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An open suitcase in a hotel room holds Halloween clue cards, sweets, a purple witch hat and a pumpkin trick-or-treat bucket.

Halloween Away From Home: A Trick or Treat Hunt...

A printable Halloween scavenger hunt for a hotel room or holiday home. Ideas for Halloween away from home, plus which clues work in a hotel.

Halloween Away From Home: A Trick or Treat Hunt...

A printable Halloween scavenger hunt for a hotel room or holiday home. Ideas for Halloween away from home, plus which clues work in a hotel.

Three ways to trick-or-treat at home: a treasure hunt, pass the parcel and a Halloween lucky dip.

How to Trick-or-Treat at Home

Want to celebrate Halloween without heading out, or add more fun before you do? Here are three ways to bring trick-or-treating home.

How to Trick-or-Treat at Home

Want to celebrate Halloween without heading out, or add more fun before you do? Here are three ways to bring trick-or-treating home.

A black witch hat with a purple ribbon casts the shadow of an older child wearing a witch costume.

Too old for the witch costume, not ready to giv...

My son's outgrown the generic costume but not the night itself. Here's what's kept Halloween exciting for his age group.

Too old for the witch costume, not ready to giv...

My son's outgrown the generic costume but not the night itself. Here's what's kept Halloween exciting for his age group.

Four Halloween activities at home: a themed film night, spooky baking, a treasure hunt and slime making

4 Alternatives to Trick-or-Treating at Home

Not going out trick-or-treating this year? Here are four ways to still make Halloween feel like an event, without knocking on a single door.

4 Alternatives to Trick-or-Treating at Home

Not going out trick-or-treating this year? Here are four ways to still make Halloween feel like an event, without knocking on a single door.

Halloween doorstep with pumpkins, sweets and a sign reading “Only treats. No tricks here.”

Mum, what are the tricks in Trick or Treat?

This question from my son prompted me to investigate the origin of this Halloween tradition and then to write our first Halloween hunt, putting the tricks back into trick or...

Mum, what are the tricks in Trick or Treat?

This question from my son prompted me to investigate the origin of this Halloween tradition and then to write our first Halloween hunt, putting the tricks back into trick or...