Share your Halloween activity ideas - £200 voucher to be won

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With Halloween just round the corner, we’d love you to share your favourite ways to celebrate as a family. Whether it’s spooky snacks and games ideas, a simple but effective costume, or you prefer heading to an event like LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Birmingham’s Brick or Treat Monster Party, share your Halloween plans and ideas in the thread below.

• Post your Halloween ideas in the thread below to be entered into a prize draw
• One lucky MNer will win a £200 voucher for a store of their choice (from a list).

Here’s what LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Birmingham has to say:
"With spooky season just around the corner, it’s time to start planning those spooktacular Halloween ideas. Join us at LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Birmingham for our awesome Brick or Treat: Monster Party event which runs from 30th September to 5th November. There are so many fang-tastic activities to sink your teeth into as well as two awesome rides, lots of LEGO build & play zones and a 4D cinema experience at the ultimate indoor LEGO® playground!"

Thanks and good luck with the prize draw!

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We try to do a lot of free activities in the run up to Halloween using things from around the house or items from nature. Popular activities have included pumpkin potato printing, hand print ghosts and autumn leaf wreath making.

Pumpkin picking, then carving the pumpkins while watching Halloween film with Halloween themed snacks in Halloween dishes (home bargains is my friend). Putting the carved pumpkins in the windows with tea lights.

Making spider handprint pictures - cutting them out to make spooky garlands, stick on goggly eyes make them complete !

I buy the CBeebies Halloween craft magazine. Worth the money. Full of different craft ideas and supplies and keeps my little one occupied for the whole half term

Pumpkin carving is a must - we bought a carving set from the pound shop with a little scoop and small serrated knife for the mouth nose and eyes. I am trying to think of something to do with the pumpkin seed - other than dry them and up them in sealed kitchen roll tubes - to make 'bone shakers'

We don’t have anywhere near our house where we can go Trick or Treating, so instead I hide lots of Halloween sweets around the garden. It’s more difficult than an Easter egg hunt as there are lots of leaves on the ground which make excellent hiding places! The dc once found a hedgehog whilst searching for sweets.

Halloween is one of the favourite times of year for our family. We love to decorate the house for trick or treaters. We have pumpkin picking and carving competition,
Spooky milkshake making, making normal food look Spooky,
Musical monster disco, and the traditional bobbing for apples. We also like to get out on nature walks and a visit twycross zoo or Hatton Country Park.

we love to make peppermint creams, and decorate with black icing to make spooky treats

Ha ha, we put it the least amount of effort possible. Go trick or treating with DSs friends and have some pumpkin lanterns dotted around the house that I bought for something like 50p each in B&Q years ago.
We did carve a pumpkin and get loads of sweets in one year but then realised that because we would be out it was a bit pointless lighting the pumpkin to say "welcome" when we wouldn't be there!

If you cannot afford a halloween outfit - you can make so many things out of bin bags - cut and stuck to make dresses and capes, a simple white sheet to be a ghost or cut up to be a scary mummy.

We always pick conkers in the run up, draw scary faces on them with chalk pens and sometimes stick them onto a wreath for a little door decoration! Pumpkin carving is a must, and I've been known to get the drill out to do elaborate designs. We usually make something weird (and green) to eat on the night, maybe some trick or treating too!

Apple bobbing is great fun - we did it as kids and I do it with mine - just a pack of apples and a washing tub of water (and a few towels) - make hot chocolate with squirty cream - or spiders made from marshmallows and matchmakers

Apple bobbing!! It’s free, and young kids love it.

We go to the farm to get a pumpkin each, then come home and carve them using templates from the 'net.

We're starting potty training on Halloween day... argh!
So I've bought a pinata to fill with sweets (obviously not all to be eaten by LO), a scratch art set, some glow sticks, some light up balloons and stickers. We've bought her a witches dress costume so she can go nappy-less during the day and we're just going to have fun in the house with games, music and films.
Wish us luck with the potty training... 😬

Making papier mache masks - using a balloon as a 'face' once it's dried- paint and cut eyes and a mouth out. Apple bobbing, pumpkin carving - fill with a battery tea light - and face painting (if the masks don't work out)

My DC are teenagers now, so we set each other a challenge to buy a hideous Halloween costume from the charity shops for less than £2 total. We then donate them back to the shop afterwards.

We go trick or treating and have a family afternoon of the weekend closest with spooky foods like ghosts pizzas and damaged finger hot dogs. We play Don't Eat Pete and donuts on a rope.

A decoration and activity tied into one: THE SPIDERWEB
Make a human size spiderweb with as many yarns as there are children at the party. Attach a name to one end then web the thread in and out of chair legs, tables, lamps whatever , and attach the other end to a bag of sweets or tiny toy. Use a different yarn for each child. Great fun for any age!

Pumpkin carving (and if you get a fresh one - make pumpkin (and vegetable) soup, use the seeds (once washed and airfried to dry them) and make pictures - they make great teeth for a scary witch.
Make handprint spider pictures.

None a ridiculous thing from America that has been pushed by marketing departments of retailers we do a lot on guy. 5th November a pivotal part of British history

Like @Surreyclaire we don't do anything for Halloween - it only really became a big thing over here when the American shop Walmart bought Asda and started promoting Halloween heavily.

Asda’s global approach to Halloween

We don’t celebrate it, but we try and do something fun at home for the children so they don’t feel like they are missing out either. One year they chose a Frozen party.

Halloween is British 😂
We imported it to America!

Pumpkins, trick or treating, dressing up, Scary food.