Q-tip skeleton

We are learning about our human body and this time it is about skeleton. The kids are finding it exciting to learn about how their body moves and what are bones made of. As a fun craft we had them build a skeleton using q-tips. This could also be a great activity for Letter Q or for Halloween.

We used black construction paper and thin q-tips. Have the kids cut the q-tips into smaller pieces for bones such as fingers or toes. They loved this. It was nice to cut something other than paper :-)

We helped the little guys to squeeze the glue onto the paper but then they had to place the q-tips the way they wanted them. 

 

And last on the list is to add the skull! We used white pencil. You could also use white crayon, paint or cotton balls also make for a cute skull. You can add googly eyes!

Halloween Party

Last year, we threw a fun Halloween party for our kids at "school". We thought we would share the whole morning with you and maybe this will help you in planning your own party this year :-)

This is the crew

We started the party with disco dancing! 

Some cool tunes are the Addams Family or Ghost busters!

 

The disco ball gave it the right touch!

  

Then "the witch" read couple Halloween books.

 

 Here are some classic books that are our favorites:

Then we put together a Mellissa and Dough pirate puzzle!

We painted some jar pumpkins. Click here for the instruction post.

 

...and we also made gauze ghost. The instruction post is here.

 

We made mac'n'cheese for lunch. (doesn't it look like maggots? yuck)

 

 For drinks we went with the fun worm juice (berry juice with gummy worms inside).

 

We had the kids decorate sugar cookies (we prepared the dough the night before).

 

Hope this year will be as successful as the last year one! Have fun!!!

Halloween gauze ghosts

What you need:

Plastic cups

Aluminum foil

Laundry starch

Gauze/Cheese cloth

Lay the aluminum foil over the plastic cup, shaped into a ghost-like shape.

Then take the gauze, cut into squares (size may vary according to what size of cup you are using), dip it into the laundry starch and squeeze as much of it out as you can.

 

Then, layer it over the aluminum foil - we used 3 layers of gauze.

Let it dry overnight.

When it dries, you can ad some scary face to your ghosts. We used permanent markers.

 

To us, these are more adorable than scary :-)

Happy Halloween crafting!

Pumpkin candle jars

This was one of our Halloween Party activities. It is very easy and you end up with very cute Halloween decoration for years to come :-)

First find some cute glass jars, wash them and dry them so they are ready to be painted.

 

Then, if you happen to have a witch at your house at that time, have her cut out the Jack-O-Lantern face out of a painters tape. (you can also do it yourself ;-))

...and have the kids tape it to the jar.

 

Now it's time to paint the jars orange color.

 

And let them dry.

 

This is how they look all lit up with a tea candle!