Halloween Fun

The other auxiliares and I worked this past Thursday and Friday to put on Halloween games and a haunted house for the kids at school. On Thursday morning we had Halloween games for the 3-5 year olds, and Thursday afternoon we had the Haunted House for the 5th & 6th graders. Friday morning we had Halloween games for 1st-6th graders and in the afternoon we had the haunted house for the 3rd & 4th graders. The Halloween games included: pass the pumpkin (aka hot potato w/ a pumpkin), pumpkin bowling (knocking down plastic pumpkin pins), bobbing for apples (with a fork for sanitary reasons), put together the skeleton puzzle, bean toss onto a scary cat's face, and the story Winnie the Witch. The games were fun and all the kids seemed to enjoy them! A lot of kids also dressed up on Friday which was neat to see. Although it's funny b/c Spaniards think Halloween costumes have to be scary, and they all pretty much dress as the same things: witches, grim reapers, Frankenstein, or something religious themed like a monk.

The Haunted House was a lot of fun! Because they have what we call "siesta blinds" you can put those down and no light comes into the windows. So we easily made the music room pitch black. We hung a glow in the dark skeleton and had boxes set up with brains, guts, fingers, eyeballs that you could touch if you dared. Although I'd recommend doing the boxes as something separate from the haunted house next year because a few kids thought it'd be funny to throw what was in the boxes and the majority of the kids were too scared to put their hands in the boxes anyways. All of us were stationed around the room to jump out and scare them at different times, and there was creepy music playing in the background. We had a mummy one day, but all the toilet paper kinda fell off, someone with big Frankenstein hands, someone with a camera to blind the kids with the flash (which worked awesome b/c it blinded them so they screamed and we got pictures of them in the haunted house), people grabbing at them randomly, someone with a white hockey mask chasing them with a plastic machete, glow in the dark witch fingers, etc. It was very entertaining! My favorite was one of the boys in 5th or 6th grade who kept saying to himself "Yo soy muy macho, yo soy muy macho" (basically: I'm very brave) the entire time. There was also a 3rd grader who we've decided defeated the haunted house because he went in by himself (everyone else in the group was too afraid to leave the waiting room, that happened a lot actually so only probably half or 3/4 of the students went into the haunted house) and then he never screamed or anything. He was a bit afraid to move on, so he just stayed in one spot, but then we couldn't get him to move to leave so another group could come in. But we decided that because of this act he defeated the haunted house. Overall it was very entertaining and at least allowed me to get somewhat in the Halloween spirit, even though Spaniards couldn't care less about Halloween.