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Halloween Shaving Cream Sensory Activity

A little sensory activity for George while Henry was at school!

Simply just shaving cream on a baking sheet.

I added food coloring in orange, red and yellow to add some color for Halloween!

 

 

George was very hesitant to

Spooky Treat Holders Halloween Craft for Kids

Halloween Craft: Spooky Treat Holders (A Candy Bag Alternative)

Please welcome Dusti, my sister-in-law. She’s posted here before [remember the awesome DIY Yarn Wrapped Wreath?], but now she has her own blog too! Check out Antidotes for Mom. She’s a real stay at home mom,

4 Fall Crafts

10 Fall Activities & Crafts from It’s Playtime

It’s Fall and gorgeous as ever!

My favorite time of year is among us and I’m celebrating by sharing with you 10 ideas to do with the kids this fall!

Four crafty, or things to make, with the kids and six things to go

Halloween Craft: Spaghetti Webs

After playing with colored spaghetti noodles with George… Henry and I made some spaghetti spider webs with it too!

This time, I let Henry do the coloring. What other color would he pick, but green?

 

I simply had cooked some spaghetti and threw a little

Slimy Spaghetti Sensory Activity for Toddlers

We turned The Imagination Tree’s bug slime spaghetti [eww!] into a sensory activity especially for Halloween!

I simply cooked up a package of spaghetti noodles, drained them and rinsed it with cold water to cool it down quickly.

Divide the spaghetti and add

It’s Playtime : Halloween Googly Eyes

We’ve been having a blast with the googly eyes that we received from CraftProjectIdeas.com.

Googly eyes were used to make

40 pumpkin activities, decorating, and learning to do with the kids

40 Pumpkin Activities for Kids

T’is the season for pumpkins!
But what do you do with them [aside from setting them out on your front porch]?

You can always carve them for Halloween.
But what else is there?

I’ve scrounged the blog world and came up with 40 amazing pumpkin activities, that your

Halloween Craft: Pumpkin Mummies

Pumpkin mummies!

These are a super cute craft for Halloween that the preschoolers can do!

I chose four pumpkins that I thought resembled our family from our heaping pile of pumpkins on our front porch. [Ha. Hmm… Not something I thought I’d be comparing to

Slimy Eyes Sensory Bag

Toddler Sensory Activity: Slimy Eyes

A perfect sensory activity for Halloween.

As well as perfect for all ages, including babies and toddlers!I saw these Halloween and fall hair gel sensory suncatchers on It’s Playtime a couple weeks ago, from Happy Hooligans. They have lots of ideas that they added to

It’s Playtime! : A Spooky Halloween

Halloween is coming up fast!

Oh so fast….I need to make Henry’s costume yet… and George’s… oh man.

What are your kids

Yarn Monster Halloween Craft

Halloween Craft: Yarn Monsters

Monsters made of yarn, just in time for the spooky season.

There’s not much to these monsters, but I think they turned out kind of cute.

Henry and I used the same technique we did for our Yarn Circle Garland.

Henry did very well