Happy Hallowe'en!
Wishing you a happy and safe evening of fun!
~ joey ~
Showing posts with label for Hallowe'en. Show all posts
Showing posts with label for Hallowe'en. Show all posts
Hallowe'en fun
We try to keep Hallowe'en fairly simple...
...a few decorations,
...simple costumes,
{our shop only takes candy as payment!}
{did your floor look like this too?!}
...and finally a warm bowl of soup to finish off the evening!
{he bought the pretend glasses from the "shop"!}
I hope you and your family had a happy Hallowe'en too!
~ joey ~
decorated pumpkin
The Librarian at my son's school challenged the kids to make a pumpkin
of a favourite book character.
So without further ado,
I'd like to introduce...
...Benjamin Stilton!
"A sweet and loving 9 year old mouse; Geronimo's favorite nephew"
Do your kids love Geronimo Stilton books too?
Happy Hallowe'en decorating!
~ joey ~
~ joey ~
decorate your windows for Halloween
I saw a similar idea on Pinterest so I thought I would try making my own version in the kids' room window.
It was really quite simple as I had most of the shapes in our
Halloween decoration box from past years.
I bought our large jointed skeleton at the Dollar Store along with the orange tissue paper. The pumpkin, ghost, spider and Boo die cuts were cut out at a Scrapbooking Store. To make the black paper spiderweb I used this tutorial.
When I had all of my pieces ready, I arranged them on the window and secured them with clear tape. Then I covered the entire window with a single sheet of orange tissue paper being careful not to leave any gaps or overlap the tissue so the seams become obvious.
Turn the lights on in the room and run outside with the kids,
it looks pretty neat from the street!
My kids love it!
~ joey ~
Hallowe'en luminarias
Want to learn how to make these cool luminarias with your kids?
Head over to Playful Learning and I'll show you how!
~ joey ~
Hallowe'en with Ed Emberley
The Hallowe'en season just wouldn't be complete without this book:
Every year I sign this book out from our Library and every year the kid's drawings just keep getting better and better! New ideas, funnier captions and speech bubbles, and definitely more character and expression in the faces and body poses of the characters.
Mr Emberley's other books: Weirdos, Animals, Big Green Drawing book, and Big Purple Drawing Book also include characters that can be used for Hallowe'en drawings.
Last year we used a long sheet of orange paper and made a long scene for our window.
This year we are using 1/4 sheets of orange cardstock with a black non permanent Staedtler Lumocolor pen and have had very good results.
And just to prove that even Moms can draw these spooky scenes, I joined in on the fun too! Oh the things I endure just for this little blog! tee hee!
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Please visit them to see what other creative ideas have been shared.
Please visit them to see what other creative ideas have been shared.
the trick or treat shop
I hope everyone had a fun Hallowe'en evening!
Despite the drizzly weather we followed our yearly tradition of visiting a few of our neighbours and then coming home to a hot bowl of soup with the Grandparents!
This year I decided to try something new to take the emphasis off of the enormous amount of candy the kids collect.
I opened a Trick or Treat Shop!
This shop was like no other, this shop only accepted candy as "payment"! The kids used the candy that they were willing to part with for other treats that could be enjoyed forever.
I sold books, toy cars, jewelry, fruit chews and the big mystery prizes . . . T-shirts! Each item was tagged with how many candies it would cost for them to "buy" it.
My son was very excited and happily handed over handfuls of unwanted chocolate bars and sweets. My daughter was a little less enthusiastic at first but was very pleased when she unwrapped a t-shirt that she had been admiring in a store recently!
There are still some sugary treats to enjoy (with ingredients that I recognize) but I felt a little better trading them for other kinds of treats, rather than just confiscating the nasty stuff.
How did you handle the candy this year?
Little ghosts number game
This is the simplest little game!
Over the years I have made up different sets to go with our themes but you can also use a simple deck of cards. I believe the original game is called Lucky Seven, but you can use fewer or more cards depending on the age of your child. (or how challenging you want the game to be for the adults!) ;o)
I made up these ghost cards with the numbers 1-9 on them.
Here's how you play.
~ mix up cards and lay in a row overturned.
~ turn over any card.
I chose the 5th card and it was a number 3.
~ now turn over the 3rd card.
It was a number 9.
~ now turn over the 9th card.
It was a number 4.
~ now turn over the 4th card.
It was a number 5, however, I have already turned over the 5th card, so I have lost the game.
