Celebrating Halloween with Kids in Costumes

by Renee Auguste

2010-10-28 00:00:00

Halloween has been known by an assortment of names such as All Hallow’s Eve, Samhain, Summer’s End, All Witches Night and Snap-Apple night. It is one of the world’s oldest holidays. The vital components of Halloween, such as dressing in costumes, trick-or-treating, telling ghost stories, and participating in party activities, can be traced back 2000 years. Halloween has risen above its cultural roots and is still celebrated in many forms all over the world.

Halloween, as it exists now, is an exciting collection of diversity while it captivates both children and adults with its entire day of magic and mystery. There is something very intriguing about living out a fantasy through mask and costume. Many people throughout the ages have spent countless hours working on their alter ego and evil masks to scare away the spirits that rise during this spooky night on October 31. Parents today, with their fabulously creative minds, will dress their kids and even their pets in the most extraordinary array of color and design. Halloween has taken a more light hearted turn and you will find many people photographing these special moments.

Folks go out of their way to find new and inventive ideas to keep this special holiday alive and kicking. It wasn’t until the last decade that people were able to print their photographs directly onto canvas. Every year at Canvas Press they receive countless amounts of photographs of kids and pets in their Halloween costumes to have printed and stretched onto canvas. Some of the most imaginative photos come through as parents capture that perfect moment of their babies first Halloween with their beloved pet schnauzer.

It is amazing that a holiday that consists of dressing up in bazaar outfits could have such a tremendous impact 2000 years later and to see kids in costumes running up and down the streets is such an awesome delight to photograph. Somehow that special night has such an eerie feeling to it. There always seems to be a static in the air and a cold, spine tingling wind. The leaves have fallen, giving the trees a wonderfully creepy look to enhance the photos of your young ones that are dressed as ghosts and princesses.

One of the main factors that parents consider when creating a canvas with their Halloween photos is: “How long the color will last?” They want the color to last as long as Halloween has over the centuries. Although, Canvas Press can’t guarantee that your canvas will last another 2000 years, but it will last at least 100! The canvas that was made with your kids in their costumes today can be handed down to their kids in their costumes tomorrow and so on and so on. How is that for keeping Halloween alive...? So to speak.