Explaining Halloween in China...

A story I wrote in china to explain Halloween to my lower elementary students...

A Halloween Scare

Halloween is a dark and scary time of year when young boys and girls in Canada go from house to house knocking on doors and asking for candy.

“Trick or Treat,” they shout out when someone comes to the door. And then people give out candy treats and money and tell the children how wonderful their costumes look.

But one Halloween three friends: Jason, Rambo, and Dean were dressed as a vampire, a ghost and a Kung Fu fighter.  They carried large pillow cases which by the end of the night they hoped to have full of candy and money.

They had a plan.

The problem was that these three boys thought they knew a better way to get candy and money on Halloween night.  As the boys walked the streets they saw many other children in costumes.

There were slimy green aliens,
hideous monsters,
soldiers with  just one arm,
beautiful princesses,
glorious kings,
a zebra and a giraffe,
mummies with long bandages,
vampires with blood flowing from their mouths
and many other frightening creatures of the dark.

Halloween was a dark and spooky night!

In front of one haunted house there were large spiders, and a zombie rising from the dead. He looked like Michael Jackson.

As they approached another house children in their costumes shouted, “Trick or Treat.”  The man at the door put candy and money into each of their bags and said, “Happy Halloween.”

The children said, “Thank you.”  They turned and excitedly ran for the next house to get more candy.  But before they got to the next house Jason, Rambo and Dean jumped out from behind a large tree and screamed, “TRICK!”

The little children cried as the boys grabbed their bags of candy and ran laughing down the street.  The three boys stole candy and money from little children on every street until they had so much candy and money they could hardly carry it.

As good fortune would have it the Halloween magic fairy was flying near by doing her rounds when she heard the crying of little children on every street.  She stopped and asked, “What’s the matter?  Why are you crying?”

“A vampire, a ghost and a Kung Fu fighter stole all of our candy and ran away and now we have nothing.”

Like any good fairy worth her fairy dust, this got the Halloween fairy very upset.  Magic dust was flying everywhere as she flew off in haste to find the vampire, the ghost and the kung fu fighter.  They had to be taught a lesson.

Flying high through the trees she could hear laughter and saw Jason, Rambo and Dean  below eating candy and throwing the candy wrappers right on the ground.  Not only did the boys steal and make children cry,  they littered too.

This was too much for the Halloween fairy.  She rapidly waved her magic wand over the bad boys. A bright light flashed and more fairy dust flew all over the boys as she chanted and cast a magic spell upon them.

“no more candy
or money
will you take
your punishment
to ever remain
a vampire,
a ghost,
a Kung fu fighter
until all the candy
you took is returned”

With a big puff, flash, bing, bang, boom...

The fairy was gone.

The boys looked at each other, covered in fairy dust.  They were not laughing now.  In fact they got really, really scared because they found out that they could not take off their costumes.

Their costumes were no longer costumes.  They were real.

Jason screamed, “Guys I think I am a vampire. This is real blood.”

Rambo start crying, “I’m really a ghost. I can see right through my hand.”

Dean, yelled, “I can’t take off my mask, it’s my real face.”


The boys were scared.  The bullies started to cry.

They stood together and looked at each other.  Finally, Dean said, “I know what we have to do.”

Rambo said we have to give all this candy back. Jason agreed.

and so still covered with magic fairy dust they moved like a flash through the neighborhood until all the candy had been returned,  by the time they got home the spell had lifted.

They were no longer a vampire, a ghost and a kong fu fighter.  they were just three little boys who had learned their halloween lesson.

the end