Halloween is a celebration observed on October 31st, the eve of All Hallows' Day. Common Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving pumpkins, lighting bonfires, and telling scary stories. The document provides instructions for students to create a Halloween story by first inventing a script, then sketching terrifying characters and haunted or strange backgrounds for drawings, such as mansions or castles. Examples of typical Halloween characters are also included.