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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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When my 2 were little I teamed up with a neighbour and between our two houses we set up a sweetie hunt.

Fun and sweets without having to go trick or treating. They had great fun with torches finding sweets in the gardens.

Chillys in a cupcake always makes me smile

Buy a house next to a graveyard - perfect for scary hide and seek in the dark.
Don't brush cobwebs from your ceilings all year - by halloween you should have ready-prepared authenthic cobweb decorations.

We live in a cul-de-sac of 12 houses, and we make Halloween really special every year! We take it in turns each year to have a party in each home, and out the front we have bobbing for Apples in green water which the kids love, we have fireworks, and we light up the whole road! Its so much fun, because we get together and make it special! It started 8 years ago, now my eldest is 18 and will be taking some of the younger kids on the street out for their candy. Halloween might be frowned upon by some, but we enjoy it and have made some lovely memories! x

we always carve pumpkins (the £1 shop does a great carving kit with a scoop and a tiny saw for cutting the jagged vampire mouth and scary eyes) we have ghouls fingers covered in zombie blood (hot dogs and ketchup) and mashed witches brains (mashed strawberry jelly with tinned strawberries). We then go trick or treating (just around the neighbours) and the sweets are rationed for the rest of the week. The pound shop is also great for masks and glow in the dark skeletons which can decorate the trees in the garden.

chocolate chip cookies - favoured by most trick and treaters

Mix up raisins and rice snaps with some honey in a bowl, kids (and big kids!) get to scoop up all the "flys guys and wings" with their hands and let out their inner monsters! You can colour the honey slime with food colouring or use jelly too to make it even more gruesome!
My toddlers LOVED this! And it's stuff I had to hand in the cupboard! Win!

I've really enjoyed carving pumpkins and squashes the last few years! The puking squash is probably my favourite one. I use glow sticks rather than candles in them too. Lasts longer, no fire risk.

Always do apple bobbing for Halloween, otherwise it's just a fancy dress party. That makes it Halloween!

With 5 kids I just don't tidy up all week so it looks like a dusty, messy witches house haha only joking !!

I use stuff from around the house like old bed sheets ripped and covered in fake blood hung on the walls, huge spiders web from string, scary monsters for the corners made from clothes filled with toilet paper and lots of "caution" tape drapped across Windows doors and stairs from a diy shop so it looks like a crime scene.

Make witches fingers as a snack. Wedges with a red pepper/tomato fingernail muhahhaha

Decorate the house, we e been making mummy lights. You tie bandages round empty jam jars, stick Google eyes on and put a tealight in.
Weve also made spiders webs out of bin bags.
We like costumes and face paints.
I make a graveyard cake with meringue ghosts

I'm doing a Halloween party this year, where everyone is bringing a dish. I'm doing hot dogs, going to do them in the slow cooker so minimal effort on my part!

We always watch The Witches and Corpse Bride. One year I left it too late to get hold of a pumpkin (the year before I carved the pumpkin too soon and it had started to liquefy and collapse in on itself by Halloween night), and so the kids came home from school to be greeted with carved butternut squashes! They were suitably horrified

Gorey food and drink, spooky decorations and good games.

I love making a ghost trail around the house. Lots of spooky games along the way. Also love playing a game where you use food for body parts with blind folds on. Peeled cherry tomatoes for eyeballs 😜

Jelly hands making jellies in rubber gloves and a Halloween tree!

apple bobbing is a firm fave

Kids like dressing up to a point but are actually too scared still to take part in anything else! Sorry!

Eyeball bobbing! Fill a bowl with cooked spaghetti mixed with ketchup and hide lots of jelly eyeball sweets within the spaghetti.
The children love it and it's great for those kids who aren't too keen on dipping their heads in the water for bobbing apples.

I love Halloween. I bought loads of decorations when I was on holiday in America so it makes decorating the house really fun. Pumpkin carving is a must. We had a pumpkin carving prize party one year, giving awards for the most scary, most innovative, most intricate etc.

How about a game of apple bobbing with toffee apples in water or Halloween it up a bit and get a bowl of green water with plastic spiders and flies in 😱😏

We have an adults party and also a childrens party each year.
We make Halloween themed food: witches fingers (sausages), jelly with creepy crawlies in, cupcakes,..
The children love playing games: apple bobbing, scary face musical statues, decorating biscuits,..

We love setting up the smoke machine near the front door with some creepy spider decorations. It builds up the atmosphere as people arrive for the party.

It's not a halloween party without apple bobbing. Gavel.

I love doing things for Halloween, we make wiggly blood snakes by putting jelly in straws and then letting it set and taking them out of the straw.
Always make a brain cake and inside fill it with lots of strawberry jam when you cut open!