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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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MNHQ

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Decorations, sweets & good food. Pumpkin soup out of a pumpkin etc

I just love Halloween, such a lovely time of year the autumn is!

My parents didn't believe in Halloween so it makes it doubly special for me now that DD is old enough to enjoy little activities - we will be making spooky biscuits, "pumpkin" punch, making pumpkins and glitter masks!

I love Halloween. We are the first house on a good Trick or Treat circuit so I do tea for the girls and their friends before they all go off round the village.
I make finger hot dogs using frankfurters and cakes using sweet eyes etc.
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Apple bobbing immediately followed by finding “worms” in a bowl of icing sugar (worms being the jelly sweet kind)

We usually keep it fairly low key.
We have a spooky music playlist going on and the kids answer the door to trick and treaters all dressed up.
We'll watch a kid friendly spooky film and I'll read them a spooky story before bed.
Dh and I might watch a horror film and I like to read a scary book in October.

We love Halloween in our home x We always make a pumpkin lantern the week before and light it on the night. The poundshops sell lots of gruesome goodies masks and sweets, so I buy masks fake blood, little tealight holders in the shape of pumpkins and ghosts and these to in the garden (it is also an 'invitation' to trick or treaters to pay us a visit). On the night (which usually falls on half term) we do apple bobbing, and go trick or treating (just to homes who are decorated then you know they are welcoming). I love the dressing up, decorating and my tealights in the garden.

Black spaghetti and tomato sauce for "Witches Hair" pasta always goes down a storm in our house!

I do not bake goodies but buy loads of sweets, the kids around here come in their droves in highly original costumes, if they make so much effort they deserve goodies

put jelly worms in food to give kids a suprise!

The best halloween game is trying to fish gummy worms out of three different bowls with your teeth. The 1st bowl is filled with jelly, the second with custard and the third with rice crispies. Messy but fun! A jelly made up to look like a witch or zombie is fun too

Themed food sets the scene here, we also do kiddy witches finger hot dogs, pizzas with little black olive spiders on etc

Orange food colouring! Turn everything into a spooky pumpkin!

My daughter had a Halloween party last year for a few friends (3 and 4 year old children). One of the best activities was the pumpkin decorating. I bought mini pumpkins and some paint. The children got to paint their pumpkins however they wanted. Much safer and easier than carving them, and it was great fun for the children.

I'd love to dress the cats up this year! I remember my uncle covering the front gate and door handle in washing up liquid so it felt like ectoplasm! Halloween is my favourite time of year, I'm rubbish at carving pumpkins but I still enjoy it!

I like to have a pre-party gathering for pumpkin carving. My DD is too little to carve but she loves scooping out the pumpkin gloop with a spoon (and her hands). This year she'll be old enough to draw on a scary face that we can try to carve out for her.

My mum used to make bones out of meringue, eye balls from eggs and jelly with worms in. It used to go down a storm. I can't wait to do the same for my little boy when he's bigger!

We have a Halloween party at home on 31st and part of the fun for the children is when other people come to the door trick or treating, so we really decorate our front porch with pretend cobwebs and lots of pumpkins!
I get lots of black and green icing etc and get the children to decorate cakes/biscuits.

we love to play spooky tunes at halloween and frighten our visitors with sound effects! x

Most of our games look like they have already been covered - but things like lychee's for eyeballs, the flour game, and the spooky entrails spaghetti all keep us adults in kinks aswell as the kids. I know it is an American import but I believe it is one of the better ones tbh

home made toffee apples :P

I must admit I'm not a Halloween fan, but my son enjoys giving out sweets to trick and treaters, so we have a few decorations and he wears a non scary costume to hand out sweets at door. He is at the age now where he wants to go out trick and treating, but I'm not that keen.

Good old trick or treating is what I love. That, and some apple bobbing.

Our favourite games are apple bobbing, toilet roll mummies, pumpkin carving after harvesting the pumpkin at the local farm, making green snot goo & pumpkin golf. Followed by a big serving of sweets/treats.
Great excuse for a lil party for the little ones

We like making some excuses to do crafty stuff - pipe ckeaner spiders!

A tip I picked up from my brother at a Halloween party he threw when we both first had little kids - scary black bags! He kind of tore/shaped them and attached them to the walls and ceiling. I pmsl at the time. It was hilarious, coupled with him going 'oooh, scary black bags!' to all the bemused little kids.