These days, however, as soon as Father's Day has passed, The Warehouse, the numerous Two Dollar shops and even the supermarkets push a plethora of plastic orange junk, hideous and often inappropriate costumes and "candy" (they're "lollies", for goodness sake!). We are bombarded with images of Halloween for almost two months, so that every little kid begins to pester their parents for costumes and to go trick-or-treating. Call me uptight, but I don't really like the idea at all. We teach our kids not to take stuff from strangers, but it's ok for them to knock on people's doors and ask for it? I'm also not a fan of the bucketfull of lollies that the kidlets end up with. Sugar, or worse, aspartame, food colouring galore, budget lollies made god knows where with god knows what. I just don't like it.
So this year, as the wee lads were so set on doing something for Halloween, we had a Halloween party with our friends from across the road. Freaky food and ghoulish games. It was fun.
We had fingers in buns, Jack-o-Lanterns (mandarins), apple and almond teeth, banana and white chocolate ghosts, choc dipped strawberries and spider mini pizzas.
Donut Munch Game (a good replacement for Apple Bobbing) was hilarious!
And of course, a Jack-o-Lantern! The kids were busy for ages doing designs on paper, before getting their hands on the pumpkin.
