For those of you who don't know, I started a Spanish Club at my school (the third club I advise!). For our first meeting, we made "papel picado" and Day of the Dead skulls out of rice krispy treats. They had so much fun, and so did I. But I have to admit, it wore me out! Good thing we only meet once a month! I picked up Travis on the way home from school and we both decided we were too exhausted to go to our ward party that evening. We had dinner and went to bed at 8:00. Yeah, we were pretty beat.
We made up for it the next night when we carved pumpkins with good friends. I love how our pumpkin turned out. I also love how Travis's face turned out. :)
Since it's "uncool" NOT to dress up for Halloween at my school, I decided to go in my cop-out costume- a train engineer. Sorry, Husband. This is about as close as I'll ever get to being an engineer. I also got "in character" a couple days before that for our Explorer's unit in my Utah History class. What do you think? The kids loved the visual aide. Even my Spanish students loved it!
(No, I didn't take the hatchet to school...)
After our hard work, we feasted on chili-dogs and homemade root-beer (the dry ice kind, which is the best!). We then came home, and while I was still in a creative mood, made sugar cookies for some friends in the ward and attended the door for trick-or-treaters.
I think it's safe to say we had one terrific Halloween!
Can you tell me how you did the caramel for your caramel apples? Mine always turns out too thick (I usually just melt wrapped caramels on a double boiler and add 2T milk, like the package says, but clearly I'm doing something wrong)
ReplyDeleteMy mom used the crock-pot filled with warm water to melt the caramel, which was in a plastic cylinder type of container, and stir it from time to time. It took a couple of hours for it to melt, but she could be working on other stuff until it was ready. Sometimes it would start to harden after so many dips, but we'd just cheat and stick it in the microwave. That worked too. :) We didn't add milk or anything. We melted the chocolate the same way too, but of course waited for the caramel to dry before we dipped it in the chocolate.
ReplyDeleteOhhhhh a couple HOURS. Okay, maybe I just haven't been patient enough - I always try to dip after about an hour. Thanks! I'll know to start it melting earlier next year!
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome! I'm totally jealous. I got a sore throat, a headache, and some major bad crabbiness the night our halloween fun was happening, so I missed out.
ReplyDeleteI thought I would make up for it Sunday by greeting Trick-or-Treaters but it turns out I have nothing to say to children and I'm not good with the, "And what are you?" in a high pitched voice thing. So I made my roommate greet them.
...I'm lame.