A carriage for Cinderella, food for all of us. Pumpkin riddles for children

Cool Halloween riddles with answers

He lives with a witch in the house, He is a lazy, black... cat

Walks around in a pointed hat, terrifies children, brews potions in a cast iron pot, and flies in the dark! Witch

Symbol of the night, symbol of evil, She sleeps upside down! Bat

Of course, you can’t celebrate Halloween without me, Horror, fear, darkness of the night, There’s a full... moon in the sky

The eyes of the bat are burning, A quiet grinding sound is heard in the house. Halloween has come home, it's time to celebrate. There are candles, cobwebs, darkness, But only me is missing. Pumpkin

To celebrate Halloween, You need to catch up with horror, There are bruises under the eyes, And fangs stick out in the mouth...

In the forest, in her hut, there lives one old woman, she flies on a broomstick, and scares the children. Baba Yaga

Children are looking forward to this holiday, They are given candy, And mothers are sewing costumes, They are creating a candle from a pumpkin! Halloween

A beauty lives in the depths, Sings sonorous songs, Swims superbly, deftly, Who can name it? Mermaid

Masks and costumes, Sweets and happiness, Here is the autumn holiday, Sparkles, joy, dancing! Everyone today is evil spirits, They will praise you, This holiday is necessary, You need to guess! Halloween

The pumpkin's eyes are burning brightly, Candles, night and very hot, Vampires, blood, adrenaline Comes to visit... Halloween

I say hello to fear, I bring a pumpkin from the field to the house. Let her eyes shine, What holiday am I having? Halloween

This is a foreign holiday, but it has long been familiar to all of us. The pumpkin has red eyes, horror, night and silence. Halloween

Night vampire - Eyes, fangs, Only on Halloween you are not scary. Bat

Halloween has come to our homes, it’s time for us to start the holiday. She stands in the dark, a head made from a ripe pumpkin

Such a night is coming, Horror, fear in all of us, Candles, zombies, horror and darkness, The pumpkin's eyes glow. Halloween

He flies in a mortar, lives in the forest, scares the kids, who can guess? Baba Yaga

The goblin, the devil, Baba Yaga, A very friendly family, And the kikimora and the mermaid, They play tag every day! There is also a merman, He is so friendly, The ghost is always with him, Sings songs until the morning! How can we call them all together, so as not to list them? Evil spirits

An unusual lantern is lit, And it will protect from evil spirits, It can be easily made, You just need to buy the right vegetable! pumpkin lantern

Fear, vampires, horror, horror, I can't sleep tonight. Pumpkin red eyes I won’t forget until the morning. I don’t like this holiday, what am I talking about now? about Halloween, Halloween

The vampire costume is a symbol of the night, the silence is terrifying. We won’t fall asleep today for sure, because he came to our house. Halloween holiday

Masks, costumes and sparkles, They will dance here today, Everyone will have fun today, It’s time for you to guess the holiday! Halloween

Night of witchcraft, miracles and fears

Short, scary Halloween poems for kids

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Ghouls, vampires, witches, The poor cherub cries: October is the last day, Halloween is coming.

People are sick with something, There is only one day like this, All the weeks are terrible, Halloween is all around.

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Let's get outfits from the dark depths, We'll scare everyone until dawn. Long live Halloween, All in black masks.

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The house is getting darker and darker: This is the time of nightmares and eerie shadows. A Ghost crept towards us in the darkness. But who is this Phantom? Of course, YOU!

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The night of witchcraft, miracles and fears, Night wanderings, screams, gasps! Various evil spirits are found everywhere on the holy evening: there is no place for them in hell! Witches, wizards, elves and magicians, Ghouls carry a pumpkin with a candle! Vampires will gather to walk at night, and they will get to you!

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Let's get outfits from the dark depths, We'll scare everyone until dawn. Long live Halloween, All in black masks.

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The house is getting darker and darker: This is the time of nightmares and eerie shadows. A Ghost crept towards us in the darkness. But who is this Phantom? Of course, YOU!

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Night of vampires, ghouls, Leshy, werewolves, witches. The night of all evil spirits People are not too lazy to celebrate!

