Halloween or All Hollows Eve Index

Pictures of artifacts in my collection below, for All Hollows Eve.

 

        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. 

• Search the Halloween coloring pages at Crayon Palace
• Search the Halloween Doll Crafts at The Doll Coloring Book

Click to download the largest available size.
On high she flies up through the skies, and
across the Milky Way. To find out who she is
just do as these directions say: cut out each
of the little pieces and paste them onto a
stiff sheet of paper to solve the puzzle.
This is a classic Halloween character.

Halloween Artifacts & Art for Enhancing Lesson Plans: St. Louis Style

1. 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.
2. Just Admiring the Giant, Halloween, Yard Art on A Lovely Fall Day...
3. Tear and paste a candy corn picture for preschool...- help develop small motor skills in preschool through kindergarten students with this project.
   
4. Halloween Party Favor Ideas for The Classroom
5. A jack-o-lantern maze
6. A Safe Place for Trick-or-Treaters to Party
7. Craft a Ruote Pasta Web
8. A Jack-O-Lantern Dot-To-Dot
9. The Haunted Palace
10. How to Draw a Halloween Cat
11. Feelings Faces Game for Halloween
12. Pumpkin and Jack-O-Lantern Number Books
13. 100 Spooky Crafts & Treats For Halloween
14. "Spooky" Tree Watercolor Painting
15. Paint, Cut and Paste Your Own Bumpy Little Pumpkins
16. Scrumdiddlyumptious Apple and Quince Treats and Recipes!
17. How Halloween Came to Be Celebrated in Christendom
18. Hallowe'en in Olden Time
19. Craft an Edible Jack-O-Lantern Bingo Game
20. Draw a Shaded White Spider Web 
21. Corpse Bride
22. The Story of "Stingy Jack"
23. Arsenic and Old Lace
24. Costumes Worn On Halloween
25. Improvised Masquerade Costumes
26. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
27. Draw a Design From a Spider's Web
28. Craft an Animated Skeleton
29. Old-Fashioned Halloween Silhouettes 
30. How to Make "Pumpkin Spice" or "Pumpkin Pie" Playdough
31. Bake a Fortune Cake
32. "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" - a family Halloween movie favorite!
33. Around The Apple Tub
34. Over 100 Riddles for Trick-Or-Treaters
35. "The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe
36. How to make caramel apples, yum!
37. Knock, Knock Links
38. Shape a Draped Ghost for All Hallows Eve! 
39. Hallowe'en by John Kendrick Bangs 
40. Lessons: Pumpkin Soup
41. Paper Cuts for Halloween of Black Cats 
42. Halloween Mask Silhouettes
43. Old-Fashioned Lantern Silhouettes - comes with lantern templates by kathy grimm
44. Weave a Spider's web for a Spooky Fall Craft - made with yarn and wooden tongue depressors
    
45. How kids can quill a jack-o-lantern picture
46. Halloween Window Decorations
47. Halloween Silhouettes for The Classroom
48. Halloween Lantern Designs for The Classroom 
49. Classroom paper cuts of black cats... 
    

Halloween Poems:

1. October Wood  - ''Have you ever seen the glories of a dark October wood?''
2. The Puzzling Pumpkin  - ''This is the way the pumpkin looked, Jolly fellow, round and yellow!''
3. Halloween Signs - "Have you ever seen, upon happy Halloween how brightly the stars do shine?''
   
4. The Unbeliever... - I don't believe in ghosts, you know.''
   
5. My Choice - "Old Halloween's the day I like"
   
6. Is It?  - ''Is that the wind a-howling round about my window pane?''
   
7. Halloween Cats  - Black cats, of season Halloween, you are the queerest I have seen.''
   
8. The Interrupting Owlet - ''When mother owl and father owl are talking busily,'' 
   
9. The Tale of The Jack-O-Lantern - ''A Jack-o'-Lantern played some pranks one moonlit Hallowe'en"