Costumes

Time to hurry up and find a cool costume for Halloween. Be scary, be silly, be crazy! In my lifetime I'v been a clown, a lion, an Incredible, a doctor, an ocean (best costume in my kindergarten class!), an eighties person, Hermione Granger (Harry Potter), a hippie, a black cat, a duck. This year I'm being a Native American (kinda like Disney's Pocahontas). Abby is being a hippie, Sam is being a Husky Fan, Jordan is being a witch, Delaney is being a genie, Cam is an army man, Keegs doesn't know. 

Pumpkins

The classic Halloween time activity is go to the pumpkin patch with your family, get pumpkins, and then carve them right? Well, last October we did something a little different we went to the pumpkin patch and got our "perfect" pumpkins, but instead of getting out the old carving knife we got out the paint brushes and the (washable) Crayola paint and painted our pumpkins. How crazy are we right? So I guess the point of this is to give you something different to try. This year we're going back to carving but who knows maybe we'll try painting again next year.
Ideas for pumpkin faces: cyclops, buck teeth, one tooth, princess (with crown), smile face, scowl (frown), or the classical triangular eyes and nose with a mouth with a bunch of teeth missing.
Enjoy!

Halloween Decorationg

Use your classic Halloween decorations and make them even more spooky. Here's a fun craft that you can do with your kids and uses your decorations.

What we did:

1. Set up an R.I.P tombstone, a potion pot, and a skull on a table. (don't uses a table that you would typically eat on.
2. Cut green and white construction paper into long strips.
3. Folded them back and forth to make them wavy. (fold a small section of the strip over one way and then the other way. Continue until there isn't anymore space to fold.)
4. Put the green paper (potion) into the potion pot (fill it up)
5. Spread the white (fog) around the whole "scene" on the table
6. Now you have a graveyard

Ideas of decorations you could use skull, potion pot, skeleton, tombstone, witch, mummy, zombie, pumpkin, etc.     

Fall

Fall is upon us. I'm afraid the warm summer air is gone and the cool crisp air has returned. Time to get out your jackets and sweatshirts. As much as we all miss summer we have to think positive about fall. You can jump into large leaf piles, rake leaves, watch football, and do plenty of crafts. If you are in need of a craft I've got some up my sleeve. Some of you may no this one but let me remind you anyway.

Leaf Tracings

• Take you're kids out and gather some leaves (make sure they're dry
• Bring them back 
• Get out some printer paper and some pencils
• Grab a leaf
• Make sure it's pretty flat
• Hold it on the paper with one hand
• with the other trace it with a pencil
• continue this until the page is full but make the leaves over lap 
• Once you're done shave the wrapping off of a red, orange, and yellow Crayola crayon
• Then shade the paper with the crayons (use all the colors throughout the page)
• Once your entire page is colored, lightly go over the colors with yellow, orange, and red Crayola Washable paint.
• Let it dry and then back it with fall colored construction paper and hang it on the wall.

If you've got questions or comments post a comment about it on this post then keep checking for an answer. I'll try and answer A.S.A.P.

Enjoy!