It's Halloween. You've got little kids. And after you've taken them trick-or-treating, perhaps you'd like to watch a video with them.

Nothing as scary as that chiller the teens are watching in the next room. Nothing that'll keep your little ones up all night. But something they'll enjoy that you can enjoy, too.

How about a cartoon?

There are plenty of Halloween-themed 'toons out there, from Casper the Friendly Ghost for the very young to a wide range of spooky toons featuring classic Disney and Warner Bros. characters, along with myriad others.

The suggestions listed here are available on DVD, or you can watch many of them for free on the Internet at YouTube or Hulu or Crackle or Fancast or other streaming Web sites. (Just do a search at the site or Google the title you're looking for.)

All of the Casper cartoons are safe enough for small fry, each with roughly the same formula. There are witches and goblins and prankster ghosts — but Casper himself is all about being kind and helping others, a much better message for young children than drinking blood or eating flesh. (Particularly if your kids are vegetarians.)

The beloved "Peanuts" TV special "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" (1966) is another soft cartoon, with storylines about Charlie Brown getting more tricks than treats and Linus waiting in the pumpkin patch for a visit from The Great Pumpkin.

Or how about the 1937 Disney short "Lonesome Ghosts"? This one could have been the template for "Ghostbusters," as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy are "Ghost Exterminators" summoned to a haunted house by a quartet of bored spooks.

Another Disney classic that is very funny and a bit scary is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1949) — about Ichabod Crane's midnight encounter with the notorious Headless Horseman. (Paired with "The Wind in the Willows" in the feature film "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.")

Or the Pixar/Disney feature "Monsters, Inc." (2001), which hilariously spoofs every creature-feature cliche you can think off.

And, of course, there's always Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), which has become a modern-classic staple this for time of year.

And for kids a bit older, the Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror" episodes each feature an anthology of specific movie spoofs.

Other favorites include the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from Disney's 1940 feature "Fantasia," Popeye in "Fright to the Finish" (1954), Porky Pig's Jekyll-Hyde spoof "The Case of the Stuttering Pig," Disney's 1929 black-and-white classic "Skeleton Dance," "Betty Boop's Halloween Party" (1933) and many others.