Id u decorate for Halloween when do u do it?

[Larlarleighlee]

Just that really when do u do it and also how far do u take it lm looking for sum cool ideas to do this year Any pics from previous years with any ideas you have would be great.
TIA

I'm starting to let the cobwebs gather so they'll look suitably dusty.

We put ours up after school on Hallowe'en and down again the next day. We only do the living room window but we do a big display of pumpkins, hanging decorations, fake cobwebs, battery tealights.

We start with ours a week or two before. We started looking at crafts yesterday. It's so much fun Our attempt at growing pumpkins at home has failed miserably so no pumpkins drying out on the windowsill. I try to incorporate seasonal and natural elements anyway - leaves, branches and things like rosehip or rowan berries gathered when foraging.

I have no pictures of our decorations- which are nothing special anyway- so I'm looking forward to seeing other people's

we also do the natural cobweb gathering mentioned upthread

I've got pumpkins growing at the allotment, we also have some terracotta ones.

I usually put out my pumpkin ornaments first week of October and then the horrible kids decorations that are bright and in your face a week before halloween!!

Night before, down the night after,

This year I am going for a Bo Jo, ReesMogg theme, that should be horrible enough.

Scratch that, just googled “Donald Trump pumpkin”..

Up on 31st and down on 1st.
I only put up some orange fairy lights and a few pumpkins. I love carving pumpkins so I do all the ones for work, do one for my parents and one for my neighbour.

We just put stuff up on and by the door on Halloween afternoon so trick or treaters know they can knock on our door.
Then we take it down by 8.00 so no one knocks after that.

I put some tasteful things up on the 1st Oct. have a look at ‘lightfs4fun’ to see what I mean !

Then closer to Halloween I put some spooky bits up but we don’t get trick or treaters so nothing outside !

I made a door wreath similar to this:

I have some felt autumn leaves that I pop in different places, eg picture frames, dining table.

Years ago I had a Halloween party and bought some small polystyrene balls, used permanent markers to draw on eyeballs with convincing red veins, I hide them around the house to scare DH and DS (in their pants drawer, in a shoe, on top of their porridge, in the box with the school snack, peering over the computer etc), always move them about.

I put stuff out around 25th October, down on the 2nd, except for the autumn bits.

I put them up a couple of days before and put a few stickers in the window. I'll usually leave them up for a day or 2 after to make the most of them.

On the day.

I put my decorations up on halloween and take them down the next day.
Most places now sale really cool decorations and at a good price but I definitely recommend looking in TK maxx or homesense as they sale some really unique halloween decorations and at affordable prices

Fab ideas here... i took a trip to b&ms and poundland today and got a few wee bits.. any more suggestions are welcome x