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You’ve never been Boo’d? Oh, you’re gonna love this!  This is a great Halloween tradition and it’s never too late to start a new tradition!  With the need for localization during this day and time, Boo’ing your neighbor is one of the best ways to strengthen the ties within your neighborhood.

The basic idea consists of putting together a little basket of different Halloween treats for one of your neighbors, and then they do the same thing for a different neighbor and so on… and so on… and so on.

The fun begins with a Boo-Gram!  A boo-gram is a note, more often than not; it’s a poem that you leave on your neighbor’s door with a big BOO! sign, treats for the family members and a bucket or a basket for them to prepare for the neighbor of their choice.  The sign is placed outside of the home to inform your neighbors that you have already been hit, if many people participate, by Halloween you will begin to see Boo signs lined up and down the streets of your neighborhood!

Once you get Boo’d, you must then Boo two other neighbors, just to keep the chain going.  This is always great fun for the kids when they get to chose which house gets Boo’d or if they get to ring the doorbell, leave the goodies and then run away!

If you are not very poetic, you can borrow one of my poems to start you out!

The treats are for you to enjoy as you wish
This game is quite simple: there’s very little risk

Pick two of your neighbors to pass on the BOO
Fill up their baskets with a goodie or two

Keep the BOO in your yard to proudly display
That you have been tagged this Halloween day.

You have 24 hours to join in the fun
Once two baskets are delivered the game has begun

At the end of the game you’ll finally see true
The BOO’s in yards of those that got BOO’d just like you!

This should be started no later than the middle of the month, so it may be too late to start this tradition for Halloween this year, but how about a Gobble Gram for Thanksgiving!!

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