Hallowe'en party

Our home ed group is once a fortnight rather than weekly, so our Halloween party was rather early this year. It was great fun though. Kids are old enough now to have independently made costumes and just as independently baked and decorated our party contribution, which left me with only responsibility to arrange transportation, a craft to share and then carry the baby around. Score. 🙂

So, they doubled up on the recipe for the Chocolate Crunch cake from the WI pamphlet, which we’ve discovered makes pretty good brownies 🙂 (Not a crunch in sight. Not quite sure what you’re supposed to do to make it crunchy.) *And* they did that themselves, the maths bit! iirc it also involved Big making a quick trip to the co-op for something or other we’d run out of, but I could be mistaken.

So this was the cake:

And these were the costumes:

And this is my craft:

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Really simple – just draw around your hand with thumb held in, then do it again. Cut out the shapes, overlap them and stick together, then decorate with eyes and stuff, and you have spooky Halloween handprint spiders.

It was a fun afternoon 🙂