28 Great Places To Celebrate Halloween!

28 Great Places To Celebrate Halloween!

Pumpktoberfest ‘08 at 5 point Studios Tattoo and Piercing runs 5-10 p.m. with free beer, snacks, discounted piercings, a pumpkin carving contest and prizes. 5800 Merle Hay Road. Call 270-1500 or go to 5pointbody.com.

Cabaret’s Second Annual Costume Party, “Night of the Living Rums,” will transform their patio into the Bacardi Bat Cave. Drink $10, 64-ounce witch doctor drinks and Bacardi drink and bomb specials. $500 in total prizes will be given out. Festivities continue through Oct. 31. West Glen Town Center, 560 S. Prairie View Drive, Suite 105, West Des Moines. Read more …

Tips for Having a Safe and Happy Halloween

From the University of Phoenix

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct 22, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — With the onset of the fall weather comes Halloween, an opportunity for kids young and old to dress up and go trick-or-treating. As parents are preparing their kids for this festive night of ghouls and goblins, it is also important to review some important safety tips that will help parents and children enjoy the scariest night of the year. Attached are some tips from Lt. Tom Milner, University of Phoenix Criminal Justice Instructor and Commander of the Newark Police Department Support Services. Read more …

Geeky Costume Ideas for Halloween, Great Ideas!

Geeky Costume Ideas for Halloween, Great Ideas!

For the GeekParents and other adults reading us, we know it’s always a challenge to come up with something fun and different when you get invited to a Halloween costume party. You know you have to express your inner geek to the fullest extent, but perhaps you don’t have the time to build a fully-functional R2-D2 that you could fit inside and serve drinks from. So here are some suggestions for cool costumes that your fellow geeks will appreciate, and which may not take too much work to pull off on your part. Read more …

Well This Halloween Prank Gone Wrong

Well This Halloween Prank Gone Wrong

The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays dates back to the Middle Ages and includes Christmas wassailing. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of souling, when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy. Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of “puling [whimpering or whining] like a beggar at Hallowmas.”

The custom of wearing costumes and masks at Halloween goes back to Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evil spirits or placate them, in Scotland for instance where the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white.

Funny Halloween Prank Video

Funny Halloween Prank Video

Halloween is an annual holiday observed on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday All Saints’ Day, but is today largely a secular celebration.

Common Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, carving jack-o’-lanterns, ghost tours, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, committing pranks, telling ghost stories or other frightening tales, and watching horror films.

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Baby Halloween Costumes: Child Deluxe Who Costume (Horton Hears A Who Costumes)

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Dr. Seuss Costumes - This Child Deluxe Who Costume from Horton Hears a Who includes the headpiece and the jumpsuit.

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