If you’re looking for great Christmas music that happens to be FREE, look no further because iTunes has you covered with 20 holiday tunes from a wide variety of artists. Just head over to the iTunes Holiday Sampler here and click on Free Album. Wait for the download to finish, make some hot chocolate, start the fireplace and snuggle up for a cold winter night with some great tunes. Thanks Apple and iTunes for helping to rock the holidays this year.

Here’s the complete song list:

• O Come All Ye Faithful – Amy Grant
• The First Noel – David Archuleta
• Silent Night – Sarah McLachlan
• Carol of the Bells/Jingle Bells – Barry Manilow
• It Snowed – Meaghan Smith
• Above the Northern Lights – Manheim Steamroller
• Baby It’s Cold Outside – Lady Antebellum
• We Three Kings – Toby Keith
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Rascal Flatts
• Silent Night – Wynonna
• 12 Days of Christmas – Mexicani Marimba Band
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas – Weezer
• A Snowflake Fell (and It Felt Like a Kiss) – Glasvegas
• Another Christmas Song – Stephen Colbert
• Greensleeves – Vince Guaraldi
• Dream a Dream – Charlotte Church
• The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act 2: Character Dances – Kirov Orchestra & Valery Gergiev
• Angels We Have Heard on High – Aretha Franklin
• O Holy Night – Musiq Soulchild
• Auld Lang Syne – The Lonesome Travelers

Taco Bell

Chipotle

Just show up at any Chipotle dressed like one of their meals on Halloween and you’re in for a FREE Boo-rito! Hmm, I wonder if the Painted Hen can do one of these costumes out of cardboard and aluminum foil!?!

Applebee’s

Children 12 and under in a Halloween costume get a FREE kids’ meal at lunch or dinnertime on October 31 (with purchase of adult entree)

Boston Market

2 kids eat FREE through October 31, 2009. NO costume required(but you do have to buy a $6 adult meal to get the deal). Details here.

McDonald’s

Visit a participating McDonald’s in costume on Halloween get a FREE cheeseburger or hamburger! (You might want to call ahead to see if your local restaurant is participating)

Breyers YoCrunch

For up to two weeks following Halloween, parents can send any candy wrapper to YoCrunch and receive a coupon for a FREE Breyers YoCrunch yogurt.  Get all the details here.

Michael’s

Come in on Halloween for a free kids Trick-or-Treat Pail, plus a FREE coloring activity, FREE Crayola pencil topper demo with Crayola Model Magic Fusion and a Make-It Take It Halloween Frame. And if that’s not enough, kids also get a FREE balloon and candy too. Check out the details here.

Brunswick Bowling

Get a coupon good for one FREE game of open play bowling for up to 6 people in a single visit.  Valid only on Halloween. Click here to grab the coupons.

The Picture People

FREE portrait sheet of Halloween wallet size prints. Get spooky here.

Sears

On October 31, bring your child dressed in their Halloween costume to the new Sears Toy Shop and receive a FREE toy from Mattel. They also have a printable coupon for $5 off a $20 Toy Purchase. Get the details here.
Also, get a FREE portrait collage ($44.95) at Sears with no sitting fee. Better hurry though, it ends tomorrow 10/31/09!

World Wildlife Fund

If you haven’t already carved your pumpkins, check out these FREE pumpkin stencils from the World Wildlife Fund. Get the stencil info here.

Spooky iPhone Apps

Rotor Blog has found 9 fun iPhone apps to liven up your Halloween. Check them out here.

Barnes and Noble

FREE small cookie and kid-size hot chocolate on Saturday, October 24 only. Get the coupon here.

Blockbuster Express

Get a FREE Rental from Blockbuster Express Kiosk with a code. Go to any Blockbuster Express and enter code GER9A2 and get free one night rental. Find the kiosk nearest you at Blockbuster Express.

The Picture People

FREE portrait sheet of Halloween wallet size prints. Get spooky here.

