October Spooktacular: Dead and Breakfast Date Night

Ok, so this date night is perfect for Halloween and October, but it would be fun to do anytime of the year too. If you don’t have time to pull it off this Halloween, save it for later. And, the intensity of this date is all up to you. You can go super easy or go all out, the important thing is to spend some quality time with your Honey.
Most of the prep for this date will be from decor and food. Decor can set the mood. Make a trip to your local Dollar Tree and hit up the Halloween aisle. Grab some crawly spiders, caution tape, spider webs, and anything else you think will help spookify (yes, I just said that).

You’ll want to print out the Dead and Breakfast Inn welcome sign and display it somewhere obvious. I made it pretty big (like 16×20”), so if you want to print it out like a poster and piece it together you can. Blockposters.com makes it super easy. Just save, upload and print it. (I have no affiliation with Block Posters, I just like how easy it is to use and the results are great. And it’s FREE.) Put this up on the front door or paste it to a piece of foam board and hang it outside or from the kitchen doorway. Wherever works the best for your home. It would be fun to cut it out, paste it to some foam board and hang it on a little faux chain.

Just click on the image, right click in the new tab/window and save it to your computer. You can print it little or upload it to print it larger.

Next, get your decor put up. You don’t need to go super elaborate (unless you want to), but pull out some candles, hang some spider webs, dim the lights and put the caution tape out.

Now, the food. You can grab take out and spookify it (yep, there it is again) for a quick and easy night. For example, grab some Chinese food, serve it right out of the cartons and slap these labels on the boxes. Bam! Easy, right?!

Again, click the image, right click and save.

Be creative as to what label you put on what food. There are lots of possibilities with some imagination. Here is where I put everything:

– Flesh-eating Maggots went on the fried rice

– Rat Intestines went with the box of chow mein

– Eye of Newt accompanied some sweet and sour pork

– Monster’s Trash Mash was Kung Pao Chicken

– Belladonna and Werewolf Flank was Broccoli Beef

– Fried Phoenix Claw could go on a dish with shrimp

– Fried Hemlock could go on cream cheese rangoons

– Mummy Fingers would work on any kind of a roll (egg, spring)

– Maggots was steamed rice

– Dragon Heart in Blood Sauce was BBQ Pork

Or… get creative and make some creepy food. There are a ton of ideas out there. Some of my faves (from my pinterest board). Please be respectful and click over to the original source to pin. Thanks!

Slithery Snake Sandwich

Fettucine Mummies

Mummy Pizzas

Or, there’s always spider web nachos, bone breadsticks with blood sauce marinara, and tombstone cupcakes.

For our date, we carved pumpkins and then did some binging with a Bones marathon. We have been going through the series and love it. It’s got the creepy element, but it’s not scary (I don’t do scary), so it’s perfect for us.

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We enjoy an evening where we can just relax on the couch and snuggle together, but if you are more of an out-on-the-town kinda couple, here are some ideas to get you out of the house and enjoying the frightful, chill air:

– Go to the corn maze. Don’t forget a flashlight (or do…) Do a Google search to see if there is one in your area.

– Visit a haunted house.

– Go to the pumpkin patch and take a hay ride together.

– Visit a cemetery. Take some snacks for an eerie little picnic.

– Dress up in costumes and go bowling or to the movies or just get dessert. Enjoy all the comments and funny looks.

You can grab a scary movie, make some Monster Mash snack mix and snuggle together for a frightfully good evening as an alternative stay-at-home date. Or pull out some board games. Clue, anyone?

Let your imagination go a little wild for what to do after your movie or outing………… a little wardrobe change may give you some ideas. What will you opt for? Witch, French maid, pirate wench, whatever you want. Get creative and make up some witch’s potions to try out. (Like Ground Hemlock Root=Pixy Stick powder, werewolf’s tooth=chocolate chips, dragon’s tears=honey, ect. I’m sure you can figure out what to do with them…)

Come morning (it is Dead and BREAKFAST, after all), cook up some scrumptious food to help you get through the day.

If you’ve got kiddos, they would love these too. Eggs and Bacon with a little Halloween twist… courtesy of bhg.com. My mom has claimed Friday nights as “Grandkids Sleepover Nights”, so we get to wake up lazy on Saturday mornings. Wonder if she’ll let us drop off both the kids after the little bean gets here?! =)

Krista

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