Maelie's Mama

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Getting ready for picture day

Today is picture day at school. Thankfully, whatever Maelie had yesterday is gone this morning after a nice 12 hour rest!

I am sure the class picture may be missing a few faces due to illnesses this week. Apparently there are about 6 kids missing a day!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

A Halloween surprise!

Maelie received a wonderful Halloween surprise from Samantha. (via Canada Post who tortured the packaging)

She made an AWESOME book that is perfect for Maelie's Halloween party pictures!

Also in the package were stickers and treats!!

Thanks Samantha!!

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Maelie's 2nd Annual Halloween Party

Well after weeks and weeks of planning and days of prepping, Maelie's Halloween party is done and over with with much success!!

First off, we took the group picture right at the beginning since I know that later on, it gets more difficult to round them up and costume pieces are usually missing.

We started off with a few games. We had musical pumpkins (similar to musical chairs) except that the kids had to have one foot on one foam pumpkin and the other on another one. We took away 2 pumpkins every time the music stopped. Then we went ahead and had to try to find spiders in goo. The goo is basically just corn starch and water. Most kids tried it, but a few do not enjoy that texture, so they watched.

After this, I worked on supper which consisted of lots of snacking food, a veggie skeleton, eyes (meatballs), ghosts (mashed potatoes), worms (wieners cut in 6). Every child had a labeled water bottle and had access to juice. This made it easier as they never lost their drinks, and there were no spills anywhere since they all had lids.

Once the kids were done eating I let them play while I cleaned up the kitchen. There is nothing I hate more than a huge mess in the kitchen at the end of the party, so I try to get a lot of it out of the way.

We then got started on a Mummy game. I divided the kids in 4 teams and gave them each a toilet paper roll. The teams had to choose a mummy and wrappers. The wrappers had to try and cover up a mummy completely. They enjoy this game as well!

We then played a game of feeding the spider. Each child had a homemade bean bag (which is fine except when it opens up!... broom to the rescue!) They had to throw the bean bags between the hungry spiders legs. They enjoyed a bunch of turns at this game.

Next game... Guess what body parts! I had covered 6 items with a cloth and the kids had to touch what was in the bowl. Once they all had touched, we said what we thought if was out loud. We had a heart (stewed tomato), fingers (viennoise sausages), blood (ketchup with water), eyeballs (peeled grapes), intestines (long macaroni noodles), and by far my favorite... Poop! which was a giant tootsie roll rolled up into a pile.

Then... the moment they all were waiting for... the pinata! It took about 20 minutes to get it open! I tried to sneak a bit of help by ripping some parts, but the kids wanted none of that! They wanted to beat it up big time!

Once they found their candies and put them in the goodie bags....the dance party started. As they were dancing the parents arrived one after the other... and soon it was just our little family.