Halloween the First

Last year, just after Adam was born Grace wanted to do Halloween and Donné promised her that next year (i.e. this year) we would do Halloween, so we were committed.

Grace wrote a note and we went to all our neighbours to ask them if they would like to join in with the fun, and many of them did.

Eli wanted to go as a pumpkin, so we made a paper mache pumpkin head.

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The MacRoberts and the van der Zee’s joined in with our street’s fun – Oliver & Finn as ghosts with alien heads (Ollie didn’t want to accept my proposal that he was going as a dead alien), Gemma the witch, Bat-Ian, and Grace the Ghost.

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We asked those who wanted to participate to put up a ribbon or balloon, so we added some to our gate

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The neighbours were amazing, with lots of the other children joining us, and some going to the effort of dressing up and doing up their houses.

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Some of the neighbourhood ghouls

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Time to partake in the gathered goods

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Things learned making costumes:

  1. The ability to see seems to be quite important – both Grace and Eli had issues with the restrictions in vision
  2. Think about how it is going to stay on his head – that well crafted pumpkin shape isn’t really well moulded to the shape of a head.

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The kids and neighbourhood all had lots of fun, and I can see this becoming a bigger thing in our street as time goes on.

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