Halloween Party

It began with an invitation...Each year the families at Studebaker Road with young kids take turns hosting a Halloween party, so this year we gladly volunteered our place....:-)

 As usual we left so many things to do until the day of... Something we need to get better but hasn't happened yet. It would have been this one since I had to do a jury duty for three days this week and kind of had a lot more time then usual but I waited to do a lot of things until last minute still...

Anyways, we somehow fit in family pumpkin carving in the morning... We bought a battery operated carving machine last year on sale and what we found out was that it actually was an etcher and not a saw...that worked out well as that was the look I was going for.

Madison learned parts of a pumpkin at school and she was telling us that what we are taking out is the "meat" of the pumpkin...

Minnie Mouse was excited to be hosting...

 We planned a kids edition amazing race/trick or treat game which has a series of clues that lead to various games around the house...not pictured were the first two stations where kids threw spiders at a target and picked a pine cone out of the sandbox and then after an adult sprayed some adhesive on it, the kids sprinkled it until their heart's content...then it was onto the garage for some pumpkin bowling...

 

  

After pumpkin bowling the next clue led you to the pool for some pumpkin fishing...the clue informed the parents that their team had to create their own fishing pole from the materials supplied and hook a pumpkin...they would lose major points if there was any child fishing necessary :-)

 The pumpkins went magnet down which made the catching all that more difficult.

 Thankfully everyone stayed dry...and it was back to the front yard for some good old fashioned mad science...with the help of some salon strength hydrogen peroxide we made elephant toothpaste...

 As you can see the kiddos were amazed :-)

After the experiment the clue led you inside and of course told you to remove your shoes to receive your next clue :-) Which led you to make some Monster Pops...

 

Yummy :-)

After all of the stations we headed back outside for a group picture...which is not an easy task...

 This was how it looked most of the time :-)

 Then back inside for a yummy potluck dinner and playtime...Madison does such a great job letting all her buddies use her toys...it is very fun!

 Lastly we wanted to make sure and get a picture of the spider web Anna hung inside...unbeknownst to her until she was done, she ended up making a pretty cool bat.

 

Bonus Videos:

First - Madison showing off the songs she was learning in preparation for her class Field Trip to sing to some Senior Citizens at a local center...(covered in the next post)

Madison's interpretive dance skills...