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Halloween lore
and decorations
learned together
When seven children ranging in age from four to six joined Kim Jacobson at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 26, they learned more than how to decorate their trick-or-treat bags.
Jacobson, a Castleton resident, used books to teach the class about Halloween’s history and why certain figures have been used through the years.
She traced Halloween’s development through the history of devils, the Druids and Christian input to the present. Jacobson taught the children about the idea of festivals and how nighttime and the time of year with harvest and fall have influenced Halloween.
Early beliefs that souls could be brought out at night led to the popular figures of ghosts and witches. Jacobson taught the children magic words to say before they worked their bags.
She said she taught the class about positive and negative space and printing techniques as they turned canvas bags into trick-or-treat bags. '
She had the children practice block printing with the shapes they had chosen on pieces of paper before they started decorating the bags.
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