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Halloween for the Unprepared, Top 10 Scary Movies & Trick or Treating for Tinies at North Harbour

With the kids safely back at school, you might have been fooled into thinking you’ve got a bit of breathing space before Christmas, but NO! First it’s time to get ready for Halloween!

Trick or treat at North Harbour

If, like me, you completely forgot about it until you were visually assaulted by Halloween decorations whilst trying to buy petrol you might be slightly underprepared. But, fear not! I swung into action with my Halloween spotify playlist for inspiration to assemble the Working Mum’s Guide to Halloween – what movies to watch, what’s on around North Harbour and the best YouTube pumpkin carving guides. I may or may not have also done the Monster Mash.

Halloween Events

First up is Caboolture’s Halloween Twilight Market on Saturday 28th October from 4-9pm. Prizes for best costume and best stall plus the opportunity to sneak in some shopping whilst pretending to be in the Halloween spirit (bad Halloween Mum pun).  See more here.

Next is, Bunnings at Morayfield! Believe it or not, not only is Bunnings completely awesome for all your home and hardware needs – it also hits the nail on the head (more Mum puns) where free Halloween events are concerned. Bunnings Morayfield is holding two free workshops for kids’ Halloween tattoos on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th and hosting a free Halloween Disco & Workshop Disco with face painting, fun games, craft workshop, a prize for Best Dressed Halloween Costume (All Ages), fairy floss, slushies and free sausage sizzle on Halloween from 6pm-8pm. Bookings are essential, for information, check out their page here.

If you want to up the scare factor, Caboolture Historical Village is getting proper spooky with its “Ghoulies & Ghosties Halloween” Ghost Train and Tour 6:30pm-8:30pm on Tuesday 31st. Entry is $5 each for adults and kids and also includes food and games. For more click here.

If these three aren’t quite what you’re after, check the this week’s Moreton Region Blog here for more creepy ideas.

And, if your kids are keen on trick or treating on Halloween, the North Harbour neighbourhood rule is – Porch light On, the household is participating, Porch Light Off, they’re not participating. If your little ones would like to trick or treat but are too small for a late night, we’ll have Halloween lollies for tiny trick or treaters (and big ones!) at the Sales Office from 3pm-5pm on Tuesday 31st.

Movies for Halloween

If you prefer to stay in for Halloween we’ve gathered some movie options to enjoy. Firstly five Kid-Friendly Suggestions.

1 – Hocus Pocus: The best Halloween film ever. Fact.

2 – Hotel Transylvania 1 and 2: Worth watching for the giggling sponge

3 – The Witches: Might encourage them to read Roald Dahl afterwards

4 – The Addams Family: An oldie but goodie

5 – Casper: Prepare tissues

And if you’re looking for something to scare yourself silly when the kids are in bed below are the sales team’s top 10 scary film picks.

1. The Shining: My number one, guaranteed to wet myself film. My toddler even used to give me goosebumps when she rode her little trike around the house. Shudder.

2. The Exorcist: Linda Blair rotating her head and puking green soup? Nasty.

3. Poltergiest: The title says it all.

4. Childs Play: Scary doll containing a murderer…guaranteed doll fear forever.

5. Nightmare on Elm Street: Even the poster in the video shop used to scare the living daylights out of me.

6. The Ring: You’ll be screaming, “If you know you’re going to die, why are you watching it?!” at the TV

7. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Never relax on a back-country road again

8. Halloween: Madman in a mask, with a knife

9. It: The start of many a clown phobia

10. The Birds: Especially poignant in magpie swapping season

Pumpkin Carving

For printable stencils information click here.

Carving fangs:

Easy how-to:

FYI, Just in case your pumpkin carving plans don’t go so well, Aldi is currently selling Halloween tea light holders in the shape of a pumpkin ????

North Harbour Community Info

If you’d like to know more about what’s going on at North Harbour Community, join the North Harbour Community Facebook Group Page. Run by one of our first residents on a voluntary basis for the community it’s a great place to catch up on what’s going on, ask questions and meet neighbours. It’s also where we announce upcoming events, competitions and provide community info.

Fitness Bootcamps at the Village Park. For more info contact Cam on 0403 932 060 or visit www.cam-fit.com.

If you are part of a community group and are looking for a space to meet, please contact regarding availability.

Living at North Harbour

And don’t forget! If you live at North Harbour, you could soon be $500 richer! Our new referrals scheme offers residents who “share the love” and refer their friends and family to join them in our beautiful neighbourhood a $500 thank you. Simply fill in a referral form for any friend or family member you would like to invite to buy a home at North Harbour and send it to us or drop it into the Sales Centre and you could be $500 better off. We have lots of families and friends living in our growing community who love it so much they keep encouraging everyone to move to North Harbour so we thought we should say thanks!

Every resident who refers a friend or family member who ends up buying at North Harbour will receive a $500 gift card and their friend or family member will also receive one as a thank you from us. Terms and conditions including the referral form can be found by clicking here. You are welcome to drop forms back to us in the Sales office or email completed forms to .

