How do you or your family celebrate Halloween, besides wearing costumes or going trick-or-treating?
Do you celebrate Halloween in a different or an additional way? If so, what do you do?
We love to decorate the house with cute Halloween decorations and candles.
When I was growing up on the farm, we celebrated it as an end of summer and harvest festival with family and neighbors. Fruit trees were trimmed of dead branches and piled up. Dead leaves were raked and added to the dead wood, then we had a bonfire. When coals remained, we roasted hot dogs, ate home made donuts, and drank home made apple cider. We still try to retain elements of this celebration ... lots of dried fruits and vegetables, apple cider, home made donuts, hot dogs, and marshmallows. Family and friends are an important part of this celebration now too.
It's a big season for us because my kids love the secular Halloween stuff, but it also coincides with our religious holiday Samhain in which we honor our ancestors.
We always go to Halloween parties, and to the Halloween party at Disney World in October. And on Halloween day I let them out about an hour or so to trick or treat.
But then they come home and we have prayers and religious observances, a big feast and such. And sometimes we go to community religious rituals (usually the weekend closest to the holiday).
by Destiny Rose 15 years ago
I don't but was just wonderin how many people do
by Antoinette Lee Toscano 10 years ago
I think every parent has thought about this. What issues did you consider and what was your final decision?
by LastRoseofSummer2 11 years ago
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by Tim Mitchell 2 years ago
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by Leslie A. Shields 13 years ago
Please don't tell me it is for the children's sake. Let me emphasize... Christians not others, but Christians.
by AF Mind 7 years ago
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