Halloween - trick or treat ...

[Dee1975]

Posting here for traffic to get some ideas.

Just wondered what people think it will look like this year?? Will you take your children trick or treating? All be it with an adult who knocks on the doors with a stick?
Will you welcome trick or treaters? Will you throw the sweets at them ??!!
How will it work ??!!!

@whirlwindwallaby

Nobody without decorations out or lit pumpkins should get a knock at the door and I have to say, in the years we've lived where we do, that has always been the case. I've had knocks with the porch light turned off.

Yes, I believe you . I think it depends on area and if that happened to me, I would also want it to stop.

I'm not sure really on this one. Our neighbourhood has loads of trick or treaters and decorated houses. It's mostly young children with their parents and in the years we've been hear only had knocks while our pumpkins were lit.

One year we went out but left a bowl of sweets and to our surprise some were left hours later so children must have been considerate that time at least.

I'm thinking of decorating and leaving the bowl out. If others do that, I will take DD for a quick stroll round our close and the next one and look at the pumpkins and collect sweets

It's such a lovely atmosphere normally and will be sad not to happen, but we'll dress up and carve pumpkins etc anyway and she's only 2 so many years left

I usually love Halloween but this year I don't want random strangers knocking at my door. I can also imagine that some idiots round my way will decide the group of six rule doesn't apply when they want their kids to have fun so we might have the usual mobs at our door. Someone on our local Facebook group has suggested kids just walk round and look at decorated houses but I bet some idiots will decide to knock any way.

I've yet to see Hallowe'en done properly in this country. (sorry to all you enthusiasts). I'd love to see an entire neighbourhood decorated and every single house participating but we're just not there yet. Maybe some day.

as it is especially this year we will close the gate across our drive to clearly mark us as a non participating house. this is mostly due to the fact that the front door leads directly into 94yo MiL's lounge and we can't have the door being constantly opened. It's a shame as she would love to see all the kids.

It's mostly little ones (under 10) with parents, and maybe an older sibling or two here, so I'm not too worried about grabby ones.

I wondered about a "washing line" with sweets pegged on that I could nip out and refresh every so often. I could even get them to drop the pegs in a bucket with Milton in (although that might be overkill).

I'm a bit sad I'll miss seeing the costumes! Perhaps I could dress up and watch spookily from the window.

Halloween is my favourite day of the year! I'll still be celebrating and decorating but no trick or treating. If it looks like other houses decorate we may go for a walk to have a look, otherwise we are going to have a halloween party at home (with just us 4, before anyone says anything about hosting a party!)

My plans are:
Halloween scavenger hunt (including at least 1 person to surprise DS somewhere (behind a door) and spray some silly string or something
Decorated inside and out with a clothes line between the trees and individual bags of sweets pegged to it should any trick or treaters come round
Games, halloween music and themed food

It'll be the best it can be, considering. Even more so as it'll be DD's first birthday so it's actually a double celebration day for us :) DS is a little disappointed to not have a party with friends like we planned but he understands and it'll still be good

We love halloween in our house. I am thinking of taking it outside this year, perhaps putting the fire pit and a few lights in the front garden. Kids can help themselves to (wrapped) sweets and i might even have a cooler box full of beers to offer the grown ups. We live in a cul de sac and usually just have people from our road calling, so we might be able to turn it into an inpromtu socially distanced party. I am thinking of going a step further and suggesting a street party, but not sure if neighbours would go for it.

I don't think we'll be able to tbh. Halloween is a big thing in the neighbourhood here and I honestly cannot see how trick or treating would work tbh.

We still plan to do something. It'll be half term so dress up, treats and party food here. With music and decs! Might find an outside covid friendly activity as well. Our local theme park do Halloween events and it's all outside.

One of my friends is a bit fed up. She loves Hallowe'en anyway, and she adopted a black cat in January. The cat is the softest thing ever, and very well behaved.

She was planning to string a broom up in the porch, then come out of the door carrying him and plonk him on the broom while she handed out the sweets! There's always next year I suppose.

I’ve planned to take DS and one friend on a steam train - wizard theme. Back to ours for Harry Potter themed tea- pizza and Butterbeer- followed by watch a HP film.
Might do them a sweets hunt in the back garden and sparklers as well.
Just hoping 4 people meeting - 3 from one household and one from another- is still allowed then.

That sounds nice @Bickles .

I can't see a way of making it fly really. Not really worried about the kids but it would feel like an imposition for them to knock on people's doors, given that anyone inside that house might be shielding etc. I know people don't have to open the door but it feels like a bit of a pisstake.

We were talking about doing a halloween zoom with dressing up etc. Depressing, but I think its the only viable way.

No DC but usually decorate the house and hand out sweets. This year I was going to leave a cauldron out but decided not to as it’s just rewarding the kids/parents who have said they don’t care and are going vs those parents/kids staying home to do their part and celebrating in a different way.

I grew up in the countryside and always had a Halloween party, never went trick or treating so I don’t see it as an issue for parents to make it special for their kids at home like my parents always did for just one year given all that is going on.

Don't think anyone will knock this year. I'm thinking of throwing a Halloween "party" for my three girls to make up for it.

Where we live lots of people have dressed up their windows. So we’ll be going out on Saturday with the kids in their costumes and a tub of sweets to spot the pumpkins/decorations and every time they spot one, we will give them a sweet.