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Halloween is coming on 31st October so it’s time to get spooky and plan that party! You could go for the old traditions of bobbing for apples and trick or treating or make up your own scary fun. Here are our top tips:

• If you’re having a party at home, think about where you are going to decorate. Your bedroom may be out of bounds (an eerie ‘Entrance Forbidden’ sign is a good idea) but you could hang spiders and cobwebs over the front door and turn the living room into a scary den with coloured light bulbs and skeletons and witches hanging from the walls. Most high street shops sell a range of fun items at good prices.
• Send out themed party invitations and ask everyone to wear fancy dress. You could always draw pumpkins, witches and skeletons on the invites to inspire your guests.
• Recycled egg cartons can easily be turned into scary spiders. Cut the egg carton into six different cups and make eight holes around the bottom for the legs. Paint them black and leave to dry. Use black pipe cleaners for the legs (one pushed through makes two legs) and stick on googly eyes.


Halloween confectionery,
from 49p, Woolworths

• To make a tissue ghost, screw up a white tissue into a ball and place inside a second tissue. Pull the second tissue around the first to make a head shape and tie in place with wool or string. Draw a face then hang from the ceiling or windows.
• To play a spider’s web game, take a ball of black wool and ask children to stand in a circle. They then take it in turns to throw the ball of wool across to another child while holding onto one end. Continue until a woollen spider’s web is made.
• Take rolls of white toilet paper and have two teams who take turns wrapping each other up as a mummy. The team who does it the quickest, wins.
• Serve party food in themed tableware. A hollowed-out pumpkin makes a great serving bowl for crisps or dried fruit while a big stockpot could be a witch’s cauldron for tasty homemade soup or stew. Make your own fruit punch and add peeled, seedless grapes to look like floating eyeballs!
• When your guests leave, hand out trick or treat bags filled with goodies or better still, have some adults hidden around the house and invite the children to trick or treat them.


Halloween tray bake,
£5.99, Marks & Spencer

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