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A DIY light up Halloween bucket: Because you need both hands free to scoop up all that candy.

With all the things that can go bump in the night, I just hope none of them run into one of my kids while they are out trick-or-treating in the dark streets of our neighborhood. So, along with this easy DIY Pumpkin light necklace tutorial we recently found, I love...

Halloween Every Night by Mista Cookie Jar | Halloween music download of the week

by Christina Refford | Kids Music

They might not agree on their favorite candy or even who has the best costume, but my kids would be in total agreement with Mista Cookie Jar that Halloween Every Night might be the best idea ever. With a spooky-cool surf guitar setting the mood, kindie’s Mista...

5 of our favorite tech Pinterest pins

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then check out these 5 pins plus lots more of our own tech picks and coolness from around the web. 1. This hilarious iPhone 6 case cracks us up every time, because yeah, we get it. (And it’s not even the holidays...

Web Coolness: The best kid-friendly Minecraft YouTube channels, cool Halloween photo tips, and why people are ditching Uber

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Congrats to the winners of the 2014 Innovation by Design awards, including the Reebok Checklight we featured that helps keeps kids safer on the sports field. (via Swiss Miss) For those of you with little Minecraft fans: 10 of the best kid-friendly Minecraft channels...

Scare up some fun before Halloween with Toca Boca’s new Toca Boo

by Christina Refford | Fun Apps

If Halloween’s scary side has your kids jumping at every bump in the night, you’ll want to check out Toca Boo, a brand-new app for iOS by Cool Mom Tech favorite Toca Boca that lets your child be the scary one—and not just when they miss their nap....

7 helpful tips for taking Halloween photos of your kids. Your Instagram friends await!

by Nicole Blades | Tips and Tricks

In addition to fun-sized everything, one of the best parts of Halloween is seeing all of the adorable (adoraboo?) photos of people’s kids in costume. Some of you are so clever with these costume ideas you dream up for your kids! We wanted to help you show off...

DIY tech: A Halloween pumpkin light necklace

by Liz Gumbinner | DIY

There are certainly a ton of cool flashlights you can buy out there for your trick or treaters–not to mention handing over your iPhone flashlight while the batteries slowly (or uh, quickly) wear down. But I got excited when I saw this adorable little tech craft...

The easiest way to Halloween-ify your photos from spooky to silly

by Liz Gumbinner | Photo Apps

While we think Halloween photos are pretty fun as they are, PicMonkey has updated their super fun Halloween themes and added a brand new superhero theme that are about the best time-wasters on the web right now that make you feel somewhat productive. You can use them...

Pumpkin Pied by Gustafer Yellowgold: Kids’ music download of the week

by Christina Refford | Kids Music

We are all about the pumpkin right now, from cool pumpkin decorating ideas to yummy pumpkin-spice treats, so it’s only natural that the kids’ music song we’re singing along to this week is pumpkin-flavored as well. And this one comes from the...

Kids’ Halloween music download: Pumpkinhead by The Hipwaders:

by Christina Refford | Kids Music

As the kids gear up for Halloween, we have a spooky new tune from Cool Mom Picks favorites The Hipwaders that’s perfect Halloween music for kids–and their parents–because may convince them to think twice before they eat all their candy on the first...

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