Decorating for halloween

[Hereigo89]

Do you decorate your house for Halloween? If so, how much effort do you put in? I've got primary school aged children and normally just pop a few plastic halloween decorations around x

Yup i love it and its more for me than it is DS we don't even get trick or treaters here as its down a dark country road just a small gaggle of houses but i still do it -ravens, graves, ghosts bats inside and out - hopefully the postie will remember the motion sensitive lights this year that suddenly belt out scary sounds he nearly fell into one of the pumpkins last year

Only because I buy it cheap after the Halloween before! Bunting, and some crafty bits the children make. I also have some little pumpkins I've crocheted and MIL has knitted that I put out.

This sounds AMAZING!

Yes, my kids love it and autumn is possibly my favourite time of year. Now my kids are older our decorations are possibly slightly 'classier' than when they were small and covered everything in fake blood and crime
scene tape though.

Mine are too old to go out for trick or treat but there were loads of houses that did it for them so we do the same for the younger ones.

Nope, never have. Wasn't a part of my childhood at all. Never knew anyone who went trick or treating or came to our house.

DC have got hold of the idea and want to go trick or treating this year. They'll go if DH wants to take them. I can't get on board with it, it's so alien to me.

@DappledThings try it! As a kid many decades ago we used to get shoved in a bin bag with a witches hat but we never decorated or anything like that.

Now though we do apple bobbing and decorate the house and play pass the mummy 😂. Honestly, it's great fun and the kids love it so much

Yes. Every year for the whole month of October

Indoors and out. It's like spooky Christmas here. 🧙‍♀️🎃🌙

With younger kids it’s better to go the cute Halloween route.
There are some cute colour changing witch gonks here, good price too.

www.festiveathome.com/occasions/halloween/halloween-gonks/Colour-Changing-Witch-Gonk/

How can you be bothered for just one day?

Christmas, I just love. The tree and decorations go up early December so they're up for 4-5 weeks but for Halloween...? No way.

No decorations just trick or treating from 5-7 then Halloween films

My autumn outside decs go up at end September. 10-12 pumpkins (if you don't carve them they last for weeks), hessian bunting, orange organza draped on the fence - with maple leaves stapled to it, autumny cushions for the bench outside, autumn wreath on the door, leaves and ivy wrapped around the porch. I adore it.
The cobwebs and more spooky stuff go up in the week running up to Hallowe'en.

Like this

On 1st Oct I'm going to put the Halloween duvet cover I've bought ds (it has haunted houses and ghosts and glows in the dark and my 4 year old will love it! £10 from home bargains if anyone is interested). I've knitted some pumpkins and painted some ceramic ones and bought some pumpkin lights for the mantelpiece... I love autumn 🍂

The problem in the U.K. is that outside decorations get rained on. A lot. It's not worth doing it as they just get wrecked.

Mine have never got wrecked? ..

I do like Halloween, but putting up loads of decs just looks like you've fallen for the marketing and hype generated by supermarkets.