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23 Fun Ways To Scare Your Kids This Halloween

Because kids need more than just treats.

1. Put your "head" in a jar, then leave it in the fridge to be discovered.

2. Serve up some "spider chip cookies."

3. Give your kids a startle the next time they use the bathroom.

4. You can give them a scare when they reach for the toilet paper, too.

5. Hang this pleasant fellow made out of craft paper at the end of a dark hallway.

6. Put fake cockroaches in your kids' cereal box.

7. Make your kids think there's a ghost in the backyard.

8. Use toilet paper rolls to put glowing eyes just outside your kids' bedroom window.

9. Wake your kids up Halloween morning wearing plastic fangs.

10. Buy an "Undead Ted" and place it innocently among your kid's stuffed animal collection.

11. Freak out your kids by eating a bowl of creepy worms.

12. Hang a talking tree decoration on a tree outside.

13. Pack a "bloody" hard boiled egg in their lunch.

14. Turn a regular photo into a haunted one using the Camera Hoax app.

15. Pose as a harmless scarecrow decoration on your porch.

Then, when your kids come home, jump up and give them a fright!

16. Give your kids a chill by chilling their drinks with creepy cubes.

17. Write a scary message with liquid dish soap on the bathroom mirror.

18. You can also make your mirror "haunted."

19. Hide your hand in a candy bowl.

20. Put red Kool-Aid in a shower head.

21. Stick eyes on the food in the refrigerator.

22. Place a scary mask on your kid's pillow.

23. Stick press-on nails in hot dogs.

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