Halloween “trick-or-treating” in Covid times

[LittleRa]

I know many of you will have already seen or heard of this idea, but I think it’s such a good one that I’ll share it here in case anyone hasn’t seen. So the idea is (if you wish to participate) to carve a pumpkin and put it in your front window, add decorations etc if you like. You then take your own child out in their costume, with their trick-or-treating bucket/bag and you take your own bag of Halloween sweets. For each pumpkin in a window they spot as you walk around, you give them a sweetie to add to their haul.

@Deadringer

Willow2017 didn't you see the

No sorry not got my glasses on!

A pumpkin here means you’re giving out sweets so not sure it would work. Not everyone uses FB.

Lots usually have parties but that’s out as even with the rule of six there has to be SD and people who don’t want the virus won’t be keen to socialise indoors with others.

We're decorating windows round here for kids to spot as they walk round. I will leave a bowl of sweets out that I keep topped up but I won't open the door and don't expect many takers

We are very central in our village, even so we did not get any trick or treaters until I managed to get 'on the list' of local mothers. Decorations were just not enough, people only knocks o. The doors of people they knew.

We have already been told the pumpkin in the window is the way forward this year. Families will go round spotting pumpkins. There is a competition for the most pumpkins spotted.

We shall leave a bowl of bags of sweets on the doorstep. I saw we. DH refuses to take part, ever since the first year we finally had lots of visitors. We were running low on sweets so I billed them out with tangerines. DH was deeply disgusted that the tangerines were more popular than the sweets.

Do people still really think Halloween is something invented in America?

All we stole was the tackiness.

I expect DH will be cleaning his guns in the front window again. Nobody seems to visit.

I love Halloween. Always have.
Even though all our DC have grown up.
I thought about making a long grabber thing to hand the bags of sweets over, if nobody comes I will eat them myself.

Does it really matter where Halloween originates from or that some people don't like participating?

I thought the thread was just kicking around ideas to make the fun of pumpkins, dressing up and a few sweets safe for young children during the pandemic.

No one has to take part if they don't want to.

@SmileyClare Thank you ☺️

Hallowe'en seems to have taken over from Bonfire Night.

It has always bern a tradition here.

But bonfire night was big too. We spent weeks collecting stuff for the village bonfire. These days we only have the town one every 2 years as the insurance is astronomical despite nobody being allowed within 100 yards of it!

Does it really matter where Halloween originates from
It does when every sodding year we get people slagging off our cultural heritage and traditions because they dont know a thing about it.
You would think by now they would know!

Bonfire night was big when I was a kid. My friend's family used to bake potatoes in the fire, in foil. I have wondered since if they were baked totally in the fire, or if her mum popped them in there so it looked like they were.

I have seen this idea popping up on Facebook. My DC are 7 and 10 so I don't think they will find this interesting at all unfortunately.

I have told them there will be no trick or treating this year and instead they have asked for a sweet hunt like we do at easter.

I have got them a little Halloween bag and filled it with sweets, glow sticks, wind up eyeballs etc and I am going to hide them somewhere in the house and do a scavenger hunt with clues to find them. We will probably do pumpkins and watch a few Halloween films, possibly get a takeaway in the evening as it's a Saturday.

They seem quite excited to have a different Halloween this year

We never get any trick or treaters where we live anyway as it's down a dark driveway and nobody seems brave enough to come despite us putting pumpkins out

we’re having a halloween party instead - me, partner, 4 kids. we’re going all out on decoration and party food and we’ll do pumpkin carving and dressing up. and i’ll probably take the kids out in the car to trick or treat at relative’s houses so they can show off their costumes.