The idea is turn over all of the cards without turning over a number that you have already overturned.
. . . clear as mud right?!
Feel free to ask me questions.
Believe me it is possible to win this game,
and it's great counting practice for the kids too!
Good luck!
~ joey ~
Shared at:
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Over the years I have made up different sets to go with our themes but you can also use a simple deck of cards. I believe the original game is called Lucky Seven, but you can use fewer or more cards depending on the age of your child. (or how challenging you want the game to be for the adults!) ;o)
I made up these ghost cards with the numbers 1-9 on them.
Here's how you play.
~ mix up cards and lay in a row overturned.
~ turn over any card.
I chose the 5th card and it was a number 3.
~ now turn over the 3rd card.
It was a number 9.
~ now turn over the 9th card.
It was a number 4.
~ now turn over the 4th card.
It was a number 5, however, I have already turned over the 5th card, so I have lost the game.
The idea is turn over all of the cards without turning over a number that you have already overturned.
. . . clear as mud right?!
Feel free to ask me questions.
Believe me it is possible to win this game,
and it's great counting practice for the kids too!
Good luck!
~ joey ~
Shared at:
Frontier Dreams - Keep Calm Craft On
Happy Whimsical Hearts - Happy Family Times mama smiles - Learning Laboratory
hallowe'en crafting - spooky silhouettes
Super easy, minimal supplies needed and the results are fantastic! An excellent lazy Sunday afternoon project!
The eyes totally bring the mural to life and add so much humour. Here are some closer views...
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Two books that also offered inspiration to this project:
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Hallowe'en
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Weirdos
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| This guy has made us laugh the most! |
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Two books that also offered inspiration to this project:
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Hallowe'en
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Weirdos
What kind of art are you making for Hallowe'en?
~ joey ~
Hallowe'en decorating ~ Part 3 ~ The kid's room
When I first thought of writing a post on our Hallowe'en decorating I never dreamed it would turn into
a 3 part series! ha ha!
So here are the last of the photos of the decorating that I have done. I mentioned before that I have tried to keep it simple and sparse throughout the entire house but most importantly in the kid's bedroom.
Maybe you do this too, but lately I have been trying to not intrude too much into "their space", so I have just added a few things here and there. I wrapped their Ikea snakes around the bunkbed as I didn't want anything scary in the room but I thought it was fun to highlight the snakes for Hallowe'en.
I like to use their artwork from past years as decorations so I pinned these pumpkins that B made in Kindergarten onto his little corkboards.
More past artwork above A's bed.
I often decorate this shelf above the dresser as the seasonal 'focal point' of the room. (see it here and here) I have used B's wood truck and filled it with wicker pumpkin baskets.(similar ones here) I bought the trick or treat paper bags before the kids were even born but now they use them each year for trick or treating! I made the wooden black cat also before we had kids and the sweet little knit pumpkin and ghost ornaments on the corkboards were a gift from a classmate.
Do you decorate your children's room
for the holidays?
Hallowe'en decorating ~ Part 2 ~ The Dollhouse
For the past several years I have wanted to try decorating our smallest dollhouse for Hallowe'en but it never seemed to come together. This year I finally made it happen and it was SO much fun to create!
I don't like Hallowe'en to be scary so ours is a pretty happy haunted dollhouse! The graveyard is the spookiest part.
A small wooden box I had made the perfect grave for our plastic skeleton. Wool roving cobwebs and plastic spiders make it a bit creepy! I also added a shovel for grave digging, wood block "tombstones", a pile of rocks, a rat, a peg witch, and a marble gazing ball perched on a chess game rook! The "backdrop" is a watercolour painting that my husband painted in school. And the tree was our "thankful tree" last week for Thanksgiving! ;o)
The rickety stairs take you up to the front door of the witch's house. Paper, cloth and wood pumpkins line the way. A black cat, spiders, spider webs and miniature "vintage" posters on black cardstock welcome the young trick-or-treater dressed as a King.
Upstairs behind the billowing cheesecloth curtains is another witch with a table full of witchy things. A wine goblet, bottles of potions, books of spells and a crystal ball (a marble on a bolt). A spider guards her gems that flicker in the candle light by the "vintage" poster.
On your way back outside you'll see the pumpkin patch with a wheelbarrow full of garden veggies too! We always trick-or-treat with the grandparents so they are waiting at the bottom of the stairs for the grandkids to get their treats from the witch.
Thanks a lot for stopping by.
Happy Hallowe'en planning!
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