Holidays and Celebrations

Safety tips when out Trick or Treating with your kids

Halloween is a fun annual event but it can turn into a nightmare if you are not too careful. With lots of kids running around and at night at that, it is not impossible for some kids to get lost and some kidnapped.

Unfortunately, not all parents see the danger in these kinds of events. They feel that because their kids are just in the neighborhood, they can trump around anytime they wish and no harm will come to them. Besides, an adult is with them. But are being inside the a community and being with one adult already enough to ensure safety?

Here are some tips that you might want to go over before you send your little Dracula and Scarecrow out into the night.

1. Use the Buddy system
Make sure that there is one adult companion for every child. That way, they can be watched over. Having one adult companion against two kids can work but only if the adult is used to watching over two kids and that the other kid is a bit older, 8 year old and above. If you have two toddlers, better get two companions. One for each. They can be monsters.

Go Green for Halloween

There is an imminent call to go green these days. With the looming global warming and the pending climate change, people need to be more environmentally conscious. The Halloween celebration is not spared. As such, you could go green this Halloween. That would be fun, practical, and logical. You would surely be proud of yourself on how you have contributed greatly to helping save the planet.

How do you go green for Halloween? It need not be tedious and difficult. Being environmentally friendly would not take much effort. You could begin the task by deciding to reuse old clothes and costumes. There is no need to buy new Halloween costumes every year. You could not only save money. You could save the environment. Why not recycle or reuse your old costumes?

If you want variety, you could ask several of your friends to lend you their old costumes. In turn, you could lend to them yours. This way, you would be wearing an entirely new costume, old, but something you have not worn on the previous Halloweens. You could save your children?s worn out and small costumes so that you could lend them or hand them to other children who may need fun and spooky Halloween costumes.

Unique Halloween Celebration

Are you tired and bored about the usual Halloween celebration? If you want to experience other things and activities other than trick or treating and attending Halloween costume parties, you should head elsewhere. There are other countries that commemorate and celebrate the day in their own unique and outstanding way. One of those countries is the Philippines.

Being among the rare Christian nations in Asia, the Philippines celebrate Halloween with a twist every year. The occasion is commemorated for two consecutive days on the first and second day of November. Actually, they do not call it Halloween over there. Instead, the days are called All Saints? Day and All Souls? Day, respectively. This is not unique to Filipinos though. The holidays are also observed in most other Catholic nations around the world.

During Halloween, people in the country go to visit the graveyards of their deceased relatives instead of trick or treating. They spend the two days in solemn prayers. The religion they believe in teaches that the days are the best time to offer commemoration and sincerest prayers to departed family members. In the country, the dead are given particular importance. Their graves are lavishly decorated and the tombs are housed in extravagant mausoleums or min houses.

Halloween as a Fun Occasion

Halloween is a time when people gather together to have fun. They come in costumes. They come to share ghost stories and watch scary movies. November 1 is among the most awaited dates in the calendar because most people from all around the word are just excited about the event. In the eve of October 31, many Halloween parties are being staged, to the delight of just about everyone.

It is just apparent that trick or treat has become a customary celebration associated with Halloween. It has become a fun activity more especially for children. They dress in their spookiest and weirdest costumes and come to every house in the neighborhood to ask for treats from homeowners. Those treats usually come in the form of candies and other sweet goodies. Sometimes, they collect coins. The question asked is ?Trick or treat?? thus the name for the activity. Trick refers to threat to perform a form of mischief to the homeowner or his property specifically if no treat is provided. In several areas in Scotland and Ireland, kids come guising. In this action, every child performs a talent show to earn treats. That show could be a song number or a dance performance.