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.
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.
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- Search the Halloween Doll Crafts at The Doll Coloring Book
- 5 Simple Halloween Crafts: Templates Included - Make a pom-pom puppet spider, recycled paper ghosts, a batty candy holder, a ghost outside a window, and a shredded paper pumpkin craft.
- Just Admiring the Giant, Halloween, Yard Art on A Lovely Fall Day...
- Tear and paste a candy corn picture for preschool...- help develop small motor skills in preschool through kindergarten students with this project.
- Halloween Party Favor Ideas for The Classroom
- A jack-o-lantern maze
- A Safe Place for Trick-or-Treaters to Party
- Craft a Ruote Pasta Web
- A Jack-O-Lantern Dot-To-Dot
- The Haunted Palace
- How to Draw a Halloween Cat
- Feelings Faces Game for Halloween
- Pumpkin and Jack-O-Lantern Number Books
- 100 Spooky Crafts & Treats For Halloween
- "Spooky" Tree Watercolor Painting
- Paint, Cut and Paste Your Own Bumpy Little Pumpkins
- Scrumdiddlyumptious Apple and Quince Treats and Recipes!
- How Halloween Came to Be Celebrated in Christendom
- Hallowe'en in Olden Time
- Craft an Edible Jack-O-Lantern Bingo Game
- Draw a Shaded White Spider Web
- Corpse Bride
- The Story of "Stingy Jack"
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Costumes Worn On Halloween
- Improvised Masquerade Costumes
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
- Draw a Design From a Spider's Web
- Craft an Animated Skeleton
- Old-Fashioned Halloween Silhouettes
- How to Make "Pumpkin Spice" or "Pumpkin Pie" Playdough
- Bake a Fortune Cake
- "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" - a family Halloween movie favorite!
- Around The Apple Tub
- Over 100 Riddles for Trick-Or-Treaters
- "The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe
- How to make caramel apples, yum!
- Knock, Knock Links
- Shape a Draped Ghost for All Hallows Eve!
- Hallowe'en by John Kendrick Bangs
- Lessons: Pumpkin Soup
- Paper Cuts for Halloween of Black Cats
- Halloween Mask Silhouettes
- Old-Fashioned Lantern Silhouettes - comes with lantern templates by kathy grimm
- Weave a Spider's web for a Spooky Fall Craft - made with yarn and wooden tongue depressors
- How kids can quill a jack-o-lantern picture
- Halloween Window Decorations
- Halloween Silhouettes for The Classroom
- Halloween Lantern Designs for The Classroom
- Classroom paper cuts of black cats...
- October Wood - ''Have you ever seen the glories of a dark October wood?''
- The Puzzling Pumpkin - ''This is the way the pumpkin looked, Jolly fellow, round and yellow!''
- Halloween Signs - "Have you ever seen, upon happy Halloween how brightly the stars do shine?''
- The Unbeliever... - I don't believe in ghosts, you know.''
- My Choice - "Old Halloween's the day I like"
- Is It? - ''Is that the wind a-howling round about my window pane?''
- Halloween Cats - Black cats, of season Halloween, you are the queerest I have seen.''
- The Interrupting Owlet - ''When mother owl and father owl are talking busily,''
- The Tale of The Jack-O-Lantern - ''A Jack-o'-Lantern played some pranks one moonlit Hallowe'en"
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