Halloween can sometimes be scary for small children. All the scary\u00a0and confusing things on the store shelves\u00a0that held\u00a0just weeks before school supplies. No more Frozen notebooks or Batman\u00a0backpacks but now they are filled with ghosts, vampires, witches, and other scary things. The things of their nightmares displayed so easily within reach. I would be terrified too. Lou has been feeling the spookies a good bit lately and I wanted to make her something a little less spook and more cute. I wanted to show her Halloween can be fun not just scary. I also eased into a conversation about how it’s all just costumes being worn by kids just like her. She is still a little timid but is at least contemplating going Trick-or-treating with her older siblings which a few days ago was a definite NO. This year is the first year she has been scared of the Halloween sights and I’m not wanting to push her into a new childhood trauma so I probably only take her out before dark and then back to Camp Granny before\u00a0the sun goes down.<\/p>\n
We have actually been working on this “Halloween can be fun” idea for a few weeks…ever since a skeleton at Walmart put her into a near catatonic state and the witch decor at the Dollar Tree started the wail of screams that I’m sure were heard in the next dimension. Instead of becoming hermits till the first of November, I began giving her small art projects with Halloween themed stickers or pictures. I strung a piece of yarn across the bottom of the white board we have up and gave her clothes pins to hang her new art up. So far the Halloween is fun theme is working and we have been able to walk into Walmart and the melt down of terror has downgraded to a side eye silent whimper.<\/p>\n
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