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5 ideas to celebrate Halloween
The legend of Halloween, a super scary snack, a decoration to be cold in the spine… Get inspired by our ideas and tips to celebrate Halloween with your children.
Tell your child about the legend of Halloween
Take advantage of this fun day to tell your child about the origins of this Halloween party, stemming from Celtic beliefs and rites. October 31 marked the end of summer and the end of the year for our ancestors the Gauls. On this last day, the Samain (Celtic translation of Halloween), it was assumed that the souls of the deceased could make a brief visit to their parents. During that night, a whole ceremony was in place. The doors of the houses remained open, a luminous path composed of lanterns made with turnips or pumpkins were to guide souls in the world of the living. The Celts lit great fires and disguised themselves as monsters to frighten evil spirits.
Prepare a Halloween snack with your child
Chocolate and pumpkin cookies.
Preheat your oven to 200 ° C (thermostat 6-7). Grate a 100 g piece of pumpkin (fine grid), then mix with 20 g of sugar and a pinch of cinnamon. Melt the chocolate in the microwave for one to two minutes and mix with the pumpkin. Beat 80 g of ground almonds with two egg whites, a tablespoon of liquid cream and 100 g of sugar until the mixture is foamy. Add the flour in rain, then your chocolate pumpkin preparation. With a tablespoon, place small piles of dough on a buttered sheet of baking paper, placed on a baking sheet. Spread them with a wet fork. Bake everything in the oven for 10 min. Wait for them to cool down so that they can be detached better from the paper.
Pumpkin fritters.
Put 500 g of cubed pumpkin flesh in a saucepan; cover with water and boil for about 30 minutes, until the pumpkin is cooked and tender. Drain it and mash it with 2 tablespoons of sugar, two tablespoons of soft butter and two eggs. Incorporate 80 g of flour while mixing. Last step: heat the oil in a fairly high saucepan and pour this appliance by spoonfuls into the oil and leave to brown for about 5 minutes. Remove, drain and serve hot or lukewarm.
Spider juice.
Put 8 cups of apple juice in your blender or shaker, add some cranberries and raspberries to it. Take this potion out of the blender and carefully pour in 8 cups of 7-Up. Decorative side: think of plastic spiders.
Make a Halloween decoration
Phosphorescent characters
Choose a drawing (witch, ghost…) on the Internet for example and print it. Redraw the outlines with a pencil then turn it over on a phosphorescent tracing sheet (available in bookstores). Scribble the outlines of the design with a pen or sharp pencil so that it fits onto the sheet. Finish the operation by cutting out the chosen character and stick it on the glass. Then keep them in a transparent sleeve once the party is over.
Luminous orange
For the older ones, it will be a luminous pumpkin but for the smaller ones, choose an orange instead. Suggest this activity to him before or after his nap, for example. Remove the cap from the orange and hollow it out. Have him draw the eyes, nose and mouth and help him cut out the outlines with a craft knife. Finally, place a candle inside the orange and here is a very beautiful candle holder.
Straws in disguise.
Print figurine models, like a bat, for example, on a blank page. Have your child fold the sheet in half and cut along the patterns. Here you are with two figures side by side. He can then color as he wants. Circle the straw in the drawing and put a dot of glue so that it stays in place. Let’s go for “halloween” cocktails.
Halloween: we dress up and we put on makeup
Disguise is a tradition for Halloween. Cardboard to make a hat, a sheet with holes to play ghost, a leaf, paint and a yarn to make a witch mask… If your little one doesn’t like to dress up, opt for makeup. Prefer products specially designed for children that you can easily remove with cleansing and moisturizing milk. For example, you can make up your child’s face all in white, redraw her lips in red and black, enlarge her eyebrows, add black teeth on either side of her mouth. And here is a vampire! Ditto for seeing a witch appear. Instead of teeth, make big black dots that will act as warts and make up the eyelids in orange or purple.
Halloween: door to door time to claim treats
The “trick or treat”, more commonly known as the door to door, is the most fun part of the game for the little ones. The goal: to visit in a small group your neighbors or the surrounding traders to ask them for sweets. If you wish, you can take the opportunity to teach him some English words. This custom is widely followed by children in Great Britain and America. They ring the doorbell and say “Smell my feet or give me something to eat” or “Feel my feet or give me something to eat”. We translate this sentence as “Candy or a spell”. Do not forget to make a large bag in which the children can collect the candies and then share them.