
Mr. Saucedo is wearing his Halloween costume. He is wearing it for the costume contest.
Halloween is celebrated on October 31st, it is a day where you can dress up and get candy. Halloween came from and is a pre-Christian festival celebrated in Ireland and Scotland around November 1 that marked the end of the harvest season and the start of winter. It was believed that the veil between the living and the dead was at its thinnest during Samhain. When Irish and Scottish immigrants brought many Halloween customs to North America in the 19th century. The holiday became more popular in the 1900s after retailers began mass producing Halloween decorations, costumes, and cards. Halloween costumes don’t have to be so fancy and all out, they can simply just be a sheet with 2 holes as eyes and it would look like a ghost. Some of the first costumes that were worn were villagers. People offered treats and food as gifts on Halloween. “This year I didn’t even trick or treat,” Mya Diefenbak (10) said.