Halloween - A Day When Kids Get Free Candies

Halloween is a happy autumn event for children ( and adults alike) in North America.

It happens on October 31 every year, rain or shine.

Kids  love dressing up on Halloween Day for school!

This is an exciting day for young and school age children who have been looking forward to it for a whole year.

Parading around in school on Halloween

On this day, many school children can go to school dressed in their favorite costumes, parade around, show off and take part in special activities such as pumpkins craving, Halloween dances, costume contests or class parties.

Many school personnel such as teachers and even school principals would don special costumes and join in the fun.

It is a real fun day for both teachers and  kids at school!






The fun does not end at school. It continues into the evening!

Many Canadians/ Americans would purchase pumpkins from farms or grocery stores ahead of time, take them home and carve scary or funny faces out of them. 

On the night of Halloween, these pumpkins are lit up with candles inside of them and placed on verandas, in front of houses to welcome visitors. 














Why do kids love Halloween?  Imagine once a year, kids can get and eat all the free candies they want?

Getting ready to go door to door for free candies!

I love my costume!!!

Halloween is that day!!! Teens, children, some as young as a year old dressed in cute animal costumes carried in their parents' arms can get as much free candies as they want by going from door to door in their neighbourhood.

This door to door activity usually occurs after dinner time starting at around 5:30p.m.

Counting the free candies!

Kids get so much free candies that they can eat candies everyday for a month after Halloween!

Halloween decorations in our neighbourhood

It is not just children who look forward to Halloween with great anticipation; some adults take it quite seriously as well.













 Walking in our neighbourhood, we saw houses decorated in Halloween themes.















Halloween theme items such as pumpkins, witches, goblins and spider webs are strung on posts and hung on the front lawns.

This neighbor spent over a month building this special place for Halloween 

One of our neighbours was hard at work for the past few weeks erecting and constructing a pretty good size scary fort for kids.

Kids will love this place when they go for candies tonight!

 There are a few stations inside this enclosed wooden fort with games and displays for young visitors.


Kids will sure have fun here!









However, during recent years, a few unfortunate incidents happened on Halloween night such as some crazy people putting sharp objects in the treats giving out to children.  There has also been an increase in people donning and displaying too much gory and bloody costumes causing some schools to ban certain costumes worn to school.

 For religious reasons, some Canadians do not celebrate Halloween as they believe it is a night when ghosts, goblins and gory stuffs are being celebrated. Some organizations would arrange alternate activities for children instead of encouraging them going door to door for candies

Canada is a free country and Canadians are from all corners of the world and are of diverse cultures and beliefs. Again, on Halloween, we demonstrate tolerance and respect for our fellow Canadians and it's up to each one of us whether we wish to participate in the Halloween activities or not.

R.T.
Toronto