Halloween

The Best Halloween Movies to Watch with Kids

Updated October 17, 2024 Get your family into the spooky spirit this season with a Halloween movie night! Zombies, were-rabbits, ghosts on the loose, a night in the pumpkin patch… this is the stuff great Halloweens are made of. Make it even more fun by dressing up and popping some corn, then enjoy a scary, or not-so-scary, movie! Find links to movies trailers below, then

Ghost Walks GTA

Ghost Walks and Historical Tours

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a Spooky Historical Tour of your city! Ghost walks are offered in a number of locations across Ontario throughout the fall season.

Halloween nights of Lights Giveaway

Win a Family 4-Pack to Halloween Nights of Lights

Halloween Nights of Lights is back for it’s 5th year for the 2024 season! This year’s experience features NEW installations with more than 1.5 million lights! Enter for your chance to win a family 4-pack of tickets!

Win a Family 4-Pack to the Maple Syrup Experience at Elliott Tree Farm

Within an hour of the GTA, Elliott Tree Farm hosts it’s annual Canadian tradition – The Maple Syrup Experience! Featuring their famous pancake breakfast at the Horse Barn Canteen, followed by a 10-15-minute sugarbush trail walk to enjoy a sugarbush experience where you will visit the sugar shack, check sap buckets, and taste sap, maple sugar and fresh maple toffee over snow! Afterward, return to

Enter to Win a Family 4-Pack to the ROM

Plan your next family adventure at the ROM! From towering dinosaur skeletons to awe-inspiring contemporary paintings, ROM is home to more than 13.5 million artworks, artifacts, and specimens from around the world and across the ages. So, it should be no surprise ROM is also the most visited museum in Canada—and one of the top ten museums in North America. Plus, ROM hosts some of

Enter to Win Tickets to Mighty Mike: The Last Strongman

Mighty Mike, award winning strongman performer, presents 6 authentic old-time feats of strength in an attempt to set his third Guinness World Record, while not having a single emotional meltdown. This all ages solo performance will be presented for a limited time, November 15th-18th at 8:00pm at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto Enter below for your chance to win 4-Tickets to Mighty Mike at Theatre Passe

Halloween Nights of Lights & Pumpkinville Contest

Enter to Win Tickets to Halloween Nights of Lights & Pumpkinville

Halloween Nights of Lights and Pumpkinville, two enchanting spectacles that embody the thrills of the Halloween season are now taking place at Scarborough Town Centre. These events are pleased to announce their continued support for Epilepsy Toronto as a portion of the proceeds from both will directly contribute to funding critical services provided by Epilepsy Toronto. Enter below for your chance to win 4-Tickets to both Halloween

Halloween Nights of Lights Contest

Win a Family 4-Pack to Halloween Nights of Lights & Pumpkinville

Win Tickets to Hallloween Nights of Lights 2023! Halloween Nights of Lights is BACK FOR THE FOURTH YEAR as a walk-through experience for the 2023 season. Bigger and better, this years experience will feature more than 2 million LED and RGB lights animated and synchronized to your favourite Halloween tunes. Continue the fun inside of Pumpkinville, a fun fair located at the end of the

Brooks Farms Fall Fun Festival

The outdoor event highlight of the YEAR! For over a decade, Brooks Farms hosts an awesome Fall Fun Festival that gets bigger and better every year. Come out and enjoy the beautiful autumn season Brooks Farms style! Wagon Rides Zip Line 2 New Giant Jumping Pillows!! Farm Animals Puppet Shows Tire Horse Swings Sandbox Fun Bouncing Ponies Playhouse & Slides 2 Pirate Ships!! Singing Chicken

Brooks Farms Fall Fun Festival

The outdoor event highlight of the YEAR! For over a decade, Brooks Farms hosts an awesome Fall Fun Festival that gets bigger and better every year. Come out and enjoy the beautiful autumn season Brooks Farms style! Wagon Rides Zip Line 2 New Giant Jumping Pillows!! Farm Animals Puppet Shows Tire Horse Swings Sandbox Fun Bouncing Ponies Playhouse & Slides 2 Pirate Ships!! Singing Chicken

Brooks Farms Fall Fun Festival

The outdoor event highlight of the YEAR! For over a decade, Brooks Farms hosts an awesome Fall Fun Festival that gets bigger and better every year. Come out and enjoy the beautiful autumn season Brooks Farms style! Wagon Rides Zip Line 2 New Giant Jumping Pillows!! Farm Animals Puppet Shows Tire Horse Swings Sandbox Fun Bouncing Ponies Playhouse & Slides 2 Pirate Ships!! Singing Chicken

