How was your Halloween? How much did you have with your friends and family? We had a great time but now that we are left with are lots and lots of candies. We went for the trick-or-treat game and collected many candies; mumma and dadda’s friends also bought many chocolates and candies along with them.

I love eating candies and chocolates but mumma won’t allow me to eat so many at a time. She says I will have cavities and then I have to visit the doctor’s office. Now I don’t want to do that. Mumma says the chocolates and candies stick to our teeth and germs accumulate over them and corrode our teeth. But what are we going to do with all those chocolates and candies? You have any idea?

I asked mumma and she said we are surely going to find some way out. She said she would use some to make chocolate cake. Christmas is round the corner and everyone is busy baking cakes and cookies. So she can use the chocolates to make cakes….sounds yummy! She will also use some to make the frosting on top of the cake. Dadda said he would ask mumma to make some hot chocolate for us using the milk chocolates. Hot chocolates and cookies; the perfect combination and it makes a great snack for the evening. Mumma loves coffee; but me and dadda are crazy about hot chocolate! Now what about the candies?

Dadda gave us a great idea. It is almost Christmas and it is time to spread love among everyone. So the best way to start spreading love is to donate the candies and some chocolates to the poor and needy children. They are not fortunate enough to celebrate Halloween or Christmas or buy chocolates of their choice. So we will visit a charity and donate some to the children living there.

Mumma has also found some great recipes on the Internet to use the remaining chocolates. I like the ‘banana poppers’ recipe. It is quite simple as well – cut the bananas into pieces and refrigerate for an hour. Then blend them and refrigerate again. Now melt the chocolate in a glass pan and keep aside. Make small balls with the mashed bananas and prick a toothpick into it. Now hold the toothpick and dip the ball into the melted chocolate. Freeze for an hour and the banana poppers are ready! This is a healthy and tasty snack and you can pop it anytime you wish to.

Do you have a lot of chocolates and candies as well? You can do the same thing as we are doing to use them; but make sure you donate some first. Dadda says sharing increases happiness and it also makes you feel good. Halloween is already gone and it is time to start preparing for Christmas. What are you plans for Christmas? Will be going out during the holidays or enjoy while staying back in home? I love the holiday season..hope it never ends!

Happy Halloween everyone! How was your day? Did you dress like a vampire or monster and frighten someone? We had lots of fun. There is a lot you can do in London, especially during Halloween. No matter how old you are, you can always have your best time during Halloween. You can join the Halloween parties, participate in Halloween-themed activities or visit some spooky places. Visiting the famous cemeteries and the Tower of London after dark is one of the favourite activities among people here. If you want to avoid the crowd, you can also watch some classic horror movies such as the Dracula, Exorcist, etc.

London has a number of haunted places where you can visit to have that eerie feeling and hear the ghosts scream and shout. I am too scared of all this so I remained at home and had fun with my friends and family. We decorated our home in Halloween style and invited our friends. We bought a jack-o-lantern and placed lights inside it to give a spooky feeling.

You can see these in almost every house. Some people carve out the pumpkins themselves while some buy them from the market. These have special significances. Dadda says, the scary faces carved out on the pumpkin scares away the evil and keeps our hose safe. This is the reason why we keep these jack-o-lanterns on the windows and porches. Mumma dimmed the lights and placed candles on the corners to create the ambience. We dressed up as vampires, witches and monsters. Dadda got the costumes for us. We have a neighbour who makes the costumes and we asked her to make it for us. The costumes were lovely and mumma did all the make-up. She used black kohl to make vampire eyes and used red lipsticks to make bloody lips. She also put red lipstick on one side of the lips that extended to the chin. It seemed as if I drunk blood! Mumma put on her make-up and we were all ready to welcome the guests.

I was waiting for my friends. This year we had planned to go out and ask our neighbours for trick-or-treat. It is a custom where children dressed up as ghosts go from house to house asking for treats such as candies, chocolates, etc. Once someone opens the door, we have to ask ‘trick-or-treat’; if someone says treat, that means they agree to give us whatever we want; but if they deny we can perform mischief to scare them. That’s the trick part.

Me and my friends went around our locality and gathered a lot of treats. Mumma got small pumpkin baskets for us and we collected all the sweets and candies inside it. Mumma and Dadda arranged for Halloween themed snacks and dinner for the guests. We had great fun together. We watched Scooby-doo together, while our parents had a great time talking to each other.

How did you spend your Halloween? How much fun did you have. Tell me all about your Halloween.