Fall Bucket List: 7 Things to Do With Your Friends Before Halloween

Between the weather changing, the classic Fall activities, everyone dressing up in costume, and the leaves putting on a whole show of their own, this time of year is incredibly unique.

There are so many activities that are completely normal right now but once the calendar turns to November 1st, they become a little odd. You know, things like running around pumpkin patches and corn mazes, walking through haunted houses, covering your house in spider webs, and showing up at strangers’ doorsteps with full expectations of receiving free candy.

Take full advantage of the season we are in now and do all the fall and Halloween activities you can. Here are 7 things to do with your friends before Halloween is over.

1. Do a Group Costume and Go to a Costume Party

Maybe it’s just me, but coming up with group costumes is possibly the funniest part of Halloween.

You get to sit around with your best friends spitting out every idea that comes to mind. Everyone is belly laughing and half the ideas are possibly the dumbest ideas you guys have ever come up with.

Then when you finally choose a group idea and decide what each of you will be, you get to start buying and creating it. You end up at the thrift store, with everyone in different sections of the store getting real creative with questionable articles of clothing. After a run to the dollar store and maybe a quick stop at the costume store too, you end up back at someone’s house. After some time has passed, with many laughs, a Halloween movie in the background, and some major creativity going on, you’ve got yourself a group costume.

Then the day comes when you all get ready together and head to that party and show off your costume.

It’s truly fun from start to finish.

2. Throw a Halloween Party

Whether it’s just a couple of your closest friends hanging out or a full party you throw, have a Halloween party this year.

Decorate the place, buy your favorite Halloween snacks, make everyone wear a costume, and have a bin of random costumes and dress-up attire ready for anyone who doesn’t come in costume (it’s a rule for me and my friends; if you don’t show up in costume, somebody gets to dress you up from the costume bin).

3. Decorate for Halloween

Your room, a basement, the inside of a house, the outside of a house, or wherever else you can manage, get together with your friends and have some fun decorating with your friends.

You can go full-out with combinations of homemade decorations and an entire Halloween store shopping spree and make it look like Halloween threw up on your house. Or you duct tape a singular fake spider to your wall. Or somewhere in the middle, whatever works for you.

4. Walk Through a Haunted House

Look up “scariest haunted house in (your area)” and go there.

Or just any haunted house you guys decide on. Just pick a night and go before Halloween is over.

5. Horror Movie Marathon

It wouldn’t be Halloween without a night spent watching horror movies with your closest friends.

Make a whole night out of it with a store run beforehand filling your cart with all your favorite Halloween snacks, having your Halloween movie marathon, and having a sleepover too.

6. Have a Pumpkin Carving Contest

If time allows, go to the pumpkin patch to pick out your pumpkin. If this is more of a spontaneous “it’s Sunday and we don’t want to do homework just yet” or “we’re having a sleepover and we’re bored,” then get the ones they sell outside of grocery stores.

Get all your pumpkin carving tools, lay down a tarp (I somehow always forget this step and always regret it when it’s time to clean up), and start carving.

Do some funky faces and figures and see who’s turns out the best.

7. “Boo” Someone

Do you remember when you were a kid and someone would boo your house? Outside of your front door, there would be a basket of treats and other fun stuff with a note saying you’ve been booed, then you would fill the basket back up again with more fun stuff and boo somebody else.

Start this up again with your friend group. Pick out a funky basket and fill it with Halloween candy, treats, and other fun stuff. Leave it at your friend’s door with a note and instructions to fill the basket up again and pass it on to someone new.