what are some good christian alternatives to halloween costume and party ideas?
I’m hosting a halloween party tomorrow. need advice
are these occult?
spiders, pumpkins, eyeballs and frogs.
this is for the decor.
I have said no occult or dead/violent things for the kids coming, no occult party gamesor wichcraft, just apple bobbing and 100% organic party food, no sugar or toxic fatty salty snacks like that. I want to pove you can have a wholesome and fun party with no junk food.
I need games and costume ideas. Martin is going as a soldier, Jayden is a rabbit, I need an idea for the twins. girls, 4yr old.
I’m no fuddie duddy ‘lover’ … I know how to host a party, in the right christian way it is acceptable.
we had the kids dress up as bible characters one year(queens,kings,shepherds,etc).also the kids liked dressing up as noah’s ark animals.soldiers would be great for boys! there are always angels, of course! do apple bobbing,play red light/green light.play musical chairs, hot/cold,"Jesus Says"(Simon Says), Hot Potato.You can decorate w/ eyeballs,spiders,pumpkins,and frogs.leaves,apples, and corn stalks are good too.God Bless and good luck!
Wow what riot. Don’t go too overboard.
It surprises me you dress your kids up! I thought you wouldn’t celebrate in anyway. weird.
lover doesn’t believe your Jayden’s mommy!
You’re a fraud!
really? you’re fake
"christian halloween" is an oxymoron.
How about a prayer meeting?
None of the above mentioned are connected with the occult in any way.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/pumpkins/history.html
Here is a link with the reason for pumpkin carving. I don’t see anything wrong with it, just a lot of fun in my opinion.
For the girls…
http://multiples.about.com/cs/beforeyoubuy/a/twinhalloween_5.htm
http://www.essortment.com/hobbies/halloweencostum_sdjm.htm
Here are a couple of websites with good twin costume ideas!
Everything is what you make it. A devil costume doesn’t make you a devil. Are you this particular about your clothes made by Nike, etc. who once used sweat shops to make them? Do you care then? Or is it more Christian to pay money to clothesmakers who enslave children than wearing some silly costume and having fun? Shut up.
So rather than just avoiding the holiday because you believe it is evil/wrong, you’re just going to sissify it enough to make it sanitary and non-offensive? You insinuate that it is occult, and don’t want your kids exposed to that, so it puzzles me that you bother celebrating it at all.
Why not take a stand if you believe its wrong? Ban the holiday altogether in your home. Or do you not want your kids to feel left out of the fun?
I say put your money where your mouth is. Don’t teach your kids to celebrate something you morally oppose. You can’t have it both ways, you know, it either is evil, or it isn’t.
Leave the holiday alone for the rest of us that don’t share your views.
Read the bible and pray all night?
When I was young, families who conscientiously object to Halloween would gather at my home out in the country, to avoid Trick-or-Treaters. We had very wholesome gatherings
We eventually stopped that, because the few Trick-or-Treaters who came were my classmates, and some of them insisted that we were having Halloween parties, out of spite for us not giving them any treats, claiming that we’d had costumes and Halloween decorations, when we hadn’t.
How about a "harvest party?" Pumpkins and so on may still be used, but focus the theme around stuff less demonic. Eyeballs, spiders, frogs, etc. are stereotypical symbol isms of witchcraft. you can still have spiders, frogs, pumpkins, scarecrows, etc. if used along with the harvest style decor.