Friday night was fall fun night at Kidlet’s school, and he is really getting pumped for Halloween now! 

They had two haunted “houses” – one for the little kids and then the other for 3rd grade +.  After he went through the young one, he said “That wasn’t scary at all!” and made me wait in a 30 minute line to go through the “big kids huanted house”.  The whole time the volunteers are roaming the line, telling everyone how super scary it is, and directing people with small children to the other one.   We  saw multiple (older) kids come right back out the front door within a minute of going in.  I was really worried.

We finally made it in.  They give you a flash light and a glow stick to break if you get too scared or lost and need someone to take you out.  Kidlet barrelled in, led the way.  We had to crawl at times, through darkness, in creepy fake cobwebs, strobe lit areas with hanging body parts, foam rubber walls with hands reaching through them to get to you, costumed volunteers dripping blood, minching brains, you name it.  He was fine!  Then we get to the end.  Five feet from the exit and its pitch black except our little pencil flashlight, and that is when he said “mommy, you go first!”  LOL

Ham and pineapple on ghost skewers, raspberries, pretzel chips (hiding under the skewers), cheese ghosts, broccoli, purple bell pepper bat, carrot jack o’lantern, a couple mango filled cookies (they have fruit roll up cut into features to make them look like jacks too, but that got covered up by the ghosts).

Time taken: 25 minutes.  Nothing was done ahead this morning.  Plus I discovered at the last minute that despite all my cutters, I don’t have a decent ghost shape.  So I made templates and “cut” them out by hand with a quilling tool.

Posted by Kristen in Bento