Coloring pages of pumpkins

Coloring pages for pumpkins​. Pumpkin is an orange vegetable or fruit that is very popular in cooking, but also symbolizes the coming of autumn in many countries. Pumpkin is also used to sculpt a smiling face with teeth whith a candle (Jack-o-Lantern) is inserted on Christian Halloween, and as decoration in many places on autumn holidays, in homes, In stores and markets.
The source of the Jack-o'-lantern in various folklore are legends about a cunning farmer named Jack:
According to Irish myth, a peasant named Jack the Stingy lived in Ireland and decided to invite the devil for a drink. Properly known as Jack did not want to pay for the drink and persuaded the devil to become a coin with which he could pay, but as soon as the devil became a coin Jack decided to put it in his pocket along with a silver cross that prevented the devil from returning to its original form. After negotiations, Jack decided to release the devil on two conditions - that the devil would not bother him for a year and that in case Jack died the devil would not be able to take him to hell. After a year Jack tricked the devil again and persuaded him to climb a tree to pick fruit from the top. Once the devil was at the top of the tree Jack engraved on the trunk a cross that prevented the devil from coming down. Jack agreed to release the devil on the condition that he would not harass him again for the next ten years and so it was until Jack died shortly thereafter. Legend has it that God did not allow Jack to enter heaven because of his evil deeds, and Satan, who remained faithful to his promise, did not put him into hell but sent him into the dark night with only a lighted candle. Jack inserted the candle into a turnip he had carved to help him find a resting place for his soul.
In Ireland and Scotland people started creating their own versions of Jack by carving scary faces on lures and potatoes and placing them on windows to flee Jack's ghost and other evil spirits. Immigrants from these countries brought the carving tradition with them to America, where they discovered that the pumpkin is very successful for the traditional Jack-O-Lantern carving.
In addition, Jack-O-Lantern often creates various and strange films, from which the pumpkins-to-the-dead are also created, with their heads like a pumpkin with a scary face.
 Below you will find pumpkins coloring pages which you can paint for your enjoyment. Choose the coloring page of pumpkin you want to paint, print and paint for your enjoyment. To print the page you would like to color, click on page and then click Ctrl+P.

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Night of Guy Fawkes- November 5

The night of the gunpowder is the night of firecamps and firecrackers in the UK, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland, Canada, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Australia, to celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot, a plot of Catholic rebels led by Guy Fawkes, to kill England King James I by bombing the House of Lords in London.

The night of the bonfire is also called Guy Fawkes Night, Bonfire Night, Fireworks Night and Plot Night.

  
It is an informal holiday in which it is customary to light bonfires and eat roasted potatoes in a bonfire wrapped in aluminum foil. They also fire fireworks and burn dolls in the form of Guy Fawkes, who was the gunpowder expert that was supposed to detonate the bomb he had prepared in the basement of the House of Lords.

  The children have a favorite holiday: they eat a candy called "bonfires toffee" near the fire, a caramel apple and a Perkin cake.

In Australia, Guy Fawkes' night was celebrated with a lot of fireworks, so they called it "Cracker Night". In the 1960s, Australian states banned free fireworks from the general public because of the danger, and since then the popularity of the holiday has faded. In New Zealand to this day to this day celebrate with fireworks.

What was the gunpowder plot?

The Gunpowder Plot was an attempt by a group of Catholic extremists to murder King James I of England, his family and most of the Protestant aristocracy by blowing up the Westminster Palace in 1605 during the opening ceremony of the Parliament to obtain rights for Catholics.

They also plotted to kidnap and murder the king's children who were not present at the ceremony.

The original plan was to dig a tunnel from a distant basement to the House of Lords and place the explosives there, but at the end one of the conspirators, Thomas Percy, managed to rent a cellar under the House of Lords and there was no need to mine the tunnel.

Guy Fuchs filled the basement with gunpowder gradually, until by March 1605 there were 36 barrels containing 2.5 tons of gunpowder that could have destroyed all the structures in the Westminster Palace including Westminster Abbey, if they had exploded.

Fox's job was to blow up the barrels of gunpowder while his friends waited in Dunchurch, Warwickshire, for the consequences of the plot.

How did the plot fail?

The members of the plot group feared that the Catholics would be hit by the blast. One of them, apparently Francis Treshem, wrote on October 26 a letter to Catholic Lord William Parker-Lord Montagel, warning him against the planned explosion. Lord Montagall showed the letter to Robert Cecil, the Secretary of State. Following the letter, the palace guard searched all the basements below, until on November 5, Judge Thomas Kenneth, accompanied by an armed guard, caught Fawkes holding a watch and matches, and then discovered barrels full of explosives. Fawkes promptly admitted the plot with pride and was sent to prison at London Fort, where he gave the names of the rest of the group after being tortured.

Guy Fawkes and his teammates were executed on 31 January 1606 in the courtyard of the old palace in Westminster by hanging. 

Results of plot failure

The plot was intended to grant rights to Catholics, but instead the rights were revoked and they were accepted only after two hundred years.

More interesting facts about the failed gunpowder scheme:

Literary scholars believe William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" was inspired by the plot.

The word "Guy" in English - which means a generic term for a person - comes from Guy Fawkes, whose name was shouted at the bonfires.

  Every year, before the opening ceremony of the British parliament, members of the Parliament Guard conduct a ceremonial search for explosive charges in all rooms of the Parliament building.

  The cellar in which the barrels were hidden was destroyed in the fire in 1834.

The lantern that Fox carried in his hand while he was caught is being exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

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The mask of Anonymous - the activists who want to remain anonymous, was inspired by Guy Fawkes' face, following the film V for Vendetta, which was released in 2006, inspired by the plot and used in this mask.

November 5 is also Love Your Red Hair Day

Coloring pages of Halloween

Coloring pages for halloween​. Halloween is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. 

Halloween originated from the ancient Celtic harvest  festival of Samhain that includes fortune-telling and magic. The Celts believed that on this day the winds move over the earth at night and the world is closer to ghosts than to life. The hypothesis is that the Celts disguised themselves as witches and demons to confuse the spirits that roam the world this night.

Halloween is the night before November 1, which is "All Saints' Day," the day that is celebrated in memory of all the saints and people who died because of their faith in Christianity.

The holiday began in the seventh century AD, during the reign of Pope Boniface IV, who inaugurated the Pantheon in Rome. Until then the Roman structure was a pagan temple, and the pope declared it "the Church of St. Mary of the Tortured Saints". Since that day it has been celebrated as "All Saints' Day."

These are the fun customs of Halloween:

Trick or treat - The children walk the streets with scary costumes, knock on the doors of the houses and say: Trick or treat. Whoever opens the door for them should give them sweets, if not, they are doing him some trick like throwing an egg on the house.

Decorating the houses in the holiday spirit - in the US, Canada and parts of the UK it is customary to decorate the houses with a carved pumpkin in the shape of a face also called a jack-o-lantern.

More activities include attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, eating candy corns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing and divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories and watching horror films. Here are some coloring pages for Halloween. To print the coloring page of Halloween, click on the coloring page and then Ctrl + P. The printable coloring sheets of Halloween are for free and you can come back to print and color again and again. Below you will find Halloween coloring pages which you can paint for your enjoyment. Choose the coloring page of Halloween you want to paint, print and paint for your enjoyment. To print the page you would like to color, click on page and then click Ctrl+P. Have fun and happy Halloween!

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