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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).

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Also like the classic apple bobbing and doughnuts on a string.

Add a blueberry to lychees to make eyeballs!

Our Halloween menu is - blood soup (tomato), dead men's fingers (hot dogs in rolls), monkey brains (baked spuds) and pudding is dead goldfish in murky pond water (mandarin segments in green jelly). Always a winner!

With all the sweets around my one and only Halloween favourite is to use a black marker pen to turn satsumas into little baby pumpkins! Nice as decorations and snacks!

Decorating pumpkin-shaped biscuits makes a great alternative to pumpkin carving for younger children.

Love playing toilet roll mummies, but the food is the best bit for me. Always have some spooky cakes and spiderweb millionaires shortbread 🤤🤤🤤

It won't let me post pics 😩

Yay, figured out pictures!! Love a bit of pumpkin carving too!!!

I think it's great if all the adults dress up too - the kids love it. I agree with pps that apple bobbing is the best game, or if you don't want loads of water everywhere you can hang an apple on a piece of string and try to bite it, it's kind of the same principle.

Play a game where you have to guess what is in the box, by putting hands through a hold in a cardboard box, with a bowl inside. Ideas are cooked spaghetti, flour, dry cornflakes etc.

I love making horror food, like spider cakes, blood (jam) sandwiches, worms etc. I get mini pumpkins so the scooping out doesn't take too long and the kids all get one each.

I know it's old fashioned but you can't beat a bit of bobbing for apples. I always win because I just stick my whole head in haha!

Scary jellies and lots of sweets!

I love fancy dress so halloween is my event! I always have a party! I go all out, i wrap toilet roll around the front door with some big cardboard eyes to look like a mummy. I have severed limbs in the bath covered in fake blood, bloody handprints all over the walls. In the garden i cut two holes in a toilet roll tube and stick a small light inside hiding it in bushes to look like glowing eyes. I use rubbish bags cut up to make spiders webs (similar to making snowflakes at christmas time) For food last year i had strawberry ghosts - strawberries dipped in white choc with a scary face drawn on with more melted dark choc. I have my famous apple cider punch with floating sunken heads - apples skin removed and faces carved.

We're not big Halloween celebrators, but we do watch a "spooky" movie (Ghostbusters, The Addams Family, Coraline, The Corpse Bride etc) and get pizza and snacks. My children don't like trick or treating (they don't really get it) and so we just do our own thing!

We once made a maze through the house.. cardboard boxes with silly string dangling down, putting your hand into jelly to discover an 'eyeball' (hardboiled egg).. lights off, glowing things in the dark.. climbing through ropes. It was fab for us all!

When I was younger I was never allowed to Trick or Treat and at the moment my DC are too young to BUT they do love it when all the trick or treaters come to us and I now think that is probably the way we'll do Halloween now - it's great to see all the children in fancy dress and we get to give out sweets instead of ending up with bucketful ourselves (which I'd then eat!!)

We go way overboard for Halloween. We have 4 kids so they love it. The whole house is decorated from top to bottom. Outside the house is decorated with spider webs , skeletons in the lawn and lights. The trick or treaters love it. We have family over and have a big party. We do loads of games. The traditional ones, i.e bobbing for apples. We also do one where I put tricks and treats in a massive pot of cold cooked spaghetti. They have to blindfold and pull the items out. My mother in law always bakes an apple pie and hides money in it. There's just so much that we do before it from carving the pumpkins to the decorating and the baking and cooking.

Raspberry ice cream sauce makes perfect blood!

I decorate the house with pumpkin and bat lights. I also make Halloween cakes and we all dress up and go guising quite early on(when the neighbours have loads of treats left!). Then go back to the house and put a Halloween CD on and dance around like idiots and play games.

I make a pumpkin soup and serve it in the hollowed out pumpkin

My Pumpkins soup recipe is ~

2 tbsp olive oil
2 onions finly chopped
1kg pumpkin or squash, peeled, deseeded and chopped into chunks
700ml vegetable stock
150ml double cream 

Method ~

Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan, then gently cook the onions for 5 mins, until soft but not coloured.

Add the pumpkin or squash to the pan, then carry on cooking for 8-10 mins, stirring occasionally until it starts to soften and turn golden.

Pour the stock into the pan and season with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 10 mins until the squash is very soft.

Pour the double cream into the pan, bring back to the boil, then purée with a hand blender. For an extra-velvety consistency you can pour the soup through a fine sieve. The soup can now be frozen for up to 2 months.

Blindfolded sensory games are the best and very inexpensive. Pasta, jelly, raw eggs with grapes in them (feels like goo and eyeballs!)

We will have worms and fingers for dinner at Halloween, spaghetti with hotdogs in a tomato and veg sauce. Can't wait!

We love Halloween! Our good friends always have a great Halloween party where both kids and adults dress up in home made costumes. I really love making pumpkin pie too.

DS is looking forward to Halloween because of all the guff he sees on TV, but anything scary gives him terrible nightmares, so am planning on the least scary Halloween ever. Nice smiley pumpkin, a few creepy crawlies hanging around and some fun foods like grape eyeballs etc.