Friday Fun: Halloween Bark With A Bite

I'm always looking for easy-to-make festive treats for the kids around the holidays. This weekend in preparation for Halloween, we are making this Halloween bark with a bite! This treat comes together quickly. But it goes quickly too!

BARK WITH A BITE

Ingredients
1 pkg. candy melts (can be purchased at a craft store)
Assorted candies (candy corn, gummy worms, licorice, coarsely chopped candy bars)

Preparation
1. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

2. Melt the package of candy melts according to package directions. Spread melted candy onto the cookie sheet.

3. While the candy is melted, press pieces of candy into it. Allow to dry.

4. Break and enjoy!

Recipe appears courtesy of FamilyFun magazine.

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Halloween Tees For Girls

Halloween tees are a great way to show your holiday spirit without dressing head to toe in Halloween garb. You can find Halloween tees at just about any major retailer for under $20. Here are a few of our favorite tees this Halloween season.

Peanuts Halloween Tee, available at Hanna Andersson

Cat & Jack Halloween BOO Tee, available at Target.

Glow-In-The-Dark Pumpkin Tee, available at The Children's Place.

Hello Kitty Mummy Tee, available at Old Navy. (Toddler sizes only)

Spider web tee, available at Gap.

Cute as a pumpkin tee, available at Disney.

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Jenkinson's Boo At The Boardwalk is Back! #JenksMemory

For two weekends in the fall, Jenkinson's Boardwalk hosts Boo at the Boardwalk, a seaside celebration filled with Halloween fun including games, trick-or-treating and more. The kids get a chance to take an early spin in their costumes and collect candy from Jenkinson's businesses including the Sweet Shop and the Aquarium.

At last year's festivities, there was plenty of fun for the kiddos including a coloring table with fun and spooky pictures. You could even turn your coloring creation into a mask. This year Jenkinson's promises all the fun of last year and some new events and activities as well!

There was a prize wheel. You spin it. You win it!

There were fun photo opps including an adorable threesome of scarecrows.

And a Jenkinson's step and repeat.

We had a chance to sneak in a few games of Skee-Ball too!

After the boardwalk fun, we headed to the Aquarium. Even the penguins were in the spirit of Halloween!

This year Jenkinson's has added a few new events including a beach maze, a pumpkin patch, and underwater pumpkin carving shows at the Aquarium.

New in 2015 is Perky's Pumpkin Derby, a race of pumpkins to the finish line! For full contest rules, regulations, and entry requirements, click here.

Jenkinson's Boo at the Boardwalk is a limited engagement. You can enjoy the fun on the weekends of October 17th and 18 and again on October 24th and 25th from 12 - 4 pm. The aquarium hours are 10 am - 5 pm on Saturdays and Sunday. Underwater Pumpkin Carving** is held in the Aquarium and will have four showings: Oct. 17 & 24: 12:30-1 and 3-3:30.

** Requires admission to the Aquarium.

For more information, visit jenkinsons.com.

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Friday's Fresh Picks: Favorite Halloween Cupcakes

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I love decorating and baking for this sweet and spooky holiday. There are so many fun ways to dress up your home and your sweet treats.

In today's installment of Friday's Fresh Picks, I am sharing a few of my favorite Halloween-themed cupcakes. Maybe they will inspire you to bake up a batch this weekend! Be sure to visit the other FFP participants to see all the goodness they are sharing today.

And then get out there and enjoy your weekend! xx

{These scarecrow cupcakes are just too cute}

{I'm not a big fan of spiders, but I'm certain I could eat a few of these creepy spider cupcakes}

{These mummy cupcakes look frighteningly delicious}

{What's better than candy corn? Candy corn cupcakes, of course!}

{You'll go batty for these adorable bat cupcakes}

Friday Fresh Picks are hand-picked favorite items, reviews and highlights from the amazing women you see above.

Visit their websites to learn about other amazing picks from this week!

Sarah from Finnegan & The Hughes

Hilary from A Fancy Girl Must

Tina from Life Without Pink

Erica from No Sleep 'til College

To view all of my Friday Fresh Picks posts, click here.

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Sweet and Spooky Creamsicle Martini

Whether you are hosting a big Halloween bash or just a few friends, this frighteningly delicious cocktail is perfect for the occasion.

Creamsicle Martini
Ingredients

1.5 oz. Vanilla flavored vodka
3.5 oz. Orange Mango Sparkling ICE

Preparation:
Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. Serve with candy corn and rock candy swizzle stick.

For more cocktail recipes, view all of my cocktail posts and my Cocktails Pinterest board.

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{Giveaway} Four (4) Prize Packs to Jenkinson's Boo at the Boardwalk

Apple picking. Check. Pumpkin picking. Check. Playing in fallen leaves. Check.

Boo at the Boardwalk. What? So you think the boardwalk is fun only in the summer? Think again!

You can't miss Jenkinson's spectacular Halloween event!

Put on your best Halloween costume and join Jenkinson's Boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey for their annual Boo at the Boardwalk Halloween Festival Saturday and Sunday, October 19th and 20th and October 26th and 27th from noon to 4 pm.


Boo at the Boardwalk features Halloween fun for everyone including arts and crafts, trick or treating, facepainting, balloonists, fun and games, and more! Jenkinsons Aquarium and Gift Shop, Pavilion Arcade, and Jenkinson's Sweet shop will all be open in addition to Jenkinson's classic boardwalk games. For more information visit jenkinsons.com.

Jenkinson's is generously offering Pieces of a Mom readers four (4) Boo at the Boardwalk prize packs.

Each prize pack includes the following:

• Four passes to the Jenkinson's Aquarium
• a $20 Arcade Play Card
• Four tickets to Jenkinson's Dark Ride, a 7D Interactive Experience

Note:  40" height restriction on Dark Ride.  No substitutions or cash prize.  No purchase necessary.
Winners will redeem their prize at the Aquarium on any of the Boo at the Boardwalk dates; 10/19, 20, 26 or 27. Only one prize pack will be awarded to each winner.

Winners will be notified via email and will have 48 hours to respond. If winner fails to respond within the given timeframe a new winner will be chosen.


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