Our Sales and Information Centre & 35 Home Display Village are open every day from 10am-5pm including public holidays, located on the corner of Buckley Road and Moreton Bay Boulevard, Burpengary East, approximately 15 minutes from North Lakes. For more information on North Harbour land for sale please contact us.

Park Side Property for Sale, Registered & Ready to Build on Now!

Our North Harbour neighbourhood is home to a close-knit community of people from all walks of life from families large and small, to first home buyers and those looking to downsize.

Park Side Property for Sale

In fact, our downsizer group is one of our community’s most vocal supporters as buyers looking for property for sale in this group tend to have researched thoroughly for a significant period of time prior to deciding to move to North Harbour. We recently did a series of video interviews with some of our residents and Max, a downsizer who looked around for years before choosing our neighbourhood, told us his Top 5 favourite things about living here: “Position, quality of the area, infrastructure – what’s coming and has already started, good value for money and we’ve got real sense of community, a relaxed family atmosphere.

“There are always kids in the park, kids getting outside and having a good time.”

To hear Max’s interview click here.

kids handling balloons

We’re really pleased to hear how much our residents are enjoying our parks as there are plenty more on the way! The Village Park is open now, Reflections will open shortly, Riparian will open mid-2018 and we have several more scheduled in further stages including our Heritage Precinct which will include river access. On completion, North Harbour will offer our residents a proposed 1000 acres of open space and parklands – a huge area of green, eco-corridors comparable to the size of the Brisbane CBD.

If you’re looking for property for sale, we currently have available park side land near Reflections and Riparian Parks which is already registered and can be built on as soon as purchase is completed. Our park side land for sale is perfect for our downsizing residents as it is quiet, has tree views overlooking our Raff Creek eco-corridor and provides access to walking and bike tracks – perfect for keeping active. These blocks are slightly higher to take advantage of the view and our corner blocks have space to keep a caravan/ campervan or boat. An obvious advantage of building a new home when you’re looking to downsize is including what you need and ditching what you don’t! Don’t want stairs? Build a single-storey! Don’t want a garden? Pave it over or go astroturf!

Kids playing on the playground

Reflections Park will open shortly and is located on the south-western side of North Harbour just south of Stages 15 and 16 (which have available lots). It will include play equipment for young children (great for when the grandkids visit), BBQs and shelters as well as exercise equipment in fitness stations which will provide our residents with the opportunity for free workouts in beautiful, tree-lined surroundings.

Our third park, Riparian Park, will include play equipment aimed at older kids such as a flying fox and basketball half court. It will also incorporate shelters, BBQs and fitness equipment. Riparian Park will start construction in late 2017 for completion early to mid-2018.

 

Land for Sale – Ready to Build on Now!

Stage 15 at North Harbour is now registered which means land for sale in this stage is now available for immediate build (once your purchase process is completed). We have several park side house and land packages by different builders currently available choose from in this stage with lot sizes ranging from 400sqm to 553sqm for homes from 3-4 bedrooms. If you are looking for particular types of homes for sale please visit the North Harbour Sales & Information Centre and one of our team will assist you. Some of our house and land packages currently available are listed below.

 

Lot 474 Mornington Parade: 400sqm 4 bed, 2 bath, 2 car – $456,920

A CJ Homes design with 4 spacious bedrooms with built in robes meaning lots of storage space, a covered patio for enjoying leisure time and catching up with friends and family plus turnkey inclusions.

Click here to see more!

Lot 1447 Mornington Crescent: 482sqm 4 bed, 2 bath, 2 car – $509,392

Stylemaster presents this excellent, open plan design which comes with your choice of carpet, tiles or timber look flooring.

Click here to see more!

Lot 1448 Mornington Crescent: 553sqm, 4 bed, 2 bath, 2 car – $496,290

A beautiful one-storey home from Integrale with lots of space for indoor/ outdoor living including a separate media room/ library/ study/ pool room!

Click here to see more!

If we can help you with your search for your dream home please contact us.

What’s on at North Harbour

As always, a busy week at North Harbour as we continue our preparations for the North Harbour parkrun and Sunrise Yoga at the Park. Full details of these events will be with you in early November.

Fitness guru Cam Smith kicked off his 10 week Bootcamp in the Village Park, if you’re keen to join in please visit Cam’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CamFit-1118622071590529/ .

And finally, things to remember! Grab your pizza vouchers on moving day, post your North Harbour bumper sticker photos on our Facebook page to win a $200 Fuel Voucher and, if you’re already a resident, get referring Friends and Family to North Harbour to both receive $500! (Click here for more details).

Have a great week!

North Harbour Sales and Information Centre & 35 Home Display Village are open every day from 10am-5pm. For more information on our land for sale please contact us.

*Any product pricing and availability referenced in this or other North Harbour articles are accurate at the date of initial publication and are subject to change at any time without notice.  Please contact the North Harbour sales team for further information.