Month: October 2012

  • Happy Halloween!

    Happy Halloween!

    From our family to yours! Have a safe and happy Halloween!

  • Tape-Resist Pumpkin Painting

    Tape-Resist Pumpkin Painting

    This is a fun and quick pumpkin craft! Tape-Resist Pumpkin Painting Large piece of white construction paper Painters tape Orange paint Draw and outline of a pumpkin on your white construction paper. I just “free” handed a pumpkin. Using painters tape cut different shapes to make the face of your jack-o-lantern. Landon insisted on wanting…

  • Blown Paint Monsters

    Blown Paint Monsters

    As Halloween quickly approaches we’ve been getting into the monsters and pumpkins – and as I was perusing pinterest a few days ago I realized that we haven’t done any bat crafts this year! We still have a few days left – I may try to squeeze them in! This craft is very simple and…

  • Shape Monsters

    Shape Monsters

    Part of our fun and far away from scary as possible, but still Halloween themed activities we did was create shape monsters. I’ve done a similar activity in my classroom as a teacher for a transportation unit, where I gave the children a wide variety of pre-cut shapes in different colors and sized and let them use…

  • Final Paint Colors!

    Final Paint Colors!

    Many of you saw the “dalmatian” walls I had in trying to decide paint colors. I loved all your comments and suggestions on paint colors – especially those that gave reasons behind it. After reading all the comments and many visits to the paint store I finally decided on a paint color. Super excited I…

  • Ghost Mud

    Ghost Mud

    Landon has a very active imagination – really what 3 year old doesn’t. He’s also started discovering the emotion of fear. Often times it’s pretend, but with Halloween approaching topics of monsters, ghosts and other “scary” things are starting to surface in the aisles of the store and in “conversations” and play with friends. While I want to celebrate…

  • P is for Pumpkin

    P is for Pumpkin

    Since this month is all about pumpkins we can’t pass a month worth of also talking about the letter P! We had a ton of left over pumpkin seeds from the pumpkin seed pumpkin craft we did so I made a letter P on the computer with a cute picture of a pumpkin and let…

  • Perfectly Pumpkin Contest!

    Perfectly Pumpkin Contest!

    I’m super excited to co-host a fabulous everything pumpkin contest! We’ve been doing tons of pumpkin activities here and can’t wait to see what all of you have done as well! Grab the Pumpkin Contest Button! <div align=”center”>

  • Everyday Life {Illness and slowing down}

    Everyday Life {Illness and slowing down}

    This week has been very different. A forced different as Riley has been sick all week. He woke up Saturday with a fever and worsened cough (he’s had a cough for the last 3 weeks). We had planned to go to the pumpkin patch, so instead we stayed home and Brad and Landon did a…

  • Pumpkin Seed Pumpkin

    Pumpkin Seed Pumpkin

    Pumpkins come from pumpkin seeds. Pumpkins have seeds in them… why not make a pumpkin from pumpkin seeds?! Pumpkin Seed Pumpkin Pumpkin Seeds (washed and dried) Orange and green paint Pumpkin Outline (I reused the one from doing the pumpkin “mache” craft) Glue Paint a large handful of pumpkin seeds orange (enough to cover the…