Brooks Farms Fall Fun Festival

The outdoor event highlight of the YEAR! For over a decade, Brooks Farms hosts an awesome Fall Fun Festival that gets bigger and better every year. Come out and enjoy the beautiful autumn season Brooks Farms style! Wagon Rides Zip Line 2 New Giant Jumping Pillows!! Farm Animals Puppet Shows Tire Horse Swings Sandbox Fun Bouncing Ponies Playhouse & Slides 2 Pirate Ships!! Singing Chicken

The Rise of Cooking at Home

Talk to anyone and you know that cooking at home has become commonplace again! Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a tremendous surge in home cooked meals. People are staying closer to home and choosing to take up the culinary arts. This trend will likely continue for the foreseeable future as we brace for the next wave this fall/winter. The food

Chef Shai Spooky Zombie Finger Cookies

Make your own Spooky Zombie Finger Cookies!

To help get your kids into the kitchen, check out these FUN cookies!! Since Halloween is just around the corner, we have a ghoulishly delicious recipe for the whole family: Spooky Zombie Finger Cookies! About Chef Shai: Inspired by her passion for food and education, chef and teacher Shai Mandel founded Rooks to Cooks with the goal of teaching kids cooking, life skills, and important

Win a Family Pass to Spookfest Toronto

Contest Closed – Enter to win a Family Pass to Spookfest Toronto
SpookFest Toronto brings you a weekend filled with frightfully fun activities the whole family can enjoy. Guaranteed to be a spooktacular weekend filled with rides, trick-or-treating and more.

Trick or Treating

Can You Be Too Old for Trick-or-Treating?

Halloween is upon us and one of the common complaints you hear about this holiday is that some trick-or-treaters are too old to be knocking on doors looking for goodies. To this, I say: Get over it. I have to admit, I have a long history of being afraid of teenagers.

The Starbucks Controversy

The Starbucks Controversy and Other Holiday Debates

‘Tis the Season… for holiday controversies. The ‘Starbucks Hates Christmas’ controversy:
In case you have been living under a rock and have not heard about this, let me break it down for you:

The Best Halloween Movies to Watch with Kids

Updated October 17, 2024 Get your family into the spooky spirit this season with a Halloween movie night! Zombies, were-rabbits, ghosts on the loose, a night in the pumpkin patch… this is the stuff great Halloweens are made of. Make it even more fun by dressing up and popping some corn, then enjoy a scary, or not-so-scary, movie! Find links to movies trailers below, then

Ghost Walks GTA

Ghost Walks and Historical Tours

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a Spooky Historical Tour of your city! Ghost walks are offered in a number of locations across Ontario throughout the fall season.

Halloween nights of Lights Giveaway

Win a Family 4-Pack to Halloween Nights of Lights

Halloween Nights of Lights is back for it’s 5th year for the 2024 season! This year’s experience features NEW installations with more than 1.5 million lights! Enter for your chance to win a family 4-pack of tickets!

Win a Family 4-Pack to the Maple Syrup Experience at Elliott Tree Farm

Within an hour of the GTA, Elliott Tree Farm hosts it’s annual Canadian tradition – The Maple Syrup Experience! Featuring their famous pancake breakfast at the Horse Barn Canteen, followed by a 10-15-minute sugarbush trail walk to enjoy a sugarbush experience where you will visit the sugar shack, check sap buckets, and taste sap, maple sugar and fresh maple toffee over snow! Afterward, return to

Enter to Win a Family 4-Pack to the ROM

Plan your next family adventure at the ROM! From towering dinosaur skeletons to awe-inspiring contemporary paintings, ROM is home to more than 13.5 million artworks, artifacts, and specimens from around the world and across the ages. So, it should be no surprise ROM is also the most visited museum in Canada—and one of the top ten museums in North America. Plus, ROM hosts some of

Enter to Win Tickets to Mighty Mike: The Last Strongman

Mighty Mike, award winning strongman performer, presents 6 authentic old-time feats of strength in an attempt to set his third Guinness World Record, while not having a single emotional meltdown. This all ages solo performance will be presented for a limited time, November 15th-18th at 8:00pm at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto Enter below for your chance to win 4-Tickets to Mighty Mike at Theatre Passe

