What do you give to the trick or treaters?

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat

delain wrote: »

I got given a loose weetabix once

Sorry, but :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Thanks for cheering me up delain

pretzelnut

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Well Boo Humbug, then We don;t keep Haloween, preferring Bonfire Night or Mishief Night (a quaint Yorkshire tradition )

Im yorkshire born and bread. And LOVED ''miggy night'' as a child. My mum used to buy us eggs and flour. It was a community tradition. 1 day where all us kids were allowed to get up to some harmless mischief.

I have made up some little bags for the trick or treaters here, with a chocolate bar, some mini wham bars and a few plastic halloween toys. But they only get given to those who make the effort. We only give to the younger ones who come with parents. Once it gets to 6.30 we close our curtains and no longer answer the door.

YorkiePud_3

Well, I buy those plain white bun/muffin cases ... then, with an orange, green and black felt tip, I draw a line in all the "creases" round the outsides of them, alternating colours. Takes forever, but it looks really good!

I get some multi pack sweets from such as Home Bargains and Wilkos and also a bag of lollies. I buy some little toys such as plastic mice, spiders, witchy fingers, then into each bun case I put some sweeties, a lollipop and one of the toys.
I also get some of those long stringy jelly worms and put them all over the sweets and the toy, then I wrap it all in cling film so nothing spills out when you pop it in the little tykes' bags! (They used to have little cauldrons to put their sweeties in, now the enterprising little tinkers bring a carrier bag!!)

I usually make around 60 of them but I've noticed that there have been less and less kids each year ... I give em the fright of their lives though cos I get dressed up as a witch too ... I green up my face, arms and hands and paint my lips, eyes and fingernails black ... *LOL* .. I guess at 37 yrs old I should have grown out of playing dress up, but hey ho!!

DaisyFlower

I've bought some lovely bags from Lakeland and a good selection of goodies to make up sweetie bags. DS loves making them and any sweets left over I can take into work to use up. Last year we got through more then previously so I have over bought this time, especially as its not a school night for the trick or treaters.

We'll make cakes and cookies but for ourselves as I know lots of parents don't let their children eat anything homemade or unsealed from "strangers".

jamsandwhich

Well we are having a major halloween party this year - all for our two year old twins (yeah right:rotfl:)

We are going to put the parasols up in the garden with green fairy lights, turnip lanterns and glowsticks hanging in the bushes and trees, pumpkins up the path and we have a skeleton door hanger with red flashing eyes from Wilkinson's (£2.50-ish) so I suppose any passing halloweeners will be made to feel like they should knock! We are having nieces and family round for hot dogs and jacket spuds and hopefully everyone will at least dress up a bit - can't wait:j

Anyone who knocks will be rewarded depending on the level of effort - a mini choccy bar for none up to sweets, chocs and some coins for a lot (or if they are little uns)

Stephb1986_2

I normally just take my dog to the door and scare them off lol

Steph xx

YorkiePud_3

jamsandwhich wrote: »

Well we are having a major halloween party this year - all for our two year old twins (yeah right:rotfl:)

We are going to put the parasols up in the garden with green fairy lights, turnip lanterns and glowsticks hanging in the bushes and trees, pumpkins up the path and we have a skeleton door hanger with red flashing eyes from Wilkinson's (£2.50-ish) so I suppose any passing halloweeners will be made to feel like they should knock! We are having nieces and family round for hot dogs and jacket spuds and hopefully everyone will at least dress up a bit - can't wait:j

Anyone who knocks will be rewarded depending on the level of effort - a mini choccy bar for none up to sweets, chocs and some coins for a lot (or if they are little uns)

Sounds faaaaaabulous!! I'll be there about 6 .... he he he he!!

jamsandwhich

YorkiePud wrote: »

Sounds faaaaaabulous!! I'll be there about 6 .... he he he he!!

You will be welcome!! My family can be miserable gits and I don't really expect them to dress up - am going shopping for fabric tomorrow for my witchy outfit - I have my orange and black stripy tights:eek:

ged1980

when i was a lad in edinburgh halloween was a big thing but think its changed a lot is just kids at door asking something now (i do give them ) but is not the same

vikki_louise

Some of you are so generous! I didnt realise until a few years ago that some people give money to trick or treaters, i was really suprised (and personly would rather give it to charity!). A few years back a friend had sent me a TON of different sweets that i was never going to get through, from little wrapped marshmellows to giant marshmellow kebabs and everything inbetween. Im disabled and wasnt well enough to go downstairs to open the door to them so i was at my window with a torch and when they came i threw the sweets down, they went crazy for it trying to catch them and one boy thought it was the best house (I didnt explain why i was doing it that way!), the next year i heard him say as he came down the drive "this is the house that rains sweets"!. I gave out flumpys one year (from costco) then last year i gave out whistling lollipops as they were the cheepest thing in costco so my mum picked them up for me, they scanned through the till even cheeper! Ive not got anythingin this year tho and wont unless my mum spots something cheep (my parents dont like halloween). We never used to have trick or treaters but the past 5 years its kinda exploded, its like that scene from chitty chitty bang bang when kids spill out from underground, i swear some must come to the area just for hte rich pickings! I don't like the teenagers though, little kids dressed up are cute but not past a certain age (and as you said some dont even make an effort). My friend hands out glow sticks to hers which i think is cute. Until I read on here last year I had never heard of asking them to do a trick for you in return for a treat.



Edit to say- im sure some of you who have read my posts are sick of me mentioning post pals but if you have any left over treat bags or any kind or glow sticks which are homeless please consider sending them to a seriously ill child or their sibling at https://www.postpals.co.uk to make their day Thanks