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Carving pumpkins is the best Halloween activity to show off your crafting skills and get your hands a little dirty (plus, it gives you an excuse to whip up a bunch of delicious pepita recipes). By now, you're likely tired of the classic toothy grin and triangle nose design. Don't worry: There are plenty of creative options to spark your creativity. From pumpkins that look like they're eating other tiny pumpkins to designs inspired by your favorite movies–Harry Potter and Star Wars–there's bound to be a jack-o-lantern on this list that speaks to you. And if these all seem too complex for your knife skills, skip carving altogether and try one of these painted pumpkin ideas instead. Happy Halloween!

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15 Best Halloween Movies for Kids That Won't Scare the Daylights Out of Them

When you're in the mood for Halloween, sometimes all you want to do is draw the curtains, turn off the lights, pop some popcorn, and settle in for a Halloween movie. But if kids out there want to have fun, you need to figure out how much fright they can handle. With so many streaming services and rentals available, you can certainly find something that fits your family's preferred level of terror.

These kids' Halloween movies are suitable for a family movie night and evoke the ineffable Halloween vibe. There are short specials for the little ones who are too young to handle real scares. There are stop motion animated films that make the most of the spooky aspect of this style. There are some Halloween comedies out there that will appeal to anyone in the family, although it doesn't scare everyone on its own. And then, for older kids, some films certainly provide shock and scares without reaching Poltergeist horror levels yet. Get the kids together, carve the family pumpkin, bake Halloween desserts, and watch one of these family-friendly Halloween movies on Disney +, HBO Max, Amazon, and more. (And do not forget to let us know your favorites in the comments!)

Cruella (2021)

Scoob! (2020)

Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

The Witches (2020)

The Addams Family (2019)

Gnome Alone (2018)

The House With a Clock in Its Walls

Mary and the Witch's Flower (2018)

Super Monsters Save Halloween (2018)

Coco (2017)

A Witch's Ball (2017)

Goosebumps (2015)

Toy Story of Terror (2014)

The Book of Life (2014)

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What is the night before Halloween called in England?

Mischief Night

In the United Kingdom

In some parts of the country, "Mischief Night" takes place on October 30, the eve of Halloween. The separation of Halloween tricks from the treats seems to have only developed in certain areas, often appearing in one region but not in neighboring regions.

Mischief Night is known in Yorkshire as "Mischievous Night" or the shorthand "'Chievous Night" "Miggy Night," "Tick-Tack Night," "Corn Night," "Trick Night" or "Micky Night" and is celebrated in North England on November 4 the day before Bonfire Night. In parts of Yorkshire, it is extremely popular with 13-year-olds as they think it is some kind of "coming of age ceremony."

In and around the city of Liverpool, Mischief Night is known locally as "Mizzy Night"; hot spots were dealt with by Merseyside Police in 2015.

He is known in Welsh as Noson Ddrygioni and in Scottish Gaelic as Oidhche nan Cleas.

Contemporary practice

In the USA

Mischief Night is widely recognized as a phenomenon from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

Mischief Night tends to include popular tricks such as courtyards and toilet paper buildings, cars, people and houses bombed with powder and vehicles, people and houses, using soap to write on windows, "pitchfork" courses, set off fireworks, and smash pumpkins and pumpkins. '-lanterns. Local grocery stores often refuse to sell eggs to children and teens around Halloween time for this reason. Sometimes the damage can worsen to include spray painting buildings and houses. Less destructive is the prank is known as "Knock, Knock, Ginger."

In New Orleans in recent years, Mischief Night has included a series of unruly parade-like riots. According to attendees, the Mischief Night "krewes" are part of New Orleans Carnival's centuries-old tradition of "walking parades," which take place primarily in the run-up to Mardi Gras. Blending festivities and indiscriminate violence, the Mischief Night parades involve themed floats and costumes and targeted vandalism and fires. The targets of vandalism, attacks, and arson included police, innocent bystanders, and property. [citation required]

When asked in a 2017 interview how Mischief Night in New Orleans fits into the context of carnival, one parade replied, "Our carnival traditions are the ones that want to 'turn the world upside down." After a parade through the city center in 2016, this saw bonfires in the street, police cars hit with paint, and a now-removed white supremacist monument chipped with a hammer, another participant wrote:

There is no longer a happy medium, which was seized for luxury condos. The choice is difficult: either we collectively build a more combative spiritual practice or complicate ourselves by ceding our ritual spaces of encounter to the oppressors.

In parts of Queens, New York, Cabbage Night has included throwing rotten fruit at neighbors, cars, and buses. Children and teens fill eggs with the Neet and Nair epilator and throw them at unsuspecting people. In the mid-1980s, garbage was set on fire, and cemeteries were set on fire. In Camden, New Jersey, Mischief Night escalated to the point that in the 1990s, there was widespread arson, with more than 130 arson attacks on the night of October 30, 1991.

Word of Mischief Night began to appear in American newspapers around the 1930s and 1940s, which reported that those who celebrated wanted to distance the healthy night of stuff or treats from the chaotic night of havoc around town. Some also believed that the stress of the Great Depression made people act out, which is what made Mischief night erupt around this time.

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Looking for spooky Halloween coloring pages? You've come to the right place! Here you'll find a huge collection of fun and scary coloring sheets, all completely free to download in crisp high resolution PDF format, to help you find the perfect picture for your little monster!

On this page you'll find lots of Happy Halloween pictures to print, from classic Jack O'lanterns and carved pumpkins, to spooky graveyard scenes, scary witches brewing potions in cauldrons, and cute pictures for preschoolers and toddlers who don't want to color in anything too scary! You'll also find intricately-patterned coloring pages for older kids and adults who are looking for harder pictures to color.

Our Halloween coloring sheets are sure to keep the little ones occupied while you prepare your tricks and treats! Scroll down the page to see all our coloring pages, and if you like what you see please do share this page with your friends and family too!

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Why Do We Celebrate Halloween?

Why will we celebrate Halloween? Who created this festival? Where do pumpkins come from, and why will we make them? in the week, we answer your Halloween questions with a professor of every scary and spooky thing, Regina Hansen of Boston University.

The Celts, who existed in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and a few parts of France, won’t have an autumn holiday, Samhain [pronounced SAOW-en], meaning the ending of summer. In other parts of the worlds, people were also rejoicing the harvest. In Mexico, there’s a vacation called the Day of the Dead, and in Italy, they celebrated Pomona.

“Why can we celebrate Halloween?” — Kyleigh, 8, Ontario and Maren, 7, Minnesota

At Samhain, the Celts had huge bonfires and feasts, and folks would wear costumes. They came together to celebrate the top of the harvest and, therefore, the starting of the long, cold, dark winter. And a part of the celebration of Samhain was brooding about those who came before them, those who died.

It could be a little like modern-day Halloween.

Professor Hansen helps bridge the gap.

“These many people were celebrating their harvest or death festivals,” she explains. “And what we happened was the introduction of Christianity, which had we can its traditions which also had to try and do with honouring people who came before.”

“When the Christians began to what are now Ireland, Scotland and Wales, they brought with them their traditions and [those traditions] got required with the Celtic tradition of Samhain. And the same thing happened in the geographical area when the Christian missionaries came to those countries.”

One of the ways the Christians tried to urge these new people to become Christians was to blend these other holidays, pagan holidays, into Christian traditions. Christians rejoiced something called All Saints Day on November 1st, honouring folks that had gone to Heaven. All Saints Day could even be called All Hallows Day. Hallow means holy.

So the day before All Saints Day was All Hallows Eve, which eventually came to be called Halloween.