Category Archive: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Playbook: Get Your Thanksgiving Game Plan Ready

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Black Friday, Thanksgiving

November 22, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving from Halloween Express

Thanksgiving is upon us.  With so many fun as well as exciting ways to celebrate this beloved holiday, be ready with your plan of attack to enjoy some (or all) of these exciting Thanksgiving weekend options!

Food-a-Palooza!  Let’s face it; Thanksgiving is one of those days where it’s fully sanctioned to eat with reckless abandon and to fully enjoy it.  You are more than likely to have all your traditional Thanksgiving dishes cooked and ready to dive into; give yourself permission to do just that!  Whether you are having turkey and all the trimmings or something more novel and innovative for your feast–just enjoy it guilt free!

Sports-a-thon!  Thanksgiving weekend has sports aplenty to watch for you sports fans out there.  Between the NFL’s Thanksgiving Day triple-header and a whole slew of college teams playing over the weekend, any die-hard football fan will have plenty to cheer about.  Check your local listings for college basketball too–early season tournament play has begun in many locations.

Get Outta Dodge!  You…and everyone else…might want to do some traveling this weekend. If you are brave enough to weather it, just know that this is one of the most heavily traveled weekends of the year.  If you decide to go somewhere you won’t be alone!  The good news is that gas prices have been inching downward a bit, perhaps it may be a good time to take a road trip to Grandma’s house or go check out some beautiful fall scenery.  Plan ahead and give yourself extra time no matter where your Thanksgiving traveling takes you.  There will be extra people on the road, in the airports, virtually everywhere.  Bring a smile and a cheerful attitude to help out any potentially frustrating circumstances.

Lights…Camera…Action!  It’s a fantastic weekend to see a movie, as many big blockbuster films will be set to hit the theatres this weekend.  If you are a movie buff, there will be many fabulous options available to Thanksgiving weekend moviegoers, and it’s a great way to dodge the crowds that are clamoring for bargains over at your local mall.  Our favorite picks?  Lincoln, Wreck It Ralph, Skyfall, Life of Pi and Rise of the Guardians.

Get Ready…Get Set…Shop!  Black Friday is now rapidly becoming Black Thursday.  Many retailers are offering amazing sales and discounts beginning as early as Thanksgiving Day.  Not feeling brave enough to put up with the crowds?  Many deals are just a mouse click away and you can capture them quite easily from the comfort of your couch while you munch leftovers and watch football.  How can you beat that?  Don’t miss out on our amazing discounts on everything you will need to make your Christmas incredibly unique and special.  Fantastic Black Friday as well as Cyber Monday specials are to be had right here at Halloween Express, you won’t want to miss them!  This is your time to score Christmas character costumes, decorations, festive accessories and even a few practical necessities, such as rotating Christmas tree stands.  The best part of it is you don’t even have to leave the house to shop!

Now that you have your Thanksgiving game plan ready to rock, go out and have the best turkey day ever!  Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at Halloween Express! 

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Five ways Kids Can Show Gratitude This Thanksgiving

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Holiday's, Thanksgiving

November 19, 2012

When you think of Thanksgiving, what comes to mind?  Feasting, friends, family, and lots of great shopping deals are all likely a part of the equation. Your kids may also have been learning about the very first Thanksgiving in school, including Pilgrims, Indians as well as an entire Cornucopia of Early American characters that have passed down to a modern generation a wonderful traditional holiday based on gratitude.  There is much for our children to glean from Thanksgiving other than what they learn about in school.  The lessons of living a life of gratefulness are far-reaching and will bode well in every child’s future.  Here are a few ideas to help you pass on to your kids an attitude of gratitude!

