School Halloween Party

Well it's that time of the year for Halloween. At my last school, Halloween came and went without as much as a recognition that it was here, but at this school we had a Halloween party. What a day! We started preparing the students a week in advance. They went through a number of activities and vocabulary builders so that they would be ready to have fun on the scheduled Halloween day, the Friday before Halloween. Why this day, you might ask? Well, my co-worker was getting married on the Sunday and she is going on her honeymoon for the next week, making us short one teacher for the next week. It would be really hard to do a big event with one less teacher, so that's why we had it on the Friday before.
The day finally came and all was set. We decorated the school and I carved a pumpkin.
This is the pumpkin that I carved. Notice that the pumpkin isn't bright orange? Korean pumpkins are light orange and this one is actually a little unripe, it's still a little green.
All the teachers dressed up in costumes also. For the elementary students we were to have a face painting followed by a little costume contest followed by a little carnival and then a trick or treat candy giving time.
This is us teachers all dressed up. I got to finally wear my kimono that I bought in Japan.
There were three rooms that the students could choose to go to: a Fun House, a Witch's House, and a Fortune House.
The Fun House was my room. There were three games that the students could choose from: a bobbing for apples, toss the ball in the pumpkin, or knock the cans down. Each game was rewarded with a certain amount of candies.
This is the Fun House with one of the students trying to knock down the cans.
The Witch's House was a true and false game where the students were asked English questions and they had to answer right. If they got it wrong they had to drink a mixture of juices. If they got it right and continued to get answers right they got bigger prizes.
This is the Witch's House.
The Fortune House was a dart game where students threw magnet darts and got points. Depending on the points they would get a certian prize and a fortune to go with it.
This is the Fortune House with the students trying to get more points.
I would say that overall, the elementary school part went really well. A bunch of the kids dressed up and had their faces painted and they all enjoyed all the candy that they were given. I think it was a fun day for them and something that they will be able to remember.
On the left is a picture of a group of boys who dressed up.

On the right is a picture of three girls who dressed up.
For the middle and high school students we had a quiz. The students where separated by class and had to answer questions or guess the correct word. If a person got an answer wrong they had to drink the juice mixture. If they got it right they were given a candy and the team got a point. The team with the most points at the end got a big prize. We also gave them a trick or treat candy giving at the end.
The day went very well, but I was so tired at the end. It's a good thing we don't do big events very often, I think it would take too much out of all of us.