Heidi Kenney from My Paper Crane has posted these adorable pumpkin and cat lollipop friends! You can go to her blog and download these printable guys.. and festoon the heck out of your lollipops (and house) for halloween.
We don’t often do the trick or treating thing over our way.. but I kind of wish we had more traditions involving meeting neighbours and getting free yummy things… without it all being a bit scary. (Not spooky-scary, just uncomfortable-scary.)
One year we did plan a route of friendly homes to door-knock.. and it was ace.. I think I might do that this year. Organise a little map of safe homes to go to.. and dress the children up in ghoulish costumes and string-in-a-tin.
Do you do halloween..? It’s a perfectly good excuse for some orange bunting and a HUGE basket of Maltesers and Musk Sticks.
xx mikes
ps if you haven’t seen Heidi’s site.. go over there for the best softies ever.
In the UK Halloween is in autumn, so when I was growing up it always consisted of apple-related activities, like bob-apple (wear a blindfold and try to pick up apples from a bowl of water with your hands tied back), duck-apple (hang apples from a washing line and try to catch them blindfold with your hands tied back), making toffee apples and the like. We still carry on some of these traditions, and we also make a huge carved pumpkin with candles in – when it’s dark we put the lights out and sit around the pumpkin telling stories! We love Halloween at our place!
i had no idea you celebrated halloween in australia! i loved it as a child and dreaded it as a mom. now we live in a neighborhood of apartment buildings and no one ever comes to trick or treat at our place. we use the holiday as an excuse to buy a bag of our favorite candy (just in case) and eat it ourselves 🙂
I love across the road- behind Macro. You can come to my house & trick-a-treat. We had a great area to trick-a-treat when i was a kid- Much fun!
I love an excuse to bring out the lollies & musk sticks are favourites at our place too.