Halloween Roundup

Our Halloween celebrating lasted almost a full week starting the Friday prior to Halloween. Henry's class had their Harvest party during the school day and then the entire school's Harvest Festival that evening. I volunteered to help out with the party and had a blast crafting Q-tip skeletons with all of the kiddos. They also made thumb print pumpkins, bats, and spiders; played a pumpkin toss game and enjoyed some fun snacks including mandarin oranges decorated to look like Jack-o-lanterns. The Harvest Festival was also a blast - the school did a great job with all the games and Henry liked the not-too-scary haunted house...plus, there was cotton candy!

Then, on Saturday, we braved the colder temperatures and headed to the zoo for their Halloween scavenger hunt. I talked Henry into wearing his AMAZING koala costume and it was a big hit at the zoo. Nora's bumble bee costume would have been all covered up since it was so chilly, so instead she just wore this monkey hat.

Next up, on Sunday, was the annual Halloween party with Brett's parents at the LO Country Club. It was so much fun! There were stations for pumpkin decorating, mask making, and decorating a cup to look like a mummy. Henry found a ninja and a storm trooper to play with and we barely saw him after that!

Of course we carved some pumpkins! Henry spent time drawing out designs for each of ours on paper first and then we helped him

transfer his ideas onto the pumpkins. I didn't take a picture of all of them together after they were done (I'll try to remember to do so!), but I did get this funny picture of Henry imitating his pumpkin's face - and that's Nora's tiny pumpkin next to him.

Finally it was time for the big day! We had pumpkin shaped pizza at Gigi's house and then headed out for some trick-or-treating. First, though, Gigi scared poor Nora to tears with her clown wig. Of course I had to take a picture. Here are the blue Power Ranger and the bumble bee ready to collect their treats! Don't they look happy?

Ha ha ha! I love this picture.
 Two last pictures from the big night - Henry trick-or-treating...and Nora, discovering the loot. :)