Day 27: Halloween Fun!

The first year I had a Halloween party for my nieces and nephews was the year Justin and I got married. We lived in an apartment at the time and had all six (the six that were old enough at least) of my nieces and nephews come over for a little carmel apple eating, Halloween movie watching slumber party at our apartment. We had so much fun! Other then the neighbors (that we shared a wall with) getting mad at us for being too loud, it was a lot of fun and my nieces and nephews loved it so much we decided to make it a tradition. This year we had eleven kids, including my two, here for the party. -- except for this year it was not a sleepover, eleven kids are hard to handle sometimes and speaking from personal experience, DO NOT like to be quiet and go to bed when they are told! :)

Here's a run down of what we did.....

First, after everyone arrived we took pictures of all the kids in their cute, clever costumes. Avery the kitty cat.

And Quinney the dragon.

Then it was time to eat! Yummy yummy yummy!!! We had pizza, bread sticks, cat dip and chips and a ghoulish punch to drink.

On to the games! First the kids went on a treasure hunt with the starting piece of this treasure map. At each new location they found another missing piece to the map and ultimately, by following the map, were led to their treasure!

This was their treasure! These cute little picture frames that we then put together and made. Fun craft!

Our next activity, the CAKE WALK! Growing up we used to have a huge Halloween party with my Mom's side of the family and never a year went by that we didn't have the cake walk downstairs in my Aunt Lola's basement. I thought I'd carry on the tradition at ours!

This is harder than it looks! How many candy corns would you say were in this jar? Well, would you believe me if I told you 312 candy corns were in that jar? It's true, 312 candy corns! WOW, could of fooled me! (if I wasn't the counter!)

And lastly, the older kids got to go down into my dark basement one at a time and have their fortunes told by Hilda the Witch. She told them all sorts of insightful thinks like, the name of the person they would marry, how many kids they would have, what profession they would take and even if they were going to be rich and famous. All they had to do was spit into the cauldron so she could see their fortunes in the smoke. Smart witch! The five youngest kids got to go down together for a little story instead of fortunes, we figured they'd have no idea what a fortune was anyway. However, Quinney was not fooled by Hilda the Witch or her story! About half way through he started waving and saying "hi Grandma, hi Grandma"! Smart Quinney! :)

Here's to another year of great Halloween fun!!!