Sears

On October 31, bring your child dressed in their Halloween costume to the new Sears Toy Shop and receive a FREE to from Mattel. They also have a printable coupon for $5 off a $20 Toy Purchase. Get the details here.

That’s right, just show up at any Chipotle dressed like one of their meals on Halloween and you’re in for a FREE Boo-rito! Hmm, I wonder if the Painted Hen can do one of these costumes out of cardboard!?!?

More Free Food Deals

• Little Debbie: Signup for Little Debbie’s Share-a-Thon Giveaway and get a coupon for FREE box of Little Debbie Cupcakes (well, one million do anyway!)
• Del Taco: Sign up for Del Taco’s Raving Fan E-Club and get two FREE chicken soft tacos. Plus, get a FREE shake on your birthday!
• Krispy Kreme: Become a Friend of Krispy Kreme and get a FREE Original Glazed Donut.
• Benihana: Join Benihana’s Chef’s Table and get a complimentary Benihana Birthday Dinner certificate (maximum value of $30) emailed to you for use during the month of your birthday!
• Nature Valley: Sign up for Nature Valley’s Eat Better America Newsletter and receive a FREE Nature Valley Chewy Trail Mix Bar and a FREE pouch of Granola Nut Clusters.

Cake Wrecks Giveaway

While you can’t eat this one, it will make you laugh and maybe a little hungry. This week, Five Hens is giving away two copies of the hysterical new book Cake Wrecks from blogger and author Jen Yates. Get the details on to enter for a chance to win here.

FREE Dazzled by Hope Pink Ribbon Pin

Not only does the Breast Cancer Site do great things by funding FREE mammograms for women in need, but they’ll give you something free for helping out too. All you have to do is sign up forTThe Breast Cancer Site’s FREE Daily Reminder Service, and to say thank you, they’ll give you a FREE Dazzled by Hope Pink Ribbon Pin! Better still, they’ll give extra funding toward mammograms for women in need if you are a brand-new registrant!

FREE Breast Cancer Survivor Pink Ribbon Pin or Bracelet

If you or someone you love is a breast cancer survivor and you would like to share your story in the hope that it will inform and inspire others, email The Pink Ribbon Shop your narrative at survivors@pinkribbonshop.com.   If they post your story on their blog, www.thepinkribbonshop.blogspot.com, they’ll send you your choice of a pink ribbon pin or breast cancer band bracelet.

FREE Pink Ink!

If a Pink Ribbon Pin or bracelet just doesn’t show your tremendous level of commitment to the breast cancer awareness cause or to your survivorship, you can go extreme. If you live near or around Aurora, CO, 5280 Tattoo is permanently painting pink ribbons, at no charge, for breast cancer survivors and the loved-ones of breast cancer victims this October! Now that’s commitment! And if you get inked at 5280, let us know or send a picture…we’d love to see it and share your complete commitment.

FREE Breast Cancer Screenings

There are many free breast cancer screenings nationwide that are based on income levels and your insurance status.  Just Google “Free Breast Cancer Screenings” and you’re sure to find a program in your area.  However, if you live in or near San Antonio, DITI Imaging will be giving free breast cancer screenings to anyone all month long.  The free screenings will take place all this month at the DITI Imaging office at 1931 Northwest Military Highway, Suite 203, about a half mile outside Loop 410 on the North Side.

FREE Women’s Health Calendar

WomensHealth.gov has put together a very informative and useful women’s health calendar for 2010. Calendars are available in both English and Spanish. Get yours today right here.

