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Five days of OOSH-oween fun

By Zoe McMaugh

Nov 1, 2022

Meelah Gitten, Zac Germano, Maddison Hunter, Intereach OOSH program manager Cath McLean, Evie Hunter and Zara Lindsay-Field.

Halloween might just be one day on the calendar, but the team at Intereach’s Outside of School Hours program are making the fun last an entire week.

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In fact, OOSH-oween started at the Tricket St family centre late last week with the installation of some quite realistic themed displays.

Every section of the centre is decorated, from the entry way and the hallways to the spaces shared by the children who attend every day after school.

Each child who entered wide-eyed on Friday afternoon was greeted by a life-size cackling witch before making their way through ‘blood-soaked’ bandages to find rooms filled with creepy spiders, flying bats, witches, skeletons and more.

The official OOSH-oween program started yesterday - which was Halloween - and educator Karen Martin said the themed activities will continue each day this week.

“There will be face painting, scavenger hunts, pin the leg on the spider and more,” she said.

“Wednesday is the big day for the students.

“Cavil Crampton makes us a really impressive cake every year, and we believe she may be making us her very realistic brain cake which was such a hit a few years back.”