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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Class Halloween Parties!

Friday, October 29th--I dropped the morning carpool kids off and then headed to the school gym for the costume parade. Luckily I got there early enough to get the seat I wanted and my friend, Kathy was already there saving seats--bonus! We waited for a while but had fun visiting. I love the costume parades! I remember them as a kid, myself.
I pulled double duty today by volunteering to help out in both Brady and Elise's class Halloween parties. I didn't mind a bit. I've always enjoyed the class holiday parties. Luckily, Elise's party was first and ended shortly before Bradys began. Next year, I won't be so lucky. With Brady being in school full time, their class parties will start and end at the same time so I'll have to alternate, I suppose.
Elise's class was CHAOTIC! The kids were quite hyper! We decided to do 5 stations--a few games, crafts and decorating a sugar cookie. The kids really seemed to have lots of fun. As the class party was ending I noticed Mrs. Spencer and Mrs. Mair was having a hard time calming the kids down. I left to head to Brady's class so I'm not sure that quite happened. Sorry!
Brady's class was much more tame. We planned 4 stations--2 games and 2 crafts. For both classes I have a Halloween Bingo game called "GHOST" I made when Elise was in her 1st year of preschool. It's held up well and is used every year, whether it's by me or someone else borrows it. Who would of thought it would last so long!? When we were done with stations the kids got a donut and apple juice--I'm sure the highlight! Luckily there was plenty for the moms too!
Later in the evening, we had an adult Halloween party with neighbor friends. It was a blast! Great food, great company, the funniest game ever (Things) and so much more! What a fabulous end to such a great day, crazy busy but so much fun!

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