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Darkness is gradually coming, Clouds cover the sky with darkness, We will scare you until the morning, Because Halloween is coming today!

Prepare some sweets, candies - We will come, you can believe it! And we give you a little advice: Open your doors wider!

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Skeletons, ghosts and vampires, Evil goblins in duels, Werewolves leaving the graves of Witches on their magic brooms.

We go out into the streets in scary masks and costumes. We knock on the door of surprised people, Today is our holiday - Halloween!

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Halloween is a holiday of darkness. A parade of creatures darker than hell. The jack-o'-lanterns are on, and there's an ambush waiting around the corner.

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On the day of Halloween, all evil spirits come out of the bowels of the earth. Skeletons, vampires, ghosts Hands reaching out: “Help!” And they frighten adults and children with a terrible look, To avoid getting caught by them, Dress up quickly - As a witch, a dead man, a vampire - All the power lies in dressing up!

On this day, girls and boys go out dressed as monsters and heroes and are given candy. On this day, even a real ninja turtle may not hide from people. There are more candies than scares at Halloween. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Adventures" Raphael (Raph)

Gogol's head and ghost train

They say that Gogol's head was decorated with Bakhrushin's silver laurel crown and placed in a glazed rosewood case, lined with black morocco on the inside. According to the same legend, the great-nephew of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, Yanovsky, a lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, upon learning about this, threatened Bakhrushin and took his head. Allegedly, the young officer wanted to take the skull to Italy (to the country that Gogol considered his second homeland), but he could not complete this mission himself and entrusted it to an Italian captain. So the writer’s head ended up in Italy. But this is not the end of this incredible story. The captain's younger brother, a student at the University of Rome, went with a group of friends on a pleasure railway trip; deciding to play a prank on his friends by opening a box containing a skull in the Channel Tunnel. They say that the moment the lid was opened, the train disappeared... Legend has it that the ghost train did not disappear forever. Allegedly, he is sometimes seen somewhere in Italy...or in Zaporozhye...

Gogol's orientation

The ascetic lifestyle that Gogol led and the writer’s excessive religiosity gave rise to many fables. The writer's contemporaries were surprised and frightened by such behavior. Of his things, he only had a couple of changes of underwear with him and kept it all in one suitcase... Quite unsociable, he rarely allowed himself the company of unfamiliar women, and lived his whole life as a virgin. Such isolation gave rise to the common myth about the writer’s unconventional sexual inclinations. A similar assumption was put forward by the American Slavist, historian of Russian literature, Professor Semyon Karlinsky, who stated in his work “The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol” about the “oppressed homosexuality” of the writer, which involves “suppression of emotional attraction to members of the same sex” and “aversion to physical or emotional contact with women " According to literary critic I.P. Zolotussky, Gogol was not indifferent to women, including A.M. Vielegorskaya, to whom he proposed in 1840, but was refused. Vladimir Nabokov also objected to representatives of the psychoanalytic method. In his essay “Nikolai Gogol” he wrote: “The heightened sense of the nose eventually resulted in the story “The Nose” - truly a hymn to this organ. A Freudian might argue that in Gogol’s inverted world, human beings are placed upside down and therefore the role of the nose is obviously performed by another organ, and vice versa,” but “it is better to completely forget about all Freudian nonsense” and much more.

Scary Halloween contests for adults and teenagers

Raffle “Whose Head”

You need to move several tables together, leaving a small gap between them. The person playing the main role in the drawing is required to sit in such a way that his head is in the gap between the tables.

In the tablecloth that will be used to cover the tables, make a slot under the head and cover the surface with it. After this, the design depends on the flight of fancy of the organizer. The participant’s head can be covered with spaghetti, sliced ​​vegetables, cheeses, sausages, or sprinkled with ketchup.

Cover the decorated head with a large lid or box, and place the same lids on the right and left. Under the empty lids place a skull or pumpkin, which will also be present on the holiday table.

When everything is ready, the presenter must say the magic phrase: “Let’s play the game “Whose Head”, whoever guesses the name first wins.” The presenter lifts first the left cover, then the right, and only then the central one. The main participant in the drawing must shout loudly at this moment.

