As I mentioned in the last post, I have not had much time to post up here and this is a prime example of that. Here are a couple of picture from my local toddler groups Halloween party. The party itself was a great success, although a little messy, as you'll see in the second picture! We decided to go for a very hands on type of affair this year again, as we have done in the past but it seems that every year we get a little bit more adventurous. I didn't get any picture of my shakers that I made, of which I was rather proud. There were several glitter ones, red, green and gold, plus two rice shakers and a pasta one, all with small Halloween shaped in them. They seemed to go down well with the bairns there and have since resided in my playroom at home, after a good wash mind you.
Some proper dedication by one of the mums. Hand carved and arranged, there us another one just visible at the top of the page. They didn't last long in this shape, the kids soon demolished most of the fruit and nicked off with the googly eyes.
The party mat, with homemade Halloween playdoh, Halloween jelly with spiders, eyes and other nasties, gooey pumpkins and spooky spaghetti. Just off to the left was the pool used for bobbing for apples, not that much bobbing happened and just out of shot below the picture was the craft table for making spider hand prints and the "sand" pit, filled with pasta, lentils and rice, plus spider, worms and bugs, all plastic of course!
There were many incidents through out the party, including most of the spaghetti ending up on top of one of the toddlers heads, thanks to the actions of his big brother, rather messy although it was very cute, as he sat there looking slightly confused in his vampire costume covered in spaghetti. The other incident of note was that the apple bobbing seemed to go well over the heads of the children, as several, the young lady included, decided that the correct way to bob for apples was to strip off naked and climb in to the paddling pool. They had great fun playing in the water, eating chunks out of the various apples that were floating around in the water. I'm not sure how hygienic it was, but they were having a great time, laughing away and splashing, plus they all survived, so it cant have been that bad. The final incident of note was related to the Halloween jelly, which gradually disappeared over the course of the party, as more and more of the bairns discovered that it was jelly and decided to have a little snack as they played. The spaghetti, which was cooked, didn't seem to disappear at all though, strange, I cant imagine why all the jelly would disappear but not the spaghetti?
Also, if anyone ever says to you, "I have an idea, lets fill the sandpit with pasta, lentils and rice, that way it would be as messy", look them square in the eye and say "sounds excellent, we'll leave the tiding up to you then" and then run. I would never have though that replacing sand, which gets everywhere and we seem to be sweeping up for weeks afterwards, with the three items mentions above could actually produce more mess! There was stuff everywhere and when you stand on sand, nothing happens, yet when you stand on pasta it shatters and causes about 10 times the amount of mess, not to mention it really hurts when your not wearing shoes! As does rice surprisingly, although lentils seem fine. On the plus side, when the kids try and eat it, its a lot easier to deal with, mostly as they tend to spit it all out, which is a lot harder to do with a mouthful of sand.
We have also had the Christmas party already, which went down mostly without a hitch, although the reaction to Santa was mixed as always. I love how kids start bouncing off the walls when you tell them Santa is coming for a visit, but run away and hide when he actually turns up! Still the young lady loved her Disney Princess doll. No more toddlers until next year though, so I need to find something to entertain us for two mornings a week now, although the young lady seems to be enjoying going to Crèche at the moment, so that an option as that's on 3 morning a week.
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