How Will You Decorate for Halloween?

[alum]

Originally Posted by carnation

This is a big topic of discussion at our house and this coming weekend, all the kids are coming home to decorate our yard and porch. We do a pumpkins/candy corn kind of theme, although our sons--especially the 6-year-old--would prefer blood and gore. We have candy corn and orange lights and candy corn and pumpkin yard decorations. I think I'm going to order jack o' lantern luminarias and put battery-operated tealights in them...also order a candy corn wreath.

Has anybody else noticed that in the past few years, purple and poison green have apparently joined orange and black and yellow as Halloween colors? like the purple for wizards' capes and the green of witches' or Frankenstein's monster's faces?

Any other ideas? What will you do to decorate your place?

I don't decorate for Halloween. I have nothing against the holiday but I'm just too lazy. I barely get a tree trimmed by Christmas!

However, I do quilt a lot and in my travels for the perfect yard of batik, I have definitely noticed the seasonal fabrics incorporate purple and bright green mixed with the "traditional" Halloween colors. I actually like the additional colors.

So when does everyone make the kids stop trick-or-treating? My D's last time was her 8th grade year and it will probably be the same for my son.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by alum

So when does everyone make the kids stop trick-or-treating? My D's last time was her 8th grade year and it will probably be the same for my son.

I think the last time I went trick-or-treating was when I was 9 or 10. My parents made it too much of a hassle (deliberately). I'd get home from school around 3:30, get into my costume, then I had about twenty minutes of trick-or-treating time before I had to get out of my costume and into church clothes to go to the 5:15pm All Saints' Day vigil Mass. (There was a 7:15pm vigil Mass as well, but my parents refused to consider going to it. Oddly enough, the year I stopped trick-or-treating, the 7:15pm Mass became acceptable to them.)