Halloween

Are you taking your kids trick or treating?

I've got a bag of fruit bursts in case any of the neighbourhood kids, turn up on the door step.
There are a few school kids in the street.

Tomorrow night I thought?

Nah, I'm not into halloween although I often keep a bag of lollies so I have something to give any trick or treaters. 

Tomorrow night we're going around to a friends place for dinner and then we're all (3 mums & 4 kids) going to Party at the Lake in Whitby which is being run by one of the local churches as an alternative to Halloween.  I hear they have free merry go rounds and things so Michaela should love it!

 

ETA: when she is older I'll probably send her to the Saints and Angels party at church so she gets to dress up without wandering the neighbourhood door knocking.

Edited by MrsMojo

No one ever visits us... we're not really in a kid friendly area as it's more industrial and on a main road We'd love to be able to dress up and dress the house etc, as Halloween is like our Christmas (which we don't really celebrate either) IYKWIM?

We are going to a Halloween afternoon tea and we get to dress up! Its just our family and all the little cousins are dressing up and we are putting a little party on for them. Thats stops the older kids harrassing my SIL's about going trick or treating!

Apparently kids are told to only accept wrapped lollies nowadays, so no homemade lollies, or fruit or gingernuts

We had quite a few groups last year so we'll have a bag of lollies on hand just in case. And if there's some left at the end of the night ... yay for us!

I don't mind other kids doing it but we're in quite a secluded little area and I would regard it as pretty safe but I'd never let Livvy do it. You can tell some of the little kiddies have gone through quite a lot of effort in their costumes and the first few years I felt so bad telling them I didn't have anything for them.

mummy_becks wrote: Here they have an area set aside for a halloween walk and they can only go to houses who have a balloon tied to their letterbox.

Thats what happens out here in our little village too!

I thought we might bet more visitors here in our new house, since we're in an area with quite a few families. Didn't get any last year, but I always have some lollies on hand for when my little brothers and sisters visit, so if any kids do pop in this year I'll have something for them.

I don;t beleive in Halloween - well more that I don't think kids knocking on strangers doors asking for lollies is a good thing to teach your children.