Last year, our daughter decided she was too old for trick or treating so we started a new tradition of spending the evening around a fire in the backyard and handing out candy from the arbor that opens onto the sidewalk. It's fun and gives us an opportunity to decorate more than just the front porch.
So once again, we roped off the front walkway with "Danger" tape and hung a sign directing the trick or treaters around the corner to the backyard (our house is on the corner).
We still wanted to have a Halloween display on the front porch, so we converted it into a morgue, complete with a dead body.
We placed our pumpkins along the route to the "Haunted Gate".
Last year, we had creature silhouettes peeking out the side windows. This year, we opted for zombies, instead. They were a big hit. A group of boys stood on the sidewalk watching them to see if they would move.
It was chilly, in the 40's, so we stayed close to the fire when we weren't handing out candy. We had our torches lit for some additional light.
We had Halloween themed music blasting and there were ghosts and bats strung across the backyard, fluttering and flying in the wind.
When the evening was over, we had given out nearly 400 pieces of candy, but we still have quite a bit left.
How was your Halloween?
Willoughby
So once again, we roped off the front walkway with "Danger" tape and hung a sign directing the trick or treaters around the corner to the backyard (our house is on the corner).
We still wanted to have a Halloween display on the front porch, so we converted it into a morgue, complete with a dead body.
We placed our pumpkins along the route to the "Haunted Gate".
Last year, we had creature silhouettes peeking out the side windows. This year, we opted for zombies, instead. They were a big hit. A group of boys stood on the sidewalk watching them to see if they would move.
It was chilly, in the 40's, so we stayed close to the fire when we weren't handing out candy. We had our torches lit for some additional light.
We had Halloween themed music blasting and there were ghosts and bats strung across the backyard, fluttering and flying in the wind.
When the evening was over, we had given out nearly 400 pieces of candy, but we still have quite a bit left.
How was your Halloween?
Willoughby
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Yeah, we're all about the drama.
When our oldest daughter got married she wanted to have a 'Haunted Wedding Shower' and we converted a large part of the front yard into a graveyard complete with bones poking up, tombstones, fog machines and strobe lights. It was soooo cool. She dressed up as the corpse bride. I gotta find a picture to send you. It sounds like it would be right up your alley. I'm not too big of a fan of scary!
You really do Halloween big. Great idea doing the morgue.
Since we live smack in the middle of Nowhere USA, we don't always get the little ghosts and ghouls. On our best year we had seven.
Sad to say the only hand I heard rustlin' in the candy bowl was Hubs. ....and I smacked it...smacked it hard! Heeehehehe!
God bless and have a marvelous day sweetie!!! :o)
I wish we had enough trick or treaters to hand out 400 pieces of candy. This year I think we got maybe 25 kids-- It was so disappointing. Maybe I need to decorate like you next year to attract some more action.
Hope all's well with you WIlloughby. xo jj
My girls are still enjoying trick-or-treating, but I can sense that the end is drawing near for the older one. This year was the first year that both girls requested that we put out some scary decorations. So, we created a little vignette on the porch with a nursemaid skeleton pushing a pram with a baby skeleton. Macabre, but fun.
Wishing you a very happy Thanksgiving, my friend! Can't wait to hear all about yours.
Jenn