Mom Life
Plan Your Whole Halloween
Give AI your kids' ages, budget and schedule and get a simple week-by-week Halloween plan, deadlines first: costumes, class party, pumpkins, decorations and trick-or-treat night.
Jump to the prompt ↓
Best With
ChatGPT (Claude or Gemini work too)
What You’ll Need
Your kids' ages, your city or ZIP code, your Halloween budget and your usual schedule for that day.
It takes about 5 minutes.
Standard Prompt
How to use this prompt
Copy the prompt below and swap in your details where you see [brackets].
Paste it into one AI chat. It gives the AI the full picture, so everything you ask after it works better in the same chat.
Answer anything it asks, then use the week-by-week plan it gives you.
This is the Start here prompt from my full Halloween page. Every other Halloween prompt, each with its own Copy button, plus Google Calendar and Gmail add-ons, is on one page: Halloween, Handled.
Connection note
Sam’s Tips
The more real details you give it (your kids' ages, your budget, your actual schedule), the better the answer.
You don't have to use your kids' real names. "Kid 1, age 7" works just as well.
Do all of Halloween in one chat (or one Project), so you only type your family's details once.
Ready for the rest? Costumes, the class party, trick-or-treat night, pumpkin day and the candy are all on Halloween, Handled.
Try these next
I post every new prompt on Instagram as I test it.
I want help planning Halloween for my family. Here's our situation:
Kids and ages: [names or "kid 1, kid 2" and ages]
Where we live: [city or ZIP code]
Halloween falls on: Saturday, and our usual schedule that day is [sports, work, activities]
Total Halloween budget: [budget]
Allergies or foods we avoid: [list or say none]
What already feels stressful: [costumes, the class party, the night itself, etc.]
Make me a simple plan from today until November 1 with what needs to happen each week: costumes, any school or class party stuff, pumpkins, decorations, and trick-or-treat night. Put deadlines first, like shipping cutoffs and sign-up dates. Keep it realistic for a busy mom. Don't fill every free moment with Halloween tasks. Ask me questions if anything is missing instead of guessing.