HALLOWEEN!!!What is it?

How did Halloween Start?

Very old Celtic holiday called “Samhain”

November 1st was the start of the New Year.

The marked the end of summer.

How did Halloween Start?

October 31 was called All Hallow’s Eve.

October is the day when the world of the living and the dead become one.

TRICK OR TREAT! Poor Celtic children

went to homes on October 31st.

They were given food.

For food, they would pray for the souls of the giver’s dead family.

They would pray on All Saint’s Day (Nov. 1)

JACK-O’-LANTERNS

This tradition began when people believed that making scary faces on pumpkins scares away evil ghosts!

We use pumpkins because there are a lot in America.

Jack O Lanterns

JACK O LANTERNS

COSTUMES

During Samhain, people worse masks and costumes to hide from evil spirits!

This became popular in the US in the 1930s.

COSTUMES!

Halloween Spooky Vocabulary! spooky ghost witch pumpkin bat spiders mummy frankenstein superhero candy goblin Vampire haunted house lanterns

моторошний привид відьма гарбуз летюча миша павуки мумія Франкенштейн супергероєм цукерки гоблін Вампір будинок з привидами ліхтарі

Haunted Houses!

Haunted Houses are ways to make money for clubs.

Each room has something scary in it!

CRAZY FACTS ABOUT HALLOWEEN! Halloween makes over 5,000,000,000

dollars a year. Halloween started 6,000 years ago in

Ireland. Boston had 30,128 Jack O Lanterns ! The first Jack O Lanterns were made

from beets. The word “witch” comes from the old

English word, Wicce, which means wise woman.

Samhainophobia is a fear of Halloween.

The largest pumpkin in the world was in 1993, and was 500 Kilograms.

World’s Biggest Pumpkin!

Decorations

DECORATIONS!