Halloween party can be the best party of the entire year if the whole family entertains its friends, children and adult. This type of entertainment renews the joy of the family. For such a great big party a perfect preparation is to be done for quite a long time before the party begins. This article will guide you to make a perfect preparation.
Halloween - that night of nights when all the spooks are on the loose and the witch rides high. That night our youngsters insist is the proper time for a party a wonderful party when the whole family entertains its friends, children and adults alike. The children avow our family Halloween parties are the best parties of the entire year. And the carefree gaiety of these parties has an equally strong appeal to the adults.
No richer opportunity for effective decoration is given by any season. Autumn leaves, cornstalks, and lighted pumpkin jack-o-lanterns are traditional and easily prepared. Free-hand cutting of witches, cats, bats, fairies, spiders, owls, cauldrons, broomsticks and peaked hats of black and orange construction paper may be pinned about on curtains and walls. And how the whole family loves to help with the cutting.
Candles, dishes of alcohol and salt and blue Christmas lights make a ghostly illumination. Be sure that all candles are safeguarded to prevent fire hazards. To convert your lampshades into festive Halloween lights cut strips of orange paper long and wide enough to go around the shade and pin the ends together. Gather the top edge and hold in place with a one-inch band of black crepe paper. Place a black cat or witch here and there on the shade. When the light is on the shades look much more elaborate than they really are. If your walls are papered you can pin black cut-outs to the wallpaper with common pins. At night the pins do not show and the pin mark is too small to mar the paper. On painted walls stick the cut-outs on with Scotch tape. Witches, bats and cats are very effective when they are Scotch-taped on mirrors and windows.
Black and orange crepe-paper chains are very decorative across doorways or from the corners of the room to the chandelier in the center. Perhaps you remember, from kindergarten days, how to make them. It's easy to do. Take two strips of crepe paper, one black and one orange, of equal length and equal width two inches is a good width. Fasten the strips together at right angles to each other. Then fold the orange strip over the black, then the black over the orange. Continue until the entire lengths are folded. You will now have a pile of folded squares. Stick or pin the ends of the two strips together. Then pull out the folded papers. You will have a very attractive black and orange chain. A colorfully decorated home, even though inexpensively done, adds much to the party atmosphere. But the real secret of a successful family party is to have games people of all ages can enter into.
When the big night comes its fun to have a ghost junior-size open the door as the guests arrive and solemnly point to white footprints on the floor. The man-sized (paper) footprints lead to the room where the dads and grand-dads can leave their wraps. The smaller ones lead to the parking place for the women's and children's wraps.
In each of these rooms have large paper sacks to be worn over the head, one for each guest. Before the night of the party cut in each sack holes for eyes, and with black crayon draw on other features, handle-bar mustaches, etc. Also mark on each sack a number to come just below the chin. When wraps are removed, each guest immediately puts on one of the sacks and is given a stiff card and pencil. The object of this mixer is to have each guest list by name and number as many of the paper heads as he can. Of course each person, while trying to discover the identity of others, endeavors to keep himself a mysterious stranger. The one who first completes a correct list of the names of all the guests is dubbed "Chief Paper Head" for the evening.
When all adults of the family come together with the kids, there is always a great joy and fun. No matter how scary and frightening night it may be.
If you are a visitor to England at Easter, you would be forgiven for thinking that the English people have nothing much in the way of Easter traditions apart from exchanging chocolate eggs. This is because the nature of Easter celebrations is low-key and private; Easter is a time for sober worship and quiet family gatherings without the razzmatazz and hectic atmosphere that accompanies Christmas. Even the exchange of Easter greetings cards tends to be confined to close friends and family.
After the brief bright interlude of Christmas, we sink back into our torpor and endure the dull cold winter months until our first spring bank holiday arrives and gives us a reason to come wide awake. In England we greet Easter with all the relief of dusty travellers arriving at an oasis in a desert. Our desert might be grey and damp instead of sun-baked but we find the green oasis with its promise of spring and rebirth equally as welcome.
Easter is the most important event in the Christian calendar but in the multicultural society of England it is appreciated by both Christians and non-Christians for the two day Bank holiday it brings. Unlike the two days our government allows us in which to celebrate Christmas, the Easter holidays never bring us a disappointing mid-week break, they always provide us with a four day weekend. A cause for celebration indeed!
Easter arrives quietly, no fanfare, no three month long advertising campaign like the one preceding Christmas. We aren't urged to eat too much, drink to much, party too much, or do anything at all too much. We are permitted to relax and enjoy family life. There is no pressure to overspend on gifts for everyone from our nearest and dearest to the neighbour's dog. Compared to the excesses promoted in the name of Christmas, the consumption of chocolate eggs seems a small indulgence.
In England, Easter is the official start of the gardeners' year and also the time when all DIY enthusiasts, as if driven by some primeval urge, embark upon ambitious projects. If you are not interested in gardening or DIY, you have four whole days free to enjoy as you wish.
Easter is really too early for gardeners to be chancing the lives of tender plants but it is hard to resist the lure of the first real sunny days after the long grey winter. Amateur gardeners take bedding plants from the hothouses and thrust them into soil that's far too cold to encourage growth. The experienced gardeners won't gamble on frost free conditions and content themselves with planting the less decorative but frost-proof seed potatoes and onions. Gardening at Easter is an anxious time because the English weather is reliably unpredictable and even the most dedicated gardener is likely to encounter showers heavy enough to dampen his enthusiasm and drive him indoors for a chocolate egg break.
All the DIY jobs that have been in the planning stage since Christmas are lined up for the Easter break. For the week preceding the holiday, the DIY supply stores will be heaving with customers and taking more money than during any other week of the year. Then it will all go eerily quiet while all the customers adopt a kind of siege mentality and remain at home while they try to cram too much work into the long-anticipated four day weekend.
At Easter Morris dancers, who are not in the least fashionable except in spring, suddenly find themselves in demand. These troupes of dancers are almost exclusively male, rarely seen outside of small villages and are normally associated with a particular public house. Many pubs in England will have a darts team or a quiz team but there are only a few that can boast their own troupe of Morris dancers. As with playing darts, the availability of beer is an important part of this hobby. The amazing thing about Morris dancers is not that there are so few of them, it is that they have survived at all: grown men dressed in silly costumes, skipping around waving handkerchiefs and pigs' bladders to the accompaniment of ancient folk tunes have limited appeal to most of modern society as a source of entertainment. However, they have survived and have spread to places as distant as Canada and New Zealand.
If you want to fully enjoy all the old English Easter traditions, the best place to be is in a quiet village far from any of the big cities. The village church will be beautifully decorated with fresh flowers. The village Easter Bunny will hide Easter eggs for the local children to find during the traditional Easter egg hunt. The Morris dancers will leap and prance at the slightest encouragement. The village bakery will offer fragrant hot cross buns warm from the oven and Simnel cakes with home made marzipan. Easter Sunday dinner will be roast lamb with mint sauce and all the traditional trimmings. Chocolate will be guilt-free for a whole weekend.
Apart from the weather, which will almost certainly include showers, the experience of Easter in a quiet English village couldn't be more idyllic. It is only in a friendly village at this time of year that you can witness anything approaching a return to a more innocent time. There are not many places I can think of where an adult can dress up in a rabbit costume and hand out chocolate to children without having to worry about getting arrested, and men dressed all in white can skip and wave handkerchiefs at each other without attracting the wrong sort of attention. The English village is definitely the place to be for Easter. It is also the best place to enjoy May Day celebrations, but that's another story.
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