How to celebrate Halloween with children

Halloween, also called “Halloween” or “Night of the Dead”, is a festival of Celtic origin that is popularly celebrated in the United States, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, although in the last decade this popular night has spread every more and more in our country, and in countries of South and Central America. It is celebrated on the night of October 31 , All Saints’ Eve.

HALLOWEEN COSTUMES

Among the children’s activities that take place in Hallowen , perhaps the most popular among the little ones is to dress up . The costumes are of horror motifs , witch / mummies, zombies, devils and diables, ghosts, bat, horror movie characters, etc.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HALLOWEEN TO REUSE MATERIALS FOR CRAFTS

TRICK OR TREATING

The legend of Celtic origin tells that on Hallowen night spirits of all kinds roamed the streets of the entire planet, among them there was one in particular who went from house to house asking for the “trick or treat”, they say that choosing a deal was the best you could do, otherwise the spirit, called Jack O’Lantern , would use its powers to do the trick that would consist of cursing that house and its inhabitants forever. To protect the houses of Jack O’Lantern, the inhabitants of towns and villages protected their homes by surrounding the house with pumpkins of evil and terrifying forms .

Disguised children accompanied by costumed adults stroll through the streets, picking at the doors of the houses and offering: Trick or Treat? In many cases, sweets and chocolates will be offered decorated with ghosts, pumpkins, and different Halloween motifs.

ACTIVITIES TO DO WITH CHILDREN ON HALLOWEEN

It is a party that entertains both young and old, it is becoming more popular in our country and more and more places are offering parties, dinners, games and fun related to tonight .

We can choose to go to a party in a local, or shopping center, restaurant, or we can organize our own Halloween party , invite friends, family and spend a terrifying evening.

For this we can decorate the house with pumpkins , with candles, with bats, with ghosts, with horror drawings, with spider webs and everything that our imagination desires.

With the help of the little ones we can decorate the hallway, make a tunnel of terror so that when the children come to knock on the door they can play and have terrifying fun.

It is not necessary to spend a lot of money , we can make the decoration with recycled materials, it is very fun and ecological, you start saving cardboard, rolls of paper, boxes, etc., a month in advance, and in this way we work with the children the Hallowen party taking care of the planet, we teach values ​​while having fun.

IDEAS AND MATERIALS TO DECORATE WITH CHILDREN

– Fishing line to hang bats from the ceiling, spiders, pumpkins, etc.

– Recycled cardboard to draw and cut out bats, spiders, ghosts, etc.

– Glass jars (of legumes) to decorate them as candle holders.

– Cartulinas of black, white and orange.

– Black, white, red and orange finger paint for the little ones in the house.

– Newsprint to make 3D spiders and hang them from the ceiling.

– Cosmetic cotton to simulate spider web.

– Stick glue .

– Boxes to decorate them as graves.

– Pumpkins in which we can paint terrifying eyes and mouths.

You can make many decoration details in a simple and economical way, the objective is to have fun and share a pleasant night in the company of friends and family.