Complete Guide to Halloween - 1st Edition 2022

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alloween. It’s a time of creepy costumes, horror
movies, ghosts and ghouls. Everything is
pumpkin spiced, and the party food looks just a
little bit gory.
When it comes to the spooky season, everyone
has their own traditions. But whether you’re new to celebrating
Halloween or you’re a seasoned pro, we’ve got everything you need
to make your festivities ones to remember. From crafts with the
kids and trick-or-treating tips to how to make the perfect Halloween
feast, you just need to turn the page… if you dare.
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TRADITIONS
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WHY DO WE CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN Trick or Treat
14 Halloween around the world 28 Spooky Costumes
18 29 Best Halloween Games 34 Why A Healthy Fose of Fear
for Kids of all Ages is Good for You
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The Best Halloween Books 25 Best Halloween Movies
for Kids for Kids & Adults
CRAFTS
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46 Pumpkin Carving 74 Easy Homemade
Halloween Masks
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Painted Pumpkins
75 WitchEs’ Potions
60 Trick or Treat Crochet
Shoulder Bag 76 Pom Pom Bat
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62 The Pumpkin Patch Bear 77 Plant Pot Spiders
66 black Rat
68 Leaf Qulling 46
70 Pumpkin Apple Prints
71 Ghostly Handprints
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CONTENTS
RECIPES
80 SPOOKILY GOOD TASTY EATS 94 TRICK OR TREAT
Toffee Apples with a Twist / Black Pasta Pumpkin & Ginger Cake / Baked Squash
with Cherry Tomatoes & Prawns / with Gruyère Fondue / Spooky Pizza /
Blood-Drip Cake / Cobweb Chocolate Tart / Spooky Cookies / Witches’ Fingers /
Rice Krispie Mallow Pumpkins / Squash & Cake Pops / Cheesy Broomsticks /
Spinach Lasagne / No-bake Spider Bites Spooky Eggs / Halloween Muffins /
Whoopie Pies / Ghostly Cupcakes /
84 HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR
Jelly Worms / Pumpkin Biscuits
Spicy Tomato Soup / Mini Red Velvet
102 HOW TO USE UP LEFTOVER PUMPKIN
Eyeball Cheesecakes / Pumpkin Cake
86 A HAPPY HARVEST 104 LEFTOVER PUMPKIN RECIPES
Spiced Apple & Pear Puddings with Pumpkin Soup / Pumpkin Pie /
Caramel Sauce / Rum & Apple Swirls / Roasted Pumpkin Seeds / Pumpkin Puree
Poire Belle Hélène / Bleeding Blondies /
108 COCKTAILS & MOCKTAILS
Slimy Sticky Toffee Pudding /
Bloody Tarts / Trick-or-Treacle Tart Witch’s Brew Punch / Zombie /
92 FRIGHT-NIGHT FEASTS Bloosy Mary / Black Cat / Liquid Ghost /
Vampire’s Kiss Martini / Banshee /
Sticky Pumpkin Cake / Pepper Pizza Bites / Silver Bullet / Candy Corn Cooler /
Ribs with Skins & Devilish Dips / Skeleton Key / Corpse Reviver #2 /
BBQ Bean Pot Jack O’Lantern / Pumpkin Pie Mocktail /
Green Demon / Dracula’s Punch
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TRADITIONS
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GHOULS AND GHOSTS ARE
THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES
ON EVERY OTHER DAY OF THE
YEAR, SO THE TRADITION OF
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CREATURES DOES SEEM A
LITTLE ODD WHEN YOU
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TRADITIONS
here’s no doubt that Halloween is one of the
nation’s favourite celebrations of the year!
With so many great movies for adults and
kids, delicious foods stocked on the shelves of
supermarkets and fun crafts to get stuck into,
it’s one of the most exciting events to happen
before Christmas.
So whether you’re prepping for the big day and
thinking through Halloween costume ideas, or just
curious to know about the tradition around this
haunted holiday, this is what you need to know.
Why do we celebrate Halloween?
We celebrate Halloween because it’s a long
tradition in the UK, going back to Celtic times over
2,000 years ago.
During the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, the
Celts celebrated their new year on 1 November.
This wintery day signalled the end of summer, the
end of the harvest and the beginning of the cold
and dark winter, a time that they often associated
with death. The Celts believed that on the eve of
this day, Samhain then and 31 October now, the
boundary between the living and dead worlds
opened up and ghosts returned to earth.
Later, in the 8th century, in a bid to remove
pagan religion from the country, Pope Gregory III
designated 1 November as a day to honour all the
saints and martyrs of Christianity. Known as All
Souls’ Day, people celebrated in a way that was
very similar to Samhain. There were huge bonfires,
costumes and allusions to angels, devils and saints.
The celebration was also called All Hallows’ Day
and the night before it was called All Hallows’ Eve –
which is where the word ‘Halloween’ comes from.
In the modern day, we follow a lot of the spooky
traditions associated with Halloween such as wearing
costumes, carving pumpkins and enjoying tasty
food. It has become popular to have parties to
celebrate this event, which is a great opportunity to
get together for fun and Halloween games.
People celebrate Halloween all over the world, with
many cultures having their own take on the spooky
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