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The Halloween Party at ELC Los Angeles began with the pumpkin carving contest. Every classroom brought out their artistic side and created fierce, original and scary pumpkin carvings. The winning pumpkin had a haunted house theme.

The ELC students, staff and teachers all dressed in costumes for Halloween. ELC was taken over by pirates, wrestlers, super heroes, Pikachu, Snow White, bees and memorable characters such as Captain Jack Sparrow and Bam Bam! As Snow White ate her apple, the students were getting hungry and flocked to the pizza and soda room. In another room students were entertained with Halloween-themed games such as “donut on a string”, “wrapping the mummy” and “passing the skeletons bones.”

The day ended with a catwalk. Students and staff strutted down the corridor in their costumes while students applauded for their favorite. Students picked admin assistant Yang as winner of the best staff costume for his appearance as Bam Bam. Teacher Amy came in second place for her bee outfit. The students applauded loudly for the best student costume – Stefan Maibach as Captain Jack Sparrow!

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The Halloween celebrations kicked off with pumpkin carving on Thursday. Small groups transformed simple pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns, haunted castles, wicked witches, ghosts, black cats, and bats.

There were no ELC students, staff or teachers to be found on Halloween.  Dalmatians, zombies, witches, cowgirls, hippies, cheerleaders, cartoon characters, and memorable figures including Austin Powers, Darth Vader and Cleopatra overtook ELC! Cruella de Vil attempted to tame the rowdy crowd with pizza, soda, and candy. Ghoulish games included the dangling donuts of doom relay race, the candy corn crypt walk relay, monster mash musical chairs, the human organ identification challenge, the cubby mummy marshmallow contest, the mummy wrap, and the once bitten apple bobbing competition. There was also cookie decorating and face-painting in another classroom.

Students voted for Jake as the best costume winner in his bunny outfit. The staff choose the zombie and Austin Powers are their favorite student costumes. The students picked Shira as Nicki Minaj for the best staff costume.

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