What's your fondest Halloween memory from Childhood?

[Jeanne~WildWoods Art]

Remember bobbing for apples? Running from house to house trick or treating? Trying to choose the perfect Halloween costume? Picking out pumpkins to carve? What is your fondest memory of Halloween from your childhood?

I have so many memories of Halloween - so hard to pick just one favorite. So, I'll pick two. The first would be picking out just the right pumpkins from our pumpkin patch to carve for Jack-o-Lanterns (and deciding on their faces). My Mother was quite the gardener and she always had a large pumpkin patch. It was always so fun to wander through it, peering at the pumpkins, searching for just the right ones. To this day, I feel at home in a Pumpkin Patch!
The second memory is being able to dress up like a Witch every year for Halloween. It was especially fun when Halloween fell on the weekend, because then I would get to wear my costume twice. Once to school on Friday for the Halloween party and then the second time on Halloween when I went trick-or-treating.

[Sara Elizabeth Edwards]

My father was in the navy and would bring home these HUGE industrial submarine glow sticks. You had to almost use a hammer to crack them. he would give them to my two brothers and i, and we would use them for a safety light. When the night was over we would smash them all over the driveway and swirl the glowing ooze with sticks. i used to love that!

[Halloween Spirit]

I hate to admit it, but one of my favorite Halloween memories was of TP-ing, and soaping all of our friends houses, and trees. Dressing up in dark clothes, with a hat, high enough to hide a roll of toilet paper in. It was so cool to sneak around the town. Me and my group of friends, minus one (whose Mother wouldn't let her out) We TP-d her new car, making a big bow on top. No one got in trouble for it back then, as long as you didn't use wax, or eggs. Then seeing our dastardly deeds in the morning! Ah, yes! What else are you going to do Halloween week, when they say you're too old to trick or treat?

Another is once when I was about 10, my Mom dressed me up for trick or treat. She made me a plump old lady, with a big flower in my hat. I went to my Aunt's house, and she wouldn't open the door for me. She said she thought I was the Avon Lady!!!

I could go on and on!

[Debbie]

Probably the year I received the big disappointment. Being born the day before Halloween until I was seven I thought all the celebrations and costumes were in honor of my birthday and it made me feel very special. What a disappoint when I found out it was a celebration for everyone !

[Midnight]

I would have to say you're going to love this. We had just move from Massachusetts to Kansas. We moved into a house that was on a main road. The first year we moved into the house we had put a graveyard in the front yard. We would dress up everyday and pretend to chase the cars as they drove by. The news media came down and put us on T.V., but at the time my maiden name was "ADAMS". You guest it when they play the spot on the news about our house They played the ADDAMS Theme song. That song follow me till the day I got marry.

[Carolee of Art Pod Studios]

When I was a kid we lived on the farm and had a barn with a huge hayloft. We had our youth group halloween parties at our house and used the barn. We always had lots of hay bails so we usually made a maize of bails at the top of the loft ladder. So when you first arrived at the party you had to go through the bail maize to get to the party. Of course we had all kind of games, bobbing for apples, food and at the end of the night turned the lights out and passed the flashlight to each person who wanted to tell a ghost story. It was loads of fun!

[Sarah]

When I was a child my parents had a tradition every year. We went to a wonderful pumpkin patch and got pumpkins and alot of cider. On Halloween night they gave out cups of cider and powdered donut holes to the whole neighborhood. It was so much fun! We got to see every single child and parent and all the costumes! I wish I could do that now. Namaste, Sarah

[Sharon]

i remember dressing up, always in cinderella or some princess and going trick or treating for weeks!! Yes back east (PA) we were allowed to tot a couple of weeks before Halloween as long as we didn't hit the same house twice..can you imagine. There were 6 kids in our family..we had so much candy mom froze it for later. Plus I remember all the old folks inviting us in for hot coco and cookies and taking our photos. Those were the days.