Halloween is almost here, in fact Halloween is on Saturday this year – thank goodness as this makes it easier for busy mom’s to have more time to prepare and have fun family activities!
Grab your digital camera and take photos of of the fun!
You can never take to many digital photos! Take pics of getting ready and all the Halloween preparations, take photos of the costume, parties, the Halloween crafts, carving the pumpkins, and even the clean up! Getting photos of the whole process is the first step to preserving you families memories and family history!
Here are some helps for a few activities ideas so you can concentrate on taking the photo memories!
Halloween Helps:
Some Food Ideas:
If you are entertaining at Halloween you will almost certainly have made a few jack-o-lanterns and have plenty of pumpkin flesh and pumpkin seed available to use in your cooking. Check this article for pumpkin seed recipes: Roasting Pumpkin Seeds a Fun Family Activity. For using the pumpkin, popular Halloween pumpkin menu items are pumpkin soup, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin cookies, and pumpkin pie. You can even cook a meal in a pumpkin – here is a link to a recipe for that and other pumpkin delights!
Don’t forget to take photos of all the cooking, and eating of these Halloween foods – then make Halloween Recipe scrapbooking books to keep the recipes for your children and also to share with family and friends too! Check out this Halloween digital scrapbooking kit – it is made for scrapping Halloween recipes, it even comes with a spooky spider recipe card embellishment! Also the papers in this kit are easy to print and put in binders – making it very easy to share your Halloween recipes with family and friends!
Some Party Ideas:
Parties are a great place to get photos for your digital scrapbooking projects. Here are some ideas to get you started for creating a spooky Halloween party at your house!
One place to start getting good party ideas is to check out our article on 8 party planning tips – see these Halloween Party Ideas!
Also you might want to check Taking Photos at Your Kid’s Halloween Party to help get the perfect photos at your party!
Here are some other quick party ideas – just throw up a few fake spider webs and spiders, dim the lights and add some jack-o-lanterns and you have a Halloween party atmosphere!
Here are some other quick Halloween party decoration ideas:
- Set up a cauldron with dry ice for smoke effect
- Leave a dummy or skeleton partially hanging out of the bathtub
- Hang scary masks in corners and dark areas
Put a head of cauliflower in a jar of water and label it brains - Hang black garbage bags on walls to make room appear darker & scarier
- Play spooky sounds or have scary movies on
You might want to have several disposable cameras around the party to see if your guest might help you take interesting photos for your Halloween scrapbooking pages1
Halloween Costume Ideas:
Getting dressed up is part of the fun of Halloween and a great photo opportunity to record the event.
If you don’t have your Halloween costume yet here are some links to help. Here is a link for costumes for the whole family! If you want easy Halloween costumes that many that have no sewing – check out these costumes!
Make sure you have digital scrapbooking kits so you can take all you Halloween photos and make digital scrapbooking pages and albums of all you family in their Halloween costumes!
Pets can join the fun!
Take photos of your pets and their Halloween adventures too!
Pets often get involved in family activities and it is fun to take photos of them and turn it into digital scrapbooking pages to add to our Halloween albums!
Take photos of pets with the family during the party.
Take photos of pets in their own costume or at the door greeting the trick-or-treaters.
Make your Halloween Digital Scrapbooking Pages and Projects to Save Your Family Memories!
As soon as you start digital scrapbooking all your Halloween family memories you will probably find you have enough digital scrapbooking pages to make a complete Halloween Digital Scrapbooking Album!
If so you can have it printed up through online companies that specialize in taking your digital scrapbooking pages and turning them into wonderful albums, cards, calendars and other great products.
Get Your Pages Printed!
Here are two companies you might want to check out to send your digital scrapbooking pages too, and get them printed into beautiful albums or other interesting gifts or products.
Get Digital Scrapbooking Supplies to Make your Halloween Digital Scrapbooking pages and projects:
Save your families Halloween memories by turning all your digital photos into digital scrapbooking pages using Halloween Digital Scrapbooking Kits and Supplies.
You can get your Halloween scrapbooking supplies by visiting Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Scrap Shop.
Check out the Holiday Kits to get a look at some nice Halloween digital scrapbooking kits or Halloween Quick Pages!
Halloween Photo Editing Training:
Last but not least, after the party is over, and you are ready to scrap all the Halloween photos, add some “spooky” Halloween effects to favorite photos using Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Halloween Photo Editing Tutorials! Convert a favorite photo to black and white and then add a touch of color, for an exciting Halloween photo-effect!
If there were some scary kids’ costumes, add even more dramatic effects by emphasizing “scary” eyes in the pics! Play with Digital Scrapbooks and More’s special seasonal tutorials for adorable Halloween photos for digital scrapbooking projects or “thank you” cards for all the kids that attended the party!
Save Your Family Halloween Memories!
Don’t let your precious family memories fade into a distant past dream. Get those photos out of your digital camera and onto digital scrapbooking pages so you can share and save your families special times!
Happy Halloween and Happy Scrapping!
Cheri
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