Like most holidays I do stuff and talk to the kids and they sit there and look at me with blank looks. This will be the first time going out trick or treating for 3 of them and the fourth isn`t quite 18 months old so another year for him they said. With that in mind it is more about introducing the topic and what goes with it. I have stickees up on the window of jackolantern, ghost, witch, mummy, etc. and we look at them. I have a few board books with Halloween themes we have been reading. I have a light up pumpkin and we read a story about Joey the Jackolantern who gets all excited when he gets to light up. I count and we turn the pumpkin on and even with lots of prep it scared half the group including the oldest who I thought would have enjoyed having a turn to turn the switch on and off. Youngest thought it was fantastic clapping everytime it went on and pointing for more when I turned it off.

Gave them a picture of a haunted house - not a scary type to colour. They added two bats cutouts and a jackolantern cut out and that was basically our day.

Don't usually do a lot with the kids. We have our orange playdoh and suitable cookie cutters, I have some puppets we have played with and a few games I have made. When I am cooking lunch I put the kids up to the table to play with things from the seasonal bucket. I set up an activity at each place at the table and they are free to move from chair to chair to do what is there.