world repeat:
The Pumpkin Season’s here again!
Then pealed the bells more loud and strong:
Great Pumpkin comes before too long!
The good will get;
The bad will fret;
The Pumpkin Season’s here again!
O’ PUMPKIN CARDS
(sung to the tune of “O’ Christmas Tree”)
O’, Pumpkin Cards, O’ Pumpkin Cards,
Carry greetings to my friends;
Let them know the day is here
When Great Pumpkin will appear;
O’, Pumpkin Cards, O’, Pumpkin Cards,
Carry greetings to my friends!
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Hope to see you again tomorrow for our Merry Season Advent{ure} Calendar