Halloween is within three weeks and I was wondering what kind of activities are organized in the district I live. While reading the local newspaper, I realized that nothing was envisaged.

I thus made a search on the Internet in order to know what was organized in the other Belgian districts and was not disappointed by what I learned.

Many Halloween events are organized in Wallonia and in Brussels. While bars, restaurants, dancing clubs organize their own Halloween evening, some districts also have their own events.

Here are some examples:

A school in Trooz organize the “Trooz Halloween Festival”; which is a two kilometers walk, marked out, decorated and supervised, with spitting of fire, witch, fairies, phantoms, werewolves, waders, magician, and fireworks at the end of the evening.

In the district of Fontaine-L’Evêque, the Cox Team Belgium organizes its Halloween supper with a special Halloween menu.

Appetizer: witch juice.

Main dish: The pig of Malvira in porchetta (Malvira is a Belgian TV witch).

Dessert and Coffee.

The district of Haversin organizes since 1994 the Halloween Festival: in the dark of an October evening, they will see a cart drawn by horses and followed by a strange procession composed by ghosts, witches, monsters… The traditional pumpkin soup is offered at the end of the evening.

The “Village de Cahottes” (Flémalle), will be invaded by a witches, skeletons and vampires. Candies will be given to the children and the Halloween Festival will end by the capture of the malefic witch who will be publicly burned; which will save the village from the ghosts until next Halloween. Fireworks will enclose the evening.

In Mariembourg, we will have the opportunity to travel in the Horror Train.

Thy le Château organizes a Halloween Night Market.

For the second consecutive year, the Caves of Wonck (Bassenge) organize their Halloween-Crypt Show. This Halloween Crypt Show is a walk in the world of strange and fantastic.

In Brussels, Halloween fans will visit Museum of Art and Fantastic, where they will meet witches, monsters and other horrible characters. The visitors will have the opportunity to receive a wizard diploma after having passed some horrible tests. A family enigma seems to be the focus point of this event. The artist has also created a Horror Carousel and their visitors will meet Halloween Man.

Ittre organizes a very original Halloween event because it will take place during the evening in Tricot Wood where the visitors will meet lots of witches, vampires, ghosts, zombies and other horrible Halloween creatures.

In the district of Forchies-La-Marche, the local youth association “Case Depart” organizes the Halloween Dancing Night and ask their visitors to come with their most scary Halloween costume.

Cake decorating Halloween themes can be a blast. The cake actually has become an essential part of our celebrations today. May that be a birthday, wedding, anniversary, homecoming party or a house warming ceremony, with the festive food you will find a decorated cake on the dining table. So when it is Halloween time you will find a cake to match the festivities.

The tradition of Halloween dates back thousands of years to Celtic rituals. People believed that on once a year the human world and the other dark world of the spirits and ghosts overlap. It is possible for the spirits to return to earth. The date was fixed as October 31.

In the olden days the Celts celebrated their new year on November 1. Which was a official day marked as the end of summer and beginning of cold and dark winter in Ireland.

Over the years two Roman traditions were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration. The first tradition was commemorating the dead and the second was to honor the Roman Goddess of fruit and trees called Pomona.

The modern day celebration of Halloween is the mixture of the ancient beliefs and now it is celebrated to have fun.

The surrounding imagery for Halloween is a mixture of old customs and traditions and of course American filmmakers and graphic artists. They have come up with amazing characters. The common theme is dark and mysterious. It also involves skeletons, ghosts, mythical monsters. Bats, Owls and crows along with haunted houses and pumpkin men, black cats are very common things that are associated with Halloween.

All of these things are to be found on a cake decorating for Halloween. The house is decorated to resemble to the haunted house or for Dracula’s castle and the cake is decorated with spiders, black cats or bats.

You can get cake toppings with figures associated with Halloween. The figures could be that of Grim Reaper, or Halloween witch. You can have fun with these cake toppers. Cake decorating Halloween can be a family fun activity. If your children can join to decorate the cake the entire family can have lots of fun.

You get many more things to decorate your Halloween cake in the market. Few of them are Halloween Skeleton and hands that you can stick on the cake. You get some spooky looking rings that can be placed on the cake to add to the spirit of the season.

3D Halloween Luminaries Picks can add another dimension to your cake. The predominant color of the season is orange and black. If you have black icing on the cake and it is a chocolate cake and if you stick orange illuminated sticks on the cake it will really blend in with the atmosphere of Halloween.

Cake decorating Halloween can be a fun filled activity for the entire family and it can be a very enriching experience for all the members of the family.