Other Cool Freebies Today

• We know at least three of the Hens’ little guys will love this: FREE GeoTrax DVD from Mattell. Sammy and Steamer Save the Day and 3 other episodes. Click here to get onboard with this FREE offer. (And no shipping & handling charges either!)
• Get FREE breakfast Saturday through Monday (10/10-10/12) at IKEA stores nationwide. Offer includes one small breakfast and one small coffee. This breakfast offer is not valid at IKEA stores in Hicksville, Houston or at IKEA Direct.
• One of the Hens is from Wisconsin and highly recommends this one: Get two FREE weekday admission tickets to next year’s Milwaukee Summerfest 2010. To receive your two FREE weekday admission tickets, just complete the short Summerfest 2010 Survey here.
• From Eat, Drink, and Be Fair: FREE Green Mountain Roaster’s Coffee but you’ll have to be quick…and smart: The first 100 respondents to a daily question will receive a special Fair Trade coffee care package. Not in the first 100? Don’t worry, you’ll still be entered into the Fairest Trade Prize drawing at the end of the month to receive 12 blissful months of Green Mountain Coffee’s Fair Trade Certified^™ Coffees. Test your Fair Trade coffee knowledge daily right here.

Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Then prove it: How fast does a light wave travel? If you said 300,000 kilometers per hour then you might be smarter than a fifth grader. Join us today for a special Friday Freebies Twitter Grade School Trivia Test. Follow us on Twitter all day Friday, October 2 for pop-quizzes throughout the day. If you pass the pop quiz, you could win one of 20 LeapFrog iPhone applications. Follow all of the fun on Twitter with the hashtag #fhleapfrog on http://search.twitter.com. And remember, on Twitter we are @FiveHens.

The Fine Print

No purchase necessary to enter. The first four entrants to answer a Twitter Grade School Trivia question correctly on Twitter will win a LeapFrog iPhone application. LeapFrog and Five Hens employees and their families are ineligible to participate. Winners must follow FiveHens on Twitter. Winners will be notified via Direct Message and will have 24 hours to respond to @FiveHens by Direct Message. If they do not reply within 24 hours, another winner will be selected. Arrangements will be made to send download codes to winners. Open to participants in the US and Canada 18 years and older.

Disney Digital Books

Disney is offering a FREE trial of seven of their Disney Digital Books. We checked out this deal this week and it’s pretty cool. These online books talk and tell stories to your kids plus a whole lot more. There are “quizzes” throughout each book to help with reading/listening comprehension, a story builder feature to help your kids use their own minds to write the story, and a dictionary feature so kids can get definitions of words they don’t understand. The seven free books represent a pretty wide age range, so you should be able to find something for free no matter how old your kids are. This one is definitely worth taking a look at. Check it out here.

Free Coffee and a Cookie for You

For the parent on the go, there’s always time for coffee and a cookie, even if you’re scarfing them down while you’re driving the kids to gymnastics. Here are three ways to snag some FREE Starbucks coffee:

• The easiest way: Register your Starbucks Card online and get a FREE coffee drink on your birthday. Register your card here.
• The cool way: If you have an iPhone (and you’re a cool parent, so you do), you can receive a FREE $5 Starbucks credit when you download the new Starbucks Mobile Card app and reload your Starbucks card with $25 or more. Check out the details here.
• The creative way: Creatively nominate a friend on Starbucks’ “You Deserve a Frappacino” website. Maybe they’ll nominate you back and you can get a FREE Frap!

Now you just need a cookie to go with your coffee. Head over to the Great American Cookies Website and sign up for their CookiE-mail. After you register, they send you a coupon for a FREE cookie by email immediately. Nom nom!

And Don’t Forget Our Two Great Giveaways This Week

EA MySims Agents for Wii

Just released today, September 29, 2009, MySims Agents is a mystery-solving adventure game for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS, in which you must guide super special agents in an effort to stop the sinister plans of Morcubus, lord of the criminal underworld. And this week, you can win a copy of the brand new MySims Agents for the Wii right here on Five Hens. That’s right, FIVE lucky readers can score a FREE copy of this awesome new game from Electronic Arts (MSRP $49.99). Click here for all the details and to enter for your chance to win.

