All growing up my mom always had a special Halloween dinner for us either on Halloween night or a few days before. This is a fun tradition that she has continued, that our kids now get to enjoy. Last Monday night we headed over there. My mom made all sorts of yummy food and planned some fun little activities for the kiddos. When they first got there they each found a mask waiting for them, along with a treat sack. They got to decorate the treat sacks while they were waiting for us to finish up making dinner. They had so much fun and loved the masks!
I didn't get pictures of all of the food, but here are some of them. This is "Slime" (vegetable dip)
Witches brew
Skeleton Bones (bread sticks)
Here is Michael cutting up the "jiggly brains" (jello) Michael made all of the fun little signs telling what everything was.
These were the delicious ribs of Frankenstein! =)
Even though I knew that these "maggots" were really just rice, I could not bring myself to eat them, haha.
Those were all of the pictures that I got of the food, but we also had "bat wings" (chicken wings), "witches warts" (corn), and I can't remember if there was anything else! It was all so yummy!
Witches brew
Skeleton Bones (bread sticks)
Here is Michael cutting up the "jiggly brains" (jello) Michael made all of the fun little signs telling what everything was.
These were the delicious ribs of Frankenstein! =)
Even though I knew that these "maggots" were really just rice, I could not bring myself to eat them, haha.
Those were all of the pictures that I got of the food, but we also had "bat wings" (chicken wings), "witches warts" (corn), and I can't remember if there was anything else! It was all so yummy!
After dinner we sang a few Halloween songs, including "I'm a Mean Old Witch With a Hat" which is a childhood favorite of mine. I remember driving down the road singing that song as a kid and when it got to the end where we were supposed to yell "BOO!" My dad would always yell it so loud and scare us all =) My mom always had the best witch cackle impression. I couldn't get her to do it for us this year, but I did catch a picture of her posing as a witch while we were singing the song =)
After the songs the kids got to go trick or treating! Not your normal trick or treating though. They just went trick or treating around the room to different people that had a bowl of candy. They thought this was just great!
We were lucky to have my Grandma and Grandpa Park in town visiting, so they got to join in on all the festivities too!
We had such a fun time! It was fun to do it on a night that wasn't Halloween, because it made it more special for the kids. Thanks mom for planning such a great night!
After the songs the kids got to go trick or treating! Not your normal trick or treating though. They just went trick or treating around the room to different people that had a bowl of candy. They thought this was just great!
We were lucky to have my Grandma and Grandpa Park in town visiting, so they got to join in on all the festivities too!
We had such a fun time! It was fun to do it on a night that wasn't Halloween, because it made it more special for the kids. Thanks mom for planning such a great night!
4 comments:
I should be in bed but first I just had to say thank you for making this great post! We had so much fun having all of you over--I'm glad everyone had such a good time!
What a great idea to make the masks and bags. And I LOVE all that yummy food and cute names for it.
What a fun family tradition. I love all the names for the food.
I love fun family traditions. I wish we still did so many things from when I was young. I'd better just get on the ball and start things back up. :) Hooray for family!
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