Halloween Party 2011

This week we had the Halloween party at school.  Amanda, our colleague Ili, and I had organised it for Wednesday afternoon and all the kids were excited to try out their costumes.  We have been teaching the kids Halloween vocabulary and songs for the last two weeks so even the little grade ones knew how to say ghost, witch, vampire, skeleton etc.  Unfortunately, Amanda and I have been a little busy with everything lately so we made some last minute costumes the night before.  Amanda was a black cat and I was a ghost (taken from Amanda's costume last year).  We also had to carve new pumpkins as the ones that we carved with Danni were getting a little mouldy.

The party went pretty well, we had the hall decorated with the kids' artwork and a white sheet then brought the 150-odd kids into the room.  It was a little crazy.  There were ghosts and knights and witches and vampires and spiders and pumpkins and black cats.  Most of the kids got dressed up which we were pretty happy about.  It was a little funny, we teach the kids a song that goes "knock, knock, trick or treat who are you?  I'm a ghost, I'm a little ghost."  We then brought all the witches up then sang it again while replacing the word ghost with witch.  This continued as we went through all the various costumes that the kids had put together until we got to one little girl who was dressed as the wife of Frankenstein.  So here were 150 kids and various adults happily singing "knock, knock, trick or treat, who are you? I'm the wife, I'm the little wife!" Actually, now that I think of it I think I was the only one laughing.  Oh well, I found it funny.

So after the songs and speeches we played the toilet paper mummy game.  We had each class line up, each with their own mummy candidate, then one by one had a turn wrapping them in the paper.  Ili manned the microphone and yelled "CHANGE!" every 20 or 30 seconds, while the kids screamed and threw toilet paper around the room.  It was messy, crazy, but it was a lot of fun.

The last game that we played was the corner game.  Each corner had a picture of either a witch, ghost, pumpkin and black cat.  The kids ran to a corner then Amanda stood in the middle of the hall and spun a spinning wheel which determined which of the corners was out.  The kids from that corner then had to sit down.  It was simple, but fun (mainly because the kids got to run from corner to corner between spins).

Anyway, another Halloween finished.  Awesome fun.

- Daniel.