Halloween!

03 Tuesday Nov 2015

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We had a fabulous Halloween this year! It all started over a week ago at the church, continued with Trick or Treating with friends, and ended with a sleepover at Poppy’s house. I think it was a success.

Molly decided months ago that she would be Pippi Longstocking, with Mr. Nilsson:

Gabe was a doctor:

And they somewhat cooperated for a joint picture:

Then we headed off and met up with friends:

And then joined more friends:

And had a ball going from house to house with the T-Rex following them all!

Our final stop, as always, was my dad’s house for supper and this year, a sleepover. Dad always dresses to match his pirate friend:

Then I headed home to get ready for my own Halloween party at Emma’s house!

Emma magically changed from a T-Rex to She-Ra and naturally had her sidekick, He-Man along for the ride. We were also joined by BatDad and Jen! And although, according to my brother, I look like a Popple, I am actually the Cheshire Cat. However, the popple idea is good!

So fun times all around – good food, lots of junk, and entertaining costumes – all that Halloween should be!

Cheers!

Halloween! | Kidart

01 Sunday Nov 2015

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Halloween is always my favourite time of the year to make crafts with the kids – there’s so many fun possibilities! This year though, their ideas completely outshone any that I had!

The first thing we made were these fun dimensional pumpkins:

I cut the pieces for the faces and the kids stuck them on themselves. Since I made these with the little ones, ages 1-3, we had some funny positioning!

On the back I got everyone to stamp their handprint:

The next craft was made by Gabe at Michael’s during one of their weekend kids craft times:

Our local farm sells white Ghost Pumpkins and they’re always his favourite so of course that was the colour craft pumpkin he picked to use. I love all the giant eyes and that crazy green mouth! He also made a point of putting purple pom poms over the eyes for eyebrows, lol! And the antennae were his last minute flash of genius.

Finally, I handed out green plates one day so everyone could make witch faces. Gabe and Hannah decided that they just had to have Witch Cats instead:

Gabe is a fan of odd sized googly eyes. I wish I had a picture of Hannah’s – she added a broom for her cat to ride on!

A few days later Heidi asked to make one too, but she wanted a cow witch:

And hers needed teeth. As her mom said, it looks like an Angry Bird!

I have some fun ideas up my sleeve for Christmas, let’s hope we get the time for them to pan out!

Cheers!

Trunk or Treat!

27 Tuesday Oct 2015

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Halloween, trick or treat

This past Sunday our church held its annual pumpkin carving night. Yes, our church celebrates the pagan holidays. No, we don’t care, we actually love how spirited they are. Yes, we had an awesome time!

This is always an event the kids look forward to – we bring our pumpkins, the church has templates, snacks, and games available, and we have fun. This year there were tattoos and face painting as well so the kids really had a great time.

Gabe picked out a template and after Darrell gutted both pumpkins, I drew the design on and he carved it out:

Molly, of course, didn’t want a template, she wanted a bunny. Sitting. With kind of floppy ears. Friends, I cannot draw. Not even a little bit. Sigh. This is what I carved out for her – luckily, she was happy enough with it!

After the pumpkin carving all the kiddies (who had been told to dress up), lined up and went to the parking lot for a round of Trunk or Treating!

Have you all heard of this? I hadn’t and it’s the most genius idea ever! All the cars lined up with their trunks (or the boot as my friend Emma and my stepfather would say!) pointing out into the parking lot.

Now, to backtrack a little, before the kids went up the adults were told to go get ready so Darrell went to open the trunk and get the candy ready. Then I got a text:

When we went out, I got it. These people are seriously *into* Halloween.

All the trunks were decorated. There were lights, and decorations, and smoke machines (really) and people pretending to be decorations but would then come to life.

One car had a seemingly benign setup – there were bags of chips so you could just take one from the trunk. And then a hand would grab you and yank you in. Molly and Gabe could not get enough of that one – they thought it was hilarious!

To say they had the best Halloween ever is not an exaggeration. The fact they get to go door to door and do it all again on Saturday? Icing on the cake, my friends, icing on the cake.

Cheers!

Halloween!

