Our church held a fall festival on Sunday. This was an event that a girlfriend and I hosted two years ago and it was a huge success. This year the turn out was much less and it was really geared toward kids ages 2-4. My girls were kind of bored and let down a little bit. We brought Riley, our neighbor, with us and I honestly felt bad that she was having a bad time. I think I thought it was way more lame than they did. They all said they had fun in the car on the way home, but I think they were trying to be nice.
The activities included pin the nose on the pumpkin - set up at knee level for them (lame), toddler/miniature bowling (lame),
dangling donuts (ok), rate race (lame), touch and feel decaying body parts at a station called Grossology (fun), a cakewalk (fun) and baby cone
ring toss (another lame one). Six volunteer families opted to decorate a
doorway in the hallways of the second floor and then kids trick-or-treated at each doorway.
The year my girlfriend and I hosted the festival, we had 12 families
sign up to decorate doorways. Having more was so much more fun for the
kids.
Riley,
Sophia and Lilly each won the cakewalk twice so we brought home a lot
of cupcakes. Not as many as we donated for the event, but close. We had fun making chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, gluten-free brownies and a batch of cupcakes.
Here
are the girls before we left. It starts off with a nice, smiling photo
and then they take a few goofy ones. I think one is "mad" and one is
"sad" and one is "super happy". Enjoy...
Riley, Lilly, Elizabeth, Sophia:
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