Make it a tradition
The Haunted Ornament Collection
One each year
Buy one special Halloween ornament every year, like collecting Christmas baubles. After ten years you'll have a collection full of memories.
What you need
- One Halloween ornament, new or second-hand
- A branch, a small tree, or a hook already out of reach
- A line in the family journal about who chose it
- A soft cloth if the ornament is glass
How to do it
- Choose one ornament. Handmade and charity-shop finds count.
- Hang glass and small pieces out of reach of young children and pets. A high branch or a closed cabinet both work.
- Write who chose it, and what the household was doing that October.
- Bring the same ornaments out every October and add the new one last.
- If one breaks, keep the note. The memory does not depend on the glass.
One household's version
The first ornament is a wooden bat from the Pumpkin Box. It hangs on a high twig in a vase on the sideboard. A child can look and cannot reach the glass pumpkin added later. The journal says who chose the bat.
Safety note: Glass ornaments are fragile, so hang them out of reach of young children and pets.