Halloween Parade 2008
Last Saturday was our town’s annual Halloween Parade down Main St. Yes, I live in a town with a Main Street and seasonal parades and other fun events here. This town also has made Money magazine’s list for the 100 best places in America to live (we are in the top 50) several times, too.
Since we had just gotten back from vacation a few days earlier in the week, I had no costume for the boy and didn’t even have any time to get one before we left. My husband did make a set of foam swords this summer for them to have sword fights since Leif was obsessed with doing that with anything he could find. So, I decided to work around that. At first he was going to be a knight in shining armor but then we didn’t have time to sew a helmet and wound up making him a gold crown instead so he declared himself a king – “a good king” to be precise.
I went to the local fabric store and got him some shiny gold fabric to make a cape and I’m sure he will get a lot of use out of that since what boy doesn’t love a cape to play with? We made him a crown out of an old paperboard sign and painted it and made a shield out of cardboard. My husband painted him a coat of arms on the shield that had a nature theme – a leaf and vine, what else for King Leif?
It turned out to be a very inexpensive, fast, homemade costume out of mostly stuff we had on hand including the paints. And he loves it!
Good King Leif
The King and his good friend, the Knight
The King and his good friend, the Obama-supporting Cow.
The King got tired and decided to hitch a ride upon his noble steed, aka Daddy.
Another favorite thing he has been really into this past week was a temporary tattoo we got at our local democrat office of Obama on a postage stamp. He wanted it on his belly and loved showing it off. I took many shots of his cute belly:
On Halloween, we plan on going to our rec center’s huge annual Halloween carnival that has lots of fun carnival games for little kids, several bouncy houses and a spooky boat ride across the large pool. The pool area is dimly lit and there are still more places in there to play games and win prizes. In another room, they bring in small animals for a petting zoo. We’ve gone the past 2 years and he just loves it. Yet another great thing this town does for the children that live here and all of the events are free.
After that, he likes to go trick or treating with his Dad and loves the idea of getting things from people even though he really does not like candy (I know, strange) but that is probably because we don’t eat candy or any products with high fructose corn syrup in them so he just doesn’t like the taste. I buy him these organic, naturally sweetened lollipops which he loves so I give him those instead of the candy he collects. I am trying to get him a Unicef box so he can collect money for Unicef instead of candy he (or we) won’t eat.
I hope you all have a very happy and safe Halloween with your kiddies!
October 27 2008 08:08 pm | Leif and green living and parenting and photos and political and society and special events
October 28th, 2008 at 12:19 am
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October 28th, 2008 at 1:21 am
[...] naturedeva wrote an interesting post today onHalloween Parade 2008Here’s a quick excerptLast Saturday was our town’s annual Halloween Parade down Main St. Yes, I live in a town with a Main Street and seasonal parades and other fun events here. This town also has made Money magazine’s list for the 100 best places in America … [...]
October 28th, 2008 at 1:45 am
[...] naturedeva wrote an interesting post today onHalloween Parade 2008Here’s a quick excerptI went to the local fabric store and got him some shiny gold fabric to make a cape and I’m sure he will get a lot of use out of that since what boy doesn’t love a cape to play with? We made him a crown out of an old paperboard sign and … [...]
October 30th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
hey! i recognize that obama-supporting cow.
cute pics.
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October 30th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHalloween Parade 2008 | Nature DevaHere’s a quick excerptLast Saturday was our town’s annual Halloween Parade down Main St. Yes, I live in a town with a Main Street and seasonal parades and other fun events here. [...]