Jack-O-Lantern Windsocks

Materials:
Orange construction paper
Black paper triangles
Round stickers
Green pipe cleaners or string
Glue
Hole punch
Stapler

Instructions:

1 - Glue the triangle eyes and nose

2 - Draw the mouth and stick on the eyeballs

3 - Staple the ends of the paper so it makes it a cylinder shape

4 - Hole punch two holes near the top on opposite sides

5 - Put the pipe cleaners or string through the holes. In my example we used two pipe cleaners twisted together to make it longer.

6- Hang them up so they can blow in the wind.

*An optional step is to add streamers to the bottom.

Jack-O-Lantern Quesadillas

Use a clean scissors to cut out a jack-o-lantern face and make a simple quesadilla into a fun Halloween snack.

Candy Corn Pots

I painted a clay pot yellow orange, and white to look like a candy corn. Of course, the real candy corn went very quickly in my house.

Toilet Paper Roll Mummies

Here is a fun way to repurpose toilet paper rolls.  Make a whole family of mummies for Halloween.

 Materials:
Toilet paper rolls
Rolled gauze (found in the first aid section of the store)
Googly eyes
Glue
Black Sharpie pen

 1. Wrap the rolled gauze around the toilet paper roll. You can tuck the ends in or glue them down.

 2. Add lots of glue for the eyes

3. Let the eyes dry











4. Using the Sharpie pen, add scares and other sorts of scary marks

Butternut Squash Ghosts

Butternut squash is perfect for making a spooky or friendly ghost.  Let your kids decide how scary their ghost will be.

Materials:
Butternut Squash
White paint
Paintbrush
Black Sharpie pen







Instructions:

 1. Paint the squash completely with the white paint

2. Let the first coat of paint dry

3. Paint a second coat so no yellow skin of the squash is showing
4. Let the paint dry overnight
5. Draw a ghost face with the Black Sharpie pen

Soccer Bucket

Thanks Coach Brain for this great idea! My girls love using their buckets to carry all of their soccer equipment.

Pass the Story, Pass the Picture

Pass the Story and Pass the Picture are great activities when your kids say, "I'm bored, there is NOTHING to do!" 

Hand them paper and any writing supplies - pencils, crayons, markers, pens and then get started.

First decide on a time limit. I like to do 1-2 minutes.  Someone starts to write a story or draw a picture while another person is the timekeeper.  After the alloted time is up the paper is handed to the next person to continue writing the story or drawing the picture.  Continue passing the paper around until your kids want to stop.  Read the story aloud or show everyone the picture.  You usually end up with a very silly, funny, ridiculous story or a crazy picture.  Have fun.