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Halloween 2007 |
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08/10/07 (260 review reads) |
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Advantages: A little look at my family traditions
Disadvantages: None; it's all good harmless fun.
Well Halloween is almost upon us again and with that comes the fight in the supermarket for all of those monkey nuts (peanuts) apples and tangerines….bags of sweets and little goodie bags filled with tooth decaying goodness!
My own little darling monsters love this time of year and are already getting excited about what costume they will wear and where they will go trick or treating, there has been talk about whose door they went to last year and how much candy they got (yes my kids have suddenly gone all American on me)
I have started digging out the Halloween decorations from last year, large plastic skeletons, pumpkin garlands, tiny little spiders to hang from the ceiling and all of the other spooky things that have made all the kids in my neighbourhood come to my door year after year. I always dress up and stay at home to scare (ahem I mean entertain) the little witches and monsters and devils when they come to my door…last year I was a ghost, the year before a witch…this year I am thinking Lady Go diva? Emma well maybe not loll. Don’t want to frighten the children THAT much!
I don’t go to a lot of expense, as it is only for one night but I do try to keep things as traditional as possible, with memories of my own childhood, of trick or treating…or as we called it locally “going out on galoshuns” (spelling definitely wrong here but I don’t think it’s a real word anyway) I remember that you weren’t allowed any goodies until you performed a “trick” this could be a song, dance, joke etc but you definitely had to do something or you didn’t get a thing. So if you were a shy child you got fewer goodies than your friends. These days however everyone usually just gives into the kids to get rid of them…I don’t Mwahahahahaha….I invite them in (if they have a grown up with them) or I bring out goodies to the door for those who don’t (can never be too careful these days sadly) I ask them what their trick is and wait for it….before giving them their little goodie bags. I always have spooky music playing in the background too…which is quite fun.
We always have ducking for apples and the doughnut game as well after all the trick or treaters have gone….which my kids love (especially when poor mum tries to get her teeth stuck into an apple) My son loves to come up behind me and shove my head in the water…..yes he is an adorable little BLEEEEPPPP isn’t he?
One or two of the parents in my street usually take a few of the kids around which leave the other parents to stay home waiting for the others to arrive, because if everyone was out at the same time then no one would be home for the trickers to go to!
The night before Halloween is great fun in my house with both my children and I trying to cut out 2 pumpkins…one for the kitchen window and one for the living room table….this is always a laugh as nine times out of ten the poor pumpkin ends up looking deformed and dead! But it’s the kids’ interpretations and the taking part that counts and we also try making some Halloween decorations as well in the week leading up to it.
Some of the things we have made in the past include Silhouette pictures of witches, cats, ghosts etc…we wrap these around the light shade or use smaller pictures to wrap around jam jars with tea light candles inside.
We also make masks…using paper plates – paint orange and decorate to look like a pumpkin, or make them look like cats, witches etc.
We also make spider webs using white or grey pipe cleaners for our little plastic spiders to crawl on. The possibilities are endless…the only limit is your imagination…and if that fails you there is always the internet! Just google Halloween crafts and you will get endless ideas.
Halloween was originally a Pagan festival amongst the Celts of Ireland and UK. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried their own versions of this festival to North America in the 19th century.
Robert Burns wrote a poem entitled Halloween and I thought it would be a nice note to end this review on: It is only the first verse but if you like you can read the rest at http://www.djmcadam.com/halloween.htm
Upon that night, when fairies light
On Cassilis Downans dance,
Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze,
On sprightly coursers prance;
Or for Colean the route is ta'en,
Beneath the moon's pale beams;
There, up the cove, to stray and rove,
Among the rocks and streams
To sport that night.
Thanks for reading
Michelle (Oct07)
Summary: Have a little look at my family traditions.
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