13 Family Friendly Halloween Movies

Halloween is just around the corner! It seems I have been posting quite a bit in celebration but I have just one more to share! With excitement brewing around the house, my family has been watching our favorite Halloween movies and I thought to share these with you! I am not a "scary" Halloween fan with blood and poltergeists and the like so all of these are family friendly. No matter what the ages of the ones in your household, I can bet you'll find something here that everyone will enjoy!

 It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Rating: G

Length: 25 Minutes

The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween, with Linus hoping that, finally, he will be visited by The Great Pumpkin; while Charlie Brown is invited to a Halloween party. 

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Rating: G

Length: 68 Minutes 

Two Disney animated adaptions of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Wind in the Willows".

Casper

Rating: PG

Length: 100 Minutes

A young girl meets a lonely ghost when her ghost therapist dad is hired to rid a home of its supernatural inhabitants.

Ernest Scared Stupid

Rating: PG

Length: 91 Minutes

The loveable lunkhead Ernest is in for a devil of a time when he accidentally unleashes an evil demon from its sacred tomb, causing the awakened foe to go on a devastating rampage.

The Witches

Rating: PG

Length: 91 Minutes

A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.

Hocus Pocus

Rating: PG

Length: 96 Minutes

After 300 years, three sister witches are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it us up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches reign of terror once and for all.

Halloweentown

Rating: G

Length: 84 Minutes

On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown - a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But she soon finds herself battling wicked warlocks, evil curses, and endless surprises.

Corpse Bride
Rating: PG
Length: 77 Minutes

When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her.

Monster House
Rating: PG
Length: 91 Minutes

Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Rating: PG
Length: 76 Minutes

Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept.

Hotel Transylvania

 Rating: PG
Length: 91 Minutes

Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count's teen-aged daughter.

The Haunted Mansion
Rating: PG
Length: 99 Minutes

Workaholic realtor Jim Evers, his wife/business partner Sara and their two children are summoned to a mansion. When they discover that the place is haunted, Jim discovers an important lesson about the family he's neglected as they attempt to escape.

The Addams Family
Rating: PG-13
Length: 99 Minutes

When a man claiming to be Fester, the missing brother of Gomez Addams, arrives at the Addams' home, the family is thrilled. However, Morticia begins to suspect the man is a fraud, since he cannot recall details of Fester's life.

Are any of these movies on your "Must Watch" list this Halloween? Or perhaps you have one that I didn't list! Either way, I'd love to hear from you in the comments below!

My Life List

Recently, I came across a bucket list that I made when I was 18 years old. For those who don't know, a Bucket List is a list of things you want to do before you die. The name comes from the term "Kicked the Bucket" which isn't a very kind way of saying someone has died. I've just decided to rename it- "Life List".

I believe that I started out with a list of 100 things and slowly I added on to that. At the time of writing this, I had 125 things written down. Many goals already achieved! Very proud of myself.

{ To Do }

1. Learn to sew
2. Learn to use chopsticks properly.
3. Nap in a field of wildflowers. Don’t follow any white rabbits.
4. Own an encyclopedia set.
5. Learn the Heimlich Maneuver and CPR
6. Have my palm read.
7. Grow an herb garden.
8. Have a postcard from all 50 states.
9. Do a box swap with someone in the UK or Japan.
10.  Go to a spa and indulge myself.
11. Learn how to use a Tarot desk properly.
12. Learn how to read runes.
13.  Learn the natural healing properties of plants.
14. Visit Japan.
15. Find a job that I enjoy and that helps others.
16. Read the complete bible.
17. Travel to Ireland.
18. Learn to speak Japanese.
19. Learn to speak Spanish.
20. Go rock climbing.
21. See an opera.
22. Go to Mardi Gras.
23. See a NYC ballet performance.
24. See a Broadway musical.
25. Learn ballroom dancing.
26. Have a picnic in the rain.
27. Learn to play chess.
28. Beat Husband at a chess match.
29. Complete a book of poems.
30. Publish a children’s book.
31. Read the complete works of Plato
32. Host a Halloween party.
33. Witness a solar eclipse.
34. Take a tour of Tudor England
35. Go horseback riding.
36. Visit Salem, Massachusetts.
37. Go on a ghost walk.
38. Throw a dart at the US map. Travel to wherever it lands.
39. Go ice skating.
40. Plant a tree.
41. Buy an original work of art by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law.
42. Visit the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.
43. Be at Time Square on New Years Eve.
44. Try Crème Brulee.
45. Swim with dolphins.
46. Touch a tiger.
47. Go on a train ride… to anywhere.
48. Sleep under the stars.
49. Stand for something I believe in.
50. Protest something I’m against.
51. Attend an Easter Sunday church service.
52. Go skinny dipping.
53. Complete a “Year in Pictures” project.
54. Go on a road trip.
55. Learn to juggle.
56. See Stonehenge.
57. Do nothing but read for an entire day.
58. Learn American Sign Language.
59. Read the complete works of Aristotle.
60. Carpe Diem.
61. Take pictures in a photo booth.
62. Ride in a horse drawn carriage.
63. Sit on a jury.
64. Volunteer.
65. Become a mom.
66. Read all of the books I own.
67. Ride in a paddle boat.
68. Swim in a lake.
69. Find a four leaf clover.
70. Ride on the Underground.
71. Go camping. With tents and campfires and everything!
72. Leave a positive message hidden inside a book at a book store.
73. Attend a masquerade ball.
74. Learn a choreographed dance.
75. Sing karaoke.
76. Ride a mechanical bull.
77. Visit a Renaissance fair.
78. Research my family’s genealogy.
79. Experience weightlessness.
80. Go fly a kite.
81. Eat at a fancy restaurant. White tablecloths. Reservations. Dressed up. The whole works.
82. Have a meaningful conversation with a stranger.
83. Donate blood.
84. Send a care package to a soldier.
85.  Do a charity walk.

{ Accomplished }

1. Walk through a mud puddle barefoot.
2. Have a snowball fight.
3. Send a Postcrossing Postcard.
4. Roast chestnuts over a fire.
5. Scream at the top of my lungs.
6. Create happiness.
7. Conquer my fear of driving by driving through a large city.
8. Enjoy a cup of coffee at a coffeehouse.
9. Host a tea party.
10. See a concert of a favorite singer or musical group.
11. Let myself give in to a moment of pure, ecstatic joy.
12. Eat a King Cake.
13. Try yoga.
14. Try Sushi
15. Go to Epcot Center, Disney.
16. Scrapbook.
17. Overcome my fear of heights by walking the entire balcony at the top of a lighthouse.
18. See the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Savannah, GA.
19. Have a Valentine on Valentine’s Day.
20. Kiss someone under mistletoe.
21. Attend a Christmas play.
22. Live without a television.
23. Make a hole-in-one!
24. Surprise myself.
25. Meet the Mad Hatter.
26. Try escargot.
27. Be kissed in the rain.
28. Try Tiramisu.
29. Attempt knitting
30. Build a snowman.
31. Make a gingerbread house.
32. Climb a tree.
33. Marry
34. Give to charity.
35. Get my face painted.
36. Eat Chinese food out of the container.
37. Sleep in a hammock.
38. Receive flowers at work.
39. Adopt a pet.
40. Have breakfast in bed.

What's on your bucket list? Leave a few in the comments!