Halloween is my favorite holiday, and since having kids of my own, it's gotten even more fun for me. I don't yet have the time or energy or belief in the consistency of 3.5 year old choice to make costumes for the kids myself, but I do plan on that in the future. For now, we've bought costumes, Londo has put out the outdoor decorations, I've ordered peanut-free candy which has arrived, and we've already done one set of trick-or-treating!
This past Friday, the Pookie's daycare had "trunk or treat" in which a bunch of parents decorated the trunks of their cars, lined them up in the parking lot and handed out candy to the kids who went around trunk-or-treating. The daycare is a nut-free school, so we felt relatively safe letting the Pumpkin go trunk-or-treating with her brother (although not all parents were thorough about the no nuts, included one parent having Reese's Peanutbutter Cups in their bag of candy to hand out! URG!). And the daycare/school didn't mind at all, especially since that is where the Pumpkin went over the summer, so all the teachers and administrative types know her.
I informed Londo that I had signed us up to be one of the cars at trunk or treat and that we were using his car, since his interior is black. Besides, he's the one who does, oh, 90% of all the holiday decorating at our house (that pesky Seasonal Affective Disorder continuously gets in the way of my energy to decorate). Luckily, I long ago infected him with my love of Halloween, and he was on board.
He did a totally awesome job decorating the trunk of our car with all sorts of spooky-but-not-scary Halloween decor, including layering the bottom with orange and black balloons, which all the kids loved. He also played our Halloween playlist through the car speakers, which was a nice touch.
Our kids had so much fun walking around from car to car looking at all the decorations and taking the candy and putting it into their pumpkin buckets. My daughter was a unicorn, and my son was a dragon (although it was a dinosaur costume, it was close enough to call him a dragon). Londo mostly stayed at the car and handed out safe candy. I got to walk hand in hand with my unicorn and dragon and help them pick out the candy, making sure we got lots that Mommy and Daddy like. Heh heh.
I thought the trunk or treat was such a neat idea! We hadn't heard of it before, so it was new and fun for us on my favorite holiday. And this week's question of the week is:
What kind of fun activities do you or your kids' daycares/schools do for Halloween or the Fall season?
My daughter's school doesn't have them dress up for Halloween. But instead, this Friday her after-school care class is doing a Silly Hat Parade! This is another neat idea I hadn't heard of before and can totally get into.
Yesterday, the Pumpkin and I had over a friend and her mom, and we made silly hats out of paper bags. I'd seen the idea before, and then found this website with simple directions. I got some paper grocery bags, pulled out the arts and crafts, including sponge paint and hot glue gun, and we made some awesome hats! I'll try to post pictures soon.
Not only did we have fun making the crafts (my daughter LOVES arts and crafts projects), but she has a beautiful hat to wear on Friday. And for once, I'm not scrambling last minute to get her ready for something at school! I may get the hang of this parenting thing before the kids are completely grown up!
What about you guys? Whacha doing for Halloween or the Fall or as silly artsy projects? Anything good going on at your kids' schools or daycare? Are you planning any good Halloween kids parties in the neighborhood? What's your Halloween fun this year?
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The daycare our kids used to go to does a carnival/costume party. There's an activity in each room -- crafts, bobbing for apples, donut-on-a-string, strobe light/dancing, decorate-a-cookie -- you pick which things you want to do. Admission is one bag of candy and there's somebody in charge of turning all those bags into goody bags (during the party, so they're ready to go when kids leave). The kids love seeing their teachers dressed up, too.
I'm PTA president this year, and we're doing something sort of similar (on a larger scale) at the school. Plus a big walk-through maze, which is going to be so fun.
I love love love making Halloween costumes, so my kids have had something homemade since they were born. This year we've got one Ariel and one Sebastian (both from Little Mermaid). We've done: Oscar and Slimey (from Sesame Street), a grandfather clock and a mouse (from the nursery rhyme), and last year they both wanted to be Santa, so we did that.
Our day care does a Halloween parade at lunchtime on the Friday before Halloween. It is super cute. Pumpkin is so excited that she and her sister are both going to be skeletons this year and one of her favorite teachers is planning to be a skeleton, too. I sense some cute pictures coming up.....
Costume party at Tate's school today! Yay it's finally here. What a long week of anticipation it's been. Hope trick or treating goes well for everyone and no peanuts are involved for Pumpkin.
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