Halloween is a secular festival that falls on 31st October. It is celebrated to
honor the departed soul of the loved ones. It is popularly believed that on this
day, the margin between the living world and dead world is dissolved. It is said
that the departed souls come down to earth every year on Halloween, to meet
their living relatives. Halloween celebration is highly exciting with the theme
of devils and monsters all around. One can see people dressed up in different
costumes, representing the ghosts and monsters. Wearing masquerades form an
essential part of the celebration of the festival. We bring you some ideas for
Halloween day activities which will prove handy to you during the celebration of
the festival.
Halloween Activity Ideas
Throw A Costume Party
Halloween party can be great fun, if you can introduce costume theme to it. If
you are going for the traditional Halloween party, ask your guests to wear
costumes representing the monsters, ghosts, devils, witches and skeletons. Other
than the conventional horror theme, you can also choose the themes from
television shows, movies and the pop culture.
Spend The Night Watching Horror Flicks
If you are courageous enough, you can spend the whole night watching horror
movies. Movies with theme of spirits, ghosts and witches can add to the mood of
the festival. However, these movies are more enjoyable when watched in company
of friends, in a completely dark room. Going to theatres for the midnight show
of any horror movie can be highly interesting and enjoyable as well.
Go For Trick Or Treat
Trick or treat is conventionally the game for children, wherein they go from
house to house with a bag. They ask the same question “trick or treat” to every
house owner they visit. They mildly threaten the house owners that they would do
some mischief, if they are not given the treat of candies. You can make your
children play this, which they are sure to enjoy a lot.
Play Harmless Pranks On Your Friends
Playing pranks on friends on Halloween can be great fun. However, one should be
careful that the pranks are harmless and just the source of merry-making, not
intended to humiliate anyone. Putting on costume of monsters and scaring your
friends can be a wonderful idea of playing pranks on friends.
Go On A Fun Picnic
You can go for a fun picnic with your relatives or friends to celebrate the
festival. Choose Halloween theme as the base for your picnic. Starting from the
costumes to the foods, you can select the Halloween theme to go with the spirit
of the festival. You can add spice to your Halloween party by preparing various
types of cookies, candies, pastries, truffles and such other delicacies. You can
also include items like blood soup (tomato soup), noodles and eyeballs (meat
balls) and so on, to set up a devilish theme.
Play Halloween Games
You can play a number of games on Halloween, like apple bobbing, Puicini,
hanging up treacle and many others. In case of apple bobbing, apples are floated
in a basin of water. The participants have to take the apples out using only
their teeth. In hanging up treacle, treacle or the syrup coated scones are hung
from the strings, which the contestants must eat without using their hands. At
the end of this game, the participants find that their face become extremely
sticky. Puicini is a traditional game played in Ireland, where a person is
blindfolded and made to stand before a table with a number of saucers on it. The
saucers are shuffled and the person has to choose one. The contents of the
saucer chosen by the participant shall determine his coming years.
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