Candy Corn Necklace

Happy Halloween! This little necklace actually came home with Alivia from school one day. I thought the idea was much to cute to not share. She even wanted to make another one she had so much fun making the first.

(Getting an enthused smile is next to impossible these days)

What You Need

Crayons

Paper Plate

Yarn

Scissors

What To Do

1. Cut the paper plate into "pie" pieces.

2. Have your little one color sections of each paper plate pie piece using yellow, orange, and white.

3. Punch two holes on the bottom of the candy corn pieces.

4. Thread the yarn through each piece.

5. Wear your fashionable holiday attire!

Have fun tonight trick or treating and be safe :)

Fun with Finger Paint

I had seen something similar to this at some point in my web browsing and decided to give it a try. It did not turn out exactly how I wanted but both kids had fun (even if Bennett looks less than enthused). This is a great way to teach kids how different colors blend to make another color. As you can see the painting turned into a big mess at the end once several other colors got involved.

What You Need

Finger Paint
Paper
Plastic Wrap
Painters Tape

What To Do

1. Lay the paper down and squirt on the paint. Lay plastic wrap over top and tape around all edges.

2. Let your little one go to town mashing the paints together.

As you can see Liv could not stand not getting messy so in the end we tore off the plastic and let her have all the fun she wanted!

Footprint Ghosts

What kid does not like painting their hands or feet? Both kids had fun with this project. Bennett was a little skeptical at first but after watching big sis take her turn he was ready to go. This was a great project to do before bedtime and kept the kids entertained.

What You Need

Construction Paper
Paint
Googly Eyes
Marker
Cute Little Feet

What To Do

1. Paint those piggies and place the foot on the construction paper.

2. Glue the googly eyes onto the top of the ghosts. (Ignore the mess...we get a little crazy with our glue sometimes!)

 

 

3. Draw a circle for the mouth.

4. Hang your spooky artwork.

Rollout Sugar Cookies

I have been afraid to make these cookies for quite some time. I think the reason that my mother is a baker extraordinaire has always sent me running from any type of baking. This recipe came from her and suprisingly it was very easy and pretty fool proof! Alivia had a blast making them and enjoyed sharing them with her cousins who were in town. Lucky for us the recipe only makes about 2 dozen medium sized cookies so they were gone in a couple of days.

Ingredients

1 c. oleo
1 c. sugar
1 egg
2 t. baking powder
1 t. vanilla
3 c. flour

Frosting - Powdered sugar, milk, food coloring

Instructions

Preheat oven 400 degrees. In large bowl cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. Add baking powder and flour one cup at a time, mixing after each addition. The dough will be very stiff, blend last in by hand. Do not chill, divide dough into 2 balls. On a floured surface roll each ball flat. Bake until cookies are slightly brown on edges.

We did a simple frosting for the cookies. I mixed about 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon of milk (want slightly runny), and food coloring of color choice. Once I had the frosting the color and consistency that I liked I put into a plastic baggy and snipped the end with scissors to create a frosting bag. It was messy....but fun! Enjoy!!!

Pumpkin Mosaic

Our 3 year old is getting very good with the scissors. A lot of the projects we did do over summer involved her cutting something. So this project started with her cutting strips of orange paper and then we tore them into smaller pieces. Baby brother who is 1 year old even helped with that process.

What You Need

Construction Paper
Scissors
Glue
White Paper

Directions

1. First you need a picture of a pumpkin. You can either search for a coloring page online, freehand a pumpkin yourself, or if someone could tell me how to attach a pdf of what I used I would be happy to share my quick drawing (I am not sure how to do this!).

2. Once you have your template have your little one cut/tear out tiny squares of paper. Both Liv and I cut strips of paper about an inch wide and then tore the paper into smaller sections.

3. Using glue adhere the tiny squares onto the pumpkin until it has been filled in.

4. Sit back and enjoy your fine piece of art!

Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins!

We finally did something with a couple of the pumpkins we have been stockpiling over the past couple of weeks. Both of the kiddos love to paint and instead of just letting them slather it on I like to make it a little more interesting. Before we got started we just simply placed some stickers onto their pumpkins and let them paint away. Once the pumpkins were dry we peeled off the stickers and tada....fancy schmancy personalized pumpkins. We use Crayola kids paint and it works great. This project is fun for all ages. It was fun for our 1 year old as well as for Great Grandma who stopped by :)

I'm Back!

Well it has been quite the summer and when the weather is nice we tend to spend as much time as possible outdoors. We did do a few projects here and there and when I find the pictures I will post them. Most of our days in the summer are full of playing in the kiddie pool, writing on the driveway with sidewalk chalk and blowing bubbles. Liv also got pretty good at pedaling her tricycle around. So maybe a real bike (with training wheels of course) is in her near future. In the meantime we will continue avoiding the bike aisle at the store because she is begging for one :) I hope you had a great summer. Get ready for some fun fall projects!