Fresno Halloween Safety Tips

As a student and a teenager, I rather go trick-or-treating rather than going to a party where there might be many temptations such as alcohol and drugs. On the other side there is always an option of staying home and doing something else, but who doesn’t want to dress up and go out the night of Halloween. There is danger everywhere, but as long as you can stay away from temptations the better, there is nothing wrong with going trick-or-treating

We all remember dressing up for Halloween night as children. Getting together with best friends and competing to see who has the best costume or can collect the most candy. For some, this was the best night of the year. Then there are the children who sit at home and go through the motions of what their parents do. These parents inevitably will carve a generic looking pumpkin and then sit down and hand out candy to kids the remainder of the night. The children that are staying at home with their parents are handing out candy to the kids who are living and enjoying their Halloween. As Mac Hammond in “Halloween” stresses, the children that are out having fun on Halloween are the true

Introduction: Patrons of the season of Halloween spend over $2.5 billion dollars every year on candy, costumes, and decorations. Every year millions of kids get dressed up, knock on doors, and beg for candy. Have you ever wondered where this strange tradition originated? The three most important points of Halloween can be summed up by looking at its origins, how it came to include jack-o-lanterns and bobbing for apples, and how it is celebrated today with trick-or-treating and haunted houses.

She rolls her eyes while my youngest son runs around the house in his pirate zombie costume. We have learned the origins of Halloween for years, some say it is the celebration of the dead, others say is the Wiccan practice, a pagan celebration. Add the urban myths about candy filled with glass, apples injected with poison, and you have the perfect recipe to keep your kids scarred for life.

B. Topic Link: The holidays connection to it’s origins have mostly fallen by the wayside, and a number of new American traditions have developed.

Always go trick-or-treating with your children. The best way to protect your child is to go with your child so that you can supervise your child as he or she is crossing the street and navigating the neighborhood.

Every year millions of kids get dressed up, knock on doors, and beg for candy. With Halloween just around the corner, you all are probably wondering where this strange tradition came from. Every year I have experienced this holiday and have done research on this topic. According to a 2014 Smithsonian.com article, stated by Natasha Geiling, in just one year Americans spent over six billion dollars on candy, costumes, and ghoulish decor in anticipation for Halloween. Many people think all Halloween is about dressing up and going trick or treating but there's more to it than that. The roots and variations from all around are what makes Halloween what it is today. In order to understand this holiday, we will go into the history of Halloween, how it's celebrated around the world, and superstitions revolving it.

When I was a child my friends and I had Halloween parties where we would share candy and play board games like Monopoly and Sorry. Eventually, after I had eaten all of my favorite candy, I would be exhausted and head home. Now as an adult, I attend parties where the only games that people are playing involve ping-pong balls and red solo cups. Occasionally there is an enormous campfire that reaches towards the moon and stars. The crackling sound of burning oak wood completes a night full of long-lasting memories. The parties are different from when I was younger, but celebrating Halloween is still cherished by

Halloween is one of the best holidays for kids (and adults). However, Halloween can also be dangerous for several reasons. Below are some basic Halloween safety tips you can use to make Halloween a fun and safe experience for your children.

Halloween is a time for trick-or-treating, ghost stories, horror movies, and fun. It's all about having a good scare without being in any real danger. Or is it? These 10 true horror stories may make you think twice about how you celebrate All Hallows Eve this year.

Halloween: the holiday where as kids we couldn’t wait to go door to door to achieve the golden goal of a full bag of candy. Halloween soon turns into a question mark for teens; in an instant, there is a change of when it is ‘appropriate’ to go trick-or-treating and when you should just move on. Are you the one who thinks Trick-or-treating is lame or the one who still walks around your neighborhood every year -- no matter how many dirty looks you may get. What teenagers decide to do on Halloween varies: going to a party, passing out candy, staying home are a few popular options. Throughout my highschool experience I have been able to witness and experience all different types of halloteens, each with their own traits.

Halloween is a holiday that is not meant to have an age limit.Putting an age limit on halloween is like as if the government was to make an age limit on christmas it's kinda the same concept.Now if teens were to stop trick-or-treating there would be no reason to buy candy.Some years many parents won’t take their kids trick-or treating only on the reason of that they are scared for their kids well being. I know of many parents

“What in the world was going on?” we asked. Noke and Lis quickly explained that it was Halloween; an annual tradition celebrated on October 31. The word Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows’ Eve and trick-or-treating, is an activity for children who proceed from house to house, dressed in costumes, asking for a “treat” with the question, “Trick or treat?” The “trick” is a lighthearted threat to play a prank on the homeowner or his property if no treat; usually in the form of candy, is given. Trick-or-treating is one of the main traditions of Halloween and the beginning of the Holiday Season. Ellen and I were fascinated and eager to join the festivities, consequently, Aunt Lis loaned me a blue and white Japanese Kimono and a pair of house slippers while Ellen dressed in Oma’s housecoat and shoes. Chaperoned by our mom and Aunt Lis, we carried an empty white pillowcase to hold all the candy we anticipated collecting and off we went to the neighbors’ homes for our first trick-or-treating experience. After only an hour’s effort, we returned with our pillowcases nearly full of candy, including a few oranges, apples and coins. What an amusing country

Halloween parties are meant to fun and fantastical, but coming up with a new theme can be difficult. Everyone has been to that old party with fake cobwebs draped over furniture and dry ice in the punch, but Halloween is the best excuse to be as creative and outlandish as possible. Here are a few Halloween party themes that celebrate the night devoted to ghosts and goblins just right!

Borrowing from Irish and English traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money. Over time this tradition turned in to today modern “trick or treating”. In the late 1800s, America turned Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly get-togethers than about ghosts, and witchcraft. As the centuries changed Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season and festive costumes. Parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything “frightening” or “grotesque” out of Halloween celebrations. Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century (Kammen).