So - As I was reminiscing about what this holiday was like back in the '70s, there were a couple of things that I remembered so vividly.
The first was making Halloween drawings and cutouts. Piles of orange and black construction paper and our imagination. Witches, ghosts, jack-o-lanterns, skeletons, old dead trees, tombstones, bats, etc. We would spend hours making all of these things. We would decorate the windows and the walls and anything else mom would let us tape to.
The other things was candy. My brother, cousin and I would go out together and we would draw out maps of our neighborhood and plan our routes. We would start as early as we could and stay out a late as possible for maximum candy!
One other thing - a friend of mine and I made a little haunted house. Our big thing was wet pieces of string hanging down that felt like sticky cobwebs.
It was fun - I hope kids still have as much fun today doing handmade stuff as we did back in the day!
I think that it's great that you used to make your own decorations. I never did so for Halloween but did for Christmas. Our grade school had a haunted house one year and I wish that I had gone to that. Sounds like you had such great fun during this holiday. I liked getting the chocolate candy but not other types so I'd give those to my brother.
ReplyDeletePretty creative!! I fear that kids nowadays will get less and less creative as the digital age slowly continues to permeate our world.
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