Trick or Treat!

Well the kids have been practicing and preparing their 'trick or treat' steps all week. Leaves on the play ground make great 'candy' at recess to both collect and hand out. Building forts in the daycare even creates different 'houses' to practice saying trick or treat at. Yep, I'd say they should all have been well prepared for whatever adventures they had tonight. I can't wait to hear all about it tomorrow...and then have it be over. Now I"m glad with how enthusiastic they are about holidays, in fact I think it's wonderful how over the top excited they get. But we basically had no regular work time today because we knew that they would be so distracted.

Halloween at our school means costumes for all ages, and a little parade of the Children's House around the Elementary classroom. Then the Elementary students usually read poems or sing some Halloween themed songs for the younger children. It's a fun break from routine, and we did a great job this year as adults with helping the children get their costumes on without losing any pieces (I don't think!). Three of us zipped, snapped, Velcro'd and attached countless fairy/angel/princess wings (the accessory of choice for most of the girls in our class) while Mrs. C snapped pictures of the children with our freshly carved pumpkin.

Remember the ones I featured about a week ago? Yeah, they got a little bit soft but luckily we got a donation later and one of our extra staff had time to carve it for us. Hooray!

I do have to say that we had some unique costumes, and even all those fairies and princess were different (though I have never seen so many glittery wings!). We had-

-A squishy Puff the magic dragon
-Olivia the Pig
-A Beaver (with a tail almost as big as the boy in the costume!)
-Princess Lolly from Candy Land (anyone else remember that game?)
-A young king with his older brother Knight
-A plump pumpkin
-A cobra (complete with hood containing heat sensing pits!)

My favorite though was Princess Leia, and not just because it was a home made and well done costume, but from how the boy who was in it explained why he was Leia. "Because Dad is R2D2, my little sister is going to be Yoda, and Mom is Chewbaca." Ahh, family themed costumes, gotta love em.