For Halloween, the kids have a "Characters Alive Parade" at their school where everyone is encouraged to dress up as a character from the book on which they are doing a book report. We decided to find a book that had an easy read kids version for Clark and a normal version for Sabrina so they could dress up as characters from the same story. We settled on Peter Pan.
Tinkerbell, of course.
Peter Pan himself (dagger not pictured).
Tiger Lily.
You'd be surprised how many people hadn't heard of Tiger Lily. After dressing up that way for Trunk or Treat and her school's event, she decided to just start telling people she was an Indian. I was worried that if she said that somebody would give her a lecture on cultural appropriation and white privilege (heaven forbid they learn that she lived in Charlottesville), but we are in Texas, so most people were disappointed not to see her in redface.
Off to trick or treat at the first house of the night! Eliza insisted on carrying her own bucket and walking all by herself for roughly an entire hour of trick or treating. I had forgotten how much two-year-olds love Halloween.
1 comment:
Great Halloween fun. We had a total of 9 children here. Speaking of being in red face, remember Iron Eyes Cody, the "Indian" whom shed a tear over all the pollution in a PBS commercial some years ago? He was born in Italy to Italian parents, moved to NY as a child, went to Ca during the early 50's to act in a bunch of Western/cowboy and Indian movies. Yup, no part Indian after all. He did marry an Indian woman. Kind of like Sen Warren exploiting an unproven heritage for minority consideration points.
Post a Comment