Halloween 31 October

• Introduction to Halloween?
• Activities...
• Which country celebrates ?
• Food for Halloweens
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Halloween 31 October

Introduction

• Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31.
  
• The word Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows' Evening also known as Hallowe'en or All Hallows' Eve.
  
• Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced "sah-win").
  
• The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture.

Activities Includes

• Masks
  
• Trick-or-Treating
  
• Bonfires
• Costume parties
• Visiting "Haunted Houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns.
  

Countries celebrates

• Irish and Scottish
  
• Ireland
• United States
• Canada
• Puerto Rico
  
• United Kingdom,
  
• Australia 
• New Zealand.

Food for Halloween

• Halloween comes in the wake of the yearly apple harvest, candy apples (known as toffee apples outside North America), caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.
  

List of foods associated with Halloween

• Barmbrack (Ireland)
  
• Bonfire toffee (Great Britain)
  
• Candy apples/toffee apples (Great Britain & Ireland)
  
• Candy apples, Candy corn, candy pumpkins (North America)
  
• Monkey nuts (peanuts in their shells) (Scotland and Ireland)
  
• Caramel apples
  
• Caramel corn
  
• Colcannon (Ireland)
  
• Novelty candy shaped like skulls, pumpkins, bats, worms, etc.
  
• Pumpkin, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread
  
• Roasted pumpkin seeds
  
• Roasted sweet corn
  
• Soul cakes
  
• Scary Faced Pizza
  

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