Halloween Gift Basket Ideas

Cherie Bowser
Halloween Gift baskets are fun to make to give to your family, friends and teachers. Making a Halloween Gift Basket with a Halloween DVD movie as the main part of the basket will put a smile on any face. First you can choose a Halloween pumpkin basket or any Halloween looking basket you can find. You can go to a craft store or Artistic Gift Baskets has a beautiful 2 piece pumpkin basket set that you can purchase online.

After you have your basket, add your Halloween movie of your choice. Here are some great Halloween movies that you can choose from. You can find them at amazon.com new or used.

Beetlejuice

Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Mickey's House of Villains

Casper

Spongebob Squarepants Halloween

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Hocus Pocus

Young Frankenstein

Edward Scissorhands

The Hollow

The Phantom of the Opera

After you choose your Halloween DVD, you can make some delicious popcorn balls to add to your basket. Allrecipes.com has a wonderful popcorn ball recipe that is easy to make and your don't need a thermometer. All you need is light corn syrup, margarine, cold water, confectioners' sugar, marshmallows and five quarts of plain popped popcorn.

The next items that you can add to your Halloween Basket is Halloween Candy. Everywhere you look you can find Halloween candy at your local pharmacy, grocery store, or discount store. Everyone loves Hershey's and they have some great Halloween treats for you to add to your basket. The Hershey Company offers some exciting Halloween candy including the pumpkin-shaped Reese's peanut butter cups, assorted Hershey's miniatures in festive foils. You can purchase Hershey's candy in Jumbo bags of many different varieties. Use some for your Halloween Gift Basket and save the rest for your trick-or-treaters.

If you really want to get creative with your Halloween Basket, you can go to Oriental Trading where you will find many unique Halloween Candies to add to your Halloween Basket including Warewolf, Jack-O-Lanetern, Pumpkin pops, gummy bugs, wax fangs, gumball eyes, bones candy, candy corn, oozing eyeballs, candy blood bags, and so much more.

www.amazon.com
www.allrecipes.com
www.orientaltrading.com
www.artisticgiftbaskets.com

Published by Cherie Bowser

I am a single mother of three girls ages 5, 10, and 14. I am currently a full-time caretaker for a patient with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). I love taking care of my children as well as being a care taker f...  View profile

28 Comments

Post a Comment
  • Snidely Whiplash9/21/2009

    Those are great suggestions.

  • Dina Quirion9/21/2009

    Halloween means candy corn..Yay! great write.. :o)

  • Robert Lee Alford9/21/2009

    Great idea , good writing.

  • John Smither9/20/2009

    Great ideas for halloween gift baskets!

  • Joanne Lynch9/20/2009

    Great ideas!!

  • C. Jeanne Heida9/20/2009

    Wonderful suggestion for Halloween gift giving :)

  • Malina Debrie9/19/2009

    I must say these are very good ideas!

  • Amanda Cartwright9/18/2009

    Great ideas...but I hope none of my friends are expecting halloween gift baskets. This would be good, though, if someone happens to be in the hospital on Halloween. I'm glad to see you writing more, jody!

  • Jill P. Viers9/18/2009

    How clever! So many fun options for movies, treats, and candy.

  • Jedley Manimtim9/18/2009

    Great ideas! I love Casper, and your mentioning of it makes me want to go rent it and watch it!

Displaying Comments
Next »

To comment, please sign in to your Yahoo! account, or sign up for a new account.