Comments on: How to Explain Halloween to Children

on 11/22/2005 Explain everything slowly (and as educationally as your kids will stand for) over the month of October. Point out the changing weather as why the Celts declared this to be the end of the year. Serve traditional seasonal foods, like colcannon. And depending on your children, you may even want to explain that bats and spiders are good animals who eat yucky bugs for us.

Of course, you could always dispel other potential phobias with "Graveyards are full of people's families" and "Witches have gotten a lot of bad publicity over the past 2000 years. If you don't bother them, they won't bother you."

Be creative. Try to make Halloween fun.

on 11/22/2005 Celebrate Halloween by having a Halloween Party. Use cute, African American Halloween party invitations.

on 11/22/2005 Most modern pagans still celebrate Samhain as one of the highest Sabbats. To us, as in days of old, it is a day of remembering our loved ones and of honoring our ancestors. This is a good time to share stories of your own family with your children.