We had some pretty spooky Halloween music playing as the kids walked in. I think it really set the tone. Some looked a bit nervous. I like them to take some type of bread home, and again we needed our oven for cookies, so I had a little mini-loaf of banana bread for them to take home. It was frozen and wrapped in tin-foil ready to go.
We began by making pumpkin cookies. I have a low-fat version that uses no butter or oil, just lots of extra pumpkin and applesauce. They got to make the cookies and place them on the sheets, which I think is such good practice for them.Then we made a creepy swamp drink from Family Fun.
The tapioca didn't work that well for us. I had the thought to quickly mix up some acini de pepe, and that looked much better. I thought the drinks looked pretty awesome. Most kids were willing to try it and were surpised that it tasted just fine.
With the chocolate already melted, we made witches wands: the large stick pretzels 1/2 covered in melted chocolate then sprinkled with the sprinkle of their choice.
We then made some creepy cheese fingers, also from Family Fun:
Then we told a few not-too-scary ghost stories.
We made potato ghosts. Most wouldn't eat these, but I sure did.
I had pre-made a chocolate cupcake and they got to frost this as either a mummy or a spider-web. The spider-web worked much better than the mummy. The frosting gun was just too difficult for them to handle. Much easier to frost them with white frosting then take black frosting and squeeze out a few bulls-eye' circles on their cupcake. You then drag a toothpick through the circles to make it look like a web.I think they had a great day today. I really have some fantastic kids.
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