PTO Gift Night

The president of our local PTO had an idea that it would be fun to host an evening at the school so the parents of the kids could have a night away to go to dinner or go Christmas shopping without their kids. We also opened it up to other kids at home. It did sound like fun at first, then it sounded like a lot of work! I'm not going to lie, it was a ton of work! It was well worth it, though. I'm not sure that there was one single kid in the whole school that didn't come! We started right after school and began with a snack and then some games. This is one of the games; the kids divided into two groups and had to wrap a member of their team with toilet paper. The only trick was that each kid only got about 6 squares of toilet paper at a time! It was a mad dash!

This is another of the games. There was a suitcase filled with oversized clothes for each team. One team member stood at one end of the room and one at a time, the other team members dressed him up. They took turns being the one who got dressed, so by the time the game was over, each team had dressed 4 kids. It was a lot of fun to watch these kids try to put on big pants!

By 5:30, the kids all started to get hungry again. We ordered 18 pizzas and while we waited for them, we had the kids put on pajamas and set out sleeping bags to sit on. We were planning on watching a movie a little later, so it seemed like a good time to get settled in. I guess we forgot to tell the kids that, though! They were so wound up it was crazy! Thank goodness for Mikayla; she went to pick up the pizzas so I could stay and help control the chaos!

We had lots of other games, both indoors and out, but it would take a week to show everything! This game was one of their favorites, though. Two teams again and lots of balloons and running! Ellie loved this game the most even though she nearly got trampled! She had so much fun with all the "big" kids that night! By the time all of the kids got picked up and we cleaned up the classrooms and lunchroom, we were all worn out! A big thank you to Chelsey and Mikayla for helping so much! I'm sure it wasn't the way they envisioned spending a Friday night, but they were good sports. I'm thankful I have such good kids!