Halloween Alley Party, Sunday Oct 30th!
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Hi Everyone!
So hope you all still remember that we are planning our first annual Alley?Halloween?party for next Sunday, October 30th. ?My thought was to?start?at 4pm?since?it gets dark earlier now. I figure it will go to about 6:30. I was fearful this?would?conflict?with
Hilloween but luckily that will be happening on Monday.
So, here are my thoughts please others feel free to pitch in ideas too.?Also, anyone able to show up a bit early to decorate and set up?would?be much appreciated as well.
1) This will be a potluck?like?our first alley party.?Bring?a dish and drinks for yourself and your kids. We will put out coolers. If you have a table you can bring out to put food on?please?do. We can put the food tables together pushed off to one side
so folks can walk?around?and the kids can play. Also?Maureen?offered to have?marshmallow?roasting over their?chimera. That would be fun. 2) I?have?some?Halloween?decorations?I will put up and if others have decorations to spare?please?come?a bit?early?and we can put them up to make it all more festive. 3) Kid activites: Definitely lets have the kids dress up in their costumes and we can plan to?have?a small parade?around?the block near the end, say ~6pm. Also I was?thinking?it would be fun to have several game stations. A?friend?of ours did
this at a b-day?party?and it worked quite well. Say 4 games stations (dunking apples in a shallow pan, spider dart game (I have), throw 3 balls through a hoop, other ideas? ?The kids then mark off a card when they have completed?a game successfully and when they have?finished?all stations they get a?prize. ?I have a big bag of ?kid prizes that I can use ?for that. So, not too time intensive, simple and?something?fun for them to do. ?But I am totally open to other ideas. 4) Someone had suggested ?pumpkin?carving, which sounds great,?but I had this vision of lots of sharp knifes around small children and don't think that will actually work so well. But if there are any other ideas around pumpkins send them?around.
We can use our garage as a storage/organizing?space. I will set up a database on our group website for folks to put in what dish and drinks they plan to bring and?anything?else. ?This can help us keep track so there isn't too much duplication.
This will be lots of fun! Let's all?collectively?cross our fingers that?we get decent weather. Hope lots of?folks?can make it and feel free to invite your neighbors too.
cheers, ?Antonia
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