Halloween Party 2011 (11)

This is a picture of my friends Shaelyn and Kaci, and me.  It was taken senior year of high school one evening when we hosted a children’s Halloween party.  One of the clubs we were involved in, FCCLA, had a Halloween party for kids.  As members of the group, we put on a party for any kids who wanted to come.  We invited children we knew and we had games and food for them.  Since we set everything up beforehand in our sponsor’s classroom, we did not have to show up too early.  When we arrived, we made sure everything was good to go before any of the kids showed up.  Once the kids started coming in the door, they were amazed at all the Halloween decorations we put up.  There were streamers, spiders, and ghosts hanging from the ceilings.  In the back of the room there were laminated numbers stuck to the floor for the cupcake walk.  When the music starts playing, the kids would walk around the circle of numbers and when it stopped they would stop on a number.  A number was then drawn and the kid who was on the number said won a chocolate or vanilla Halloween cupcake.  The icing on the cupcakes was dark purple and included a Halloween ring on the top of it.  Another game involved the child rolling a plastic bowling ball into the pins and trying to knock all of them down.  If they knocked some down they were rewarded with a piece of candy.  There was a basketball goal in the room next door and children received pieces of candy and small toys if they made a basket.  My favorite game to play with the children was the fishing game.  There was a curtain on one side and the child was on the other with a fishing pole.  They threw the pole over the curtain and the FCCLA member clamped a shiny necklace to the pole and the child brought the pole back over the curtain to their side.  They were excited to see they got a prize by fishing behind the curtain.  There was also plenty of food for everyone.  There were sugar cookies, chips, chocolate chip cookies, and many more desserts.  We also had fruit punch for everyone to drink.  This event was great and our teacher even let us dress up because the kids were dressing up for it too.