LeapFrog Tag Reading System

Reading books has never been so much fun! The LeapFrog Tag Reading System brings books to life and challenges your child with exciting interactive games! This week, Five Hens is giving away a LeapFrog Tag Reading System (MSRP $49.99) with three books of your choice ($41.97 MSRP) to three of our lucky readers. That’s a total package value of over $90 each! Click here for all the details and for your chance to win.

At the Five Hens, we love museums and this Saturday, September 26th, the Smithsonian Magazine is doing us all good by hosting a FREE Museum Day. That’s right. Compliments of the Smithsonian Magazine, you can enjoy free general admission for you and a guest to literally hundreds of museums and cultural venues nationwide on Saturday (and some on Sunday too). To get your free admission, you’ll need to present a Museum Day admission card at participating Museum Day locations. You can download your admission card from the Smithsonian’s site by clicking that big Museum Day Admission Card picture right here on our site.

If you can’t visit one of the museums in person, there are great podcasts available for you to listen and learn without having to leave your house. You can listen to tours, lectures and fun facts from participating Museum Day museums. You can also follow the goings-on of Museum Day on Twitter.

To find a venue or museum near you, head over here to the Smithsonian’s Museum Day Venue Search Page. Have a great time learning this weekend!

BONUS Giveaway: Enter to Win FREE admission tickets to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

In honor of Museum Day, today Five Hens is giving away four FREE tickets to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Click here to find out how to enter for a chance to win.

This Week’s Museum-themed “Do Good” Challenge

We hope you enjoy your freebies.  Please visit our special museum-themed “Do Good” Challenge to find out a great way that you can give back to our world, our kids, and each other.

Today, Cold Stone Creamery is hosting the 8th Annual “World’s Largest Ice Cream Social” to benefit the Make-a-Wish Foundation.  Tonight from 5-8 pm, get a FREE 3 oz. Make-A-Wish Creation with your donation to Make-A-Wish.  It’s a worthwhile cause and you get FREE ice cream.  What can be better than that?

Also today Carvel is showing it’s appreciation to all of it’s customers by giving away FREE Oreo Lil’ Rounders from 3-7 pm.  Click here to find the nearest Carvel to you.  If you visit the Carvel website, you can also get a coupon for $3 off an 18-pack of Oreo Lil’ Rounders. Yum…Happy FREE Ice Cream Thursday!

Join Neil Patrick Harris and Mars in an effort to “Make America Awesome” with FREE Real Chocolate! If nothing else, the video is super funny. And if you visit RealChocolate.com every Friday until the end of September, you could score some FREE chocolate. Starting at 9:00 AM EST every Friday this September, be one of the first 250,000 people to register at RealChocolate.com and you’ll receive a FREE Real Chocolate coupon for your favorite Mars product! That’s AWESOME!

This Week’s Chocolate-themed “Do Good” Challenge

We hope you enjoy your freebies.  Please visit our special chocolate-themed “Do Good” Challenge to find out a great way that you can give back to our world, our kids, and each other.

Free Chocolate Amaretto Cheesecake

Well, at least the recipe is FREE.  You’ll have to make it.  Check out this yummy recipe for a great Chocolate Amaretto Cheesecake.

More Freebies

• FREE Fiber One Oats & Chocolate Bar plus $5 in coupons from Fiber One. Get your fiber here.
• Join the Melting Pot’s Club Fondue (free) and get a FREE Chocolate Fondue for two. Heat up this deal right here.
• FREE Chocolate Cherry Granola bar from Bear Naked. Get your granola crunchy on here.
• FREE 3-pack of Lindt Chocolate Truffles and a DVD of Chef Quentin Ulrich’s best recipes. Mmm…get the yummy goodies here.

