More Halloween Stuff

Did I mention I love this holiday?!!??  Here are a few other things we've been up to around here...

Pumpkin waffles.  I had seen a recipe on Pinterest that looked good...and it was! The only think I did different was to use "white whole wheat" instead of ap flour.  We had cooked a pie pumpkin the night before so it would be ready for us in the morning:)  Ada speculated that when we cooked it the pumpkin would go from hard to soft and she was so excited to use the pumpkin she had cooked- she did all the scooping, I just cut it in half.  We decided to decorate their table for breakfast, which was a big hit!

Our witch.  Lately Emma has been taking long naps compared with Ada so we get a little one on one time :) Ada wanted to make a witch and we thought it might be fun to make one her size so we started out by tracing her body then just went from there looking through the art cabinet as we went to decide on materials.  She wanted her to have a broom so she trace her broom and added pipe cleaners (her idea) as the bristles.  She also wanted to make a cat so I pulled up an image on google and enlarged it.  Traced it from my screen onto a piece of white paper.  She cut it out and traced that onto a black piece of paper with chalk.  Then she cut that out.  The whole thing is taped to the front door.  Love it!

She loved cleaning up the paint from the floor and using the spray all by herself.

We saw a gourd painted at the farmer's market and Ada loved it so she got to use Sharpies all by herself and make one too.  I made an outline and she colored it in.

Pumpkin carving.  We used the same pumpkin from our hammering activity.  It was a bit moldy inside but it will do for our Jack-O-Lantern.

Water beads with some Halloween-y stuff to find inside.  These are SOOOOOOO fun!  If you need your kids to be entertained for a while and don't mind them bouncing around the house a bit- get some.  They are awesome!

The girls had so much fun with this!  And I love the "I just woke up" look that Emma is rocking in this picture. 

To make the water beads holiday appropriate I used leftovers from our treat bags.  I opted not to give out candy this year.  Mostly because I end up eating way too much of it if it's in the house and I'm also thinking some kids might not want candy... yeah right?!?! Well in any case, we'll see how it goes- either kids like it or our house is covered in tp when we wake up Thursday.

The bag has a couple pieces of black and orange paper, and Halloween themed: pencil, erasers, stickers, a temporary tattoo, and a ring.

The beginnings of my costume...can you tell what I'll be?

Finding puzzle pieces in Halloween colored rice.

Monster Hands.  This was another Pinterest find.  In the original post she uses scrapbook paper, but I didn't have anything like that so we found "icky" looking leaves and glued them down before tracing our hands and cutting them out.  Then we glued lentils and beans to the hand to make it look like a monster hand and used a Styrofoam mushroom container for fingernails.  We tried making some stamps with the leftover Styrofoam too which was pretty cool. 

Some finished work on display.  I love the spider webs!