Are you looking for easy to
make gifts or decorations for your Halloween party?
If so, simply gather some
white tissue paper, magic markers, elastic bands, yarn or twist ties, and a few
sticks (optional).
Ready, set go and take a sheet of
tissue paper and crumple it up into a small ball.
Next, take another sheet of
tissue paper and wrap and tie it around the bunched up paper, to create a
ghostly head.
Great!
Now, draw some scary eyes and maybe a mouth too, on the
tissue paper.
Now you are ready to present your ghost to the ghoul of your
choice!
Optional: You can make a "ghost on a stick" by placing a stick into the
bunched up paper or, tie some clear fishing line to your ghost and hang it from
the ceiling for decoration.
Tip: You can use facial tissue instead of tissue paper to make your
ghosts.
What we know as Halloween today, began hundreds of
years ago as a Celtic celebration. Trick-or-treating is an Irish tradition,
based on a custom where wealthy land-owners would give food to the less
fortunate on Halloween night. They believed that ghosts would look favorably on
them for doing such good deeds and therefore spare them from mischief.
Meanwhile, in 17th and 18th century Scotland, people in strange costumes and
masks would travel from house to house, singing and dancing to keep evil at bay.
These folks were known as "guisers".
Now you know.
Lesson: Andrea Mulder-Slater
Illustration: Geoff Slater
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