It's our final year of preschool and tonight was our final Trunk or Treat night! By set up it was in the mid-70's and very sunny. A little windy for the decorations, but not too bad and not rainy! Success.
I found this fabulous backdrop on Amazon for the clearance price of $5.99. We practiced earlier this week with magnets and it worked perfectly. Not so perfectly tonight with the wind. Luckily the husband brought masking tape and we made it work.
Last year we spent a lot of money on candy. And so did the other "trunks". I decided to purchase books through out the year - sales on Amazon or the kid's Scholastic Book orders and put together between 50-60 books for kids to select instead of a candy bar.
I was the Book Fairy, and invited children to our trunk to select a book! Grampa was a grampa who let them select a little can of playdough.
There were lots of terrific trunks and I thought I would share with you.
A note on this Sesame Street trunk. Mom is a former member of my 4H club and a former student in my Sunday School. They had a variety of treats including a social experiment. Kids could pick a potato. And my grandson picked a potato.
This mom is an art teacher who was painting faces. She was very popular! She used to be in my 4H club, too.
An action shot of the facepainter and the Book Fairy.
The preschool also offered a hotdog dinner in the shelter along with cookie decorating. (I baked 72 cookies on Monday). There were activities in the play yard and here are a few photos.
He was shooting spiders into the net.
My talented daughter made these great shirts for the Momster and Dadcula along with my Book Fairy Shirt. I had ordered a similar shirt last July but it seems to be lost in a warehouse out west and I finally gave up and requested a refund.
My grandson wanted to be a Lego which was easy enough to make (plastic disposable bowls attached with super glue to a piece of foam board). My granddaughter's request was Red from the newest Disney Descendants movie. After studying the costume online, I decided to order the pieces from an inexpensive website. The pleather pants and jacket were beyond me.
In addition to my Book Fairy Skirt, I was also requested by one of my middle grandsons to create a "Bottle of Mustard". Simple, but effective, he was happy with it.
Whew. Tomorrow the temperature is dropping 25 degrees and we are supposed to get high winds and rain for trick or treat. We will be handing out treats at my daughter's house while they take the kids out, but I am thinking turnout will be low with the weather.
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