School Halloween Party

So, you remember how nervous I was about the Halloween Party and being in charge of planning the games and the party itself ... I posted before all of the games that I had found ... we didn't end up dividing into groups, Austin's teacher was very "in charge" and boy, those kids really listen to her. We only ended up doing 3 games and all of the parents that were going to help, well they didn't all show up ... go figure ... We ran out of time for anymore games than the three. We played Pin the tail on the cat ... that was fun, I made them keep one hand behind their back, I'd spin them 3x and TRY to point them to the chalk board where we had the cat ... let me tell you, some of the places that tail ended up .... FUNNY ... wish I'd have taken the digital camera. I bought some disposable camera's for the two fifth grade classes so that we could have pictures. We played "Guess the Ghost" The school counseler put on the ghost costume and stepped into the class, we drew names and as we drew a name, the child got to guess WHO was the ghost ... About the Fifth kid got it right, and then everyone else yelled at the first four ... We can't believe you didn't guess who she was ... And lastly, we played the "build the skeleton" game. The first 4 who correctly put their skeleton together won a prize. The party went well, from my prospective anyway ... Austin told me "Mom, that was the BEST party ever, it was AWESOME"

I did read that the best planned party should have more games planned than time. This way, you don't sit idle ...

I suprised many of the school kids ... I dressed up myself ... One comment was "you are a little corny" I said, well, you live in a house full of boys and you'd be the same way ....



Katie, posted that just for you ....