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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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We always go all out for Halloween - we love it! Decorations, costumes, face paint, everything. Can't wait to take the boys trick or treating this year. Where we live everyone really gets into the 'spirit' of things!

apple bobbing is fab :)

We don't 'do' halloween as my kids have always found it a horrible thing to celebrate so we've always avoided it. My advice would be for those that do, to keep things as lighthearted as possible and not too much scary dressing up - even if your own kids aren't scared by it, there are others that are.

We prefer to celebrate autumn generally enjoying seeing how nature is all around us and the seasonal fruit and veg to enjoy. Fun leaf rubbings and leaf printing, going for autumn walks, learning about the fungi that can be seen at this time of year - my kids enjoy all this stuff far more than halloween.

I save the inside of the pumpkin for making into soup

I make marshmallow ghost lollipop, they are super easy to make and always go down a treat (no tricks!)

I love making spooky treats like spider web cakes and haunted houses! 👻🎃😀

Traditional halloween is the best. Carving pumpkins (print a stencil from online) baking halloween cakes (orange food colouring and purple sparkles work well) followed by bobbing for apples and the toilet paper mummy game are always huge hits. For one night a year we can also all eat as many sweets as we want xx

it's my son's birthday so we always try to make it fun ...the mummy game (wrapping up in toilet roll), apple bobbing, putting disgusting feeling things inside a bucket with jelly for them to feel and guess etc

for food we have carved pumpkins - one with its head hollowed out and salsa inside, one looking like it's throwing up guacamole served with doritos, bread sticks etc
hot dogs with bits of the ends sliced off to look like fingers etc

classics like apple bobbing fun for all the family

We do the lot!! Toilet paper mummys are a particular favourite, bobbing for apples, fully decorate the house inside and out, spooky finger food and of course trick or treat! The kids love answering the door to other trick or treaters as much as they enjoy doing it themselves

Lots of games. A carved pumpkin. Lots of lovely nibbles.

We love planning our costumes as early as possible!

we carve pumpkin's prize for the best and put them along the path decorate the house play spooky music i make burgers chilli curry hot dogs jelly with eyeballs and works halloween cookies and cakes we then go trick or treating round neighbours and friends and they all join in then we all end up back at our house for fun and games the children love to play spooky house were the summer house is decorated with cobwebs spiders bats rubbers snakes etc and prizes ar in hidden in buckets of jelly spaggetti flower etc

For an "adult" halloween party a carved pumpkin filled with ice makes for a fab drinks chiller!!! Also those hard plastic "vampire teeth" make for a great napkin holder too ( a much better use than cutting your gums on them! )

Apple bobbing and lots of spooky baking beforehand!

We don't do Halloween. I find the whole thing unpleasant and the younger kids get scared and upset by some of the displays when I take them to the supermarket as it's become really commercialized in the last few years :-( I buy a big tub of mixed candies for the kids so they don't feel like they missed out with not trick or treating and our church does a Light party instead where the kids have fancy dress and candy, but nothing Halloween related as we don't celebrate it.

Our paw patrol pumpkins were a big hit last year!!!

we love going to a halloween party. Our favourite dish is "fingers" shortbread :)

First time in my own house who knows what spooky things we will be able to do!! Would love a cobwebbed front garden and lots of sweets

Got to be the scary food! The bloody fingers (sweet fingers covered in jelly), the bobbing for eyes (sweet eyeballs in various gruesome things), the jelly brains. The kids always love it and it's all about the kids at Halloween

Being in a spooky dark house helps, having bats and owls nearby is also a free extra feature

I love doing pumping carving competitions and gruesome blind folded lucky dips !

I love decorating the house for all the Trick or Treaters, I live in a village and it's one of the evenings I feel the community spirit. I add to my collection of decorations each year and I have one scary window and the nearest one is more Casper the Friendly Ghost for the little ones. I have a scary doorbell the older ones love to press and a sweet tray with hand that grabs theirs when they take a sweet (or a spider!), they love (I think!)

Decorate the house, have plenty of sweets, and rent some fun scary cartoon movies. Also making some pumpkin shaped ginger bread biscuits and using icing pens to decorate. It is all quite easy to organise and always a big success.

I use a drill to drill lots of holes in a pumpkin - it looks like lots of twinkly stars!