Save for a couple of weekend events to mark the spookiest day of the year, Muscat does not have much to offer to celebrate Halloween on October 31st. Yes, it is a working day, but that does not explain the drab weekend calendar.

So, if the party spirit is high and Halloween is beckoning, plan a shindig with family and friends.

Interestingly, despite the lackluster Halloween mood, Muscat shops have their share of masks and costumes to get the party going. While most of them are predictable, with skeletal pictures and other less gory stuff, there are easy ways to enhance the horror factor of these costumes with right accessories and make-up. Check on-line to learn little tips and tricks to bring out the vampire in you.

Pick a décor theme to give the party a twist; glow in the dark could be perfect with black lights and right colour costumes and accessories. Party food could be simply about everyday snacks that have undergone a spooky disguise to match up with the festive mood. Even the trick or treat could be converted into a house game, provided all the participants are up for it.

But if time is short and party is off the agenda, mark your Halloween with a pumpkin carving session. Supermarkets in Muscat, and even beyond, have a choice of perfectly shaped pumpkins to spin the day in your favour. Online tutorials could help with easy methods to carve a scary pumpkin.

Get going…

For the uninitiated, Halloween, which comes from ‘All Hallows’ Eve’, is an ancient religious festival, which has, over the years, become secular, with most parts of the world celebrating it for the sheer uninhibited fun it spreads.