Sunday, October 31, 2010

Halloween, The Final Chapter

It's the 31st and the Halloween season has finally drawn to a close. It's been a fun one, and here are the last bits of odds and ends from our adventures:
Here are the kids in all their cold weather candy-gathering Halloween glory. Sam was a knight, Anna was a beautiful (albeit toothless) princess and Josh was a dragon. Very cool. I just about had a meltdown sewing the older kids' costumes (Amber, when you're reading over this next year, save yourself some grief and just BUY THE DAMN COSTUMES), but the kids were happy and that makes me happy. We could barely keep Josh out of his "cosatoom" for the past week.

And don't ask me how I got wrangled into coordinating Sam's classroom party, but I did. It is such a sweet class and it turned out to be a lot of fun. I forgot my camera, but I did take some pictures of the final projects. First, we made skeleton sections out of dried pasta (a Martha Stewart Kids magazine idea from years ago that I had filed away).
And with the few minutes between the craft and going home, we played some Halloween "BOO"ngo with Bingo cards I made with this darling David Walker dingbat font.

And it's finally all over. Tonight, I'm gonna sleep like the dead. Seriously.

6 comments:

Mrs. Ohtobe said...

Fab job on the costumes!

The Brough Family said...

Hope you got a good night's sleep, you deserve it! Those costumes are AMAZING!!! Seriously such a great job. The kids looks like they loved them and that makes it worth it right... right??

Army Wife Quilter said...

sleep what is that the kids have to be up early the next morning for school. Love the costumes. check out my blog for my family in costume http://armywifequilter.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-costumes.html

Tiggeriffic said...

I remember making costumes when my kids were young.. I agree BUY them..it's a lot easier and gives one time to do the things you want to do like decorating for halloween.
Have a great Monday~!~! Nov. 1
AND remember to vote tomorrow...
it will be interesting to see who wins in Iowa.. ta ta for now...

Deb said...

Those "boo"ingo cards were super cute! That is such a fun font. Thanks for sharing where to get it!

Cherie said...

Everyone looks great! And cute cards also!!