Halloween week series - Missed Day 4 & 5

Hello people, hope everyone had a great Halloween. Ours wasn't as planned. My baby fell sick at school on Halloween and had to rush to hospital so it wasn't fun. Hence the missing days in my Halloween series. She is a good sport though, she wanted to put her costume on after seeing all the Trick or Treaters coming home that night. So I guess this post can be the Day 5 -  Highlights of the TERRORific day, only couple of days late.

Halloween week series - Day3 - THE COSTUME

Today is Day 3 of my Halloween Series I started on Monday. I just wanted to show the costume I had ready for the kid. I bought 2 costumes on clearance ($7 each) at Carter's store last year just couple of weeks before Halloween. The little Lady Bug and a cute Lion.

 

My then 18 months baby fit into the bug perfectly. She looked so cute in it.

Though the pants of Lion costume were just right then, the top was little baggy and long. So I saved the Lion for later. I thought I could find a pant in yellow and it will work fine for next year. Fast forward to 2013 Halloween (how did that happen so fast?) the pants were too short. And I did not find yellow pants. The girl has always been on the skinny side so the only problem with old clothes is the height. She is tall, very tall for her age. so I had to do some patch work. Luckily the fabric was an easy find and more luckily, I had taken some sewing classes recently. Since the hoodie had orange, I attached an orange fabric in same type of material (I am not sure what that type of fabric is, may be Flannel) and it worked so well. Looks like the costume was made like that.

I haven't put it on her yet, because once she has it on, she doesn't want to take it off. She is into Lion King stories and cartoons these days so the timing couldn't be more perfect.

I am off for now, need to bring cookies for school tomorrow. But I will be back tomorrow to post about some treat.

Halloween week series - Day2 - Getting Crafty

Today is Day 2 of my Halloween Series I started yesterday. I planned on posting about getting crafty today. Since my daughter started preschool this year, she get to show off her costume at school on Halloween. They have a parade and potluck. I signed up for cookies, but wanted give something to the kids. For 30 of them, I had to be crafty so not to spend too much. Candy is such an obvious choice for Halloween Goodies, but kids get their sugar from trick or treating this day anyway, so I decided on halloween themed pencils and erasers. To make them more interesting, I followed this tutorial on The36thAvenue blog and added pompoms and googly eyes to make them monstrous, but they ended up being cute.

Here are my supplies:

Pencils - Dollar store, $1 for a 12 pack
Erasers - Micheals - $2.49
PomPoms, Eyes - Dollar Store - $1 each pack
Glue gun & glue sticks - on hand

The finished monster pencils:

I wanted to print out the free printable from the tutorial to add tags to the pencils, but my printer was out of ink :( so my monsters have to go bare this time.

Since the kids do expect some sugar in the bag, I added a juice box and Hershey's Kiss/Hug with a little sticker that says 'A kiss from Haasya' or 'A hug from Haasya'. These stickers were left overs from my daughter's ZOO themed 2nd birthday party, of which I have not posted the details yet. You can see the overview post here with pictures though.

The sweet girl helped me stamp some Jack'O Lanterns on brown lunch bags and in the goodies went.

A little washi tape later they are all packed and ready to go in a big bin, for easy hauling.

Sharing my first halloween craft at Gingersnap Crafts' 127th {wow me} wednesday party.

Halloween week series - Day1 - The PUMPKIN

Happy Monday everyone. Since this is Halloween week, just for fun, I wanted to do a series of Halloween posts each day this week. Nothing SPOOKtacular, just some BOOtiful things we have been doing in preparation for Halloween. I think it will be awesome to do this every year, but lets see if I can handle it. We'll take it one year at a time. For this week, this is the plan.

Monday - The Pumpkins

Tuesday - Getting Crafty

Wednesday - The Costume

Thursday - Happy Halloween! Trick or Treat?

Friday - Highlights of the TERRORific day

For today, lets talk about the big old Pumpkin. The little one went to pumpkin patch with daddy last weekend and brought 2 big pumpkins. One that she decorated there and one plain sows can carve. Carving it is not easy, I found out last year. 1st time carving a pumpkin, just a basic Jack O' Lantern I tried with a kitchen knife. It came out ok, but I didn't research on treating it so it was moldy and nasty in couple of days.  So this year I went with the trusted painting route. I initially wanted to paint my daughter's hand prints, but it was more fun letting her paint the way she wants. She loved painting. So taped some painters tape on the pumpkin and cut out her initial. Then I gave her some paints (blue of course or she won't paint) and let her have a blast. 

Once the paint dried a bit, I peeled off the tape and we have this.

The small pumpkins I bought from grocery store. You don't really see all the colors I gave her, red white, metallic grey, black and blue, She just mixed up everything and made it a nice purplish grey, which matches with our front door though.

Speaking of matchy matchy, look at the other pumpkin she made at the patch.

Some more shots at the pumpkin patch this weekend. The girl loved it so much last week, she wanted to go again this weekend.

See you tomorrow with some crafts I want to do for school goody bags.