In an endeavour to explore all Halloween has to offer I joined a community group to do Pumpkin carving a few weeks ago. It was really quite easy but very messy. I helped collect the seeds as they get roasted for a yummy treat evidently. I stuck to a traditional pattern while the women around me created very creative and clever patterns to capture the shadow art best. What great images!
Meanwhile the neighbourhoods of America decked out their frontyards and houses with creepy creatures! Lit up sculls, cobwebs, stuffed crows, swinging witches, gravestones and loads of PUMPKINS.
With great preparation (masks, blood and crossdressing is banned) Summit (my host school) hosted a dress up day. My students embraced the opportunity and I had Raggedy Anns, Vampires, Plumbers, Cowboys, Hippies, Fairies, Clowns and much more, going about the business of learning in real style. Well Done Summit! Of course the teachers demonstrated their sense of adventure to the great delight of their students and we had Doctors, Witches and Starbuck employees delivering education as exciting as their costumes. The boss for the day was Bob and Betty bones (Principal Lisa and the Science skeleton). My nearest neighbour and I were Wicked Witch Art teachers in shades of purple and green. Luckily no student need to be turned into a frog (well not that day anyway!).
And finally my first trick or treating with the Penrose's. I was very excited and so were the kids. I watched the nieghbours unload with their four little kids chanting twick or tweating, twick or tweating. There was great anticipation in the air......Little Madeline was a bug, Mallory a fairy, Morgan a witch (in glittering orange and black) and Jake was David Beckham. The Bootie - pounds of candy! I thought you would get one piece at each house but handfuls of it loaded down the kids bags in minutes. David and Melissa checked all of it before the kids were allowed a few pieces. Happy Halloween!
From the Wicked Witch in the Mid West of the U S A.
