Transcript Slide 1

What is it?
Halloween is…
…a fun holiday!
Children wear costumes!
Adults wear costumes too!
You can be anything that you want!
…Peace Corps Volunteers love Halloween too!
…and babies too!
…sometimes even dogs!
Your costume can be…
scary, or pretty, or funny, or super!
…or totally original!
You can be whoever you
want to be on Halloween!
What else
do people
do
on
Halloween
?
They have a…
At Halloween parties, people:
Dance
Sing
Eat!
Have costume contests
Have different competitions
Play games
And…
Go into haunted houses!
There are ghosts, vampires, witches, monsters and more scary
things in haunted houses!
On Halloween, people also decorate their
houses with decorations.
spider
webs
are
a
very
popular
decoration!
Pumpkins are an important symbol of Halloween.
People use them to make…
Jack O’Lanterns!
A Jack O’Lantern is a
pumpkin with a face that
someone has carved into
it.
A candle is put inside so
that the Jack O’Lantern
glows at night.
It’s the most popular
Halloween decoration.
Like costumes, Jack O’Lanterns can be…
Scary 
Pretty 
Funny 
…or super!
But of course,
the BEST part
of Halloween is . . .
Can
You
Guess
?
Yes!
Trick or Treating!
Trick or Treating is a
Halloween tradition.
Children go from door to
door collecting candy
from neighbors.
How do they do it?
First, they ring the boor bell or
knock. When the neighbor opens
the door, the children say:
“Trick or Treat!”
Then the neighbors give them candy!
 If they don’t they might get
tricked!
Here is an example of a trick…
…toilet paper all over the house
and trees!
At the end of Trick or Treating, children have
huge bags full of candy, sweets, and money!
Happy