On Friday we went over to, our dear friend, Donna's house for our annual Halloween party. This year another dear homeschool family, the Durnings, joined us. We had 9 kids total. The first activity on the list was Donna's tye dye t-shirts.
Then, we headed around back to play shave the balloon. They all got lucky and nobody had their balloon full of shaving cream pop on them.
Next, it was Donna's game of pass the pumpkin. It was a huge balloon filled with water and the kids had to pass it around, the child who was holding it when Donna stopped singing was out. They really liked the game and Blake ended up being the winner.
After the messy activities were over, the kids went inside to have snack. Karen brought pumpkiun shaped sugar cookies and all the fixings for the kids to decorate and eat.
While we cleaned up for the next activity the kids were sent outside to Karen's scavenger hunt. Here is a video of the kids having absolutely NO fun! :)
After they had found all the items on the list, they cam inside to decorate glass jars. We had pumpkins.
And ghosts.
Then it was time for some science. Donna showed the kids how to make Gak. They loved it!
Then it was my turn to do a little pumpkin math with the group. We had three groups that estimated the circumference of the pumpkins and then estimated the number of seeds that they thought were inside their pumpkin. They made use of tally marks to keep track of seeds in groups of tens. Then we compared the estimates to their actual findings. I thought it was a good activity that all the ages could participate in.
Lastly, the children practiced their oral skills by getting up in front of the group and sharing something they had written, read, or drawn. Blake wrote a scary story, and Parker told the group about a scary book he had read, and Kaleigh wrote this acrostic poem.
Happy times
Absolutely cool
Lurking in the woods
Lost in a corn maze
October
Witches on brooms
Eerie
Eating candy
Not scary, or is it?
They all did a GREAT job!
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