Halloween

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Halloween
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History of Halloween

• Annual celebration October 31st
• Catholic holiday All Hallows Eve before All
  Saints Day
• Over 2000 years ago, summer officially ended
  October 31st Samhain Celtic New Year

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Samhain

• People in Europe believed that on October 31st
  the spirits of people who died during that year
  would wake up and come back to search for living
  bodies to possess for the next year.

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Spirits returning?
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• People did not want to be possessed by spirits.
• They put out fires in their homes to make them
  cold. They also decorated their houses to look
  scary.
• Then they would dress up like ghosts or ghouls to
  scare away the spirits.

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• Today, most people do not believe that the dead
  can walk around on October 31st.
• However, Americans still celebrate the holiday.

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What do Americans do on Halloween?

• Children dress up in different costumes.
• During the school day, children in elementary
  school have class parties. The students wear
  costumes and get candies and treats.
• At night, children in costume walk in the
  streets. They go door to door to ask for candy
  and goodies. Trick or treat they shout.

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Children in Costumes at Classroom Halloween Party
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Children in Costumes
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Children in Costumes
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Halloween Activities

• Families carve pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns.
• Families decorate their homes with pumpkins,
  jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, spider webs, and other
  scary things.
• Families take children to visit haunted houses.
• Adults watch scary movies and dress up in scary
  costumes, too.

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Children buying pumpkins to carve
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Pumpkins
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Jack-o-lanterns
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What do we see on Halloween?

• Bats

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• Witches
• Brooms
• Cauldrons

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• Skeletons
• Bones

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• Coffins

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• Cemeteries
• Tombstones
• Graves

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• Spiders
• Spider webs

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• Vampires
• Dracula

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• Mummies

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• Black cats

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• Frankenstein

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• Blood
• Candles
• Skulls

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• Costumes
• Candy
• Treats

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• Ghosts

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• Haunted Houses

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