First there was Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party. This included dressing up, meeting character's, rides, a parade, fireworks and of course candy.
As if that wasn't enough, we attended a Halloween Party last week at The Wonder Place. There were costumes, a scavenger hunt, skeleton craft, stories, fun playing with friends, and a treat bag. I thought the skeleton craft was so cute and such a fun, easy idea.
Brian was creative with his design, you can see all of the skeleton's ribs.
I mostly created Danielle's skeleton
We figured out that if we cut the q-tips that we could make shorter ribs, a ha! Emily's design is of course complete with flowers and people, much like all of her current artwork.
Third, Emily's school hosted a Fall Festival on Thursday evening. There was dressing up, dinner, games, candy, and the bounce house. Also the decorated pumpkin patch pumpkins were on display for all to see.
Next came Brian's school party. They carved pumpkins and counted pumpkin seeds. Had fun stories. Then they had class parties too. Brian played pin the head on the skeleton, halloween twister, did cookie decorating and received a treat bag.
I have to tell you about this pumpkin. I helped in Brian's class during the party. I had a group of four boys (1st graders) and we had about 30 minutes to clean out and then carve the pumpkin. The boys did a pretty good job getting the pumkin seeds out. Then we selected a pattern, I punched the pattern, and the boys were going to take turns cutting. This was a challenge for some of the boys, and time was running out so I had to finish it up. I think that given the circumstances that I did an awesome job!
Emily had fun in her class, she was the line leader, and came home with a couple of treat bags.
We ended the Halloween festivites with the annual Fall Festival at church. The kids dressed up and went Trunk or Treating. The rest of the party was inside. There were hot dogs and nachos, and a chili cookoff. Games included a bounce house and a cake walk. Then a costume parade. It was the best fall festival we have attended in the 8 years we have been going.
Here are the awards that all the kids got who participated in the costume parade. They did take pictures, but I haven't received them yet.
You will notice in almost all of these events I mentioned dressing up. First there are no pictures...sorry about that. Suffice to say that Brian wore his Iron Man Costume except for at WDW, and Emily alternated between Belle and Cinderella. Second one member of our family refused to dress up. Danielle would not wear a costume this year. She would not wear her beautiful Cinderella dress the day at WDW that Emily did Bibbity, bobbity, boutique, or to the Mickey's Halloween Party. She did not dress up for any of the other parties we attended, except for one night when she wore one piece (out of three) of an old tinkerbell costume. So how is that for a party pooper!