Competition "Name of Halloween"

Pictures of scary characters are printed on paper, for example: Frankenstein, Dracula, Freddy Krueger.

The pictures are glued to the inside of a 3-liter jar, after which it is filled with water. The jar needs to be placed in front of the participants and asked whose head the players see. While in the jar, the character's image takes on a realistic and terrifying appearance.

Competition "Bloody Mess"

Using red dye and gelatin, make a kind of “bloody mess” and fill a bucket or other deep container with it. Place various objects on the bottom of the dish to which you can give your own meaning. Each participant in the competition must put their hand into the mess and take out an object with which they can predict the future, for example:

• coin - wealth;
• plastic heart - love;
• machine - travel.

You can use absolutely any objects that can be given meaning.

Competition "Voice from the Darkness"

The presenter invites the competition participants to determine by ear what sounds they hear. You can alternately include the cries of owls and seagulls, the sounds of dolphins, whales, the sound of a waterfall, but this selection must include the sounds of human cries and chainsaws. The more unexpected and louder the sound, the more fun the competition will be.

Prank game "Old Dead Joe's Cave"

This prank game will appeal to both adults and children. In order for the game to be interesting, you need to work hard to organize it. To carry out the drawing, you need a free room in which you can create the appropriate surroundings: cover the windows with thick fabric to darken it, and also decorate it. Old Man Joe's "body parts" should be placed on chairs and other surfaces in the room, such as: a hand? eye, liver, tongue, etc.

Place each “organ” in a container of the required size filled with warm water.

The presenter plays a big role in the drawing. He must select the bravest participants, blindfold them and lead them into the “cave”. Only one person can visit a room at a time.

The presenter should lead the participant from one object to another, offering to determine by touch what is contained in the vessel.

To perform a prank, you can use different parts of the body of "Old Dead Joe", for example:

• Bones are tree branches found on the street and freed from leaves and twigs.
• Guts are a large bowl filled with pasta, they are wet and slippery enough to cause horror and disgust to the participant.
• The heart is large tomatoes, previously peeled.
• The eyes are a small bowl filled with water, and peeled grapes or cherry tomatoes float in it.
• The teeth are hard candies or small pebbles lying in a metal container.
• Hair is a wig, which is stretched over a jar or ball.
• The ears are an artichoke, cut in half with the spines removed.
• Nose – raw carrots, peeled and cut into the shape of a nose.
• Fingers - boiled and cooled sausages.
• Blood - a jug filled with heated tomato juice.

It is important to have a towel on hand so that the participant can dry their hands after dipping them into the “blood”.

What else did Gogol burn?

The first work to turn into ashes was a poem in the spirit of the German romantic school “Hans Küchelgarten”. The pseudonym V. Alov saved Gogol’s name from the criticism that fell, but the author himself took the failure very hard: he bought all the unsold copies of the book in stores and burned them. Until the end of his life, the writer never admitted to anyone that Alov was his pseudonym.

On the night of February 12, 1852, an event occurred, the circumstances of which still remain a mystery to biographers. Nikolai Gogol prayed until three o'clock, after which he took his briefcase, took out several papers from it, and ordered the rest to be thrown into the fire. Having crossed himself, he returned to bed and cried uncontrollably. It is believed that that night he burned the second volume of Dead Souls. However, later the manuscript of the second volume was found among his books. It is still unclear what was burned in the fireplace.

Gogol's head

However, Lidin’s wild imagination was not limited to this episode. A more terrible story followed - it turns out that when the coffin was opened, the skeleton did not have a skull at all. Where could he have gone? This new invention of Lidin gave rise to new hypotheses. They remembered that in 1908, when a heavy stone was installed on the grave, it was necessary to build a brick crypt over the coffin to strengthen the base. It was suggested that it was then that the writer’s skull could have been stolen. It was suggested that he was stolen at the request of a fanatic of the Russian theater, merchant Alexei Alexandrovich Bakhrushin. It was rumored that he already had the skull of the great Russian actor Shchepkin...

