Green tree python
Posted on 10/01/2004 5:51:07 AM PDT by grellis
First, I'd like to thank Jim Robinson for the subtitle of this week's thread. Took some guesswork off of the Table!
With Halloween just around the corner I thought we could discuss, well, all things Halloween. (In case you were wondering I have not, in fact, finished my first pot of daily coffee.) Do your kids get dressed up and go trick or treating? Do YOU get dressed up and go trick or treating? How is the day handled at your child's school? Do they have a Halloween party or is the mere mention of a holiday with Christian roots absolutely forbidden? Do you decorate your home for the occasion?
Can anyone give me a few tips on how to dress my 7 year old as Legolas??? Why is it that some kids refuse to be something normal, like Dracula or a Viking?
Thing 1 and Thing 2! How darling!
ROFL! What a word picture.
I bet you looked great as Cruella Deville. A lot better than Glenn Close, for sure!
We always made completely outlandish costumes growing up--with 6 kids in the gas-crunch '70s we couldn't have any store bought costumes. Making them was so much fun, though! One year I was an octopus--four pairs of panty hose stuffed with newspaper and then spray-painted grey, that looked really cool. One year a sister of mine was a butterfly with enormous wings, which ended up being so heavy she had to trick or treating without the wings (basically, she was dressed as larva!). Our neighborhood had a costume contest at the elementary school before trick or treating, prizes for costumes, cider and donuts...it was a real, old-fashioned Rockwellian place to grow up, actually. H'ween was always a half day at school with a big costume parade (through the neighborhood!) before school was dismissed for the day. Now that I think about it, my elementary school went all out on every holiday--huge in-school banquets on the day before Thanksgiving with the kids all dressed as Indians or pilgrims, very elaborate Christmas pageants complete with actual Christmas carols and a Santa Claus...
Kids these days are missing out on so much, its just pathetic and sad.
My best costume as drama student in college was a magician's assistant. Black tights, black leotard, cut-away coat with tails, high heels and a top hat. My then boyfriend was the magician. I sewed him a black cape with a red lining both made of cheap satin. I made him up with Ivory pancake and drew wicked eyebrows on him. We won first prize at the party we went to.
What we normally do is the Hallelujah party at one of the local churches. Tons of kids, games, candy. A mini-festival with a Christian flavor.
I do miss the costumes though. My little one (she'll be four Nov 1. Her mom was so glad she could hold off. She didn't want a halloween baby) would look so cute dressed up. Sometimes we get to do that but not often and haven't ever on H-ween
Best costume I've ever seen was from up-state wisconsin. My sister sent a picture of it to me.
Picture this. The end result of the costume showed a garbage man carrying a 35Gal metal trash can. Stuffed into the trash can with his legs hanging out was a partier from the night before. Excellent image but tough to build. You of course are the partier. Your legs are the garbageman's legs. The garbageman's head, arms (holding the trashcan handles) and body have to me made. The legs out of the trash can have to be made. The effect is completed if you always have a half drunk beer in your hand.
Farmer (3 y.o.), Daniel Boone (4 y.o.), and the 8 y.o. will want to be something gross and scary, with fake blood, no specifics necessary.
LOL!!!!!!!!!
I was going more for the cartoon version than Glenn Close!!!
Green tree python
My daughter's school goes all out for all the Holidays as well. Indians and pilgrims for the Thanksgiving Feast, Elaborate Christmas parties with carols and a santa workshop, Easter egg hunts.............
so at least not all kids are being deprived ;).....and this is a PUBLIC school!!!!
Joey's school does the same. Public school, as well. I love to hear the little ones sing Christmas Carols.
My best costume evolved out of the drama club in High school -- I was a nun (you had to know me back then to understand the irony of that).........because I was so tall I had to borrow a Cassock from the Rectory, as none of the nuns at my school had an old fashioned long habit long enough for me!
No one in the neighborhood recognized me!!!!
I think the only thing I enjoyed last year more than the little ones singing Christmas Carols was the kindergarten class singing Lee Greewod's "God Bless the USA".......there was not a dry eye in the auditorium.
Well, hubby is chomping at the bit to go get some lunch so I need to get my butt away from the keyboard. Will talk to you later.
LOL!! I know you now and I appreciate the irony. ; )
Thanks :) She is 3 months. Enjoy your last 6 or so weeks! I actually weigh less now than I did right before I became pregnant (gained a lot right before concieving), but my body is completely different. My tummy is really jiggley still, and my butt got wider! The baby and I go for a walk each day, which helps, and I am still breastfeeding (which I heard helps you drop weight).
Hope your last 6 weeks are easy on you! I don't miss getting up 12 times at night to pee!
Understand, our school district here has no holiday parties just to be PC. How sad for the kids!
A Spooky Happy Birthday to your Tom! Joey has his 8th on Monday. We are still sparring about costumes. I think he'd be cute as a pirate (and I won't have to buy anything.) He doesn't think it's "cool." *sigh* I miss him being four, already.
I read your post and thought "I don't get it," did the whole head scratch...an hour or so later, I'm out for a stroll with Sam, "Oh, now I get it!" Some neighbors know me as the Crazy Lady With All the Squirrels, most of the time I'm known as The Lady Who Talks to Herself.
We don't really treat H'ween as any kind of a religious celebration. For us its just a lot of fun using our imaginations to come up with the costumes, stay out after dark (spooooooky) and see a lot of our neighbors. My boys don't even really like getting candy, they just get a kick out of everyone playing dress-up. We always attend mass on November 1st, though.
Is your German accent pretty convincing? I've got Irish Lass and Sicilian Moll down pat but I don't think I'll ever master German, to the dismay of my ancestors.
It's nice you think well enough of me to mull it over. (c8
I'd say my accent is *better.* When we first started doing it, I would slip over from German into a sort of Ming the Merciless Asian accent... which is pretty funny, if you can picture it.
But now I spend a moment or two psyching myself up, putting the r's into the back of mein sr-r-roat, undt... schtuff like zat.
And then there's the fact that I have to MAKE myself do it, EVERY YEAR. I mean, I have to battle feeling embarassed and stuff... but the family just insists on it, and it's a good "teaching opportunity," zooooooo....
Dan
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