Ideas for Halloween since covid has ruined it!!

jazzyja

Hi guys. I have older kids so trick or treating is the yearly excitement and they're gutted its not happening this year! They're 10 and 12....has anyone any ideas what we can do this Halloween that doesn't cost the earth! Im going to do a lil Halloween buffet with some films but wanted something for day time! Any ideas greatly appreciated  

DayDreamerandGeneralWaster

A treasure hunt, pumpkin carving competition or bobbing the apple. Or all three

[Deleted User]

To be pedantic ..... covid hasn't ruined Halloween for us - people have.
If we all lived by the guidelines we could, now, be going through covid now a lot easier than we actually are.

I have family who love Halloween, Bonfire night et al but, thanks to those not following rules we are all paying the price 😣😣

penners324

Has it been officially cancelled though?

kingfisherblue

My town is having a scarecrow trail. Participants are donating £5 to the local hospice, and local firms have donated prizes. A map showing the houses with scarecrows is being produced, so that local residents can see them. It's being held 26th October to 1st November, and I have my scarecrow planned!

twopenny

Kingfisher that's a great idea!

All sorts of halloweeny things that could make a trail. Jazzy if the children are that keen they could get involved is initiating something like this

They could make a halloween tree (bare branches of course) paint it black and fill small bags with sweets to hang from it.

CapricornLass

If you have jamjars, you could get them to design and cut out a face on a paper sleeve to go round it.  You can either light up using tealights or use some of the battery operated ones, and put them round the room during the evening.
Paper chains? 
its worth picking up some of the supermarket instore mags, as they will have recipes for halloween biscuits/cakes/mummies fingers etc etc.  that they could make during the afternoon.  One of the most effective ones I've seen was making ghosts out of meringue, with chocolate drop eyes.
Making up ghost stories to tell during the evening?

ToxicWomble

Sit back and relax with a glass of wine and a good book safe in the knowledge that you aren’t going to be pestered every 5minutes by kids you don’t know knocking on the door begging for treats.

DCFC79

ToxicWomble said:

Sit back and relax with a glass of wine and a good book safe in the knowledge that you aren’t going to be pestered every 5minutes by kids you don’t know knocking on the door begging for treats.

Luckily we haven't been subjected to this for years, its quite nice actually when I don't believe in it.

Barny1979

ToxicWomble said:

Sit back and relax with a glass of wine and a good book safe in the knowledge that you aren’t going to be pestered every 5minutes by kids you don’t know knocking on the door begging for treats.

Not sure the 10 and 12 year old will be up for a glass of wine and a book.

JamoLew

Barny1979 said:

ToxicWomble said:

Sit back and relax with a glass of wine and a good book safe in the knowledge that you aren’t going to be pestered every 5minutes by kids you don’t know knocking on the door begging for treats.

Not sure the 10 and 12 year old will be up for a glass of wine and a book.

Bit more civilised than a 2 liter bottle of woodpecker (or whatever they drink nowadays)