Happy Halloween!

Another Halloween is wrapped up!!

This Halloween started with treats! I made monster cookies for Bud's class. Last weekend I went to 3 different stores in search of the candy eyes for these! They eyes made them!!

For Emma's class I was asked to bring popcorn. I did white chocolate popcorn with black and red sprinkles and candy bones!

This morning Mo's class did a little parade and trick or treated at the City Hall and Police station

For this adventure Henry was a Jack-o-Lantern, he had mixed feelings about it!

Then we were off to the elementary school for the parade. The pictures I took didn't turn out so great, but the kids had fun despite the bad pictures :)

Tonight our Ward and the other Ward in that meets in our building did a soup and bread dinner and then Trunk or Treat. The kids then went around the neighborhood and got more piles of candy.

So this year we had a Skeleton

Indiana Jones

Witch

and another Indiana Jones

For Indiana we made duct tape whips!

 

Happy Halloween!!

Preschool Halloween Fun...

Today was my day to teach our Co-op preschool and we had a Halloween Party!! The kids all had a great time and I am glad it is done :) We started out with magnetic skeletons. I had the working on cookie sheets, but they got to take them home and could do them on their refrigerator.

 

I had also made a Spider Ring Toss game. The kids loved throwing the spiders in and retrieving them. But I think our kittens loved it even more. They spent the rest of the morning finding stray ring spiders and batting them around.

For snack we had white chocolate bones, fingers and pretzels. I had edible markers for the kids to color faces on the pretzels and make ghosts.

 

Then it was onto our hunt for bats. Everyone had their own binoculars and we searched for bats inside and out. Every time we found a bat everyone got a piece of candy.

Then it was onto cupcake spiders. They each got to put on 8 licorice legs and candy eyes.

At the end everyone got their costumes on and we had a little parade and photo shoot!

Halloween-pumpkins and more...

On Saturday we decided to carve our pumpkins. I got 3 pumpkins so the Bud, Emma and Mo could each design their own.

All 3 of them did most of the work: gutting, designing and carving.



Each of the drew on the faces with dry erase markers so we could adjust and erase as needed. Here's what Mo came up with:

Emma still working on her pumpkin:

Bud got his started:

The final product:





On Saturday night our ward had a Trunk or Treat. Here are our kids and Katie with our trunk ready to go:

Halloween School Celebration:

Our elementary school did all of their Halloween festivities on Friday. They start benchmark testing tomorrow (Halloween) and thought it was not a good idea to interrupt that with Halloween partying!
Friday morning I volunteered in Emma's classroom. Her awesome teacher had centers for the kids to rotate through and I was over the Jack o' Lantern center. Other centers were: draw a picture of you in your Halloween costume, cracker & peanut butter spiders, goop and picture frames. The kids had a blast. After that they played some Jack o' Lantern Math.

I headed home for lunch and then N8, Mo, Henry and I returned to help the kids into their costumes for the annual costume parade. Here's Emma posing for a picture:

Bud and his good friend Katie:

Here's Bud's 4th grade class:

The parade:


After the parade we helped in Bud's class and Mo helped himself to one of the cupcakes:

After school was the annual carnival. It's a PTO fundraiser and is a lot of fun for the kids. Lots of games and bake sale.




Henry loved the doughnut he got!

Preschool Halloween Parade...

Mo's class celebrated Halloween on Thursday (he only meets on Tuesday and Thursday. They figure it's better to do it before than after!). They invite parents to come near the end and they have a costume parade.

He enjoyed marching around in his costume, but most of all getting some candy!
Here's the whole class:

Costume Preview...

On Wednesday evening I decided we better do a costume check. The kids had all figured out their costumes a while ago and I had put the "homemade touch" on each of them. But they hadn't really tried the whole thing out! It turned out to be a great time to get a shot of each of them in their costumes.
Here's Bud (aka Harry):

Homemade portion: robes, wand, altered tie

Here's Emma (aka Rapunzel, aka Tangled!)

Homemade portion: the wig

Here's Mo (aka Luke Skywalker, in the black outfit-Mo will correct you if you say otherwise!)

Homemade portion: robes

Here's Henry (aka Jack o' Lantern)

Homemade portion: the Jack o' Lantern! I made this for Mo's for his 1st Halloween.

The Padawon's (aka-Jedi Knights!)....

We had a Happy Halloween here are our house! I love deciding on and making the kids Halloween costumes! This year we went with Star Wars. I found a great, simple pattern for a Jedi Robe. I think they turned out great! I did foam noodle swords for light sabers and we slid glow sticks down them so they would light up!

We had another family in the Ward do a Star Wars theme, so we got R2D2, Princess Leah and Yoda in a picture too!

I hope that everyone had a very Happy Halloween!!