Halloween Bingo: Color Your Own Game Boards (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781726019927)

Halloween BingoColor Your Game Boards(No Candy Needed)Additional supplies needed: markers, crayons or color pencils==============================GAME INSTRUCTIONSOBJECT: To Have FUN First player to get 5 markers on the playing board in a row wins.INCLUDED: 22 color game boards and 60 small HALLOWEEN Symbol game pieces for picking to call out.YOU NEED: (two ways to play to hold positions OR USE BOTH on the game board when symbols are called out)1) Coloring crayons or markers to color in the game pieces called out. OR 2)a bowl of candy or coins use as markers for board players to hold positions on the playing boards.===========================History of Halloween on the back of each board: ===========================Facts about 'Halloween'The holiday is 'dedicated to remembering the dead'. The word 'Hallowe'en' dates back to 1745 and is of Christian origin. The meaning is 'hallowed evening' or ' holy evening'. In Old English the word dates back to 1556 is called 'All Hallows Eve' then referred to as 'All Hallows' going forward in time until it is presently known as 'Halloween'.Medieval Europe in Austria, England and Irelanda) A Christian belief that the dead rose once a year for a wild night on earth.b) 'soul lights ' were candles that burned in every room to guide souls back to visit earthly homes. c) The lit candles also deflected and kept away evil as in the devil away from the home. In the Middle Ages, Europea) Parishioners or known as congregation members of the church dressed up as martyred saints if the churches were to poor to display relics or symbols of the martyred saints on ''All Hallows' or Halloween and at that time period a three day celebration called 'Allhallowtide'.b) Hollowed out turnips were made as lanterns and carried during the Halloween evening.c) Carved jack-o'-lanterns represented the souls of the dead.The end of the 12th Century across Europea) Church bells rang for souls in purgatory.b) Criers dressed in black in a parade in the street rang bells and called on all good Christians to remember the dead souls.The 15th Century in parts of England, Flanders, Germany and Austria a) Origin of trick-or-treating, groups of people often children went door-to-door collecting soul cakes in exchange for praying for the dead.b) 'Allhallowtide' a three day celebration (Halloween) soul cakes were often marked with a cross and indicated they were baked as alms.In the 19th Century in Europe bonfires a) Bonfires were considered a kind of mystic magic imitation of the sun to keep the dark of winter at bay and hold back decay and darkness. In Scotland, some churches held back using the bonfires. b)In Wales, bonfires were used to prevent the souls from going into hell and to keep the devil away.Over time, Halloween was celebrated by borrowing traditions from all centuries. This is the 21st Century. Write how you celebrate 'Halloween'?

Author: Carol Lee Brunk
ISBN-10: 1726019926
ISBN-13: 9781726019927
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2018
Pages: 56
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.12d