Pumpkins and Halloween

This post is a little out of order, but I have had a few requests for the Halloween pictures, so here is my Halloween post.

I thought it would be fun to do a pumpkin unit for preschool as there are tons of materials available with that theme.  We did several days of work with the pumpkin theme, then did a craft and carved our pumpkins for Halloween.

Katelyn working on her 'word families.'

Brookie gluing her little puzzles.

Making pumpkins crafts.

Carving their pumpkins.  A BIG highlight.

The cutest onlooker.

Seed scoopers.

Daddy working on the faces.

The final products!

We cooked our pumpkin seeds. (They learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin during preschool.)  The seeds on the left were supposed to be garlic flavor, but the got a little burnt.  The ranch ones in the pan turned out really tasty.

I made a pumpkin pie cake that the girls enjoyed.

Minnie & Cinderella!

Minnie, Cinderella & Super Cute Baby!

Our friends came over again for trick-or-treating!  So fun for the kids.

The kids are still eating their candy, they made a haul even though it didn't seem like that many people were handing out candy.  There must have been some generous givers.  I don't try to make a huge deal about the actual Halloween day as it is not my favorite holiday, but the girls absolutely love it and it is fun for them to dress up.  We only had 3 kids come to our door this year and Katelyn was sooooooo disappointed that she didn't get to hand out candy before she went to bed.  For some reason our neighborhood was super quiet this year (although this makes Kyle happy as he gets to eat all the candy I bought).  We might have to try somewhere else next year.