Halloween Week

It was a really busy week last week doing all of the fun Fall/Halloween things that we could :)
On Wednesday I volunteered in class to help carve pumpkins, this is our table & how it turned out (One of these children got bored with cleaning out the pumpkin & when I turned around had stuck two of those big red pencils up their nose-but not the one holding the pencil...).

On Monday the class walked to the local Fire Station and learned about fire safety and got to check out the big fire truck.

The last 3 or 4 years we have driven over to my cousin's house and went Trick-R-Treating with their kids. They live in a big neighborhood with lots of houses, lots of kids and lots of candy.

Halloween Craft Project

This is the craft project that we made at the Kindergarten Halloween party. I only had approximately 8-10 minutes per group of 4-6 kids. I wasn't sure the skill level of the kids for making crafts & was advised to keep it super easy.


I remembered that someone gave me a cute little pumpkin like this a few years ago. So I made up a couple of projects and had my daughter try them all out to see which one would be the best project to do in class. This one was definitely the winner!

We used 5(seven might have worked better) Orange Slice candies, stood them on end in a circle on a piece of plastic wrap. Then pulled all four corners to the center and twisted them together, trying to keep it centered. We took a piece of floral tape and twisted it around for the stem. We had gold Pipe Cleaners on hand so I used those and cut them in half. Each child could then twist the Pipe Cleaner on the stem however they wanted too to look a vine. And if we remembered we trimmed off the extra plastic wrap on the top.

Voila, Candy Pumpkin

Kindergarten Halloween Party

I volunteered at my daughter's Halloween Party on the 3oth(I did the craft Project, which I will post). She was Darth Vader of course and all of the other girls were in a sparkly dress of some sort. Which is fine with me and all of the boys who came up to her and thought she was so cool! Here she is with Obi-Wan and Luke at the party.

BOOT-ilicious Card

Here is a card I made for Sunflower Studio's FRIGHTFULLY DELIGHTFUL FREAKY FRIDAY CHALLENGE - #4 SKETCH CHALLENGE and here is the link:http://www.sunflowerstudio.typepad.com/

I got a page of these stamped images from a friend a couple of weeks ago and wasn't sure what to do with them. I used my Prisma Colored Pencils and cut them out and put Diamond Glaze and glitter on them and let them dry. The Edges kind of curled up which I love!

More details to come....

Pumpkin Poop? Halloween Treats

These are some of the treats that I am making for my upcoming craft sale. I have seen these where you add a little poem about Pumpkin Poop. I am not sure if I am going to do that or not, it's a cute little poem, but I kind of like them the way they are. I guess would add it to the back because there isn't room on the front.


I just bought this cool paper when I went to Crafts Direct in St Cloud(Luv it!) I always find great stuff when I go there. It is made by My Mind's Eye. The rest of the paper is scrap/misc. The stamp is from the $ section at Michael's -I am so glad I bought this one because I am finding lots of uses for it! The stamp actually has the pumpkin in the middle but I just punched out the different size circles and then layer them. I stamp the pumpkin on another circle and layer that in the middle.


The photo looks a little more yellow-y than it really is, the bottom photo is better. TFL!