Happy Halloween everyone. Today I am going to Maelie's class to volunteer helping with the kids. After lunch they have a health walk followed by a parade in the gym (I assume as they did that last year), then to the class for games and snacks.
I have been working on ideas for treats that are not considered unhealthy in their view since we are not allowed to bring candy or cake. Personally, I don't think we are showing our kids a good example this way, really. I think they should focus on educating them about being healthy most of the year but having an occasional treat is ok. I am not one to argue too much about it because it's the School Board's choice.
So I prepared some little pumpkin rice balls yesterday. Very easy to make and cute as can be!
Then I prepared spooky hands for each child to take home. I used some dried fruit bars for the nails and then filled the gloves with Smart pop popcorn. I used about 5.5 bags of microwavable pop corn! Holy moly!
I have a few more preparations this morning for snacks... I will post them later.
Even if we couldn't bring sweets for the kids, I made little bags of chocolates for the teachers. A bigger container for Maelie's homeroom teacher. I have a lot of mixed feelings with that, because it seems hypocritical. However, one day last week, the principal, knowing that I make homemade chocolates for occasions, said jokingly "you know, the grown ups are still allowed chocolates!" So now I don't know if this meant to encourage me to make some or if they will refuse the treats.
Maelie will be going to school with her costume this morning. She didn't like the wig so much so we will spray her hair black... I can just see every single item of clothing returning BLACK, black marks everywhere... uh!
It should be a nice warm day for trick or treating today (well relatively speaking)! Hurray!
