I did manage to do a few crafty things with the kids this Halloween, attend a few parties and squeeze in some bountiful Trick-or-Treating! Our Brown Eyed Girl was Cinderella. Mr Blue Eyes, well he was a soldier, then Superman and finally Spider Man - again.
We went to our first Monster Mash at my Brown Eyed Girls school. They had all kinds of little carnival games for the kids to play. While my Brown Eyed Girl was running a muck with her classmates, Mr Blue Eyes figured out that they rewarded you with candy currency for participating in the games. The put-put-o-pumpkin was his favorite.
He was a ringer at the ring toss.
Great Grandpa would be proud of his bowling game.
I unfortunately missed Mr Blue Eyes' costume parade at school. (same morning Skip decided to tear his chest open.) Not to worry, I called for a mom reinforcement. That cute little bumble bee's mom took some pictures for me!
And for those who are not aware, that little bumble bee is the future Mrs Blue Eyes. Girls don't bug him one bit, especially that little stinger.
Later in the afternoon we all went to our Brown Eyed Girls class party.
Halloween morning, I realized that we had forgotten all about our pumpkins!!! Dreading all of the work and mess that goes into carving those two huge gourds for just one day, I came up with our new, 1st annual family tradition - which we will be implementing permanently - of painting our pumpkins!
The kids were SUPER excited and had a blast!
This little cutie painted her pumpkin for 2 hours straight!!! I am not exaggerating one minute! She L-O-V-E-D the painting idea.
Her final masterpiece was the whole family on her pumpkin Trick-or-Treating in the dark!
I love my long, flowing hair. I think she forgot to paint a shirt on Handy Man... But she nailed the Spider Man costume!
We met a familiar Witch and an Artist at Trick-or Treat on Mainstreet.
Unfortunately, Spider Man was no match for the witch. He finally met his arch nemesis. The wicked villain scared him to death. Literally. Poor Spider Man aka Mr Blue Eyes was TERRIFIED of the Witch aka Grandma. Her funny costume idea backfired - majorly!
He wouldn't look at her. Talk to her. In fact, he kept Handy Man or myself in between he and the Witch at all times. Poor Spidy!
We ran int these blond little beauties.
These two should have dressed as wild monkeys.
Princesses - nailed it! While all the adults were talking, these two little chicks sat down at a table for two for some coffee talk.
By the time we were ready to leave for dinner, Spider Man finally agreed to be in a group picture with the costume crew. But he had to stand at the extreme opposite side if the Witch, shielded by the Artist.
Then on to the main event!
I mentioned I had the kids do some projects this year. This is our new Halloween decoration!
Super simple! I painted the canvas purple, two coats. Made a white foot print for each child on the right side of the canvas, toes down, for the ghosts.
Again, it works best to use a paper plate for foot and hand prints.
I hand painted a white web. Once that was dry, I placed black hand prints on the webs for the spider.
Finished each one off with some eyes and the date. Piece of
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