Halloween

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Where does Halloween originally come from? 

1. Ireland
2. Scotland
3. England
4. United States

Which population (=bevolkingsgroep) started Halloween?

1. The Romans
2. The Greek
3. The Celts
4. The Persians

What does the word Halloween come from?

1. All Hallow's Eve
2. All Hail's Eve
3. All Havens Eve
4. All Holy Eve

What are pumpkins used for at Halloween?

1. As lantern
2. Als food
3. As decoration
4. As mask

Halloween is a Christian celebration.

1. True
2. False

When did people start to celebrate Halloween? 

1. about 100 years ago
2. about 200 years ago
3. about 1000 years ago
4. about 2000 years ago

What is not a tradition at Halloween?

1. Trick or treat!
2. Decorating a tree
3. Wearing costumes
4. Carving a pumpkin

Halloween comes from Hallow's Eve. 

What do you think 'Hallow' means?

1. Scary
2. Strange
3. Hollow (= empty)
4. Holy (= sacred/heilig)

People used to believe that the dead would come back at Halloween. 

1. True
2. False

The Celts celebrated Halloween with a lot of noise, parades and big bonfires. 

1. Correct
2. False

What does 'Trick or treat'mean?

1. 'Give me a treat or I will prank you!'
2. 'Give me a treat or I will shoot you!'
3. 'Give me a treat or I will leave!'
4. 'Give me a treat or you are mean!'

Scary Alphabet

Make a Halloween alphabet e.g. A = America, B = bat…..etc
How many letters can you do??
 

October 31st

March 17th

February 14th

July 4th

Independence day

Halloween

St. Patrick's day

St. Valentine's day

Spirits cross over to the land of the living. The people were scared.

They disguised* themselves by wearing a mask/costume so evil spirits wouldn't harm* them.

* To disguise = vermommen, to harm = pijn doen

Why do we wear costumes?

What is the most popular Halloween candy?

1. Snickers
2. Mars
3. Milky Way
4. Oreo

What do you call a carved Halloween pumpkin?

1. Jack-O'-Lantern
2. Jill-O'-Lantern
3. John-O'-Lantern
4. Jane-O'-Lantern

Halloween

• + 2000 years ago

• 31st of October

• All Hallows' Eve (31 Oct)

• All Hallows (1 Nov)

• Started in Ireland > Samhain

Facts

• The Irish brought their traditions to the US in 1840

• Halloween as we know today started in 1921

• Mass production costumes started in the 1950s