Originated as the Celtic New Year festival of Samhain, Halloween marks the day when it is believed that the evil spirits such as vampires, ghosts and witches come to Earth and terrify people. Celtic people used to paint their faces and wear terrifying costumes to scare off these evil spirits. The tradition has continued to the day in the form of 'trick-or-treat' when children and even adults dress up as witches and ghosts, pirates and other costumes and go in groups from home to home. They get candies and apples as treat and those who dare entertain them, gets the blunt end of trick as they may play pranks on them. It's the day of the devil and the time to unleash the monster within. Halloween is a festival of fun and excitement. People throw party, wear scary costumes, decorate their houses as haunted house and have a blast. They also give gifts to their near and dear ones as part of their celebration.

So Halloween gift ideas should be such that it depicts the theme of the celebration. According to the festival the gifts should match up the theme, which is scary and ghostly. For kids there are various gift ideas like you can prepare different kind of scary masks at home. The masks can be of a monster, witch or a vampire. You can even make gift boxes on scary images like a coffin shape box or a face of monster. You can buy plain color t-shirt from the market and customize it by painting scary faces on it. It will be appropriate with the theme of the occasion. Special costumes are also available in the market especially for the kids so you can opt for those specially designed costumes. Even monster shape cakes, homemade spooky faced cookies are a good option for gifts. Homemade cards based on scary themes and spooky Halloween messages can also be given along with the gifts.

Among the general gift items you can go for DVD and VCD of a horror movies or suspense thriller. Audio CD on horror music is also a good gift. Even for book lover horror books are ideal gift items. Wrapping your gifts is an art and in these types of festivals you should wrap your gifts in such a manner that the theme of the celebration is revealed. You can wrap even an ordinary gift in such a manner that the gift becomes special. For girls you can opt for jewelry like chain with scary pendants like skeleton, or monster. Hats are also a good choice. Even scary showpieces can also be given as gift items.