Sleepy neighbourhoods across the State have come back from the dead as thousands of children hit the streets for a night of scares, screams and sugar.<\/p>\n
From evil wizards and witches to Disney characters, and even a hot-dog-themed Dachshund, Victoria Park\u2019s Willis Street was flooded with hundreds of families dressed in their best Halloween costumes for a night of trick-or-treating \u2014 the first Halloween on a Saturday in six years.<\/p>\n
Coolbinia local Jessica Cheung and her family dressed as characters from Beauty and the Beast \u2014 Belle, The Beast, Lumiere and Mrs Potts \u2014 choices inspired by her five-year-old daughter, Sofia.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a princess at home, so we decided to dress up around the princess,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re having so much fun, so many lollies, it\u2019s a sugar high.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hayley Cassidy\u2019s seven-year-old daughter, Addison, and her best friend Eden Parker dressed as matching deadly blood-stained ballerinas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe girls do ballet so the girls picked the outfit out. My husband did all the make-up and gruesomeness, and I did the buns and their hair,\u201d Hayley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe go to school just around the corner and they block the streets off, it\u2019s great every year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alan Renwick\u2019s two-year-old daughter, Lily, dressed as Zog the dragon, from her favourite picture book.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is her favourite, she likes Zog, so this is her dress-up outfit. She\u2019s already bumped into one of her friends from daycare, which is great,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s enjoying seeing all the other dragons and dinosaurs around the place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria Park local Angela Flynn was trick-or-treating with her sons and his friends and said it was already a night to remember.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been wonderful, they\u2019ve been really excited. It\u2019s the first year the kids have been getting into it. All the kids go to school together and so we met down at the park and then make a start from here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She said it was a bonus that Halloween was on a Saturday, saying it was \u201cmuch better to organise\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ms Flynn\u2019s son, Lewis, who was dressed as Mario, said he had already collected more than a dozen sweets, including a sherbet, lollipops and chocolate bars.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe best part is going trick-or-treating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Willis Street local Gerry Mee decked his house with dozens of spooky Halloween decorations, including plastic skeletons, ghosts and spiders.<\/p>\n
He said he and his family had been decorating their house for years, noting \u201cit\u2019s getting bigger every year\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a washing basket full of sweets this morning, but it\u2019s all gone now. The council donated some treats as well, so that was good and people donate some sweets as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so good for the street, it\u2019s so good for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Six-year-old Willow came dressed as the Wicked Witch of the West and said her mother helped paint herself green.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got lollies,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Party Source owner Ajay Malhotra said sales were up 30 to 40 per cent compared with this time last year, and said 2026 was likely \u201cbiggest Halloween ever\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were always expecting it to be busier, being a Saturday Halloween, but it\u2019s actually been much, much more than we expected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kids\u2019 side of it has been pretty steady. That\u2019s always kind of been there, but I think adults getting into it is probably more of the change that we\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s celebrations spilled out of the suburbs and into the city, with dozens of nightclubs and pubs joining in on the spooky festivities.<\/p>\n
Seasons Halloween took over Wellington Square alongside thrill rides, tarot readers and haunted mazes, whilst Magnet House and Amplifier Bar teamed up for a dark, candlelit takeover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sleepy neighbourhoods across the State have come back from the dead as thousands of children hit the streets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,46,45],"class_list":["post-947869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-perth","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}