Looking for a fun way to get into the Halloween spirit this year? Why not try “You’ve been booed!” A neighborly tradition that is simple, easy, and sure to bring a smile to everyone involved. Let’s get into on how to start the tradition in your neighborhood, what to give as a gift, and even provide you with a free printable so you can get started right away!
The “You’ve Been Booed Halloween Tradition”
You’ve been booed is a fun neighborhood tradition that is perfect for getting everyone into the Halloween spirit! It’s simple, easy, and best of all- it’s free! Here’s how it works:
Each household participating secretly leaves a small gift on the doorstep of another household. The gift usually consists of Halloween candy or cookies and a “You’ve been booed!” sign or printable (which you can find for free in this post!)
The idea is to not get caught “booing” someone, so it’s best to do it late at night or when you know the homeowners will be out. Once a household has been “booed”, they hang their sign on their front door to let everyone know. Then, that household is responsible for “booing” two other households within the next few days. And the tradition continues until everyone in the neighborhood has been “booed”!
Why it’s fun!
What’s not to love about this tradition? It’s a great way to spread some holiday cheer and get to know your neighbors a little better. And it’s the perfect opportunity to show off your creative side by coming up with fun treat for each household you choose.
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How it works
You’ve been booed is a fun neighborhood tradition that is perfect for getting everyone into the Halloween spirit! It’s simple, easy, and best of all- it’s free! Here’s how it works:
- Get goodies–Halloween candy, a decorated bag, or even homemade cookies.
- Print out the tags–You can find a “You’ve been booed!” sign or printable at the end of this post.
- Attach the tags–Tie them onto the goodie bags with ribbon, string, or tape.
- Deliver the gifts–Leave them on doorsteps late at night or when you know the homeowners will be out. Ding dong ditch, and don’t get caught!
- Once a household has been “booed”, they hang their sign on their front door to let everyone know. Then, that household is responsible for “booing” two other households within the next few days.
Get your free “you’ve Been Booed” printable!
Tips and tricks
Need more ideas? Here are some tips and tricks for making the most of your You’ve been booed experience:
Grab fun treats to give away
Here are some fun ideas:
- Halloween candy/treats
- Stickers
- 🎃【INCLUDES 2 ROLLS OF HALLOWEEN STICKERS】Witch pumpkin sticker 1.5 inches (500 Pcs); Bat pumpkin sticker 1 inch (500 Pcs). Available in 16 different patterns, colorful meet all your various needs for decorating on halloween and daily uses.
- 👻【QUALITY MATERIAL】These halloween stickers are made of self-adhesive and different Halloween-theme printing, odorless material, it is safe to use. Easy to peel or stick, suitable for flat and smooth surfaces like glass, paper and more.
- Glowsticks
- As Bright As It Gets – These glow sticks are ultra-bright and will light up your event like no other. Whether you’re celebrating a public holiday such as Halloween, New Year, Easter or 4th of July, or your own birthday celebration, pool party or wedding, our glow sticks gets you covered.
- Keeps Your Party Light All Night – Perfectly engineered under strict quality control, these glow sticks are made from high quality materials to ensure up to 6 hours of glowing light so you could enjoy your party all night without worrying they would fade away.
- Treat mixes or sprinkles
- THEMED SPRINKLES: 3.5 ounces of sprinkles. Create a blast of color and fun for your next celebration or party with our naturally dyed, colorful themed sprinkles and decorations! These themed toppings are a sprinkle mix of jimmies that turn your desserts into a one-of-a-kind masterpiece perfect for birthdays, graduations, baby showers, holidays other occasions.
- SPRINKLE MEDLEY TO YOUR PASTRIES: Ice your cookies, cupcakes, cakes, caramel apples, and more. Our beautiful sprinkles are the perfect way to add a pop of color to your creation. Make your desserts special with our sprinkles and create a sweet and colorful blend to compliment any dessert. You’ll be surprised how delicious and glamorous your baked goods look; get ready to impress your guests with these delectable sprinkles!
- Halloween socks
- Shoe Size 6-9 /Sock Size 9-11
- PERFECT FOR Halloween:Bats, pumpkins, ghosts, skeletons, and cats in a fun pattern. Celebrate the holiday in these cute colourful socks for Halloween revelry!
- Halloween movies
- Halloween books
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Schertle, Alice (Author)
- Face paints
- PROFESSIONAL 15 COLORS PAINT OIL : It works exceptionally well for all aspects of face and body painting such as line work, based work, blending, layering, and meets the needs of pro face painters and beginners.
- VIVID COLORS : Through your creativity, you can blend colors to paint various colors and unique looks on your skin, which will last a long time and always present vibrant colors.
