Halloween History
This date in October is celebrated as Halloween.
What is October 31st?
This creature turns into a bat and drinks blood.
What is a vampire?
This orange fruit is carved into a jack-o’-lantern.
What is a pumpkin?
Children say “Trick or Treat” when they visit homes to ask for this.
What is candy?
In Mexico, people celebrate a similar holiday that remembers the dead.
What is Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead?
Halloween began as a festival celebrated by this ancient group of people.
Who were the Celts?
This walking creature is often wrapped in white bandages.
What is a mummy?
A black animal that can fly and is often seen on Halloween decorations.
What is a bat?
Many people enjoy watching these on Halloween, like “Hocus Pocus” or “Ghostbusters.”
What are Halloween movies?
This European country is where Halloween is thought to have started.
What is Ireland?
The Celts celebrated this festival, which is now connected to Halloween.
What is Samhain?
This is a person who turns into a wolf during a full moon.
What is a werewolf?
This Halloween symbol is often made of webs and has eight legs.
What is a spider?
This game involves trying to catch apples in a bucket of water without using hands.
What is bobbing for apples?
In this Asian country, people celebrate the Hungry Ghost Festival, where they honor spirits.
What is China?
During Samhain, the Celts believed these could visit the living world.
What are spirits or ghosts?
This character is usually green and is afraid of fire; he was made by a scientist.
Who is Frankenstein’s monster?
These candles inside pumpkins are lit to scare away spirits.
What are jack-o’-lanterns?
Some people decorate their homes with these spooky objects, like fake spiders and skeletons.
What are Halloween decorations?
In Scotland, children dress up and go door-to-door, asking for treats by performing songs or jokes.
What is guising?
This Catholic celebration, which happens on November 1st, influenced Halloween’s name.
What is All Saints’ Day?
This spooky creature is like a ghost but wears a sheet and chains and haunts places.
What is a phantom or specter?
This spooky weather event, often shown in Halloween movies, includes loud noises and lightning.
What is a thunderstorm?
In some places, people make these small fires to celebrate Halloween.
What are bonfires?
In this Latin American country, people build altars with food and flowers for loved ones who have passed.
What is Mexico?