Pre-Halloween Activities

To get ready for Halloween, we did a few fun activities.

Of course you have to decorate sugar cookies for Halloween.  I'm pretty good at it, but Sydney just likes to wipe the frosting off her cookie and then lick it off her finger.

We both ended up with black tongues:

You always have to carve a pumpkin for Halloween.  I love carving pumpkins, but I hate the ooey gooey stuff.  Usually Dad handles that, but he was at work and Mom wanted to kill some time, so she did it.  Sydney seemed really interested in the pumpkin when Mom first took off the top and showed her all the guts.

But she refused to touch the insides too.  So I kept her entertained while Mom did all the dirty work.

I did help draw the pumpkin face, cut it out, and paint it.  Can you tell what it is?  I'm a little obsessed.

On another day, we made ghosts out of marshmallows.  Sydney made one too.  But after she glued on the marshmallows, she ate them when Mom wasn't looking.  Then she ate mine too--while it was hanging on my wall!

Of course we made a pumpkin for Cooper and took it to him.  I drew the face and Sydney drew some stuff on it too. 

 

The day before Halloween we went to our ward trunk-or-treat.  They had a chili cook-off before and Mom won a prize for most unique chili!  It was her creamy white chicken chili.  Sydney didn't eat Mom's chili, but she liked whatever other kind Mom gave her.

And believe it or not, that was the only picture Mom and Dad took at the trunk-or-treat.  But there was a professional photographer there taking pics of people in their costumes.  This is the one of me and Syd.

 

 I won a prize too for most elaborate costume because I had a light on my chest for Ironman that actually worked.  More pics of that in the next post.

And finally, on the day of Halloween, we weren't allowed to wear costumes to school AND we didn't have a Halloween Party, we had a "Harvest Celebration," because some people don't believe in Halloween.  Mom and I made some pumpkin pretzels as a treat to share with the class.

They took a loooooong time to make.  Here they are all finished.  Do they look a little like pumpkins?  Even if they don't, they sure tasted good.  Although Mom thinks they took way too much time for a class of five-year-olds who would gobble them up in two seconds.