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In the mad frenzy of dressing up, decorating the house, throwing a party, the reason why do we celebrate Halloween has somehow got pushed to the background. Costumes and candy, tricks and treats, terrifying decorations take up all our energy and perhaps, most of us do not even know what Halloween actually signifies.
Halloween goes back nearly 2000 years when it first began to be celebrated by the Celts who had their homes in Ireland, UK and the northern parts of France. The Celts celebrated their New Year on the first of November and the origins of Halloween go back to this time in the Celtic festival of Samhain. Samhain was celebrated the night before the New Year.
The Celts believed that the New Year marked the end of the summer. The end of summer was significant to the Celts because they were pastoral people as opposed to agricultural people; and the end of summer meant a radically different style of life in the winter months.
Cattle were brought down from the hills and people got together in houses for long winter nights of handicrafts and telling of stories. These dark, winter months were associated with death by the Celts. On October 31st, Samhain was celebrated by the Celts and they believed that this was the day when the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. This happened because of the blurring of the boundaries between the living world and the deceased.
The 'trick or treat' probably originated in the English All Souls' Day parades when the poor would plead for food from the wealthier people. The wealthy families gave them pastries called 'soul cakes' and asked the poor to pray for their relatives who were no longer living. This morphed into people giving candies to children who came to their house dressed up as witches or ghosts and if someone refused to give candy (treat), a practical joke (trick) would probably be played upon him. Another theory is of people leaving food outside their homes so that the wandering ghosts would not enter their homes.
The Celts felt winter to be a frightening time and chances of running short of food were always there and herein lies another reason for celebrating Halloween by dressing up. It can be traced back to the Celtic tradition of covering themselves in masks and costumes so that the wandering ghosts would not recognize them if the Celts happened to be out of their homes in search of food.
The Celts carved faces on potatoes in Ireland but when they migrated to America, they found pumpkins to be more plentiful and hence, the system of carved pumpkins took shape. In America, Halloween is the second biggest commercial holiday and people have made a religion of dressing up in scary costumes and decorating their homes to make it look haunted. All the real 'eeriness' of the festival has actually got removed to be replaced by a sense of community spirit and the scariness is done out of fun and not actual fear.
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Halloween is such fun for kids of all ages, and adults too. Here are some face painting ideas to get you in the Halloween spirit.
Halloween face painting idea 1: pumpkin
A bright orange pumpkin painted on each cheek. Black paint used to paint eyes, nose and mouth. A light grey would be used to show the ridges of the pumpkin as well as its outline.
An alternative would be to do a full face pumpkin with an orange face base (blending a darker orange shade over cheekbones), black triangle shape over the eyes (extending above and below the eye area), a black nose and a large black mouth (need to cover more than just the lips).
Halloween face painting idea 2: skull
A full face design. Has a white face as the base, large black 'panda' eyes, black and white vertical stripes on the lips (with the white stripes wider than the black ones) and a trickle of red from one side of the mouth (to indicate blood).
Halloween face painting idea 3: vampire
A full face design. A white face base, bright red lips, fangs coming out of each corner of the lower lip (outline is light grey, fill is white, and tip is red to denote some blood), eye lids are smoky grey (right up to and over eye brows), eye brow then exaggerated with black sweeping strokes.
Halloween face painting idea 4: bat
A full face design. A white face base, bat's face painted on forehead above the nose (it's in black with light grey for eyeballs, and for some definition in ears); the bat's body is painted in black on the nose and ends at the base of the nostrils (use different shadings of black; the bat's wings extends out from head and body and covers the eyes curving up towards the temple and down the outside of the eye to mid cheek (again use different black shadings and some fine dark grey strokes to paint some definition into the wings); the lips are painted in dark grey with an exaggerated upward curl at the corners.
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Candy has long been associated with trick or treating together. Candy has also long been associated with peaks of sugar, weight gain and a contribution to such things as diabetes and cavities in combination. There are other fun ideas for Halloween in the treatment of hand trick or-treaters you. We can all make this a Halloween to all children, giving them care that can not enjoy the negative impact on their health.
After talking with the children in my family, friends and classmates, andthese conversations, I could create a list of some of the best treats in addition to children want candy.
Snacks:
Raisins or other dried fruit
Homemade trail mix bags
Mixed nut packages
Apples with a plastic spider attached to the trunk
Bananas and oranges with a Halloween face painting
More goodies:
Adhesive labels such as temporary tattoos
Teeth and mustache wax - used to love this when I was aChild
Small wind-up toys - I know adults who have collected them since they were kids
Pastels
Top Spooky rubber or pencil
Chalk - ideal for hop scotch on the sidewalk or driveway
Plastic rings, such as Spider-rings
One way to get some great deals is to buy the Halloween party favor bags and use them to trick-or-treaters. Many of them have a miniature harmonicas and other fun toys in them.
Kids love Halloween, especially if they get candy or will receiveother fun is in your pocket. When my sisters and I were young, my mother would trick-or-treating for the first time. My sister Judy thought it was so much fun that night after my mom a call from our neighbors, that Judy was at her door trick-or-treating again. I'm sure many of you have similar stories.
Halloween should not be about candy. There are thousands of children who can not candy because of illness or conflict with their foodAllergies. There are many parents who allow their children to consume sweets for their reasons. Halloween 2009 is to be fun for all children, though some ingenuity in choosing the goodies that we use the transfer takes place.
If you still feel strongly about, from candy, you should use sugar free and gluten-free cakes along with the regular candy selections. I have seen a proposal for a local newspaper, put a poster by the door where you come trick-or-treaters thatsays they are sweet alternative for those in need. Diabetics are you happy with the sugar-free candy and thank all those with celiac disease, gluten-free alternatives to offer.
Have a safe and fun Halloween!
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