Halloween

Halloween Stomp | Halloween Song for Kids | The Singing Walrus (Embed)

Halloween is celebrated on 31st October. It is the time of magical creatures. Children wear different costumes. You can see most of them in this song.

Halloween creatures

Caption: : Halloween stomp song

Halloween tradition

The tradition of Halloween on 31 October comes from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. Samhain was the Celtic New Year and they celebrated it on  November because that was the end of summer and harvest time (life) and the start of winter (death). It was also the time for ghosts to return to earth for a day. People lit a big fire, wore special clothes made of animal skin to be safe from the ghosts and the winter. In AD 609, the Catholic Church put the Christian celebration of All Saints Day on 1 November, so All Hallows Eve – or Halloween – moved to the night of the 31st October.

• Happy Halloween!

Halloween+Costume+Party (application/pdf)

The Celts were afraid of the ghosts that came on Samhain. If they went outside after dark, they put on masks. They hoped any ghosts they met would leave them alone. In early America, the Native Americans and the first Europeans celebrated the end of the harvest, but not Halloween. When Irish people arrived, the harvest festival started to look more like Halloween and it became popular across the country.  Americans tried to make it more a family tradition, that’s why they wear today all kinds of costumes on Halloween, not just the scary ones.

Halloween costumes

Caption: : Halloween costume party

PUMPKINS

Cool+Pumpkins (application/pdf)

Caption: : COOL PUMPKINS OR JACK'O LANTERNS

The Celts carved faces into vegetables like turnips or potatoes to scare the ghosts and make them go away. It was sometimes called a jack-o’-lantern because of an Irish story about a man, Jack. He played a trick on the devil and then had to walk the earth for all time as a punishment.  

JACK-O-LANTERN STORY

Jack O Lantern | Dr. Binocs Show | Best Learning Video For kids | Peekaboo kidz | Halloween Stories (Embed)

Caption: : The story of Stingy Jack