- S’mores supplies
- Bubbles
- SUPER VALUE PACK. Our Halloween bubbles for kids come in 24 pieces with 6 different designs: Monster, Black Cat, Witch, Spooky, Bat and Pumpkin. Gives endless hours of bubbly joy and happiness!
- UNIQUE AND FESTIVE. All your little ghouls and ghosts will love these Halloween character bubble bottles. A fun addition to your Halloween party supplies, each plastic bottle of bubbles is topped with either monster, zombie, witch, and vampire. Give them out as party favors at your classroom Halloween party, pass them out to co-workers on the big day, or drop them in treat bags when trick-or-treaters ring your doorbell.
- Homemade treats
I love these adorable Halloween Ghost Cookies from Nicole at Organized Chaos Blog! They would make a fun homemade treat to give away to friends or neighbors when it’s Booing season!
- Silly string
- 2 COLORS PER PACK: Keep the fun lasting twice as long with the two pack of streamer string! Keep the fun to yourself, or give one can to a friend for an intense streamer battle!
- BRIGHT COLORS: Paint the sky with the brightest colors of streamer string! Receive either red, purple, blue, green, pink, or orange. Package comes with 2 individual 3oz spray cans.
- Halloween craft kit
- Sticker Size: 3.7 inches * 3.7 inches,4.48 inches * 3.7 inches.Suitable for different sizes of pumpkins.
- For kid: This is undoubtedly a safe way to decorate pumpkins, allow your child’s imagination to get creative to design their pumpkin without carving or using knives.
- Vampire teeth and toys
- Package includes: 3 pairs of vampire teeth fangs in 3 different sizes (13 mm, 15 mm, 17 mm), 1 x papersheet,2 bottle tooth-powder,1 bottle mixing-liquid.the material is non-toxic and harmless.
- Safe Material: This Halloween vampire fangs kit is made of quality resin with injection molding, non toxic, safe on teeth and looks realistic.The adhesive is made of professional tooth-powder and mixture-liquid, non-toxic,tasteless, you can rest assured to use.
- Pencils
- Different scents: the patterns of different style represent different scents, including watermelon, strawberry, apple, lemon, rose, jasmine，When writing, the aroma will stimulate your sense of smell and add more fun to your study
- Halloween theme: the Halloween pencils have 10 styles, such as pumpkin, black bat ,spider, ghost and so on, our pencil comes with a soft,these colored pencils have beautiful looking and various colors,are perfect for teachers children classrooms use,which will give you more choose, add more fun to you in the festival and daily life
- Flashlights
- Trick or treat bags
- Halloween Special Design& Halloween Trick or Treat Bags: This Halloween party bags come with 6 different special Halloween patterns, such as pumpkin, cauldron, bat, spider, Witch, ghost, moon. Vibrant colors and Halloween themed patterns make them eye-catching, very suitable for gift packaging and candy containers, exquisite enough to make gift boxes that little girls and boys like, or fantastic decorations for some Halloween themed parties.
- 6 PCS Halloween Large Capacity Bag: These large tote trick or treat bags are very suitable for most sizes of gift packaging, you can use it for Halloween parties, trick toys, Halloween candy, treat gifts, Halloween gift packaging, Halloween decorations, friend gift bags, they can hold any gift for Halloween or for kids. This Halloween bags dimensions 15″×11.8″×3.9″. Perfect for Halloween activities and gifts.
- Halloween décor
- The Realistic Hairy Spider for Halloween Decorations lenght is 4.9 ft/150cm.
- Halloween Spider Legs come in Collapse Condition. Bend Them The Way You Like and Hang to Anything You Want.
Involve your kids
Let them help with coming up with gift ideas, making the tags, and delivering the gifts.
Go when it’s dark
It’s more fun that way. You can even get dressed up in dark clothes so that you don’t get caught!
Keep it simple (if you want)
It can be as simple or as complicated as you want! Don’t feel like putting together a big basket of treats? Don’t! Add a simple bag of candy to the “You’ve been booed!” sign and you’re all set.
Start early
You can start early October so it can spread throughout the month, or wait until closer to Halloween. This is such a fun tradition that is perfect for getting everyone into the Halloween spirit!
Are you inspired to start your own “You’ve been booed” tradition in your neighborhood? Be sure to download the free printable so you can get started right away. And if you have any tips or tricks for making the most of this fun tradition, be sure to leave them in the comments below! Happy October!
I am unable to get the printable. I have subscribed several times. May I please get it? I’d love to BOO a neighbor.
Yes! Look for it in your email! Let me know if you don’t get it!