Halloween 2012

We enjoy Halloween in our house. It's fun to think about dressing up and buying new costumes. We like candy and getting out our decorations for the house. It's the first holiday of the season and it's a lot of fun to get pumpkinds and think about all things that fit with the fall season.
I thought Lane would want to be a purple fairy. She adores princesses, fairies, and purple so this seemed like the perfect outfit for her.

Instead she wanted to be Princess Peach again this year. It fit the Mario and Luigi theme that her brothers insisted on wearing. Since it was free, I didn't argue when they asked to wear the same costumes as last year. Interestingly, the switched and wore the opposite character.

When we were done walking around the neighborhood in search of the best candy, the kids had fun handing candy out to the trick-or-treaters. We dumped all three buckets into a large bowl and Alex declared Halloween the BEST DAY EVER.

The boys schools has a character parade and party in lieu of a "Halloween" parade. This gave the boys a chance to dress in another costume. Alex's teacher chose Dr. Seuss characters so Alex was Cat in the Hat.

Alex also took goody bags for his classmates. The bags included a Cat in the Hat hat, colored paper straws, stickers, and pencils.

Gabriel's class learned about filling buckets. The idea is based on a book that teaches children how to be nice and helpful to other people. It was more challenging to find bucket filling items for Gabriel's classmates. I printed out a bucket filler coloring page and added crayons, a pencil, and tattoos. I also bought a bucket filler pin for Gabriel's teacher.