By Alesha Capone
A Williams Landing family has raised $7137.04 for The Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal after hosting a spook-tacular Halloween display and activities last month.
Natalie and Max Mitchell, along with their sons Maxwell, Roman and Harvey live at a property known as the suburb’s “Halloween House”.
In the 73 days leading up to Halloween, they arranged a skeleton nicknamed Anna into different displays in their front yard.
On October 31, they accepted donations from residents who came past to see their Halloween decorations during a five-hour event.
Ms Mitchell said they also had cookies for sale which we were donated by Janine from Cue Thy Cakes and a raffle to win an Anna Skeleton ornament, crafted and donated by Gavin from The Rusty Tinker.
Other sponsors of the event included 1300TempFence, The Printed Shade Cloth Company, Cedar Woods – Williams Landing, ACE Real Estate – Laverton and Point Cook, Nestle, Woolworths – Williams Landing, Must Have Movie Cars and David Mullins Photography & 3D Concept Art.
“We’d like to thank everyone who supported, donated, encouraged and enjoyed our event this year,” Ms Mitchell said.
“We feel absolutely proud, humbled and in awe of the generosity of our community.”
Ms Mitchell said they believed around 1500 people made their way through the street during the Halloween event.
“It has spurred on our desire to make next year even bigger and better,” she said.
Ms Mitchell said Anna Skeleton, along with her companions Angus and Stanley, would soon “venture out from lockdown and into the community beyond our driveway”.
Details: @annaskeleton_halloween on Instagram.