07 Thursday Nov 2013

Posted by Sara in Family, This & That

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So. Halloween was pretty epic this year.

We had a fall fairy who morphed into a pirate for the actual door-to-door part of the festivities:

and Terry the Fox,who carried an awesome sign with him.

There were of course the parties at school, and Sparks, and we naturally had one here!

And it was very loud in my little house with all those hyped up kiddies.

Then the trick or treating began and my two were 100%, wholly into it this year.

To make it even more fun, their friend J went to a few houses with them and he was so excited that he was literally jumping up and down on the doorsteps!

Isn’t he the cutest?

A few visits to friends, and we ended the (very cold) evening at my Dad’s, as usual, for a late supper. Fun times, a fair amount of sugar, and two very tired little people.

It was awesome.

Bats and pumpkins and mess – oh my!

30 Wednesday Oct 2013

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On Monday we made our last Halloween decorations – we are now officially walking into and through creepy crawlies as we go through the house!

The first was pretty straightforward – pumpkins!

They were easy and pretty much mess-free. I simply painted glue onto a paper plate, cut orange tissue into squares and told them to cover all the white. I then gave them three triangles, a mouth, and a green stem and they glued them on. That’s it!

The next craft was a little messier – we painted. My biggest tip when painting is this: go naked.

Now, to be honest, the kiddies weren’t exactly naked, they just took their shirts off to keep them reasonably clean. I have a very cute painting picture but I’ll save that for the parents only!

I told them we were going to paint bats (I already had eyes, fangs, and wings cut out of black paper) and they immediately piped up with the colours they wanted to use – no black mentioned! So we ended up with red, green, and blue:

Cute, hey? After they painted and glued on eyes, I drew a mouth and they glued on fangs and added some bling to the eyes. Then they helped me staple on the wings.

My house (and I hope all of their houses) looks very festive now but I do have one problem – they’re already asking about Christmas!

Boo!

18 Friday Oct 2013

Posted by Sara in Family, Kid's Crafts, This & That, Tutorials

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We had a bit of Halloween fun around here yesterday. Molly was home from school because of a PD Day for the teachers and I needed something fun and easy to do that would satisfy the age range I have around here during the day.

I went with ghosts.

Super simple and I had all the stuff on hand, or rather, I made it up based on what I had on hand!

Styrofoam cups, black permanent marker, string, white tissue paper, glue stick, and a wooden skewer to poke holes.

First, we drew faces:

Then I poked a hole in the top of each cup:

I tied a knot in the string and poked it through the hole from the inside out (with some “help”):

Glue stick around the inside edge:

And the kiddies stuck on the strips of tissue:

Aren’t they fun?

The kiddies had a blast making them:

Next up…. pumpkins? Or footprint ghosts? Any suggestions?

Right now…

24 Wednesday Oct 2012

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2012 Yearlong Album, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats, googly eyes, Guns 'n' Roses, gymnastics, Halloween, Kiddies, kiddies, Paul Simon, swimming

listening… to a lot of Paul Simon’s Graceland, one of my top 3 favourite albums along with Cats: The Musical and Guns ‘n’ Roses Appetite for Destruction. (yeah,yeah, odd mix, whatever!)

counting… to 10. A lot. Like over and over and over…. The joys of a strong-minded and stubborn 5-year-old. Sigh.

finishing… mini Halloween pumpkins with the kiddies. L wanted a regular face with googly eyes, Mr. G wanted lots of googly eyes like a monster, and Miss M opted for markers. They’re pretty cute. 🙂

working… on the next Yearlong Album class and the November LO for it.

itching… to break into this fun project for the Paperie retreat!

thinking… about next year’s Yearlong Album and getting excited for the changes – it’s going to be lots of fun play time!

eager… to get the supplies I need for all the Orlando inspired classes I want to teach. They can’t get here fast enough!

happy… that we finally figured out how to make Mr. G enjoy gymnastics again. One teacher, 5 kids, the gym to themselves – he’s thrilled!

also happy… that Miss M loves swimming so much that she complains her lessons are too short – and she’s moving up to the next level after only 6 lessons!