callgirl to get trick or treaters, you need to display a lit pumpkin. It can be a paper lantern pumpkin, not a real one. Do that until all the sweets are taken then take the lantern in.
I have never been involved in Halloween until this year but I have DGC and DDiL staying the week. DGC are mad about Halloween and arrived with a host of decorations for the front of the house and front door (which are being carefully packed away by them for next year).
I had such fun last night. I have discovered that the rules here and 250 miles away where they live, is that they can call at any house displaying a lit pumpkin, but nowhere else. When we went out we extinguished our pumpkins and relit them when we returned.
We had a stream of children to our door and in turn my DGC knocked on about 20 doors, always to be greeted by householders with big baskets of sweets. It was enormous fun and there were lots of little groups of giggling children, always with at least one adult.
I entered into the fun and made a Halloween witches meal of fingers (chipolatas), eyeballs( meatballs),peas, cheese sauce and tomato sauce (I won't turn your stomachs by saying what those were christened) and large glasses of blood( cherryade).
Next year, if they are not staying with me, I will still have a large basket of sweets and a lit pumpkin. I am carefully saving my paper pumpkin from this year.