  • Openly express your own gratitude.  Kids may not always listen to what you say, but they are always watching what you do.  Adopting basic gratitude skills in your everyday life is an important way to pass these values on to your children.  Saying simple thank you’s and showing sincere appreciation for jobs well done is a great place to start.
  • Stop The Entitlement Train.  Kids often haven’t learned yet that the world doesn’t revolve around them.  They often want what they want and sometimes want it NOW!  Teaching kids to wait their turn or that other things may need some attention first is a critical life lesson.  When kids learn to appreciate what is done in their behalf, everyone wins.
  • Count Your Blessings.  It may sound cliché, but the act of writing down a list of things that kids are thankful for is a good lesson for them.  Recognizing all the things they have going for them and learning to have sincere appreciation for them is important, especially in a world that may be teaching them to always want more.
  • Send Thank You Notes.  Teaching your kids to express their gratitude this way is almost a lost art in our world of instant email and text messaging.  Taking the time to pen a sincere note of appreciation when something is done in their behalf makes the message sink in a bit more.
  • Give Something Back.  Part of recognizing and appreciating what one is blessed with is found while giving back to others that are less fortunate.  When kids have the opportunity to help others through acts of charity, they learn to have more gratitude as well as appreciation for their own lives and may also find surprising levels happiness in these acts of complete selflessness.

Thanksgiving is a great time to reconnect with friends and family as well as to pause and take a moment to really be grateful for life and it’s rich bounty.  Taking the time to show gratitude and teach kids the value of appreciation is what Thanksgiving is all about.  That, and of course, turkey and all the trimmings–but you can be grateful for that, too.

Need one more thing to be thankful for?  How about some Black Friday deals that will really make your head spin!  Make sure and check out our Black Friday special sale where you can gobble up some great savings on amazing costumes, holiday decorations and fabulous accessories.

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Talk Turkey

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Holiday Costumes, Thanksgiving

November 7, 2011

It’s highly possible that your child is learning about the Pilgrims, The Mayflower, Native Americans and the early Colonists in school during the autumn months. If you are looking for an authentically styled costume for your child to dress up in for a school or community Thanksgiving-themed event, we have many appropriate styles to choose from. 

It’s highly possible that your child is learning about the Pilgrims, The Mayflower, Native Americans and the early Colonists in school during the autumn months. If you are looking for an authentically styled costume for your child to dress up in for a school or community Thanksgiving-themed event, we have many appropriate styles to choose from. 

It’s highly possible that your child is learning about the Pilgrims, The Mayflower, Native Americans and the early Colonists in school during the autumn months. If you are looking for an authentically styled costume for your child to dress up in for a school or community Thanksgiving-themed event, we have many appropriate styles to choose from.

Now that Halloween is over and you are packing away your Halloween decorations and costumes until it’s time to bring them out again for next year–you may want to give some items a second glance.  Kids costumes are certainly not just for Halloween use anymore.  If you noticed how much fun your child had getting all dressed up in his or her Halloween outfit, then you already know how exciting it was for your child to role play a new and exciting character on Halloween night.  Dressing up is fun for children on any day, and costumes are great for imaginative playtime to make their daily creative adventures more realistic as well as exciting.  Costumes also make fabulous Christmas presents and you will want to be sure your kids find their favorites under the Christmas tree on Christmas morning.  Now is a great time to find some fabulous deals on many of our costumes, too.  Your child is going to love dressing up as his favorite characters all year round.

With fall in full-throttle now, your thoughts are probably also quickly turning to the upcoming holiday season.  A favorite holiday amongst many, but one that often gets a bit lost or even overlooked during the Christmas shuffle is that of Thanksgiving.  It’s highly possible that your child is learning about the Pilgrims, The Mayflower, Native Americans and the early Colonists in school during the autumn months.  If you are looking for an authentically styled costume for your child to dress up in for a school or community Thanksgiving-themed event, we have many appropriate styles to choose from.  History can come alive and will also be more meaningful to any child with a proper costume to role-play any historic and time-honored Thanksgiving character, from Squanto all the way to Myles Standish.  We even have an adorable rendition of a Thanksgiving turkey!  Don’t miss the opportunity to dress up and get into the spirit of gratitude and appreciation by celebrating this traditional holiday in bona fide style.

Even though it’s time to say goodbye to Halloween this year, you can hold onto the memories you’ve made by leaving those costumes out for your kids to dress up in and play with for a little while longer.  Learning about historic figures at school and watching interesting characters on TV and in the movies is one thing, dressing up as and ‘becoming’ them during playtime is quite another.  Let your child’s imagination soar while taking advantage of fall’s many golden opportunities that teach kids things about life, the world, as well as historic events–all while having some pretty serious fun through the creative use of costumes!

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