Halloween Nights of Lights & Pumpkinville Contest

Enter to Win Tickets to Halloween Nights of Lights & Pumpkinville

Halloween Nights of Lights and Pumpkinville, two enchanting spectacles that embody the thrills of the Halloween season are now taking place at Scarborough Town Centre. These events are pleased to announce their continued support for Epilepsy Toronto as a portion of the proceeds from both will directly contribute to funding critical services provided by Epilepsy Toronto. Enter below for your chance to win 4-Tickets to both Halloween

Halloween Nights of Lights Contest

Win a Family 4-Pack to Halloween Nights of Lights & Pumpkinville

Win Tickets to Hallloween Nights of Lights 2023! Halloween Nights of Lights is BACK FOR THE FOURTH YEAR as a walk-through experience for the 2023 season. Bigger and better, this years experience will feature more than 2 million LED and RGB lights animated and synchronized to your favourite Halloween tunes. Continue the fun inside of Pumpkinville, a fun fair located at the end of the

Brooks Farms Fall Fun Festival

The outdoor event highlight of the YEAR! For over a decade, Brooks Farms hosts an awesome Fall Fun Festival that gets bigger and better every year. Come out and enjoy the beautiful autumn season Brooks Farms style! Wagon Rides Zip Line 2 New Giant Jumping Pillows!! Farm Animals Puppet Shows Tire Horse Swings Sandbox Fun Bouncing Ponies Playhouse & Slides 2 Pirate Ships!! Singing Chicken

Brooks Farms Fall Fun Festival

The outdoor event highlight of the YEAR! For over a decade, Brooks Farms hosts an awesome Fall Fun Festival that gets bigger and better every year. Come out and enjoy the beautiful autumn season Brooks Farms style! Wagon Rides Zip Line 2 New Giant Jumping Pillows!! Farm Animals Puppet Shows Tire Horse Swings Sandbox Fun Bouncing Ponies Playhouse & Slides 2 Pirate Ships!! Singing Chicken

Brooks Farms Fall Fun Festival

The outdoor event highlight of the YEAR! For over a decade, Brooks Farms hosts an awesome Fall Fun Festival that gets bigger and better every year. Come out and enjoy the beautiful autumn season Brooks Farms style! Wagon Rides Zip Line 2 New Giant Jumping Pillows!! Farm Animals Puppet Shows Tire Horse Swings Sandbox Fun Bouncing Ponies Playhouse & Slides 2 Pirate Ships!! Singing Chicken

Brooks Farms Fall Fun Festival

The outdoor event highlight of the YEAR! For over a decade, Brooks Farms hosts an awesome Fall Fun Festival that gets bigger and better every year. Come out and enjoy the beautiful autumn season Brooks Farms style! Wagon Rides Zip Line 2 New Giant Jumping Pillows!! Farm Animals Puppet Shows Tire Horse Swings Sandbox Fun Bouncing Ponies Playhouse & Slides 2 Pirate Ships!! Singing Chicken

The Rise of Cooking at Home

Talk to anyone and you know that cooking at home has become commonplace again! Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a tremendous surge in home cooked meals. People are staying closer to home and choosing to take up the culinary arts. This trend will likely continue for the foreseeable future as we brace for the next wave this fall/winter. The food

Chef Shai Spooky Zombie Finger Cookies

Make your own Spooky Zombie Finger Cookies!

To help get your kids into the kitchen, check out these FUN cookies!! Since Halloween is just around the corner, we have a ghoulishly delicious recipe for the whole family: Spooky Zombie Finger Cookies! About Chef Shai: Inspired by her passion for food and education, chef and teacher Shai Mandel founded Rooks to Cooks with the goal of teaching kids cooking, life skills, and important

Win a Family Pass to Spookfest Toronto

Contest Closed – Enter to win a Family Pass to Spookfest Toronto
SpookFest Toronto brings you a weekend filled with frightfully fun activities the whole family can enjoy. Guaranteed to be a spooktacular weekend filled with rides, trick-or-treating and more.

Trick or Treating

Can You Be Too Old for Trick-or-Treating?

Halloween is upon us and one of the common complaints you hear about this holiday is that some trick-or-treaters are too old to be knocking on doors looking for goodies. To this, I say: Get over it. I have to admit, I have a long history of being afraid of teenagers.

The Starbucks Controversy

The Starbucks Controversy and Other Holiday Debates

‘Tis the Season… for holiday controversies. The ‘Starbucks Hates Christmas’ controversy:
In case you have been living under a rock and have not heard about this, let me break it down for you:

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