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Happy October! For my kiddos this means anxiously counting down the days until Halloween. Cade is going to be a pilot, Kai a football player and Aubrey, a flower. In our home Halloween is far from scary, more cute and gentle. To celebrate this season with them, I put together these adorable Boo Baskets filled with some festive fun. I placed them on the counter so they would find them the in the morning making for a cute breakfast surprise. If you don’t celebrate Halloween, you could easily make these “harvest baskets,” use a different basket and fill them with some equally sweet finds.

PAINTING THE PUMPKINS

I ordered the standard orange plastic pumpkins off Amazon and used my acrylic paint to paint them pretty colors. This would have been a whole lot easier if I had spray painted the pumpkins and then painted the eyes black. I didn’t have on hand any spray paint in pretty colors and was eager to get a move on this project so I opted to hand paint them, which took a solid hour given the number of coats it took. I did it while we watched tv and it wasn’t that bad. I did have a matte clear coat spray that helped seal in the paint so it wouldn’t chip off as easily. If you’d like to paint them the exact colors, I used colors by Folk Art: 442 Baby Blue, 2944 Light Flesh, and 2426 Golden Glow.

PENNANT FLAG

I created this cute pennant flag, printed it out and hot glued the flag to a stick from the yard. Add some pretty velvet ribbon and you’ve got the cutest little sign for the Boo Basket.

| Plastic Pumpkins | Spray Paint | Acrylic Paint | Paint Brush | Halloween Coloring Book | Cat Book | Stickers | Temporary Tattoos |  Finger Puppets | Wooden Pumpkins | White Halloween PJs | Black Ghost PJs | Yum Earth Candy Corn (dye-free) | Blue Velvet Ribbon | Terra Cotta Velvet Ribbon | Ric Rac Velvet Ribbon |

Fill them with some fun goodies that will make them smile and it doesn’t have to be plastic filler you just end up throwing away in two and a half days or candy that will make them go bonkers. I got the lollipops from Bonjour Fete for an upcoming Halloween party. From sweet ghost pjs to a new Halloween book, there are so many lovely, non-candy options. I particularly loved these inexpensive wooden kits at Target which then creates a fun fall craft activity for them.

I hope you’ve enjoyed these Boo Baskets, a festive Halloween idea for kids! Adorable pictures captured by Ruth Eileen Photography.