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Fall Activities To Do With Your Besties

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UIC chapter.

Make Spooky Paintings

Buy some cheap canvases and paint colors from your local convenience or craft store. A fun way to paint with friends is by picking out a theme, such as skeletons, witches, or anything else that comes to mind, and have everyone paint based on that theme. Then, it will be interesting to see how everyone interpreted the theme! Do this with your roomies and hang them up in your dorm for Halloween!

Have a Halloween Makeup Sesh

Look up some fun YouTube Halloween makeup tutorials and try them out with your friends! There are tons of special effects makeup tutorials that you can try out. If not, you could also do Halloween colored makeup on each other for a day out using purples, greens, black, and orange based colors for lipstick and eyeshadow.  

Carve Pumpkins

This is an obvious one, but carving pumpkins is always a super fun thing to do around Halloween time. You can even bake the seeds and eat them too!  Add a little salt and now you have a snack and a cute decoration.  

Go to a Haunted House or Pumpkin Patch

Although this is more costly than the other activities, going to a haunted house is a fun thing to do if you are looking for a fun fright! If you don’t like being scared, then going to a pumpkin patch might be the “fall-tivity” for you! You can take super cute pictures with your friends there too!

Make Halloween Themed Treats

There are a ton of Halloween-themed treats you can find online. Pick one that you like and turn it into bonding time with your friends.  If you want to make your own creation, you can do that too! The possibilities are endless! 

Happy Halloween!

Joy is an undergraduate student at University of Illinois at Chicago pursuing Nursing, with an end goal of becoming a CRNA. She loves spicy chips, R&B, and the summer time. She likes being artistic and expressing her creativity through painting, drawing, and makeup during her free time. You can find her doing homework listening to some Frank Ocean on most days.