Not doing anything for my 2 year old for Halloween.

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What's everyone up to for Halloween?
I have no plans at all for my 2 year old and feeling a bit mean I've made no effort, but the other hand... He's 2. He doesn't know its Halloween. There's plenty of years for him to enjoy it.
Covid aside, I'm not sure I'd take him truck or treating this young anyway.
Am I being a mean mummy? 😂

If you are so am I!
We're going to have a nice weekend in the park as usual but he doesn't really understand the concept so would be a bit pointless

I didn’t do anything either. Attempted it age 3 and she hated it. Age 4 loves it

My LO only vaguely understands it this year and she’s 3- nursery did fancy dress so I put cobwebs in her hair- my work here is done. Had it been a normal year I may have let her trick or treat with her older cousins. Plenty of yrs ahead.

We’ve booked a Halloween walk through some local woods that will have pumpkins, lights etc for the kids to find and they get a goody bag at the end. That’s it though. Our area is also doing an alphabet walk where people have put a letter of the alphabet in their window/garden for the kids to do a ‘treasure hunt’ to find them all. Not sure if we will do that or not though.

We are doing a pumpkin but that’s it!

If there was no corona, we would have done fancy dress and let him open the door to trick or treaters. But too young to trick and treat at 2 anyway!

DS is only 14 months but was due to have a Halloween party at nursery today. Unfortunately, they had a positive covid test in his class earlier this week so we've been in isolation so I am desperately thinking of Halloween things to entertain him. Today we played football with a pumpkin and baked spooky spider cookies. Tomorrow he has a dinosaur costume and we will carve afore-mentioned pumpkin.

We are doing a pumpkin, picking it from the field first, and baking halloween biscuits. Bake them in the morning, nap time, decorating in the afternoon... Takes up the whole day then

I took mine trick or treating when he was 2.5 he could not believe his luck. Kept asking for weeks if he could go trick or treating again. This year I'm pegging bags of sealed sweets outside for social distancing and taking him on a pumpkin trail walk

You do you. It by that logic, there's no point in doing Christmas or birthday

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You do you. It by that logic, there's no point in doing Christmas or birthday

Well there's definitely no point turning yourself inside with guilt over what he's going to miss and how you're letting him down.

And people do Chirstmas for themselves as much as their kids.

Play a few Halloween songs and dance around.

I have a 4 year old and 1 year old, they Halloween PJs - they will wear them as a costume and as Pjs all year round and we’ve done a few crafts and will do a disco. It’s all for the older child.

Musical zombies/statues and musical bumps with silly Halloween music - loads of mixes on YouTube. Very easy!

I hate Halloween so I'm doing the same as I always do, nothing except looking forward to when it's over

Chill, pour yourself a glass of wine. Halloween is not compulsory.

I didn't do anything for Halloween when mine were pre-school age. Only when they asked if I would take them trick or treating did we go, eldest was about 8. I think they did stuff at nursery but it has never been a big deal and I know plenty of other families who don't bother with it much either beyond maybe carving a pumpkin, although we haven't even done that this year!

You do you. It by that logic, there's no point in doing Christmas or birthday

Not really. Christmas and birthdays are far more important than Halloween.

The loint remains that a 2 year old has no concept of birthday or Christmas. But we still do these things to mark the oocasion. May as well leave Christmas and birthdays until they're around 4...?

It seems to be becoming more of a thing in the UK now, like baby showers. Urgh. I am British, we have our own customs and don't need to import American ones. Suddenly in the last few years I've seen houses round here decorated for a week or more before Halloween. Halloween is ONE night. I'm sure people might try to argue that Christmas is just one day, but then advent is a thing,Christmas Eve, Boxing Day etc. Yule.

I'm a traditionalist and lots of people are. No need to force Halloween on toddlers. I just don't get what people get out of dressing their 2 year old as Chucky. It's wierd.

Americans didn't invent halloween. Its long standing standing UK tradition since the 1500s. So definitely predates American Halloween. They would actually have been influenced by our guising traditions..

DS is 10 months old and I’m doing it for me rather than him. Made a few goodies, decorated, got some costumes. Did a few pumpkins (I eat them afterwards so carve several small ones). We’ll do some trick or treating with family houses too if the weather holds up.

Well no DS is not really "looking forward" to Christmas but i llike it so I shall do things I shall enjoy

I've never done anything for Halloween. Never occurred to me.

DD's nursery did costumes on Thursday and I did intend to dress her up as a knight as she had requested but I forgot. I don't think she noticed.

We're doing a bit of 'baking' (rice Krispy chocolate 'dragon egg' nests with mini eggs in) and doing a Halloween tea (cake, coffin shaped sandwiches, 'pumpkin' oranges, hot dogs, bananas with ghost faces, Oreo spiders etc) and having a family disco with balloons, bubbles and Halloween music.

Just a bit of fun for me really, but DD will have a blast and it breaks up the monotony of rainy days inside somewhat. Oh, we're also making a pie with the pumpkin we picked last weekend (but DD isn't really going to be involved in that one much).

Just put him to bed at the normal time, pour a glass of wine and watch strictly.