Halloween with the ninos.

October 28, 2011

In my art class with the first graders my teacher told me that the year before the students from JMU brought a jack o’ lantern in to show the kids how we celebrate Halloween in the United States. So, I kind of got pressured into doing the same. At first it was kind of a hassle but in the end I was really glad that I took the time to do it. In Spain Halloween is starting to become a holiday that people celebrate but is kind of sacrilegious because there is also a holiday celebrating a certain saint on the same day.

Megan volunteered to help me carve the pumpkin and go to the school so after class on Friday we went on a mission to find a pumpkin. At first it was kind of a fail because we had a hard time finding an actual pumpkin. We ended up finding a small one at one of the stores and then we went to the china-man store to buy a candle and knife. I ended up finding a fake candle that you could turn on and off which ended up working out better anyways since I didn’t have to deal with real fire around rowdy children. AND, the kids were probably just as excited about the fake candle as they were the actual pumpkin.

Anyways, in all of the classes we visited with the pumpkin the kids were so excited. They kept asking to touch and smell it and couldn’t comprehend how we had done it. It was pretty neat how excited they got when we were there though. They had so many questions… mostly if the pumpkin was real or if they could touch it. It ended up being more fun and less stressful than I anticipated.