The final days of October are upon us. Don’t miss some of the following family-friendly activities you can enjoy with your children, including some spooktacular Halloween happenings. $2 Community Day Sunday, Oct. 25, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Explore the reopened Port Discovery Children’s Museum at reduced admission prices. Advance …
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Halloween Costume Contest 2020
After one spooky year, let’s celebrate our favorite little ghosts and goblins! Yes, that’s right, we’re having a costume contest. And it’s easy to enter. Simply send us a photo of your costumed kid or kids. It could be a treasured picture from a Halloween past. It could be this …
Read More »WHO’S THERE? One writer goes ghost hunting in Gettysburg
When radio producer Kara McGuirk-Allison was 4 years old, she woke up one night “absolutely convinced there was a ghost in the room with me.” As an adult, that memory rushed back when she read a Pew Research Center survey that found that 65 percent of Americans believe in the …
Read More »Oh Hey, Pumpkin: Quick Guide to Carving and Designing the Perfect Jack O’Lantern
Pumpkins are everywhere this time of year. We carve them, eat them and wear them as costumes. We line our mantels with them, turn them into table centerpieces, and bake cookies, cakes and pies with them. For many, pumpkins symbolize family and tradition during this time of year. As Jack …
Read More »Making Halloween Safe and Fun for Kids with Food Allergies
We’re approaching that hallowed time of year that spooks parents. Last-minute costume scrambles, sugar-induced meltdowns, tracking teens’ whereabouts, and attempting to monitor the candy calorie intake. But for parents of kids with food allergies, there is a different and extra reason to be frightful. For millions of kids with food …
Read More »Let It Fall 10 Books about Autumn, Football and Scary Creatures
This time of year lends itself well to the telling of a tale or two. While we tend to go for the obvious ghost story, here are some titles that welcome fall in other ways. Board/Toddler ‘Touch and Feel Fall’ This book’s lively illustrations and vivid photographs will catch a toddler’s …
Read More »Halloween Happenings
Ghost walks, campfires and the Great Halloween Lantern Parade’s 20th anniversary all happen this month. Mark your calendar — it’s time to get spooked! BALTIMORE CITY Annual Halloween Tour of Westminster Burying Grounds and Catacombs Continuous tours of the Hall, Catacombs and the notable Burying Grounds of Edgar Allen Poe. …
Read More »Costumes on a Budget
Shortly after Halloween two years ago, my son announced that he wanted his next costume to be Jason Voorhees. Why? I am not really sure. He has never even seen a horror movie let alone one from the “Friday the 13th” franchise, but he never wavered all year in his …
Read More »Halloween Fears and Frights
If you’re reading this blog in late October, I commend you. With one of the biggest holidays of the year on the horizon, I expect that most reading will have to wait for Nov. 1, when sugar-induced highs have receded and your children are sleeping — soundly. From cowboy hats …
Read More »Behind the Scenes October's Cover Shoot
This is one cover shoot we are WILD about at Baltimore’s Child. Here’s a sneak peek of cover kid, Kannon McKenzie, 8, a third grader at St. Paul’s School who loves to read and plays soccer for Pipeline Soccer Club. He’s also a big fan of October, as he will …
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