Halloween can be hard on kids healthy habits as the shops fill up with chocolate and ghoulish treats and the weather is colder and nights are darker and longer. These tips give you ideas on how to keep your family active and eat healthy on Halloween.
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This Halloween half term Gulliver’s will have lots of fantastic attractions and activities. Swizzels Trick & Treat Trail will run at all three theme parks. . .
We’ve teamed up with Gulliver’s family theme parks to give 2 lucky Mums&Dads readers the chance to win a Family Spook Special ticket to visit their nearest park for some spooktastic Halloween fun this half-term!
Halloween 2015 Spending Numbers: Annual spending at Halloween increasing rapidly with millions spent on decorations, pumpkins, costumes, food and entertainment; Britons still spend less than half as much per person as Americans at Halloween
Read MoreHalloween is meant to be a freaky festival – but for a lot of parents the fear of being unable to keep their kids entertained can seem a lot more terrifying than ghosts or witches! There’s not much we can do about the undead creatures, but we here at M&D have got your other fear covered. Read on for spectacularly spooky ways to keep your family amused in and around Manchester this Halloween.
Read MoreBrief history of Halloween for kids. These days, Halloween may be one coherent celebration, but a whole mix of (sometimes opposing) cultures and traditions has gone into making it the festival we know and love today.
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Traditional Halloween scary creature or charming and sparkly Christmas surprise – it’s an easy bit of craft for parents to teach, fun for children to create and a great present to terrify or delight grandparents and other relatives.
Read MoreWhat are you up to this Halloween? Trick-o-treating? Scary parties? Pumpkin carving? Cooking anything interesting like pumpkin muffins?
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Don’t throw away all that pumpkin you painstakingly scooped out, make some muffins. Kids can help with cooking them and definitely with eating.
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M&D Magazine has teamed up with Little Creative Days, the company which makes craft kits for children, to offer one lucky family a kit that will provide a fun activity for any Halloween party… Closing date: Monday, 8th October 2012
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