Halloween Activities
 1. What do you know about Halloween? How did it start? What do people do? Try this test.
True or False?
1. Halloween is traditionally celebrated on the night of 31st October, the night before All Saint’s Day.
2. In England Halloween was called “All Hallow’s Eve”.
3. On Halloween night all evil spirits stayed at home.
4. Halloween is based on an ancient Celtic holiday and the name “Halloween” means “Winter’s End”.
5. In past times, people put lamps or lanterns outside their houses to keep evil spirits away.
6. People believed that witches, ghosts and goblins went around at night looking for a living body!
7. On Halloween, people dressed up as ghosts and witches so that the spirits would not steal their body!
8. Nowadays, people put pumpkins with faces in their houses.
9. The pumpkin is sometimes called a “Jack-o-lantern”.
10. “Trick or treat” is a game children play at Halloween to play jokes (trick) or get sweets (treat).
2. Now find these Halloween words!
Key:
1. 1. T; 2. T; 3. F; 4. F; 5. T; 6. T; 7. T; 8. T; 9. T; 10. T
2. 2. witches; 3. goblin; 4. lantern; 5. pumpkin; 6. spirits; 7. black cat; 8. skeleton; 9. haunted; 10. trick or treat
Halloween Party
It’s Halloween! Here are some ideas on how to have a great party!
Costumes!
1. To make a ghost costume take an old white sheet (ask your mum or dad first!) and out holes for your eyes. Then practise your ghost noises!
2. To make an easy Halloween costume use a black bin bag. You can cut wings to make a bat or a vampire.
3. To make a witch’s hat cut a circle of black card and make a cone to go on the top. Stick some gold stars or moons on to it.
Games!
 1. Ask your friends to each bring a pumpkin lantern to the party. Give a prize for the best one.
2. Hide some small pumpkins in the garden and play “Hunt the Pumpkin”.
3. Bobbing for Apples. Put lots of apples in a tab of water and then try to get them out! But no hands! You can only bite them.
4. Bobbing for doughnuts. Hang some doughnuts up on string in front of your friends’ faces. The first one to eat the doughnut (no hands!) is the winner.
5. Circle ghost story. Sit in a circle on the floor. You start a scary ghost story. The next person continues, and then the next person... until you get a scary ending!
Food!
Make some horrible Halloween food for your party! Try these ideas!
1. Sandwiches – cut these into shapes of ghosts, cats or moons.
2. Dead Man’s Finger Sandwiches
Cut some bread in slices. Spread on some margarine and cream cheese. Roll up the sandwiches and make three marks like fingers. Stick an almond on each finger to make a nail. Add some tomato ketchup to make the blood!
3. Green Slime Dessert
Make a green jelly. Break it up with a fork and add some gummy worms to make a slimy dessert!
4. Vampire’s Blood Milkshake
Mix together some natural yoghurt, strawberries, some strawberry ice-cream and 0,5 teaspoon vanilla flavouring in the blender. This makes a horrible coloured milkshake but tastes wonderful!
5. Toffee Apples
You need 350 g sugar; 50 g butter, 100 g treacle or syrup, 1 spoon lemon juice, 150 ml water;
Put everything in a pan and heat until it dissolves. Then boil it quickly to make the caramel for 20 minutes. Dip 10 firm apples in the caramel with a stick and leave them to cool.
Wiggly Worms (not to eat!!)
 You need: spaghetti, grapes, cooking oil and wrapped sweets.
1. Cook the spaghetti. Rinse in cold water.
1. Add some cooking oil to make the spaghetti slimy.
1. Put a black plastic bag in a bucket or bin.
1. Add the spaghetti and grapes.
1. Add the sweets and mix.
1. Make a cover for the bin.
1. Make a hole in the cover big enough for a hand.
Let your friends find the sweets in the squishy worms for trick or treat! |