We just flew back today to Nice after having been in Angers for 10 days.
Estelle got to celebrate Halloween Thursday night at the English Library in Angers.
Photo below: Estelle and Papy working on Estelle's hobby horse that was part of her costume.
This was one cool horse, which was discussed at breakfast and was a finished reality before lunchtime. It was made with the end of a hockey stick, some pieces of Thomas' playroom, and part of a strap of a boot. Good old homemade Halloween costumes!
Meanwhile, Léna, a.k.a. the Busy Bee. And below, Estelle a.k.a. Annie Get Your Gun.
That other little girl was just one of the MANY princesses at the Library's Halloween event Thursday night. Of about maybe 5o kids, there was only one Cowgirl and one bumblebee!
Estelle's cowgirl outfit came piecemeal from Aunt Martha over the past 2 years. We are thrilled! The only thing I bought was the hat for 5 bucks.
The Library's event was many different stations, all manned by real anglophone university exchange students, and each station had a different activity/task, at the end of which kids got candy and stickers on a map that they had to complete. It was great fun, for me too!
This was some kind of Harry Potter thing:
This nice Welsh lady pulled creepy things out of her bag and told the kids their names in English once. Then the kids had to locate each thing once she called out the name. Estelle thought this was easy-peasy - she said "why does she want me to tell her where the nose is? Doesn't she know it is called a nose?"
This was some kind of maze with music. The boys running this gave us lots of candy!
Pumpkin carving! Yeah!
There were some fun costumes....
Some great activities and some of them were arts & crafts, like turning oranges into mini-pumpkins with candles in them, a new one on me. The whole event itself took just over an hour. Great Halloween fun.We had lots of fun during the week, thanks to Papy & Manou - more photos on another post!
6 comments:
Great seeing pictures of Estelle and Lena's Halloween fun.
I was very impressed with the hobby horse on the end of a hockey stick. Very clever!
Welcome home!
Looks like Estelle and Lena had a great Halloween. When we were carving our pumpkins, I thought of you guys and wondered if you would have that experience.
Happy Halloween!
Love the freckles on Estelle! She was the cutest cowgirl I have ever seen! Did the hobby horse stay in Anges? Lena looks as busy as a bumblebee! So glad you all got home safe and sound!
It was so nice to see these pics!!!! So darn cute! Julie, I am glad you got to have a Halloween experience, too!!
SAM
Awesome bee and Annie Oakley! xo auntie Laura
okay...I guess I didn't even know they celebrated Halloween in France!
The kids look ADORABLE - couldn't help but think that Estelle looks a lot like our Martha as a little girl. I could just "eat up" little Lena in that bumble bee suit!
Love, Aunt Mary
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