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Halloween “Boo” Sign Free Printable And Ideas

One of my favorite Halloween traditions is “Booing” our neighbors. Have you ever been “Booed” – do you have any idea what I am talking about? Let me tell you all about Booing your neighbors and give you a free printable Boo sign!

My oldest was six months old when we were first Booed. Now it is as much a part of Halloween in our house as trick-or-treating. Here’s what happens.

Sometime in October, the doorbell rings. When you go to answer it, there is no one there — except a small basket of treats and a note. The note tells of a phantom ghost that has come to town to spread Halloween fun. Once you are Booed, you are challenged to spread the fun within two days by delivering a Boo gift to two neighbors. To ensure everyone gets to be part of the fun, you are also instructed to hang a Boo sign on your door for the rest of the season to let other ghosts know you have already been visited.

Sounds like fun, right? It is.

It is also fun to drive around the neighborhood and see all of the paper ghosts hanging on the doors, more and more appear throughout the month as the Boo is spread.

Plus it is as much fun to deliver the treats as it is to receive them because it is always a challenge to not be seen!

Last week, my daughter and I headed out to look for Halloween supplies. We found tons of great Boo basket treats. Everything was so reasonably priced that I was able to load up our baskets.

Halloween Treats Dollar General

What goes into a Boo basket? You can fill your Boo basket with anything. When my daughter was six months old, our thoughtful neighbor included toddler snacks and a plastic pumpkin bowl. I try to tailor our baskets to the family a little bit (making sure there are enough treats for all of the kids in the house). Ideas include:

  • Spider rings
  • Halloween pencils
  • Halloween cups, bowls, etc.
  • Halloween note pads
  • Glow-in-the-dark stuff
  • Halloween jewelry
  • Halloween stickers
  • Halloween coloring/activity books
  • Halloween trinkets/decorations
  • Candy
  • Free Printable Halloween Word Search
  • Free Printable Halloween Tic Tac Toe game


After spending way too much time considering our selections, we finally settled on a basket full of fun treats. Our overflowing baskets cost $7 each and were so much fun to put together.

Halloween Boo Treat Baskets

Part of the Boo tradition is to include the Boo poem and a ghost to be hung on the door. To make Booing a little more fun, I decided to design a cute Boo sign and poem.

To download your free Boo poem and Boo sign, click on the image below. That will bring up a PDF that you can print. Both of the images are sized to fit on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper.

Halloween Boo Sign Free Printable

Happy Booing!

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  1. alicia k (Petite Pilates Pixie) says

    October 9, 2013 at 8:14 am

    oh i like this sign! thanks!

    Reply
  2. Lisa K says

    October 9, 2013 at 12:41 pm

    I love this! I have never heard about it before. I do have 3 young children and this would be really fun to do. I am going to print this up. I think we can have a great time doing this, Thank you for sharing.

    Reply
  3. Mya Murphy says

    October 9, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    I love everything there is to love about Halloween!! These signs are the cutest!!

    Reply
  4. sarah hirsch says

    October 10, 2013 at 8:31 am

    we got boo’d one year, very fun for the kids

    Reply
  5. Sharon Rooney says

    October 10, 2013 at 1:40 pm

    This is such a cute idea. Thank you for sharing.

    Reply
  6. carla bonesteel says

    October 11, 2013 at 10:16 am

    Dollar General is one of the only stores in my small town, and I love it! I buy all of my Halloween stuff there.

    Reply
  7. Susan Smith says

    October 12, 2013 at 6:41 pm

    This sounds fun, I had never heard of this before. I can buy a lot of fun Halloween stuff at Dollar General for a little bit of money.

    Reply
  8. Kamla L. says

    October 12, 2013 at 8:58 pm

    I’ve never heard of this before but is like a great fun way to foster neighborhood togetherness.

    Reply
  9. Michele P says

    October 12, 2013 at 10:27 pm

    great ideas! we love Halloween here, and decorating-its just as much fun as going out trick or treating!

    Reply
  10. Betty Baez says

    October 13, 2013 at 9:33 am

    What a great idea! Sadly i have very few neighbors with children otherwise i would love to do this!

    Reply
  11. Kimberly Hilbert says

    October 13, 2013 at 9:56 am

    This is such a cute idea! Its nice to get something like this mid-october to start off the fun. That way by the end of the month all of the Halloween stuff is “old” giving Thanksgiving a chance to be fun.

    Reply
  12. tim says

    October 13, 2013 at 1:45 pm

    That is a great idea. We have never been booed.

    Reply
  13. Kristi says

    October 13, 2013 at 5:21 pm

    What an awesome idea! I love how it lengthens the celebration. My sister and I have tried to figure out ways to do this with our Christmas celebrations, but this is the first idea for Halloween – I love it!

    Reply
  14. Heidi says

    October 13, 2013 at 7:48 pm

    This is adorable! I haven’t heard of booing anyone, but I think that it would be a great tradition to start with my girls. They love Halloween, and I think it is wonderful to teach them that it is just as much about giving as it is about getting treats. 🙂

    Reply
  15. Richard Hicks says

    October 13, 2013 at 8:00 pm

    SUch fun! Great way to get kids involved and for all to have a fun bonding time together

    Reply
  16. Patty White says

    October 13, 2013 at 8:27 pm

    I love making these!!! I do every year. Usually I put pencils, erasers, note pads, spider and skull rings, and some kind of candy in mine.

    Reply
  17. judy gardner says

    October 13, 2013 at 9:33 pm

    i have never heard of this before but love it! sounds a little like playing secret santa, which i love to do. half of the fun is picking out items that are personalized for the family! i am going to suggest this for next year at our neighborhhood meeting!

    Reply
  18. Tanya White says

    October 14, 2013 at 8:30 pm

    What a great idea, I have never heard of it before!

    Reply
  19. Rebecca says

    October 24, 2013 at 9:46 pm

    Thank you so much for making this available on your site. We were “Boo-ed” but the sign was pretty lame, so I’m sending along some much cuter signs. Thank you!

    Reply

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