Halloween at School

Thursday was our Halloween Celebration at school.  The kids were able to wear their costumes to school this year which made things so much easier.  Chase changed his mind several times this year about what he was going to be so this may be a surprise to some of you since he was going to be a pirate...no a spy...and finally DAYS before he finally decided on...Harry Potter!

No surprise with this one, she WAS going to be Queen Elsa again. 

 They were pretty excited to get to school and see their friends.

We did make a morning stop in to each of their classes to drop off a Halloween treat for each of their teachers.  Found this cute idea online.  Simple skeleton in a coffin with a tombstone attached that read:  rest in pieces (filled it with Reese's pieces). 

Chase was quick to find his best friend Dani on the playground who was dressed as Hermione.  Pretty sure this is where the Harry Potter inspired costume idea came from.

 It was pretty cute, and they drew quite a crowd with their "spell-off" on the playground.

Sadi and her bestie Mallory had this planned for quite some time apparently.  Us mom's were the last to know, however as we were talking we realized for the past 3 years they have dressed as the same thing. 

 These two were freezing everything...

There was a parade in the afternoon which I didn't get to many pictures of, because I was in charge of Sadi's class party so I was doing lot of prep while they were parading around the school.  Did get one quick shot of Sadi passing by.

I had been preparing for weeks for this party.  Unfortunately I was so busy at the party that I didn't get any pictures of the party...boo!  We had four stations that the kids rotated between.  First was the food/snacking station.  While they ate I had set up 2 guessing jars for them, a jar of creepers (plastic bugs), and a jar of candy corn.  We had some pretty high guesses.  I think these second graders need another lesson on estimation.

Second station was a table set up with mummy memory.  I had made paper cups into mummies, and used small chocolate bars to hide underneath. 

Third station was the crafting station where I spent all my time during the party.  It was a bone build where we made these cute little skeletons made out of pipe cleaners.  The kids really like these.

The fourth and final station was another game I called roll your eyes.  Simple game with a pair of eyeball dice I had made.  Be the first one to get all the matching eyes and you won a chocolate eyeball.  It seemed to be the most popular game, at least there was lots of giggling coming from this table.

We ended the party playing "Last monster standing".  Just a spin on the game 4 corners.  I made 4 Halloween pictures to put in the four corners for the kids to stand by.  I pulled the matching sticks from my monster can, and the last monster standing won a prize tied up with monster teeth.  This one the kids LOVED, and wanted to play over and over but we ran out of time.

It was a fun party, and I have already been asked to do another.  Not sure yet if I should be flattered or not.