My Wonder Years: Halloween 2013

This is the first time ever I have done something for Halloween!

I or we have never celebrated Halloween. Ever. I mean, what is it about anyways? All I know is that it is celebrated (usually in ang moh countries) every year in October (don't even know which date until I googled it), and the people celebrating it would get dressed in all kinds of costumes - usually in the creepy characters such as vampires, witches, skeletons, the pumpkin, etc.

So why do I have to do something this year? Well, simply because Isabelle's school had a day dedicated to it. Kids were to be dressed in a costume of their preference and parents were to bring some goodies for the kids to celebrate. Gosh, kids these days really have so much fun in school. I don't recall having much celebration when I was going to kindy. In fact, I think I wore only the school uniform to kindy every single day. These days, there would be all sorts of celebration and the children are required to dress according to the celebration - from Chinese New Year, to Valentine's Day, to Teacher's Day, to Merdeka and Malaysia Day, to Hari Raya... and the list goes on and on.

Honestly, I didn't expect parents to really dress up their kids. Boy was I wrong the moment I stepped into school. With Isabelle, I made her wear her favourite white dress and put on a hair band. Very "cin cai" I even forgot to snap her picture. Hehe. You can see some pictures below (I didn't snap much pics, these were shared by the teachers).

They've also had a lot of activities planned out for the children - story telling, colouring contest, Halloween mask making and baking the gingerbread man. Isn't gingerbread man associated with Christmas instead? Hmm.... As for the snacks which we had to prepare, I made these creepy crawlies very last minute. Prepared some of the ingredients the night before and put them together in the morning itself.