Halloween themed quest

A quest can be a great way to entertain children or adults on Halloween! If you don’t have enough time to organize a holiday, but you want to celebrate in an interesting and original way, we bring to your attention an amazing quest that is suitable for both children and adults. Organizing a quest is very easy. You just need to cut out the cards and hide them according to the diagram.

For this quest we have developed non-standard and original puzzles. Some of them are solved using “strange objects” that quest participants find in the envelope along with the invitation. And one puzzle, presented in the form of a small cartoon, will not only diversify the quest, but also amuse the guests at your Halloween party.

Here you can read about our quest “Night in an old mansion”.

Halloween contests for children

Game "Mummy"

To play the game you need several rolls of toilet paper (it is recommended to use the simplest gray paper). Divide the participants into pairs and give them one roll each. Each team has its own “mummy” and “priest”. The latter must turn his companion into a real “mummy” as quickly as possible. The team that completed the task faster than the rest will win.

Game "Walk through the swamp"

The game requires good coordination and speed, and you also need two A4 sheets. Contestants must walk across the entire room, stepping only on sheets of paper. To do this, after the first step, you should stop, take the sheet lying behind and move it forward. The winner is the participant who completed the task the fastest and never stepped on the floor.

Game "Treasure Island"

While waiting for little guests, you need to hide candies throughout the room; the more there are, the more fun the game will be. Children will definitely cheer up when they hear exactly what treasures they need to find. The one who finds more goodies than the rest will win.

Competition "Sinister Pouch"

Before the competition, you should prepare props: a small bag, dried fruits, mushroom caps, carrot cubes, a wet sponge cut into pieces, or any other objects that feel strange to the touch.

Before guests arrive, place all items in a bag.

The participants of the competition sit in a circle, and the presenter at this time tells a terrifying story about how this bag appeared in his possession. For example, the presenter could find it in a cemetery or in a haunted house, or the witch gave this bag as a gift for a service rendered to her.

The first participant must put his hand into the bag and feel one of the objects, while removing it is prohibited. After this, the player must come up with some kind of story about what this item is. At the end of the story, the player must get this item. He will definitely be surprised how far his imagination has taken him.

After this, the bag is passed into the hands of the next participant, who tells his story about another item.

Was Gogol buried alive?

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol died on March 3, 1852. On March 6, 1852, he was interred in the cemetery at the Danilov Monastery. According to the will, no monument was erected to him - Golgotha ​​rose above the grave. But 79 years later, the writer’s ashes were removed from the grave: by the Soviet government, the Danilov Monastery was transformed into a colony for juvenile delinquents, and the necropolis was subject to liquidation. It was decided to move only a few burials to the old cemetery of the Novodevichy Convent. Among these “lucky ones”, along with Yazykov, Aksakovs and Khomyakovs, was Gogol... The entire color of the Soviet intelligentsia was present at the reburial. Among them was the writer V. Lidin. It is to him that Gogol owes the emergence of numerous legends about himself. One of the myths concerned the lethargic sleep of the writer. According to Lidin, when the coffin was pulled out of the ground and opened, those present were filled with bewilderment. In the coffin lay a skeleton with its skull turned to one side. No one found an explanation for this. I remembered the stories that Gogol was afraid of being buried alive in a state of lethargic sleep and seven years before his death he bequeathed: “My body should not be buried until obvious signs of decomposition appear. I mention this because even during the illness itself, moments of vital numbness came over me, my heart and pulse stopped beating.” What they saw shocked those present. Did Gogol really have to endure the horror of such a death? It is worth noting that this story was later subject to criticism. The sculptor N. Ramazanov, who removed Gogol’s death mask, recalled: “I did not suddenly decide to take off the mask, but the prepared coffin... finally, the constantly arriving crowd of those who wanted to say goodbye to the dear deceased forced me and my old man, who pointed out the traces of destruction, to hurry...” explanation for the rotation of the skull: the side boards of the coffin were the first to rot, the lid lowers under the weight of the soil, presses on the dead man’s head, and it turns to one side on the so-called “Atlas” vertebra.