A happy fall day and Halloween celebration at Wrens' Nest! We had a fun and festive morning decorating our room and donning our costumes.
A pumpkin (Lincoln) making a beehive, Wyatt and Rupert busy building a loading dock with our colorful blocks.
We made pumpkins with Jack-o-lantern faces the week before to decorate our room with, they looked beautiful with the sun shining through. We loved singing our pumpkin song at circle.
"Cut into a pumpkin, scoop it with a spoon.
Then you carve a little mouth, shaped just like a moon.
Cut two eyes to twinkle, and a three cornered nose.
Use for teeth ten tiny seeds, and set them in a row.
Then you light a candle, and place it right inside.
And put it in your window, for Halloween night!"
Now, time for the Pumpkin Olympics!!
I got the last four pumpkins from my neighbors patch and they just happened to be the biggest pumpkins ever! Thank goodness we had so many helpers to heave and ho them to the hill...
The finish line of the obstacle course....and their off!
Follow the winding path
Touch every pumpkin
Under the bench
Hop over each log
and cross the finish line!
Doing it backwards for an extra tricky challenge!
And now for the pumpkin race! But first we needed to roll these heavy and slippery racers up the hill. We broke off into four teams and worked together to get them to the top, which wasn't easy.
Pre-race team interviews...
Ready, set, go!
And so concludes the great Wren's Nest Pumpkin Olympics of 2016
After a very exciting morning we were all ready for a cozy afternoon. We played in the quiet comfort of breezy mountain, playing snails on the garden fence and working on the fort.
A good lunch and the story of that Naughty Hobgoblin were the perfect way to spend our afternoon.
Before we said goodbye, we worked hard to make a leaf pile using just our bodies, no rakes. We had windshield wipers and delivery trucks using our arms and feet and finally made a huge (and also a little soggy) leaf pile. So very good for jumping...
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