It's Halloween!!!
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Transcript of It's Halloween!!!
Halloween 2012!Traditions in the U.S. and a history of
Halloween
Where does Halloween come from?
Why do we celebrate Halloween?
• The history of Halloween begins about 2000 years ago!
• It begins with an ancient Celtic tradition called Samhain (pronounced sow-in) celebrated on November 1st.
• The Celts were a group of people who lived in the area that is now Ireland and Great Britain.
What was Samhain?
Samhain?• Samhain was a festival that celebrated the end
of summer and the start of winter.
• On the night of October 31st the Celtic people believed ghosts of the dead returned to earth!
• The Celts wore masks and costumes so the ghosts couldn’t recognize them!
Celtic people wearing masks
Samhain becomes Halloween!
Samhain becomes Halloween
• In the 8th century a catholic Pope changed Samhain to All Saints Day or “All Hallows Day.”
• The word “All Hallows” comes from an old English word that meant All Saints.
All Hallows (old English) = All Saints
• The day before was called All Hallows Eve. (“Eve” means the day before)
• It’s easy to see how All Hallows Eve became Halloween.
All Hallows All Hallow’s Eve Halloween!
Halloween and the United States
How did Halloween come to the United States?
• During the 1800's a lot new immigrants came to the U.S.
• Many of these immigrants were Irish, who brought the celebration of Halloween with them.
• The old traditions of the Irish mixed with the new American traditions and the result was Halloween!
A short video of Halloween´s history!
How do Americans celebrate Halloween?
• How Americans celebrate depends on their age.
• As children, we dress up in scary or funny costumes and go to different houses in our neighborhood.
Some examples of costumes in the U.S.
Then we go “trick or treating”
• “Trick or treating” is what we do after we put on our costumes!
• We go around our neighborhood and knock on all the doors.
• We say “trick or treat!?”
Trick or Treat?
What does “trick or treat?” mean?
• A “trick” is an unfriendly game, or prank, one person plays on another person.
• A “treat” can be a piece of candy or anything sweet.
• When kids say “trick or treat?” they are asking for a treat or they’ll play a trick on you!
Kids trick or treating
Candy!!!
How much candy can you get?
• Many children have contests with each other to see who can get the most candy.
• It depends a lot on how good their costume is.
• The better the costume, the more candy someone will give you!
Halloween for teenagers and adults!
• Teenagers and adults also celebrate Halloween in the U.S.
• They dress up in costumes too!
• But they don’t go “trick or treating”
• They go to parties with friends!
Halloween is very popular in the U.S.
• Halloween is a very big business in the U.S.
• Americans spend over 6 billion dollars every year on Halloween. Wow. That’s a lot.
• Over one quarter (25%) of all candy sold is bought on Halloween!
Games!
What games do we play?
• The most common activity on Halloween is pumpkin carving!
• Normally, kids and adults carve scary faces or designs into pumpkins and put a light inside them.
• Then they put the pumpkins outside their door on Halloween night!
Carved pumpkins
Normally, when you see a pumpkin outside a house you know they are
giving out candy!
Bobbing for apples?
• A large tub or bucket is filled with water.
• Apples are put into the water.
• Apples float!
• You have to catch an apple using only your mouth and teeth!
Apple bobbing
Haunted houses!
• Another fun Halloween activity is going to haunted houses.
• These are houses built especially for scaring visitors.
• Most of these houses operate automatically.
• But….
My favorite haunted house is at Universal Studios in California!!
Scary movies!
• Americans love scary movies.
• We often watch scary movies on Halloween night to scare ourselves!
• Some of my favorites are….
Halloween: 1978
Sleepy Hollow: 1999
The end….. BOOO!