So this was my plan…
We invited our nieces to come trick or treating with us. I thought it would be super cool to have some fun Halloween crafts to keep the kids busy until trick-or-treat time. I did some research (I love my research) and found the cute, easy ideas above.
Did we do any of them? Nope.
It was a Saturday, and the weather was relatively mild, so the kids wanted to play outside. When we did go inside to feed them, the kids were far more interested in playing in the boys’ playroom than eating pasta and painting. While I would have chosen the latter, I thought it was cool that the kids didn’t need any planned activities. They were perfectly fine spending time together and coming up with their own fun. This is certainly not going to change my love of a plan-- I know if I would have had no activities on deck, they would have been complaining of boredom-- but it did teach me something. Sometimes it’s refreshing to go off the script and let events unfold organically. Sure, I could have stopped the kids from playing, and I’m sure they would have loved painting toilet paper roll Frankensteins, but I didn’t need to. It never hurts to have a game plan, but sometimes trying to hard to adhere to the agenda can hinder the magical moments that happen if you just let it be…
And, of course, trick-or-treating with cousins and neighbors was a blast!
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