Halloween | Judy De Luca

This is one of my favorite Halloween children’s game, Witch’s Brew.

This is a fun Halloween game to play at parties.

All you will need is: straws, construction paper and bowls.

Each child needs to cut out ten Halloween shapes such as, ghosts, bats and spiders on construction paper.

Have several templates ready ahead of time so the children can trace them out on the construction paper.Each shape should be the size of a tennis ball.

When the children have finished cutting out their shapes, place them beside a small bowl.

Using the straw as a vacuum, each player tries to pick up a shape and place it in the bowl to create a Witch’s Brew. The first one to get all ten in the bowl the fastest wins the game!

I hope your children enjoy this Halloween children’s game as much as mine did.

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Who thought of Bobbing for Apples, anyway? It’s such an odd game, don’t you think? Halloween has always been associated with the bobbing for apples tradition.

It seems, when the Romans conquered Britain, they brought with them an apple tree as a symbol for the goddess Pamona. She was regarded as the protector and watchwoman of the fruit trees.

Pamona represents a flourishing of the fruit trees, fruitful abundance. The Celts’ believed Pamona was also known as the fertility goddess and over time the two beliefs were combined.

When an apple is cut in half, the seeds form a pentagram. The Celts’ believed the pentagram was a fertility symbol. They believed the apple could determine marriages during the harvest time. Young unmarried people tried to bite into an apple floating in water. The first person to bite into an apple was said to be the next one married.