Happy Halloween!!!
Bob’s Gift Baskets would like to wish all of you a safe and happy Halloween. May your home remain free of rotten eggs. May the children who come around all say ‘Trick or Treat’ and not just stand there holding out an open bag. May at least a few of them say ‘Thank You’ when you hand out the treats. And above all may your own kids and kids all over the world return home safely with happy smiles on their faces.
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Now this is a real bouquet. A Bouquet of delicious Halloween cookies. Our Halloween Trick or Treat Bouquet may be found on our new Cookie Gift Set Page.
Halloween Trick Or Treat Cookie Bouquet
.A little spooky, but much more delicious, is this “boo”quet of twleve cookies in a Halloween Pail with 4″ bendable Halloween characters.
Includes:chocolate chip, sugar free or an assortment of flavors (chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, sugar, peanut butter, M&M, white chocolate chip pecan
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Everyone loves cookies and caramel corn. Send your Halloween love with the Tower of Treats. This fine cookie gift may be found on our brand new Cookie Gift Sets Page.
Halloween Treats Trio Tower
All treats and no tricks! Three ballotin boxes filled with ten assorted* cookies, caramel corn and twelve pieces of wrapped holiday candy, are tied up with curly ribbon and 4″ bendable character to make the perfect Halloween gift. * Cookie flavors include a jack-o-lantern cutout, iced brownie, chocolate chip, sugar, oatmeal raisin, snickerdoodle, peanut butter, M&M, chocolate chip pecan and white chip pecan
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Halloween has it’s creepy origins over 2000 years ago with the Celtis in northern Europe. There the new year was celebrated on November 1st. Also the start of winter and the bringing of cold and death. On October 31st they celebrated what was then known as Samhain. This was when the ghosts of the dead returned.
Snap Allple Night
As European immigrants started arriving in America they brought with them many of their traditions and beliefs so it should not be surprising that Halloween came too. Often celebrated with parties to celebrate the harvest and often stories were told of the dead. In the New England states it was not very popular, but in the southern states it began to catch on
The Irish Potato Famine of 1846 brought thousands of Irish immigrants to American and the tradition spread nationally. Often dressing in ghoulish outfits the immigrants would go house to house asking for food and money. Trick or Treat was born.
As Halloween also much like Thanksgiving celebrated the harvest it should not be surprising that pumpkins began to take on ghoulish expressions at parties and other events. Eventually vandalism or the Trick part of Trick or Treat emerged as a real problem, but that wasn’t until around the 1950′s. While many community leaders strived to eliminate the Trick if was often suggested to give small Treats to curb the Tricks.
Today vandals and tricksters still roam the streets and the Wicked Witch’s still ply death with poison apples and candies striking fear into mothers and fathers alike whose children only want to have fun. So it is not surprising that Halloween is celebrated more with private parties and parades and other public functions then the traditional house to house Trick or Treating.
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Halloween is almost here. You can see it in your children’s eyes. Bet they are already bugging you for costumes or designing their own. We all want our kids to have fun, but we also want them safe. The easiest way to protect your children is to have a Halloween party instead of going Trick or Treating. Visit our Halloween Gifts Page for a few ideas.
Halloween Gift Package - Hexes & Potions
Still going out? Then here are a few tips to help you insure their safety.
Go along with them when they go Trick or Treating or see if your children can accompany another group with a responsible adult.
If you can’t go with them make sure you know the route they will be taking. Help them plan the route if they do not have one.
Help your kids with their costumes. Make sure that they can see well. (Large or no eye holes)
Make sure they can be seen in the dark. Purchase a few glow sticks or flashlights for them to carry or hang on their costumes.
Remind them not to cut through back yards and to stay on the sidewalks.
Remind them not to enter any homes at any time.
Set a come home time. Make sure they know what time you expect them home.
Place your pumpkins well away from your door to make sure that no one is accidently burned.
Remind them of basic safety before they go out. You should have already told them about basic safety like not getting into cars and looking both ways before crossing streets, but tell them again.
Remind them not to eat any candy until you can inspect it. It helps to feed them well before they go out. They are less likely to eat a lot of candy before you can inspect it.
Have a safe Halloween.
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Visit our Halloween Gifts Page for your gift giving ideas.
Halloween Gifts - Batty Cauldron - Treats
Over the years there have been many ways to celebrate Halloween and things to do at Halloween parties. Below is an article from Wikipedia describing some traditional games.
There are several games traditionally associated with Halloween parties. One common game is dunking or apple bobbing, in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin. A variant of dunking involves kneeling on a chair, holding a fork between the teeth and trying to drop the fork into an apple. Another common game involves hanging up treacle or syrup-coated scones by strings; these must be eaten without using hands while they remain attached to the string, an activity that inevitably leads to a very sticky face.
