Golden Hill Students Celebrate Halloween with Parade, Races and Games

Golden Hill Elementary School students and staff got into the Halloween spirit last week with costumes, races and games to celebrate the holiday. 

 

The school hosted its annual Costume Parade and Monster Mash on Oct. 30, featuring students from all grade levels dressed in their Halloween costumes, followed by relay races and activity tables. 

 

Students walked around the perimeter of the gym, showing off their costumes to parents and staff gathered in the stands. This year’s popular costumes included Michael Jackson, dinosaurs, cheerleaders, princesses, minions and superheroes. 

 

One teacher dressed as her fellow teacher, Tim Healy, earning a laugh from the man himself. 

 

Students said they enjoyed dressing up for the parade.

 

Leah Dinsmore, a fourth grader at Golden Hill, said her costume reflected her after-school activities.

 

“I’ve been a cheerleader before, at school, for a few years,” she said. “So, being a cheerleader made sense.” 

 

Fifth grader Joseph Kikkert dressed as a Ghostbuster, complete with a tan jumpsuit and proton blaster. 

 

"It's my third year wearing this now,” he said. “It's just my favorite costume!”

 

During the Monster Mash, students rotated between the relay races and activity tables. 

 

The activity tables offered hands-on learning at a series of stations, including tic-tac-toe with pumpkins, bowls of plastic insects and a table with supplies for making bead bracelets. 

 

In relay races, the students raced while balancing pumpkins on their heads and walked while balancing a ping-pong ball on a spoon. Teachers also faced off against parents in a broom sweep contest. Participants had to brush a ghost-faced balloon from one side of the gym to the other and back. Students enthusiastically chanted for Team Parents during the race. 

 

Parents from the Golden Hill PTA helped set up both events and provided music for the day’s festivities. 

 

Rebecca Rashford, President of the Golden Hill PTA, called the Monster Mash “organized chaos” and said it was “a good time.”