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Costumes/ Trick-or Treat
Jack-O-Lanterns
Traditions
Today
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The Celts celebrated a festival known as this...

Samhain
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Wearing costumes on Halloween originated with... 

The Celts

100

Jack-o-lanterns are made by....

carving designs into pumpkins.

100

Bobbing for apples began as a...

Form of fortune telling.

100

Halloween in North America was widely celebrated in this year...

The 1800s

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On the Celtic calendar, this was the last day of the year...

October 31

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The Celts usually dressed up as...

Animals

200

What is put inside a Jack-o-lantern?

A candle

200

The first person to get an apple while bobbing...

Was supposed to be the first to marry later in life.

200

As Halloween became more popular, so did this...

Pranking

300

October 31 was a way to...

Say goodbye to the old year

300

In England people dressed up as... (3 things)

Fairies, witches and ghosts

300

Stingy Jack was a story from these roots...

Irish

300

Halloween is the day before...

All Saints Day

300

Trick or Treaters received these things in the 1930s... (4 answers)

Cookies, fruit, toys, coins

400
People helped the dead on their journey by...

Lighting bonfires OR sacrificing crops and animals

400

Dressing up was referred to as...

Mumming

400

This vegetable was originally carved in older times...

Turnip

400

The Celts believed that priests could...

See the future

400

In the 1950s trick or treaters began to receive....

Candy
500

The Catholic Church celebrated this on October 31...

All Hallows Eve (Halloween)

500

People gave mummers food and drink to make...

Spirits leave without causing trouble.

500

Pumpkins make great Jack-o-lanterns because...

They are big enough to be carved in all kinds of designs.
500

Whatever was predicted to the Celts at Samhain was...

An important part of planning for the new year.

500

The number of children who went trick or treating in 2014...

41 million