Don’t Forget About Our FREE “Kids Eat For” iPhone App Giveaway

Looking for a restaurant near you that has a great Kids Eat Free deal? Then look no further! Introducing Kids Eat For. Kids Eat For is a community built, grassroots effort to build the largest collection of kids eat free and discounted kids meals in the world. Now they have a great new iPhone app available in the iTunes store. This week, Five Hens is giving away five FREE copies of Kids Eat For right here. For a complete review of the application, check out our blog post about it right here.

Follow us on Twitter for up to the minute freebie deals and a whole lot more! We’re @fivehens.

• Get a FREE book when when you mail in 1 Zyrtec UPC code. Visit Zyrtec.com for more information.
• Download a coupon for your favorite M&M/Mars Chocolate Candy. Woohoo…FREE chocolate! Indulge yourself here.
• 50 FREE photo prints (plus FREE shipping) from SnapFish. Get snapping here.
• Gobs of FREE MP3’s from Amazon. Rock out in style here.
• Enter the search for the 2010 Disney Moms Panel for a chance to win a FREE trip to Walt Disney World resorts in December. Details here.
• FREE Lunch Friday’s from Lean Cuisine. Enter to win FREE lunch from Lean Cuisine for a full week. Get the skinny here.

Don’t Forget About Our Sprig Toys Giveaway

This week we have a great giveaway from our sponsor Sprig Toys. It’s a Sprig Front Loader from their Eco Trucks collection. The giveaway ends on Sunday night, so be sure to enter soon! Click here for all of the details on the giveaway and how to enter.

Follow us on Twitter for up to the minute freebie deals and a whole lot more! We’re @fivehens.

Disney is currently looking for moms to become part of the Walt Disney World Moms Panel. These individuals will take the reigns from the current panel of moms starting in January of 2010. Members of the Moms Panel get to share views of their own Disney vacation experiences as they answer questions and provide advice to families planning a trip to Walt Disney World Resorts. As a member of the Moms Panel, you’ll get a FREE trip to Disney December 4-8, 2009. To find out more about the program and how to enter, head over to the Disney Moms Panel website.

Applications will be taken from 9:00 am EDT on September 10, 2009 (that’s TODAY) through 11:59 pm EDT September 20, 2009 or when they have reached 20,000 applicants, whichever comes first.

Great news for those of you heading out to do some shopping this Labor Day Weekend with your kiddos. We noticed that on the back page of this week’s Ikea ad, there is a “Kids Eat Free!” coupon.  Your kids who are under 12 get to eat for free all weekend from Saturday September 5 through Monday, September 7. You get to put together a meal from 3 kid-sized items like meatballs, PB&J, mac-n-cheese, yogurt, cookies, and more.  The best part about this deal is that there is no purchase required. Well, have a great Labor Weekend and enjoy some free eats from Ikea.

Here are some more Friday Freebies

• Yippee! Get some free Granola Bars from Bear Naked http://ow.ly/nQqh
• SIGNED copy of Catching Fire: Giveaway to one lucky winner from Scholastic Books. Learn how to win: http://bit.ly/1aa5Ej
• Free 2010 calendar from Annie’s Homegrown and Kiwi Magazine: http://ow.ly/nQn2
• Enter to win $5000 in back to school stuff and $2000 literacy grant for your school from Nestle: http://ow.ly/nQlH
• Enter to win a Hachette Books Back-to-School Pack at http://bit.ly/2U5w9
• Win a $500 Your Zone room makeover from Walmart: http://bit.ly/4qGfYe
• Target will award 5,000 grants of up to $800 each for school field trips. Apply by November 3: http://ow.ly/nQiz
• Mail in 30 Kleenex box tabs, and earn10 free books from Scholastic Books! http://ow.ly/nQ4e
• FREE potty training DVD from Huggies Pull-Ups: http://ow.ly/nPZp

And please help someone in need

Kids in Need Foundation helps provide free school supplies to students in need. Please help them to help others: http://ow.ly/nQcC

Follow us on Twitter for up to the minute freebie deals and a whole lot more! We’re @fivehens.