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[AnnMumsnet]

If summer is over then Halloween can't be far away. If you go all out at Halloween Lidl would love to hear what makes your Halloween party go with a bang, groan or rattle of a chain.

Do you have some seriously spooky snacks you serve up, some particularly petrifying party game or maybe your pumpkin carving skills are legendary (post pics - we WANT to see them!)? Are you a favourite stop for sweets or boo-tiful baking? Maybe you've come up with a genius way to dress the house for the scary season? Or do you have a tasty pumpkin recipe up your sleeve? Whatever your tips, tricks or recipes are we'd love to know.

Please post them on this thread and you will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will get £100 worth of Lidl vouchers (note the winner will be sent 4 x £25 vouchers, one voucher can be redeemed per transaction).

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

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[tallandlong]

doing the monster mash!!!

[kateandme]

apple bobbin.big bowl of water then get apples with stalk and hands behind your back to nab them wit your teeth,from this you must go straight to the casserole dish filled with flower and chocolates to nab one of those with your teeth.results floury hilarious face.
read rolled pastry cut into strips.wrap round sausges for little spooky mummys.
chocolate cupcake and make spiders out of oreos and mathcamkers.or make owls with choc buttons.
different coloured smoothies for gooly drinks.
parkin
big bowl of wriggly worm sweets and harribo.
get some orange and green voul and drape over the walls.
mini ghost cookis.get your marshmellow and slightly melt onto choc cookies.
stews with the pumkin.goes great in a beef stew with scrummy dumpins.
cut into chunks and roasted with onions and potatos.
mix small chunks into a skillet with chorizo peppers tomatos and goes great with anything.
punkin and carrot soup.
punkin byrani
wedges.
diced onto pizza with red onions and tomato
frittata
risotto

[jandoc]

we always love the doocking for apples game

[Sezza110]

I make some amazing Halloween themed biscuits and cupcakes that the neighborhood gets

[hiddenmichelle]

Love a game of traditional apple bobbing - great for the the family. We don't trick or treat, but love playing daft games!

[meepmoop79]

We do not do much in terms of trick and treating, but we do decorate the house a little, carve pumpkins, and the kids dress up.
We might watch a child friendly spooky film as well (Abbot and Costello - Meet the Monsters). We do also use the pumpkins to make a walnut and pumpkin bread. Which is delicious.

[janeyf1]

We to trick or treating dressed as witches. Always great fun and a great excuse not to feel guilty for having a sweet tooth

[star1000]

We always carve pumpkins with the children then make some Halloween inspired food - spider cupcakes, witches finger cheese straws etc. We put a few decorations up, the children dress up and we have a fun evening, sometimes with a few of their friends round.

[gd2011]

Apple bobbing is great fun.

[maryandbuzz1]

We always drape a huge spiders web over the doorway and wait for the tap on the door. My house is always popular as I bake iced cupcakes for trick or treaters!

[andywedge]

No Halloween party is complete without dunking apples (and a towel or two)

[mooota1514]

I like to make my mum's pumpkin muffins: cook pumpkin in oven and puree in a blender. Stir together flour, sugar, bicarb, baking powder, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and salt. In a separate bowl, beat together the pumpkin puree, vegetable oil and eggs. Stir pumpkin mixture into flour mixture until smooth. Scoop muffin mixture into prepared muffin cups. Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes

[ThemisA]

We are low key - usually carve a pumpkin and make Halloween Pumpkin cookies. I'm afraid outfits are home made and a little pitiful!

[glennamy]

Not that creative but do make cookies that are shaped in Halloween themes...

[gaptoothuk]

We decorate the house and listen to spooky songs!

[lizd31]

Decorate the house with fake spiders webs & get lots of plastic spiders to stick on it

[createbeauty]

I'm originally from the United States and apart from Christmas, Halloween was always my favourite. The build-up was always amazing thanks to my Dad's decorations (tombstones in the front yard with skeletons climbing out, fake spider webs, carved pumpkins, and other creepy props).
I've always wanted to have a little haunted house like a lot of my neighbors would set up (ripped sheets with fake blood and people chasing us with chainless chainsaws and hayrides!) but Halloween does not seem as big here! I can't remember the last time we had trick-or-treaters!
But now that my son is 6 and I have another baby, it's going to be nice decorating for them and baking Halloween-themed cupcakes and biscuits and carving pumpkins.
I do like to try to carve pumpkins! The last pumpkin I carved was Darth Maul's face.

[daisydaisy1975]

All girls in my family love to dress up: nurse, ghosts etc.
Carving pumpkins is a must.
And lots of sweets for kids.
And food, alcohol and dancing! Always great party. :)

[phillie1]

Apple bobbing and doughnuts on string, always good fun

[sophiefx]

We make shortbread biscuits, spooky style! Ghosts, bats and pumpkins!!

[MummyBtothree]

We have got a balcony above our front door and my DH always goes to town carving some amazing pumpkins. His best ones have been when after scraping out the insides of the pumpkin.....the innards he uses coming out of the pumpkins mouth to look like puke...gross

[daydreambeliever21]

We love spooky party food and make some mean cupcakes.

[Pastychef]

Apple bobbing with very thin raspberry jelly instead of water!

[Gazelda]

Yucky dip - a big bowl of green and/or red jelly with rubber bouncy balls (eyeballs) to dip for. I’ve got a great big black bowl, which looks like a cauldron.

The toilet roll mummy game is always a winner.

Chinese whispers or each child say a line to make a spooky story.

Witches fingers are great for the table (rolls of ham and a flaked almond as the finger nail).