ME AND MY NEIGHBOURS CELEBRATION HALLOWEEN IN THE 80S (CLIODHNA CASHIN)

 

Level: 6th Class primary School Objective: To show the passing of time in how we celebrated (Halloween) when I was a child in Ireland in the 1980´s, to now. Activities: Seeding: Words/Vocabualry for seeding: Black rubbish Bag, Balloons, Red Face Paint, Flour and water, Gun and holsters. Story:

It was 1989. October 31st, Halloween! All the children from the street where I lived were together to get ready to go trick-or-treating. My mother had decorated our living room with red ballons, (which were left over from my brother´s birthday). Nothing else. We thought it looked fabulous! At 6pm we had dinner, and then the doorbell started to ring continuously without stopping! My friends had arrived! They were all dressed up! EVERYBODY LOOKED THE SAME! A Black rubbish bag with a hole cut in the neck to go over the head, red face paint (that would never wash off no matter how hard you washed and scrubbed) and a witches cardboard hat for the girls, a gun and holster for the boys! My mother had a great idea of making us look even scarier by making a paste of flour and water and smearing it accross our foreheads! We took the photo together and set off on our merry way to fill our plastic shopping bags full of monkey nuts, mandarin oranges and 2-pence pieces. We would spend this grand total of 20 pence on sweets at the sweet shop the next day! Questions:

What time of year was it? Who called to our door? What did we wear? What did we collect? How much money did we make? Where did we go with the money?