Today I have Beverly from The Wormhole on my blog for a guest post on her love of Halloween. She is also holding an EPIC Halloween giveaway on her blog and there is a link at the bottom. Thanks so much for doing this post Beverly! Hope you guys enjoy!
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I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!!
Halloween is my favorite holiday! I know that most people would choose Christmas or maybe even Thanksgiving, but for me....it's all about Halloween!
I don't know when it started, but it's been that way as long as I can remember! I have about 10 rubbermaid totes that are filled with decorations! I usually started getting ready the first week in October so I can get the whole house decorated in a week or so. I decorate EVERY room in my house for the event! I usually theme each room: ghosts and witches in the kitchen, pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns in the bathrooms, skeletons, mummies, and vampires in the living room. From there the themes spread out to general creepiness and Halloween ideas. I have rolls of scene-setters that I put up on the walls to make the rooms look like castles and dungeons and such. I cover all the windows in the front of my house with enormous black spider webs and giant spiders. I live in the country now and so I don't get trick-or-treaters anymore, but I still have bins of candy laid out all over (although I have realized that the window ledges are now place for chocolate! Way too soft by the afternoons). I have Halloween dishes, serving dishes, and both stemware and glassware! I even put out some glow-in-the-dark plastic flatware shaped like skeletons and ghosts!
I have a collection of Halloween clothes and dress in them for the week before Halloween and then I dress up as a witch every year (on the Friday before Halloween at school if the holiday falls on a weekend) and go out on the town!
My favorite Halloween read is:
Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman and S. D. Schindler
It has been a favorite of mine for years so of course my kids love it too! When I was going to school in Winona, one of my assignments in my Children's Lit. class was to choose a story and do a read-aloud to a kindergarten class. Since it was October, I chose Big Pumpkin! I made a storyboard story out of it - I used a tri-fold presentation board for the setting and then made all the characters from the book out of craft foam. My kids and I made a tape of us reading the story so I could play it while I "acted" out the story on the board. It was amazing! We all chose different characters and did the voices! I dressed up as the witch to tell the story and was great! The little students loved it! If you have never read this story, go check it out!
Stop by my blog – The Wormhole – http://wormyhole.blogspot.com and enter my Halloween Giveaway!
Happy Halloween!
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