As a family, for years, we avoided Halloween almost entirely. We made the deliberate choice not to get involved with things like Light Parties and, when we moved to our small village, our young children were very content to either just let me answer the door to the many trick or treaters (given the size of our village we have a disproportionately large number) or we would leave treats at the door and go out.
Although most children dressed up cute, we had some local teens who enjoyed dressing up as scarily as they could and my children became quite 'anti' everything Halloween.
Then we saw a Facebook post by Nay Dawson about what her family did in 2020 and our life switched! The following year we made our house a House of Light. We decorated the house, went all out on treat bags with heart and spider sweets, glowsticks and Nay's spider story handout (we made 50 and ran out!).
