When Halloween time is near, posters of events in our town are put up along the main streets. There's usually a local "Trick or Treat" thing - no, the kids do not go house to house for that, but they go to certain shops in the area for those treats, usually in cute Halloween costumes. The girls as fairies, witches or Disney characters while the boys go around the blocks as Draculas or zombies. Halloween parties for kids and youngsters are also common here.
In our classes, I block off one week of special Culture Lesson for Halloween. The students learn new words and phrases and we play games to master those vocabulary. They answer worksheets, do word searches and puzzles.
My real aim for this lesson was to let the students know the evil foundations of Halloween. So as a supplement to their Bible time in class, the chaplains and I made sure that each student understands that God is not happy with this tradition, He is not happy when His children are scared or when people do scary, evil tricks to one another.
For a fun snack time , this year we made Apple Lips. I didn't want them to have something scary and evil-looking so I Googled for some new ideas. I found this one on Martha Stewart's website called Apple Lips - easy yet interesting activity for kids.
We had to get slices of apples, peanut butter and mini marshmallows for this activity. And needless to say, we had so much fun. This was one happy Halloween time :)
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