Who said learning can't be fun!!!

I had found these cute little guys last year on clearance for a mere .50. I had no idea what I was going to do with them but I knew I was going to make them into something fun for my children and I knew it was going to be educational.




Luckily for me our door is magnetic. I programmed some fun Halloween words and added magnetic strips and tada. Now they have words they can practice reading and writing abd becasue they are on these cute little ghosts they want to do it too! Who can beat that!

Pumpkin Patch

We adventured out to a new pumpkin patch this year for the first time for me in 15 years and well lets just say we won't be adventuring that way again! The kids had fun but it just wasn't the same!

Our Day with Snuggles

David's first grade class is in The Bear Club. As part of the club they all get to take a turn having Snuggles spend a couple of days with them and do something special with him. We happend to have Snuggles during our towns Pumpkin Festival and so Snuggles went with David Trick or Treating and to the festivities. To our surprise when we arrived the festival was cancelled but David and Snuggles still had fun cruising around downtown.

What I did with my bats and googly eyes!!!!!

I hung these in front of my front door and the funniest thing is the day after we put them up it was quite windy and I was at the kitchen sink and near had a heart attack when out of the corner of my eye I saw a flying bat. It took me a second to remember Oh yeah I hung them there!!!!




I love snowmen and when the stem broke off these 2 pumpkins I knew what to do!!! Just a brief reminder of things to come!




This was my original thought for my googly eyes and I love it!!!!! I just glued thumbtacks on the back of my googly eyes and then pushed them into the pumpkin!!! I told the kids next year no pumpkins for them I am going to get all the pumpkins and have enough to say SPOOKY!!! JK kids!

That's it we are learning Chinese!!!!

Kids Say~

Mom: "Jensen you are too cute!"

Jensen: "No I am not too cute, I'm just a little too cute!"

And this was TOO CUTE not to share!!!

A Day on the Farm

A Few of the Necessties Around Here Lately

Wednesday we tracked down a pharmacy with flu shots since one of our local schools had 180 children out of school due to the flu. The only hitch was they only give flu shots to children 9 years and older so half of our family was ineligible for the shots which I was not to upset about since they had an appointment for today to get the shots. Apparently that was about 19 hours too late!!!!

Halloween Panels for Kitchen

This has been one of the kids favorites thus far. Imagine waking up in the morning and all your cupboards looking like this:




And at night the spiders glow in the dark!!!!

-black poster board
-craft foam spiders(I got mine at the end of the season last year at Michaels)
-tape

Cut the posterboard to fit cupboard or like I did to fit in the panel. Add spiders. Tape to cupboard doors. Tada spooky cupboard doors!!!!!

One More Before and After

I had been wanting to find a six drawer dresser and I recieved a call from my mom saying she found one that was solid cherry with a mirror(I do not have a picture of the mirror but it is done like the rest of the dresser) I love the shape of it hated the top 2 drawers and the stain was to orangy for me so under consrtuction it went and now I have a new dresser for my room.



*sorry I did't get a full picture of the before but this is one of the top drawers






Here is the finished product and is awaiting to have the mirror added!!!

Another Before and After

Besides all of our Halloween decorating I have had a couple of other projects in the works:














Okay when I say this on the side of the road I thought the same thing you are thinking right now what a hideous thing. In later contemplation, I had an idea. Take the the door off, fill in the holes, prime, paint, and seal and add a basket I already had. I didn't fill in the holes from the door because I have an idea that is going to cover is but all in all it turned out great and now I have some more storage in my living room.

AND WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH THESE

There are 100 eyes here that I hot glued to thumbtacks!



I drew bats on lime green, purple, and black craft foam. I had the kids cut them out. As hard as that was for me to let them do(I have a bit of a perfectionist in me) they did a great job!!


What I did with these eyes and bats will be coming soon!!!

ONE MONSTER OF A DOOR

I saw this idea in All For You magazine and loved it. There website is www.allyou.com

SUPPLIES
one black and one red tableclothe(I found mine at the $ store
one white and one yellow posterboard
duct tape and packing tape

-cut the black tableclothe to fit your door

-then cut the red tableclothe to 1/3 its size and tape it with duct tape in the middle of the black table clothe

-cut spooky eyes out of the yellow poster board and adhere with the duct tape

-cut triangles out of the white posterboard and tape to edges of the red tableclothe with duct tape to creat the mouth(don't make the teeth perfect just cut out triangles without measuring)

Now take your creation and tape it with the packing tape to your door(we were able to tape it to the back of our glass door so packing tape worked for us)

*I included the kids by letting them cut out and tape on the teeth

A Ghoully Apothacary

I had been wanting to do something like this for a few years but the cost can become ridiculous and I like to decorate for fall so it has been an idea I liked but was never on my list. Since the Halloween theme came into play this year I had thought about it but again discounted for cost reasons and then I found the labels for free at http://lovemanor.com/blog/ and the containers for a whopping $4.40 at the local thrift store plus a few I had around the house. I printed off the labels in different sizes and glued them onto the containers. Then we began filling them with eyeballs, gummi slugs, bugs, and trantulas, I found the coolest suckers of skeletons and witch fingers and tada my ghoully apothacary!!!

I LOVE FALL

I do love fall and everything about it. I usually am decorating with pumpkins, mums, scarecrows, bails of hay, corn stalks and the whole array of "fall" decor.

Every year though I hear from my children how they would love to have some skeletons and ooh look at that eyeball and the spiders and oo oo bats, I have turned them down flat and have decorated how I like to decorate.

This year is a new story...who is this time a year for anyway and it certainly isn't me, it is for the CHILDREN!!! I have established some rules it can't be gruesome, bloody, or horrific and it all has to be approved by me.

My next few posts will be how we have decorated for Halloween this year(after Halloween though I get to put up my fall stuff through Thanksgiving). I have had an incredibly fun time with it and the kids having been squealing with delight with each new project and that alone has made it all worth it!!!