Spooky Screen Stars
This 1993 Disney movie features three witch sisters who come back to life in Salem and a talking black cat named Binx.
What is Hocus Pocus?
These small, colorful, peanut-butter-filled candies are one of the most popular Halloween treats and come in orange, yellow, and brown wrappers.
What are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups? (or Reese’s Pieces)
This classic monster is known for being afraid of garlic, sunlight, and wooden stakes, and he turns into a bat.
What is a vampire?
The process of carving a face into a pumpkin and putting a light inside turns it into this classic Halloween decoration.
What is a jack-o’-lantern?
Halloween is celebrated every year on this date.
What is October 31st?
In this Hallmark/Disney Channel classic, a girl named Marnie discovers she comes from a family of witches and travels to a magical town for Halloween.
What is Halloweentown?
This classic candy corn look-alike is shaped like a pumpkin and is often found in the same bags.
What are candy pumpkins / mellowcreme pumpkins?
This creature is usually green, has bolts in its neck, and was brought to life by a mad scientist in a famous book and many movies.
What is Frankenstein’s monster?
Pumpkins are actually a type of this, even though most people call them vegetables.
What is a fruit?
The name “Halloween” comes from “All Hallows’ Eve,” the night before this Christian holiday.
What is All Saints’ Day?
This animated film from 1993 follows a skeleton who wants to take over Christmas and features the song “This Is Halloween.”
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
“Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat” is a popular rhyme kids say while collecting this.
Answer: What is candy / Halloween candy?
These undead creatures shuffle around saying “brains” and appear in lots of Halloween decorations and video games.
What are zombies?
When you leave a carved pumpkin outside for many days, it starts to break down because of these tiny living things.
What are bacteria / fungi / microbes?
The ancient Celtic festival that many historians say influenced Halloween is called this.
What is Samhain? (pronounced “sow-in”)
This friendly ghost stars in a 1995 live-action movie with Bill Pullman and Christina Ricci and lives in a haunted mansion.
What is Casper?
This chewy, fruit-flavored candy comes in long ropes or bite-size pieces and is a top Halloween favorite that often leaves your tongue different colors.
What is Twizzlers / Airheads / Laffy Taffy? (accept reasonable chewy fruit candy)
This mythical creature howls at the full moon and transforms from human to beast.
What is a werewolf?
Bats are important to rivers and oceans because many species help control insect populations and some help pollinate plants — true or false?
What is true?
In the past, people carved faces into these vegetables before pumpkins became popular in America.
What are turnips / beets?
In the 1988 classic, a group of kids fight a shape-shifting clown… wait, no — this PG-rated movie is about three kids who help a young vampire named David and features the line “I want to suck your blood… just kidding!”
What is The Lost Boys?
According to surveys, this chocolate bar with caramel and nougat consistently ranks as one of the most given-out (and most stolen from the bowl) Halloween candies.
What is a Snickers?
This ancient Egyptian monster is wrapped in bandages and often rises from a sarcophagus in movies.
What is a mummy?
The orange color of most pumpkins comes from this natural pigment (the same one that makes carrots orange).
What is beta-carotene / carotene?
The tradition of dressing up in costumes on Halloween partly came from people trying to disguise themselves from these.
What are spirits / ghosts / fairies? (accept “evil spirits”)