by Frances Lane
Excellent Ideas for This Year?s Halloween Party
Halloween is celebrated on October 31. It has its roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of ‘All Saints Day’. It is largely a secular celebration but some Christians and pagans have expressed strong feelings about its religious overtones. The day is consociated by most with the colours orange and black and is strongly associated with symbols such as the jack-o’-lantern (a pumpkin carved out in the shape of a face).
Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing Halloween costumes, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o’-lanterns, scaring people, reading scary stories and watching horror movies.
Halloween is also the ideal time to let the child inside you come to the fore and let your imagination loose. Halloween costumes are undoubtedly the most fun part of this festival.
With Halloween, come Halloween parties. People attend these parties dressed as various characters. The challenging part of hosting a Halloween party is getting a proper Halloween prop. Typically, pumpkins and lanterns are considered the most popular props for Halloween. Besides these, people also put up fake tombstones and skeletons.
The most popular Halloween
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