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IN THIS GUIDE:
- What a boo basket is
- Everything in my boo basket
- The styling tricks that make it look expensive
It’s been a minute, so I’m coming back with the sweetest little holiday post. If you haven’t heard of a boo basket — it’s giving Easter basket, but make it spooky: a little bucket of treats you surprise your kids with in the days before trick-or-treating. And it is all over social media right now. Honestly? It’s the cutest excuse for a Target run.
I kept mine on the softer side — white, pinks, and soft oranges, same as my porch decor this year — but the formula works in any colors, classic orange-and-black included.
And if you’re pulling this together last minute, you still have time — every single piece is from Target, basket included, so one store and one trip and you’re done.
Everything in my boo basket
I kept it simple — the candy they would pick themselves, a couple of cute extras, and nothing that takes more than five minutes to throw together. Everything below is from Target — one store, one pickup order, which is the whole trick the week of Halloween.
The basket: A white rope ghost basket. Sturdy coiled rope with the sweetest ghost face, big enough to actually hold everything, and it doubles as storage after Halloween.
The candy:
- Reese’s white chocolate ghosts — the snack-size ones, individually wrapped, and yes, they match the ghost basket
- Candy corn
The non-candy fillers:
- A little Halloween book — Boo! Bluey’s Halloween. It’s a magnet book, so it doubles as a story and an activity, and that orange cover is so cute in the basket)
- A pair of Halloween socks — the pumpkin-and-ghost ones — $5 for a 2-pack at Target, so one pair per basket
- A little pumpkin tumbler — $3 and super cute!
- A fun little non-candy extra: a skeleton-hand pen poking out of the basket —$3 for a 6-pack, so one pen dresses up six baskets.
- A tiny ghost plush tucked right in the top — $3; soft white ghost with pink cheeks and a little witch hat.
The presentation (this is what makes it look expensive):
- Felt Halloween pennant flags stuck right into the basket — $3 for a 3-pack — one flag per basket, so one pack covers three baskets; they make the whole thing look finished.
- Ghost/pumpkin treat boxes for the loose candy.
The styling (steal this)
The trick to making it look intentional instead of thrown together:
- One palette, mostly: pick two or three colors and stick close to them — mine are white, pinks, and oranges.
- Repeat the orange: the pumpkin on my ghost’s belly, the Bluey book, the candy, the tumbler — little touches everywhere, with the white and pinks keeping it soft.
- Start with the basket: pick your container first (mine is a white rope ghost), then build everything else around it — if a piece didn’t match the basket’s colors, it didn’t go in.
- Making one for a boy?: Swap the pink out: use the orange BOO or the black HAPPY HALLOWEEN! flag from the same pennant pack instead of the pink one, skip the pink treat boxes, and lean on the orange, black, and white — the basket, the Bluey book, and the tumbler all still work.
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