Frightening Foods and Fun
This sweet treat, shaped like a pumpkin, is one of the most recognized Halloween candies.
What is candy corn?
In Canada, Halloween is celebrated much like in the United States, but children often must wear these due to the cold.
What are coats (or jackets)?
This North American country is where trick-or-treating became popular.
What is the United States?
On Halloween, kids go door to door saying this phrase.
What is “trick or treat”?
In Scotland, kids go BLANK — they dress up and perform tricks to earn candy.
What is guising?
In Ireland, this dessert may contain coins or rings, predicting good fortune or marriage.
What is barmbrack?
In Spain, people observe El Día de Todos los Santos, when families visit cemeteries and eat this traditional pastry.
What are bones of the saint (huesos de santo)?
In this country, people celebrate Día de los Muertos by decorating skulls and honoring loved ones.
What is Mexico?
Many people dress up as these spooky flying creatures.
What are bats?
Austria has a tradition of leaving out bread and water for these nighttime visitors.
What are spirits (or ghosts)?
In Japan, people enjoy themed snacks, such as orange-and-black versions of this famous cookie.
What are Halloween Oreos?
In Romania, many tourists visit this famous castle believed to be the home of Dracula.
What is Bran Castle?
In Ireland, people light bonfires and play games like bobbing for apples on Halloween night.
What is Ireland?
These orange vegetables are carved into jack-o’-lanterns.
What are pumpkins?
In the Philippines, people sing at houses for the souls of the dead during this Halloween-like tradition.
What is Pangangaluluwa?
In Austria, bread and water are left out at night for these spiritual guests.
What are spirits (or souls of the dead)?
In Thailand, the Phi Ta Khon festival features participants wearing colorful masks and dancing to celebrate spirits.
What is the Phi Ta Khon festival?
This Asian country celebrates Halloween with big costume parties in cities like Tokyo.
What is Japan?
In Canada, people sometimes eat these sweet, sticky treats made from apples.
What are caramel apples (or candy apples)?
In Italy, families decorate graves with candles and flowers for this early November holiday.
What is Ognissanti (All Saints’ Day)?
In the United States, this fruit is used to make pies and is also carved into lanterns.
What is a pumpkin?
In Nigeria, the BLANK festival marks the return of ancestral spirits every two years.
What is the Odo Festival?
In this country, Halloween is sometimes called All Hallows’ Eve and has Christian roots.
What is England (or the UK)?
In France, kids sometimes dress up and go trick-or-treating, but Halloween is more about this November holiday.
What is All Saints’ Day (La Toussaint)?
China’s Ghost Festival happens during this season, when people believe spirits return to Earth.
What is summer (or late summer)?