Halloween is just around the corner and my girls are very excited! Even my youngest daughter who went trick or treating today for the first time at the library is getting into the Halloween spirit. But since she’s only one year old, I wanted to find a Halloween activity she could do. That’s what’s so [...]

My girls and I went to Michael’s arts and crafts store last weekend and had the best time decorating pumpkins! Instead of decorating real pumpkins, we decorated “craft pumpkins.” These pumpkins look real, but won’t rot on the front step!
While we were there, we got some great painted pumpkin ideas!
Painted Pumpkin Ideas:
Alien Pumpkin

Piggy Pumpkin

Tinkerbell Pumpkin

Frankenstein [...]

I have younger children so to date I’ve shared pumpkin stencils that are festive, like these printable Halloween stencils or cute like these Disney pumpkin carving patterns. However, neither of these types of pumpkin stencils are scary. Then it occurred to me that many of you might have kids that like something on the scary [...]

My girls love making Halloween recipes like pumpkin shaped Rice Krispie treats, bat cookies, witch hats and caramel apples. And while these Halloween recipes are yummy and great for classroom parties, sometimes I like to make Halloween recipes that don’t involve sugar! That’s why I also like making spider web pizza, hot dog mummies, Ritz [...]

It’s a cold and rainy afternoon and my kids desperately want to go outside. So I thought I would find some more Halloween coloring pages to keep them busy!

Halloween Printables: Coloring Pages
Ghost Trick or Treating (as seen above)
Halloween Pumpkin Costume (So cute! It reminds me of the pumpkin costume my girls wore.)
Little Witch
Bat
Frankenstein
Trick or Treaters
Jack-o-Lantern

For [...]

We’re definitely in the Halloween spirit around here! Not only is our house decorated with various Halloween crafts like paper bag pumpkins, tissue paper ghosts, paper plate pumpkins, soup can mummies, pipe cleaner spiders, painted pumpkins, and handprint spiders, we’ve been making all sorts of Halloween recipes like hot dog mummies, witch hats made from [...]