Thoughts and Ideas
Creative
Chores. Make a dance with your vacuum cleaner, washing dishes...... cleaning the tub? Turn chores into enjoyable dancing exercise.
Conversation Starter
Costumes: Fun, celebration? Thoughtful, provoking? or offensive, thoughtless? You may have listened, watched, read many conversations about cultural offensiveness through halloween costumes over the years causing you to pause and think further about your experience even going so far as to consider costuming in stage performance. Are their deeper questions we should consider when a child or adult wants to dress as a person of another culture for a holiday? Are these the same questions we ask of ourselves when costuming for stage? What is our motivation, Intention? Is the risk of offense counterbalanced by the message or context we present? Reflect on your own past experiences and thought or lack of thought when performing or when celebrating Halloween or any other costumed event. Can costuming be respectful and educational, serve a higher purpose and still offend? Discuss with another person your doubts, questions, and views, how the situations differ. See if you can understand different points of view and situations.
Escape
If you celebrate Halloween - activity Ideas
- - Watch parties: watch a scary movie in company through a watch party app. I haven't tried a "watch" app. but here is link to a discussion and list of apps. https://www.theverge.com/21307583/watch-videos-movies-online-friends-streaming-netflix-hulu-amazon-scener-extensions.
- - Trick or treat virtual party: show up in make-up disguise or with an original treat, i.e. homemade beverage, sweet, or appetizer. Be ready to share the recipies! Bring the tunes, set aside time to dance.
- - Zoom hopping: 5 people host Zooms simultaneously or insequence, each with a different theme, for example, each time you must show up from a different place i.e. outdoor by firelight, haunted space of your invention like a closet with a flashlight. Make a game out of it.
- - Create suspense by moving your zoom device through a hauntng tour of your space in the dark with flashlight and scary music, or make your own haunting video.
- - Kids at home? Share the reason you celebrate as you do. Invent games, decorate, make treats. It's already a party. Bean bags are easy to make even without a sewing machine. Beans, corn, rice, or peagravel in a baggie tied with a rubber band. A piece of white or sheer fabric on a stick (like a flag) with ghost eye and mouth cut out can be the target. And don't forget the standby's- bobbing for apples, cake-walk. Turn the old cake-walk into a trick or treat walk in the living room. Don't forget to number your squares! Dance together, there will be no end of imaginative props.
- - Kids and adults: Candlelight card games.
- - Visit an outdoor memorial. Meditate and honor the site.
- - During the week visit a cemetary. Meditate, spend time, learn about a past life.
- - Honor your own ancestors by creating art in their memory. Light a candle in their honor and live in the memories of their lives.
Alternatively, keep it quiet. Turnout all your lights in the front of the house and retreat to the back to your own quiet candlelight activity.
