If this whole pastoring thing doesn’t pan out, I might have stumbled on to my next venture in life: Halloween decoration maker.
Yep. I don’t know what your take on the whole “Devil’s holiday” is, but at the Sublett ranch, we do halloween. Our kids dress up in the costume of their choice and hit the neighborhood up for some free candy. We recounted our favorite costumes over supper tonight.
Levi–Mario. The ‘stache was the topper.
Lilly–the year she went as a cupcake. That one cost Kim a round laundry basket–it was the cupcake paper.
Sadie–SuperMonkey. Hands down, her best idea ever.
Sadie is taking in decorations for her class party tomorrow, and Kim needed some extra hands and creativity tonight. So after supper, I unleashed my creative fury on some spider webs. Sadie made spiders out of tootsie pops. Black pipe cleaners for legs, googly eyes glued on. I used black yarn and a couple of wicker hoops that I stole borrowed from Kim’s craft bin. 8 cross threads, 9 concentric circles of yarn, 9 pieces dangling to tie spiders to…
Kim was out shopping for Lilly’s costume while I was busy creating. Sadie couldn’t believe what I was spinning. She could hardly wait for Kim to get home to show off my work. Kim was pretty surprised, as well. I think they underestimated my creative goodness.
So how ’bout you? What’s the most creative costume/decoration that you’ve pulled together for your kids, or to scare the neighborhood kids?
1 Comment
Sean Michael Murphy · October 27, 2009 at 9:48 pm
I went once as a guitar playing, minor league baseball chaplain. Annie thought sticking my hand in the snow blower was a bit extreme, but you gotta suffer for your art. I ended up getting third in the costume contest though…and it was worth it.