Time for pumpkins and cooler weather! Check out plenty of fun ways to celebrate Halloween and other fall festivities.
For our antipodal friends in South America, Australasia and southern Africa, please refer to the opposite season for specific calendar holidays such as Easter. But also check out some fall-themed parties (unrelated to any specific holiday) that you can enjoy during this season!
If you love the old-fashioned feel of Halloween in the country, a rustic Halloween party may just be your cup of cider. Rustic Halloween evokes crispy crunchy leaves and cornstalks. It’s being inundated in the natural world. Like a harvest party, but with Halloween. It’s a Sleepy Hollow aesthetic mixed with hayrides and pumpkin patches. […]
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A Fall Equinox Party Officially Welcomes Fall Everybody loves the start of fall, especially after a long, hot summer (and especially in the American south where summer lasts half the year). Though there are several ways to commemorate fall – such as an autumn apple party or a pumpkin party, a Fall Equinox party is
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Apple: The Fruit That Welcomes Autumn Apples are such a ubiquitous fruit. They’re harvested in the fall, which is when kids go back to school and, per tradition, bring an apple for their teacher. Apple is often the first word kids hear for ‘a’ when learning the alphabet. It’s colloquially referenced as the forbidden fruit
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Adult Craft Party: An Old-School Crafts Bash to Bring Us Back September is the time when kids, teens, and college students of all ages are back to school and the academic year is officially in full swing. Anybody who’s ever gone to school can relate to that late summer/early fall nostalgia for crisp school supplies,
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Why Small Business Saturday Calls for a Party Small Business Saturday is an opportunity to support small businesses with your Christmas shopping the weekend after Thanksgiving. It’s a great (and beneficial) alternative to Black Friday’s rampant big box retail consumerism. It’s also prime opportunity for a shopping party! But this looks a little different than
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Friendsgiving: The Holiday for Friends Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means I may earn commission if you click through the link and finalize a qualifying purchase. This does not affect the price in any way. Thanksgiving is a tradition when we gather with family to feast and give thanks. But
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The Inspiration for a Día de los Muertos Party Día de los Muertos is a beautiful tradition that begins at midnight the night of October 31st and lasts through November 2nd. While we formally remember and celebrate passed loved ones during this time, a Día de los Muertos party is also a wonderful way to
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The Spirit of Vintage Halloween The first citywide Halloween celebration took place in 1921 in Anoka, Minnesota. Through the decades we’ve seen plenty of interesting iterations of this fantastic holiday. And we all have fond memories of celebrated Halloweens from our own childhood years. Those basic motion-sensor hanging ghosts that blared a hyper vibrato cry
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What Makes a Halloween Party Classic? Like many modernized holidays, Halloween has scattered origins which mostly trace back to ancient European practices. But Halloween as we know it didn’t materialize until the past couple hundred years. And only within the past century has it become relatively tame. It used to mark a raucous night of
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Why a Witch Fest, You Wonder? Witches are wonderful to celebrate any time of the year, but since they are so entrenched in Halloween culture, October is an especially fitting time to dust off your witch hat and party! You could go so many ways with this theme. You could make it a natural, woodsy
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