In our country to this event, many are still suspicious, not understanding why people celebrate Halloween ? The matter is that on October 31, the Celts celebrated their Samhain holiday, symbolizing the end of the harvest. It was they who actually ended the year old and started a new one. Later Christians abolished all old rites, but Samhain was not forgotten and almost coincided with the date of All Saints Day, which Catholics celebrate on November 1. He was given the name All Hallows Eve. Where is Halloween now? Since the 20s of the last century it has become very popular in the US, where the fashion was brought by immigrants from Europe, who loved noisy activities. Then gradually such festivities spread to Canada, Western Europe, Australia and even many Asian countries.
How to celebrate Halloween at home?
Theme parties with disguise have always attracted people, which is why in our country the Evening of All Saints quickly became popular. Although official authorities often still ask not to mark it in schools, but in apartments and clubs everywhere on the last day of November, laughter and fun reigns. Making an apartment or a country house for this event is extremely simple. If you have old candlesticks, then immediately place them on the tables. Walls and corners can be veiled by artificial spiderweb thread. Well, if you can drag a skeleton from the biology cabinet into the room, but it does not matter if it's not there.
Help to create the right atmosphere homemade paintings with "terrible" drawings depicting ghosts and witches. The room should play slow music and reign darkness. Then the thing was only for the creepy but cheerful masks and costumes - zombies, ghosts, demons and other monsters today will be the main guests at our party. Competitions here are selected special - for the most terrible history, terrible puzzles, costume parade, tricks, who first with toilet paper will make the mummy and others.
How to celebrate Halloween with children?
Many believe that this event is harmful for kids. But they also like to play pranks, frightening their peers with creepy stories, or running around in the costume of Casper's gay ghost. Just do not overdo it, creating in the room too eerie atmosphere. Owl or bat here will be more appropriate than fanged zombies, and a pumpkin with a candle, dragons and Spiderman will successfully replace the dead. Sweet treats can be stylized as spiders or funny muzzles.