List of 'Halloween Games'
Cut out shapes of spiders, bats and witches out of cardboard and tape to the inside of lampshades. Paint or colour them black.
Replace the lightbulb bulb with an orange coloured one.
You could also use chinese lanterns to help build up the effect.
Continue the theme with strings of small orange or red Chinese paper lanterns, with fairy lights.
Place a candelabra on the table top with orange . For a creepy effect use green lightbulbs.
If you have pot plants, drape them with black cloths and spray them with cobweb spray, available at most toy stores.
Continue the theme with black spiders and bats from black cardboard hung low throughout the room, even better where people will bump into them in the dark.
To create a lovely effect leading up your driveway.
Here you will use some brown paper lunch-size bags. Pour about 3 inches of sand or soil in the bottom of the bag and open up so the sand holds the bag flat on the ground.
Place a little candle in the sand and make sure it doesn’t stick out over the top of the bag.
The sand bag will keep the candle secure and when it is lit, and it will protect the flame being extinguished by the wind.
Just to be safe, have water handy in the event that the bag catches fire.
At your front door place some Halloween jack-o-lanterns and have some large cardboard cut-outs of a witches and bats on the door.
PLease make sure never to leave a flame unattended. Keep away from paper, or object that may catch fire.
Make sure candles are not put where guests may knock them over or brush up against them.
The roots of the holiday are as such: Shortened in name from All-Hallow-Even, taking place on the evening of or before ‘All Hallows’ Day’, or ‘All Saints Day’, this prior Pagan holiday was a day of festivities in Northern Europe. Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV were responsible for allocating the Christian Feast of ‘All Saints Day’ from the dates of May 13 to November 1. The move was initiated in order to supplant the original Pagan feast with a Christian Feast Day. Because of the measuring of sunset to sunset, according to the Florentine Calendar, the days of ‘All Hallows’ and ‘All Saints’ were now the same day.
The Irish tradition of ‘All Hallows’ Eve’ is still respected and followed, and the terminology remains the same. Festivals that occur are referred to as ‘Samhain’ or ‘Oiche Shamhna’, to the Irish, ‘Samhuin’ to the Scottish/Gaelic, ‘Calan Gaeaf’ to the Welsh, ‘Allantide’ to the Cornish and ‘Hop-tu-Naa’ to the Manx. Some parts of Ireland also refer to Halloween as ‘pooky night’, using the mischievous spirit, ‘puca’ as a basis for the folklore.
Magic is considered most potent during Halloween, and it’s considered a liminal time of the year. Irish tales of the ‘Sidhe’ abound as well as tall tales throughout other cultures, and ‘witch lore’, tails of witches and hobgoblins abound throughout the world.
