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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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Love apple bobbing. For me it's important to have a safe space for children who are scared to escape to and for adults to listen to any worries not minimise them.

Dim the lights and watch a ghostbusters with lots of spooky snacks.

Halloween donuts:)
Hands behind your backs and “try” and eat the donut:))

My top Halloween party tip (or should that be trick...) is to let somebody else invite you to theirs! (And to take along appropriate treats of course, unless you're feeling particularly ghoulish).

@CopperPan can I have the recipe ?!

I make a red fruit punch (with mushed up strawberries to make it look like blood) and serve it in silver beer mugs.

I wear black if I haven't got a costume, rocking the goth look.

play halloween themed music, make spaghetti with lots of marinara sauce, I cook the onions down till well caramelized and puree everything so the sauce looks brownish, so the spaghetti looks like worms.

Just a few things off the top of my head.

I have a Halloween party every year. This year we are going for a traditional haunted house.

Got a big bag of spiders and i'm going to stick them on the wall so they look like they're coming out en masse from behind the sofa. Also doing cheesecloth ghosts, packing tape ghosts and assorted spooky ornaments (candlesticks and the like).

Games are eye-pong (eyeball ping pong balls caught in pumpkin cups), pin the spider on the web and a spooky treasure hunt!

Use the pumpkin from the pumpkin carving in a creative recipe to make a healthy and cheap meal - soup, risotto or with pasta.

We don't go all out for Halloween. But we do tend to have Halloween'ish treats, including but not limited to: halloween themed toys, sweets, baked goods.

Sometimes we'll even give the kids a scare and put on our scary masks. Makes me seem evil haha.

We bob for apples, play party games, have jelly worms/ribs and very cheekily we go to Tesco after Halloween is over and ask for their store decoration. We keep them for next year, so we have some fantastic decorations!
They don't use them again they get thrown away so it's win win!
The kids carve pumpkins and go to the school Halloween disco. We don't go guising here as too far out in the country. But that's fine it means nobody calls here either!

Yup we do the donut string thing! It is hilarious and makes our dog go bonkers!

Okay, I'm a bit of a halloween lover... I always decorate inside and out.

Last year, we set up lasers, and spooky music outside the house, and handed out over 200 sweets! We have a spooky doorbell, where an eye pops out and looks around. We set a time limit of an hour, so that after that hour we could turn off the lights and music, and continue with the bedtime routine, but the sweets ran out first. Some kids said our house was 'the best!' so this year, I'm thinking of going quite grand, perhaps american style. Although i've already bought 164 packets of smarties to hand out and don't really want to spend much more on sweets.

Kids want sweets, although I do keep the TAT from party bags in a separate bucket for those who don't like the sweets we have. Kids will also accept crisps of an acceptable flavour. Crisps are cool (also Lidl crisps are delicious)

Halloween dinner can be simple - BLOODY WORMS with WITCHES FINGERS... (spaghetti with tomato sauce, and a hot dog cut into a finger shape) see photo.

Party games...how about a MUMMY wrapping game against the clock! use a toilet roll, and split into teams, and they have 1 minute to try and full wrap the chosen one into an egyptian mummy! It's a lot of fun. see photo.

Another great addition to a halloween party is the Photo Booth with props! I got mine for £1 and it was soooo popular last year. Even those not in costume can get into the halloween spirit. see photo.

I did win a competition once for pumpkin carving, it was a wolf howling at the moon. I can claim any artistic ability though, I swear by those pokey tools and stencils for carving cool designs into pumpkins!

We've always celebrated Halloween in our family, I can't understand it when people say it's a modern American thing - everyone I knew celebrated it in the 70s.

Anyway, we do lots of scary food, including a big liquorice spider's web with spiders made from chocolate teacakes and Cadbury's fingers. We carve pumpkins and use the flesh to make soup. (We used to use swedes when we were kids, but pumpkins are definitely easier!).

Our kids are too old for dressing up now, but my little doggie will be dressed as a witch to welcome all the Trick or Treaters! :D

My son had a Halloween birthday party last year... We did mummy sausage rolls, spooky cupcakes, ghostly strawberries... We cut the sandwiches into Halloween shapes using cookie cutters, we had a couple of pumpkins at the door.. Halloween balloons, plates, table cloth. We did hire an entertainer who played spooky themed games.

We decorate the house too... Cut spooky eye shapes in toilet rolls and pop a glow stick in then put in a bush. Fill the kids trousers and put under the garage door to create the image of them being trapped...

we love halloween in our house! we decorate everywhere and all get involved. We get planning really early and get loads of little scary people (and some cuties too) at the door!

We have an apple tree, so bobbing is a must.
Tip - don't be too generous with treats or you'll be inundated. Word soon gets around!

One year I made "eyeballs" white chocolate coated apples. They went down really well!

We don't really do Halloween but we like people coming to guise- apparently nowadays if you don't have a latern then guisers will not come round much to my children's disappointment as we found out too late last Year!

I like to make scary cupcakes with green icing for the trick or treaters!

We never get anyone knocking round here, but this year might be the first that DS gets excited about the idea so I might do a little playdate for a couple of friends with some worms, blood and bogies (spaghetti, pasta sauce and peas then they can decorate some cupcakes with spider web patterns or ghost faces (or just spill all the food colouring in one big blob on each cake). .

Pumkin soup always goes down well, and reduces and waste from made pumpkins. add spices a little sugar cream and boil away

We always have pumpkin carving - I buy medium pumpkins, so every child has one of there own
We serve dead fly cakes - raisin cupcakes
Splattered brains - spaghetti bolognese
And other themed food
We have Halloween bunting, napkins, paper plates and table cloths, as well as orange and black balloons
We use it as an excuse for a big playdate and a chance to dress up

Our village hosts a Halloween trail every year which is great fun. We’re hosting a game this year so will be looking through this thread for ideas!

We love Halloween! We cover our front hedge in the garden with masses of fake cobwebs, with added fake spiders. We then put lots of other scary-ish items in the garden and wait for the trick or treaters. We live in a small village and has such a great community feel on Halloween, so lovey to see!