FUN ADULT HALLOWEEN GAMES

Halloween is not just for kids anymore. Fun adult Halloween games at parties include costume and carving contests, pumpkin bowling, bobbing for spiders, and the ever popular photo scavenger hunt.

The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in what is now Ireland, celebrated their new year on November 1st. They believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. So on the night of October 31st, Celts held a celebration in which they wore costumes and told fortunes. The migration of two million Irish following the mid-19th century Potato Famine brought the holiday to America.

Halloween became more commercialized during the 20th century, as did just about everything else. Manufacturers began mass producing Halloween costumes in the 1930s. Trick-or-treating became popular sometime in the 1950s.

Modern traditional Halloween symbols include witches, black cats, haunted houses, fake body parts, and the ever popular jack-o-lantern. The colors associated with Halloween are black and orange.

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