halloween fun

I usually don’t decorate for Halloween.  I start to think at the end of the season I’m going to stock up on clearance decoration items for the next year, and I usually don’t. But one thing that we did last year that the boys enjoyed was making salt dough ghosts, so that’s what we did this year too. I found it on the Family Fun website and it looked easy, and I can handle easy with not a whole lot of instructions.  The kids really enjoyed it and walk by our “Halloween decoration table” and play with the ghosts every now and then.  We also made paper bag trees and used paper lunch sacks instead of the big grocery paper bags.  We’ve just now added some other spooky characters that I found in a kit at WalMart today for $5.  It was modeling clay and instructions on how to make a few Halloween characters…just something to channel the kids desire to do something crafty.  They’ve been wanting to work with clay ever since we went to the Lexington County museum yesterday and were able to make a small clay pot in conjuction with learning about the Native Americans and how they lived.   I’ve been needing to incorporate some fun, crafty things with the kids, so I was glad I found some easy ways to accomplish this. 

    His head fell off Mommy!!   OOOOOOHHHHHH…I’m scared…    Shaun had just come in from work, so don’t mind his stained clothing…it was muddy that day!!    Shaun’s ghost he made and Carson thought we were making snowmen…     Getting ready to be cooked in the microwave…           

    

Carson enjoyed playing with the scene the most.  We read the book “Five Little Pumpkins” and he made 5 little orange pumpkins to sit on the gate, like in the story.  Then he placed them on the tree to make a pumpkin tree…he has some imagination.