Halloween

This year, we had a Luigi (of Super Mario fame) and a Toph (from Avatar: The Last Airbender).

We had a pre-Halloween potluck with our local unschoolers group and made these amazingly revolting looking witch fingers (inspired by a dinner prepared by friend Shallon a few years ago):

They're actually just breadsticks, colored with food coloring, with almond fingernails. We served them with a bloody (marinara) dipping sauce. They were so vile looking that several kids needed to be persuaded to try them, but once the initial revulsion was overcome they disappeared quickly.

We joined up with some friends for trick or treating (you'll notice that Mario and Princess Peach complete the Nintendo theme) in Talent:

Then retreated to our place for what is (so far, and somewhat predictably) a very high energy sleepover.