Halloween Costume Party!

  
On October 26th, I threw a Halloween Costume Party at ACC.  Manami and Haruka co-led everything with me.  We bought lotsa fall decorations and wore our own costumes.  Haruka was a very cute Chucky (you know, the murdering doll).  Manami was a pink bear.  I was a pirate.

The kids all rolled in and they were all witches.  We had like 11 witches.  1 pirate (other than me).  1 cat.  1 adorable Anpanman-Stitch baby.  I guess Halloween costumes in Japan are rather limited.  I didn't think finding a costume in Japan would be difficult at all given their love for cosplay.  But I suppose to them Halloween costume automatically equals witch.  Too bad, since I was looking forward to the originality.  But they were still cute.  We had a fairly good turn out.

Anpan-Stitch Baby's grand entrance!

Our first game was Bobbing for Apples.  I thought this would be a really fun, traditional Halloween game.  Unfortunately, no one wanted to dunk their heads in the water.  Only one kid was successful in getting his apple.

Second game was 3-Legged Monster (in this case, Witch) Race.  This was a quick game and we quickly went inside afterwards.  Then we had cupcake time!  The kids decorated their cupcakes with lots and lots of icing, sprinkles, and Reese's peanut butter cups all the way from America.  Some kids piled their icing so high like a mountain.  Then they had to actually eat it, lol.  The result was a lot of sugar rushes and headaches.

 

After cupcakes, I squeezed in a short sermon about sins, forgiveness, and the cross.  Each child wrote a confession on a leaf and taped it to the cross.  Then we said a little prayer, and the leaves fell from the cross down onto the grown.

Afterwards, we had time for one last game.  TP Mummies!  Kids wrapped each other in lots of toilet paper to make mummies.  The best mummy won.  Some were rather nice, others.. well, the tried.

And at last, we had our Costume Contest.  There were 4 prizes:  Scariest Costume, Coolest Costume, Funniest Costume, and Cutest Costume.  The winners won even more candy!



When all the kids went home, we were tired and I had a headache from too much sugar.  All I had was 2 pieces of candy and apple juice!  But I hadn't had a decent meal that day.  It was such a busy day.  We rushed over to McDonald's drive-thru.  I got a cheeseburger and ate it in about 15 minutes.  Then I had an English class to teach.

When the day was over, I was happy and crashed.  The next day was Sunday and I did my typical Sunday things.  But after that, 4 day weekend!  Score!