Halloween around here was a blast! We made the best of the circumstances with lots of fun activities!
Megan asked for a "Room on the Broom" day, so on Friday, we ditched our typical school routine for all things Halloween!
Morning started off with Halloween math, word searches....
and cookie baking!
These girls did all the mixing and measuring.
We watched and read Room on the Broom, did a few activities, and ended our school day with a "parts of speech" hide and seek activity.
After gymnastics, we decorated cookies and settled in for an evening with pizza and watched Casper.
Saturday morning the girls asked to put on their costumes first thing! Adalyn was "Anna" from Frozen 2.
Megan was an astronaut.
And big mom fail, I didn't get a single picture of Gretchen in her costume, but she was Luna Lovegood from a Percy Jackson book.
We really debated Trick-or-Treating this year and decided that the girls could go to just a few houses, but we decided to host a Halloween party for our neighbors. The girls have about 5 kids that they constantly play with, so we asked them over for games and ice cream sundaes.
We started off by trying to make towers with toothpicks and candy corn.
They worked together in teams to see who could create the best tower.
And it was basically a big fail because all of the candy corn kept breaking.
Gretchen was the winner with this creation!
Then we played a bean bag toss and the kids could keep the candy in the bucket if they landed the bean bag or hit the bucket.
My favorite game was the M&M game. Each kiddo got 2 small cups, a straw, and 15 M&M's- I probably should have given them 20-25.... They had 1 minute to suck a M&M with a straw and transfer it to the other cup. It was quiet for 1 solid minute, which was heaven.
Then we had a mummy race!
We also played Chubby Bunny and had ice cream sundaes topped with Halloween candy.
Texas played OSU and the game went in to overtime. Our neighbor texted to let me know they were about to leave to trick-or-treat and asked if I wanted them to take the girls. At first, I said no, that the game was almost over, and then bam, OSU came back and tied and we went in to our 3rd over time game of the season, so the girls headed out with our neighbors.
After our win, I met up with the group and we trick or treated at a few more houses. Every once in a while, the kids wanted to stop and rest.
We came home with lots and lots of candy!
And at 9:30, these kids were still having a blast outside thanks to a sugar high.
I'm so thankful for our neighbors and the friendships we've developed over the last few months. I'm also thankful Halloween gave us an extra hour of sleep because we all needed it on Sunday!
