Americans
are usually dismayed when they discover that Halloween is not celebrated in
Switzerland. In our neighbourhood, none
of the houses are decorated and I did not have kids knocking at my door on
Halloween. Fortunately enough, the
international school that my kids go to have a high number of American expats
so my kids celebrated Halloween in school (although the 1st graders
celebrated autumn instead of Halloween).
Kai’s class
talked about Halloween all week, from reading Halloween picture books,
playing Halloween games to singing Halloween songs (Kai's favourites were “Did You Ever See a
Pumpkin” and “Five Little Pumpkins”). Crafts abound this week where the children
made a paper plate ghost, a hanging bat, a pumpkin craft with yarn and pumpkin
seeds, making jack-o-lanterns out of oranges and ghosts out of lollipops. The children made spiders and jack-o-lanterns
in German class.
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| One of the preschool classes made lift-the-flap pumpkins, which I thought was very creative! |
On Monday,
I brought in a pumpkin to Kai’s class where the children measured the
circumference and height of the pumpkin, and guessed how many seeds were in the
pumpkin. Kai guessed 100 seeds. The pumpkin had 437 seeds! Afterwards, the teacher assistant carved the
pumpkin into a happy and angry jack-o-lantern.
Today, I
went to Kai’s class to bake Halloween hotdog mummies with the children. Each child made a mommy/daddy mummy and a
baby mummy. The children had fun
wrapping their hotdogs with dough and ate them for snack after they baked in
the oven. Kai’s teachers decorated the
classroom with everything Halloween-y.
Isn’t it boo-tiful?
I organized
a trick-or-treat for the children in the afternoon. Kai was so excited that he was the first one
to run onto the soccer field when the trick-or-treat started. I dressed up as a witch, and handed out Halloween
juice boxes (which I covered with ghosts and Frankensteins – lots of work!) and
mini gummy bear packs wrapped in Halloween labels. Kai dressed up as his favourite superhero (Spiderman)
while his best buddy dressed up as Superman.
I expected to see lots of princesses but most of the girls dressed up as
witches!
In the
evening, I brought the children for trunk-or-treat in one of the school
campuses. There were about 50 cars and the kids had collected a stash of candies
in less than an hour! Whew, what a busy Halloween week!
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