Friday, July 28, 2017

Halloween or All Hollows Eve Index

Pictures of artifacts in my collection below.
        Halloween is on the evening of October 31. Though the occasion is usually given over to frolics, mischief and entertainments of an hilarious nature, the name means, literally, Holy Eve. In fact, October 31rst is the eve of the Church festival of All Saints, which occurs on November 1rst. Long ago pagan people celebrated All Saint's Day in honor of the good and evil spirits which were believed to inhabit the earth, and the frolicking of today is merely a survival of these superstitious customs.
       Children of the St. Louis, Missouri area are expected to perform a joke, usually a simple Halloween-themed pun or riddle, before receiving any candy; this "trick" earns the "treat". Sometimes children also perform a magic trick, recite a short poem or perform a simple tumbling trick, like a cartwheel, in order to receive their candy. Parents also normally accompany their children and most are in costume as well. Because I live in St. Louis, I've included listings of jokes and poems below. 
Halloween Artifacts & Art for Enhancing Lesson Plans: St. Louis Style
  1. Just Admiring the Giant, Halloween, Yard Art on A Lovely Fall Day...
  2. Halloween Party Favor Ideas for The Classroom
  3. A jack-o-lantern maze
  4. A Safe Place for Trick-or-Treaters to Party
  5. Craft a Ruote Pasta Web
  6. A Jack-O-Lantern Dot-To-Dot
  7. The Haunted Palace
  8. How to Draw a Halloween Cat
  9. Feelings Faces Game for Halloween
  10. Pumpkin and Jack-O-Lantern Number Books
  11. 100 Spooky Crafts & Treats For Halloween
  12. "Spooky" Tree Watercolor Painting
  13. Paint, Cut and Paste Your Own Bumpy Little Pumpkins
  14. Scrumdiddlyumptious Apple and Quince Treats and Recipes!
  15. How Halloween Came to Be Celebrated in Christendom
  16. Hallowe'en in Olden Time
  17. Craft an Edible Jack-O-Lantern Bingo Game
  18. Draw a Shaded White Spider Web 
  19. Corpse Bride
  20. The Story of "Stingy Jack"
  21. Arsenic and Old Lace
  22. Costumes Worn On Halloween
  23. Improvised Masquerade Costumes
  24. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
  25. Draw a Design From a Spider's Web
  26. Craft an Animated Skeleton
  27. Old-Fashioned Halloween Silhouettes 
  28. How to Make "Pumpkin Spice" or "Pumpkin Pie" Playdough
  29. Bake a Fortune Cake
  30. "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken"
  31. Around The Apple Tub
  32. Over 100 Riddles for Trick-Or-Treaters
  33. "The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe
  34. How to make caramel apples, yum!
  35. Knock, Knock Links
  36. Shape a Draped Ghost for All Hallows Eve! 
  37. Hallowe'en by John Kendrick Bangs 
  38. Lessons: Pumpkin Soup
  39. Paper Cuts for Halloween of Black Cats 
  40. Halloween Mask Silhouettes
  41. Old-Fashioned Lantern Silhouettes 
  42. Weave a Spider's web for a Spooky Fall Craft
  43. How kids can quill a jack-o-lantern picture
  44. Halloween Window Decorations
  45. Halloween Silhouettes for The Classroom
  46. Halloween Lantern Designs for The Classroom 
Halloween Poems:

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