momstown Halloween Party: Crafts, Games, Books and More

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of activity for momstown Calgary. We have been to the Calgary Zoo, made a special trip to Boo at the Zoo, checked out Telus Spark (the new Telus Science Centre), had in home playdates, started to make Christmas crafts, and so much more. In the centre of all this activity was Halloween, and there was no way that we could let that event pass without a party. Our wonderful members Kate and Bryn opened their house to all of us on the morning of Halloween, and we filled it with costumes, food, games, stories, music, crafts and more.

The festivities started off with snacks and a costume parade. I was amazed by the talent of our members in creating both.

Once we had filled our tummies and admired each others costumes, it was time to head off and play at the activity stations set up all around the main floor of the house.

We created paper plate jack-o'-lanterns by gluing black foam shapes to orange paper plates. This was an easy, fun craft that was great for a variety of age ranges. Even the tiniest tots could participate in sticking the shapes, and peeling the paper off the back of the black stickers was a great fine motor skills workout for the preschoolers.

Continuing on with the jack-o'-lantern theme, we also cut pumpkin shapes out of orange felt, and a variety of eyes, noses, mouths out of black felt. Kids could arrange the black on the orange pumpkins to create an endless number of pumpkin faces:

At another station, which we referred to as "There are Ghosts in the Hallway", we had fun bowling with paper cup ghosts and pumpkins. The ghosts were created by using stickers and markers to add faces to white paper cups. Our little ones could then enjoy stacking the ghosts into towers, and knocking those towers over with "pumpkins" (orange rubber balls).

There were also pumpkins (orange balloons) to keep in the air, and bats cut out of cardstock and attached to fishing line that kids could fly. There was lots of time for free play too. From dancing to the Halloween beats, to our pizza picnic on an orange tarp, to quiet moments with favourite Halloween books, it was a frightfully fun morning!