Halloween

We had a great Halloween this year.  We tried to just keep it fun for the kids.  A few days before Halloween we carved a pumpkin.  That is always interesting, but fun, with little ones. 

I regret to tell you that I didn’t remember to take a picture of it after it was finished.  It was a wolf howling at the moon. We did one just like it a Halloween 2008. They sure grow up fast don’t they.

Here are the pictures from this year.  Shaylee was a witch.  She really wanted the green face and black hair so we went all out this year.  She really enjoyed her costume this year.

Courtney’s costume changed several times. For the longest time she wanted to be the “Lady in Pink” from The Backyardigans episode about the Super Spy.  We tried to find her something pink she would wear for that but didn’t have any luck.  Not because of the lack of pink in our house but because she just couldn’t find what she wanted.  So she picked the outfit above out of our dress up box.  I guess you can call her cute costume a Halloween fairy.  She also got to dress up for the library story time.  She settled on Super Girl for that one. Oh, the joy of having dress up clothes on hand.

Kelsi loves huskies and decided that is what she wanted to be for Halloween.  This one was a little more of a challenge in that it was tricky for me to make her look like a dog and not a cat.  I don’t have much experience with face paint but I think in turned out alright.  Regardless of what people thought she was dressed like she turned out cute and had fun.  

We dressed up on Saturday night for the ward Trunk or Treat.  It was a great success.  The girls loved going around.  Courtney just kept saying “I love this trick or treating!” It is always fun to see all the kids dressed up. 

On Halloween day we started the day out with Jack O Lantern pancakes.  Not perfect, but the kids had fun with it.  I can honestly say that I am not going into the pancake shape making business any time soon.

Shaylee’s school had crazy hair day that day also.  This is what we came up with.  You can’t see, but we also sprayed it with some pink hair color in the back. 

We decided not to go out again on Halloween night.  We stayed home and played fun Halloween games.  The first game we played was a musical hat game where you walk around in a circle to music with a witch hat on the floor.  You take turns stepping on it and whoever is on it when the music stops is the winner.

The next game we played was pin the face on the pumpkin.  We all worked together to put the pieces of the face on. The girls seemed to enjoy doing this.  We came up with quite an interesting Jack O Lantern.

 

Here is the end result.

We also played a game of Halloween bingo called “Trick” and “Don’t Eat Feet,” which is just like “Don’t eat Pete.”  For our treat we frosted Halloween shaped cookies. It turned out to be a great day. Filled with sugar and lots of fun.  We all hope you had as wonderful Halloween as we did!