Snap Apple Night
Some games traditionally played at Halloween are forms of divination. In Puicíní (pronounced “poocheeny”), a game played in Ireland, a blindfolded person is seated in front of a table on which several saucers are placed. The saucers are shuffled, and the seated person then chooses one by touch; the contents of the saucer determine the person’s life during the following year. In 19th-century Ireland, young women placed slugs in saucers sprinkled with flour. A traditional Irish and Scottish form of divining one’s future spouse is to carve an apple in one long strip, then toss the peel over one’s shoulder. The peel is believed to land in the shape of the first letter of the future spouse’s name. This custom has survived among Irish and Scottish immigrants in the rural United States.
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As a child I grew up in suburbia of the 1950′s. Halloween was a day when my sister and I went around from dusk until nine at night. We wandered the neighborhoods alone and completely safe, returning with pounds of goodies. We were often invited into the homes and given hot cocoa or if we were known by the homeowner a special treat. Our parents knew almost everyone in the neighborhood and they knew us.
Halloween Gifts - Batty Cauldron - Treats
Not so anymore. We often do no know the names of people living two houses down from us or two apartments over. Now parents often accompany their kids around and often only in the immediate neighborhood. Some of us compile lists of homes to avoid. As parents we go through what has been collected, discarding unwrapped or unsealed items. We often end up throwing away more then we allow our children to keep. It is even worse in the cities where apartment living is a must.
Other things we do is to attend city functions or functions held by known sponsors designed to give our children a taste of Halloween.
Well at Bob’s Gift Baskets we have a few Halloween ideas for you. Why not give your kids a special treat this year. A specially prepared gift guaranteed to thrill and excite them with the spirit of Halloween. And it is so easy, just log on and your gift is on its way.
Attending a Halloween party, then bring one of our special Halloween gift baskets or hold a party of your own. One or more of our baskets on your dining room table add to the effect. Use a Halloween gift basket as a door prize for one or more of your guests. Check out our Halloween Gifts Page to get some great ideas for this Halloween.
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Now this is a real Witches Brew to send to your favorite ghoul or little witch. Be sure to check out our Halloween Gifts Page for more ideas.
Halloween Gift Box - Witches Brew
It’s Halloween, and time to stir things up! But this gift of Witches’ Brewincludes a fun and shiny black cauldron filled with scrumptious treats.. Includes: Witches cauldron, Plush teddy bear in a witch costume, Happy halloween gift bag of candy corn, 2 Microwave Halloween pocorns, 2 Baggies Halloween jacks & Bats pretzels,Rice Krsipie treat, mini reese’s peanut butter pumpkin, Halloween potion bottle of powder candy, Witches Warts candies, 2 mini Hershey milk chocolate bars, 2 fun size chocolate bars (flavors will vary) Halloween marshmallow peeps.
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Talk about Halloween fun and Halloween theme treats. Just wait till your favorite goblin check out this basket. Be sure to check out our Halloween Gifts Page for more ideas.
Halloween Gift Box - Frightfully Fun Pail
An eerie fog rolls in and the full moon is on the rise—the mood has been set for a spooky surprise! Then the puppies arrive all dressed up and ready to play for Halloween. A plush pug faced puppy dressed in disguise delivers a spooky surprise pail filled with Halloween treats!
“Halloween pumpkin pail, Halloween Pumpkin stencils with pumpkin carver, Marshmallow pumpkin Peeps, Silly String, Spooky stories & sounds Halloween Cd, Halloween Glow Bracelets/ Necklaces, Halloween flashlight, Peanut Butter pumpkins, 2-marshmellow eyeballs, Witches Warts candies, Halloween bats pretzels, M & M’s Milk Chocolate, Reese’s Pieces, Pumpkin ball and cup game, Trick or Treat plush puppy (Puppies are dressed for Halloween in an assortment of costumes.), Rice krispie treats, Halloween sucker, Halloween microwave popcorn, Comes with a Frightfully Fun Halloween bow”
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Here is a Spooktacular Sweet Treat to give to your favorite Halloween Witch.
Be sure to check out our Halloween Gifts Page for more ideas.
Halloween Gift Box - Spooktacular Sweets
“Happy Halloween! This Spooktacular Halloween gift box filled with ghoulish treats will feed all of your favorite scary characters! Includes a ® ”
“Halloween Boo Box, Marshmallow Pumpkin Peeps, Miniature Hershey’s milk chocolate bat, M & M’s Peanut, M & M’s Milk Chocolate, Skittles, Wonka Factories Nerds Candies, Reese’s Pieces candies, 2- Halloween Buttery Microwave popcorn, Acrylic Coffin w – skeleton bones candy puzzle, 2-Marshmellow eyeballs, Halloween Boo! Sucker, Reese’s Peanut Butter cups, Halloween Bone Powder Potion bottle, Fun Size Snicker’s, Fun Size Kit Kat wafer Bar, Fun Size Musketeers Bar, Fun Size Butterfingers, Wonka factories Sweet Tarts Candies”
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