halloween

[chicken12]

are you letting your kids out on Halloween or not and are you going to answer the door 🤔 I live in a high risk area

Of course not. It would be really irresponsible And a bad message for the kids. Plan something fun for them at home if you can.

I really like Halloween, but no way am I risking it. Nor am I doing the thing some parents mentioned with putting out pumpkin and kids get sweets of their parents after spotting it. Purely because I know that there will be a bunch who will knock and argue that I have decorations up🤷🏻

I’m not in a lockdown area and I’m not going to decorate either. This encourages people to knock on our door for sweets, and I don’t want that. We will still go and pick our own pumpkins, carve it and put them in our garden. We will also do a Halloween trail at home.

We are going to walk round, dressed up, spotting pumpkins like we did rainbows, and giving DS a sweet ourself for each spotted. I'm going to leave a pallat out with wrapped sweet, lollies etc on and spread out at end of drive. Then if some children do some, they can help themselves without coming down drive.

Yes. I'll go all out decorating as usual. I'm American. I can't help myself. I have no problem with children coming to the door for sweets. I'll mask up. Even pre-covid, I never had gangs of kids surrounding the door. I think parents will be very considerate this year and make sure they're not sending a mob to the front door. And if it happens, it happens. I have control over that scenario.
I know that I can and probably will get covid at some point. But I don't think it will be because I handed out sweets on Halloween.

I am in a lockdown area, we have already started making out decorations, our son is 3, and we will decorate the inside of the house and his outdoor house but only a few outside for any Halloween spotters.

We have printed off a few "spot the Halloween item " cards to walk around with, most of the neighbours want to see him in fancy dress so we will let them see him. He doesn't really eat sweets yet anyway, but they will leave out a little something for him. Then games, music and fun at home.

I think parents will be very considerate this year

I like your optimism. However, I see them drive and park around school every day👀 I am not that confident on the consideration front...

Sadly it’s not appropriate this year. I’ve got some Hallowe’en colouring books and treats but won’t be answering the door.

Trick or Treating is definitely out this year for us.
I used to love Halloween. My husband and I usually go to town decorating the house. However; we live next door to a school and get TONS of Trick or Treaters. Last year I spent £15 on sweets and still ran out after only an hour.
This year we will be snuggling up with our 3 boys and watching Hocus Pocus with popcorn and all the lights off.

No . I don’t think it’s fair to do it atm.
We’ll be decorating the house , dressing up, and enjoying some films etc. The thought of trick or treaters must be causing massive anxiety for people who are shielding etc this year

No one's knocking this year but some people are going to decorate their houses and people will walk their kids around and give them a treat everytime they see a pumpkin.

No , not in a high risk area but I don’t like trick or treating anyway so not upset it’s frowned upon this year

I don’t see why trick or treaters would cause anxiety to shielders.
Don’t decorate.
Close your curtains.
Don’t answer the door.
Maybe put up a sign.
🤷🏻‍♀️

We will definitely walk around and see people’s decorations / pumpkins - I hope lots will still do that.

We have an upstairs window that works well in terms of distance to street, and we’re going to decorate a guttering pipe for a “candy chute”.

We can pick up small Haribo packers with tongs, and send them down to people who call up! We’ll be costumed.

I really hope we make some kids smile 😀

*I hope none of you are, whether or not in a high risk area. Make a face in a pumpkin if you wish, but please no trick or treating.

Anyway, it's a US thing and we are not the 51st state.*

Ffs Halloween is not a 'US thing!!!'

It's only 9th October and I already counted 17 "It's American" on Facebook and here😁

@SchrodingersImmigrant I know I shouldn't let it annoy me but it really does. I only read it here as I've hardly any non Scots on my facebook anyway.

No trick or treating here. But I do have a question to those who think it is irresponsible: if your children are currently attending school, mixing with dozens of other kids and adults on a daily basis etc why is trick or treating, which involves knocking on a door and receiving wrapped up sweets, any more dangerous with respect to COVID?

We'll be giving out treats, but Iindividually tied to a tree outside so they're not touched by anyone but the recipient. And obviously they'll be wrapped. Hand sanitizer will be available nearby.

@Eastie77

No trick or treating here. But I do have a question to those who think it is irresponsible: if your children are currently attending school, mixing with dozens of other kids and adults on a daily basis etc why is trick or treating, which involves knocking on a door and receiving wrapped up sweets, any more dangerous with respect to COVID?

That assumes you’re only knocking on the doors of children in the same class. In reality children knock on strangers houses and risk passing it on or catching it from people they are not normally in contact with. Every extra interaction is an accumulative risk.

The guidelines are pretty clear that this is not allowed in any area with local lockdown

[quote DueNumberTwo]@SchrodingersImmigrant I know I shouldn't let it annoy me but it really does. I only read it here as I've hardly any non Scots on my facebook anyway. [/quote]
Have it as a drinking game😁 The closer to the day the better mood you will be in😂

No please don’t send your kids out trick or treating. So selfish!

@Eastie77

No trick or treating here. But I do have a question to those who think it is irresponsible: if your children are currently attending school, mixing with dozens of other kids and adults on a daily basis etc why is trick or treating, which involves knocking on a door and receiving wrapped up sweets, any more dangerous with respect to COVID?

Well, for a start, not everyone has kids... So the walking Petri dishes would be a risk for me. And number of my neighbours too. They really keep safe otherwise

I love Halloween and usually go all out with decorations inside and outside, and costumes.

I live in an area that has some of the highest rates of covid cases. I am doing NOTHING that would encourage people to knock at my house. No decorations.

We are staying in and having a Halloween 'party' with just me, DH and the kids.

Our village is doing a Halloween hunt for kids instead. No sweets being given out, just a downloadable map and numbered houses decorated. Then if parents want to give their kids some sweets they can and it's better than nothing.