When do you decorate your home for Halloween?

[Viv0321]

When do you decorate your home for Halloween and start crafts etc?

[gingajewel]

We have done it today, we don’t normally do it this early but wanted to surprise the kids!
And for those that are saying “really, people do this” and feigning fake surprise is it actually that hard to imagine people decorate their houses because they can even if they aren’t having a party ffs!

[Viv0321]

I thought earlier this year as no trick or treat

[Purpler5]

Never

[Viv0321]

Does anyone do any crafts? Looking for ideas

[Mandalalorianna]

Another never.

[NameChange84]

I genuinely didn’t realise people decorated for Halloween unless they were having a party

[IceniWarrior]

Decorate for Autumn on first weekend of October. Halloween 2 weeks later.

For crafts, carve pumpkins, make toffee apples, collect leaves and make pictures of trees, conker caterpillar, twig stars, bug hotels.

[WinifredSanderson]

@Viv0321 I get those blank masks from the craft section and the kids decorate them in any creepy way they like with paint, glitter etc so we can have a spooky mask wall. Then the craft pumpkins from Amazon are good for writing spooky words/messages on.

[Viv0321]

Thankyou will take a look

[HowFastIsTooFast]

Erm.... never?

[Pipandmum]

I have a pumpkin out now and will add a few more. We carve them a couple days before Halloween and I put a few more things out the day of, then take them down the next day. The pumpkins stay for about a week after.

[HerRoyalNotness]

We did it a week ago. Plenty of neighbours have started too

[unicornparty]

Never, no idea this was even a thing

[RufustheSniggeringReindeer]

I absolutely understand that people dont do this and never seen this, I absolutely get that

But do people never see halloween decorations in the shops?

[daisypond]

Never. I didn’t know people do that. I assumed the decorations in shops were if people were having a party - so, just for one evening.

[WinifredSanderson]

@RufustheSniggeringReindeer I was just thinking the same!

[RufustheSniggeringReindeer]

Fair enough daisy 🙂

[PickAChew]

Never.

[NameChange84]

@RufustheSniggeringReindeer

I absolutely understand that people dont do this and never seen this, I absolutely get that

But do people never see halloween decorations in the shops?

As I said, I thought they were just for people throwing parties. I’d no idea people used them to decorate their home for a few weeks or a month. I don’t think I could live with them in my home for more than 48 hours tbh, they’re usually really garish or morbid!

[Whosayswhatnow]

Ours are up! It’s spooky season!! 🎃

Nowt else to look forward too atm

[Cumbersome]

I see tons of Halloween tat in the shops but just assume some of it's bought for Halloween itself (ie for one night only) and the vast majority of it goes wherever unsold Chinese-made tat goes. Landfill?

Wish I had the time to fart about decorating my house every other week. Do people not have jobs any more??

[Nacreous]

You can do quite nice witches hats, spiders, ghosts etc out of coloured paper but depends how old the kids are? We have silhouette ones that go up every year.

We've also done a holly leaf garland (but could adapt to Halloween) with about 1 inch long leaves (maybe bats and hats would work?) neatly sellotaped onto golden thread.

Love making crafty costumes: we've done a naughty fairy, an Egyptian cat, a witch. So making a wand, and then making a cats tunic and tail out of fake fur and making fake ears. For the witch we made a dress and cloak.

Got some fun looking Halloween origami for this year - obviously these aren't suitable for little ones really though! .

[Sittin]

Gingajewel - it’s not fake surprise! I have never known anyone decorate their house for Halloween unless they’re having a party. I can imagine it, of course, now that I know that people do it! I also thought the supermarket crap’n’tat was for parties. We do carve a pumpkin though, one year, long ago, we had a powercut & DM made me sleep with the pumpkin as a nightlight 😱.

[IceniWarrior]

Our area is always decorated.

We decorate for the seasons, full time senior role. Love it. Generally decorations from terracotta, wool, glass, acorns, conkers, pumpkins. Even planted my front garden so at this time of year it is ablaze with bright berries or red, orange, yellow etc.

Nearer Halloween we have bat's and witchey stuff. Not in to horror so avoid that. All reused just like Christmas. Also decorate for spring!