This day was exhausting!  My mom comes every other week to spend the day with baby L and let me volunteer at kidlet’s school.  Today was thier Harvest Party, and I was running one of the tables (we set up 4 stations and they rotated around to each). 

I had them making bookmarks.  I have SO many scrapbook embellishments from when I was selling pages on eBay, so I gathered up all the halloween and leafy apple-y pumpkin-y ones and took those along with card stock and patterned papers cut to size as well as ribbons for the tops.  I have a mini laminator so I took that as well; bookmarks should last a little longer that way at least.  They turned out very cute, and every one was so different; the kids were very creative.

Aside from that hour, I also spent another 3 hours at the school, an hour of it working with the kids and the rest while they were in activities out of the classroom (PE, etc), doing some preparation (cutting out die cut pumpkins, changing out bulletin boards, making closets out of construction paper for a monster activity, etc).

Kidlet didn’t eat very much of his lunch today.  The harvest party ran until 15 minutes before lunch time.  Snack table (they made ghost or pumpkin bagel halves with cream cheese and raisins, and had apples with caramel dip) was the kidlet’s last stop in the rotating around the room, so he just wasn’t that hungry at lunch.  So much work for so little eaten!

Ham chunks, overcooked english muffin “mummy” with ham and pepperoni eyes (it wasn’t too done to eat even though it looks awfully black in the picture, just so melted that you can’t tell that there were “bandages” out of cheese on it), bologna, cheese and nori monster, grapes (more under mummy), pear, broccoli, asparagus, carrot and jicama ghosts.

Time taken: 40 minutes total.  I did make bologna monster last night, but really he didn’t take very long.  Most of that was this morning, making the mummy, (over) broiling it, steaming the veggies, etc and assembly.

Posted by Kristen in Bento, Brain Dump