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Five Little Pumpkins…

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Can you believe we’ve never read the Five Little Pumpkins before?I decided not to let another year pass without reading this book and added it to our story time this week.

Of course, we needed to have a little bit of fun with it. So, I made jack-o-lantern finger puppets.

I simply drew five pumpkins on card stock and cut them out.The circles on the bottom are finger holes.

If you don’t want to draw your own, there are plenty of clipart pumpkins you can enlarge, print and cut out.

Meet four of the five little pumpkins.

They’re a wee bit silly and tend to giggle a lot.

These two are good friends who like to hide and scare each other.

Catch me if you can!

If you haven’t picked up the Five Little Pumpkins, you should. It’s perfect for even the smallest child and it’s even more fun when you have your own little pumpkins to play with.

If you want more ideas for activities to do with this book, Toddler Approved has a great post about it here.

Loving Literature – A New Halloween Favorite…

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We found a new favorite Halloween book this year! The 13 Days of Halloween by Carol Greene is a fun and silly read that is perfect for celebrating the season. It’s a Halloween book written in the style of The Twelve Days of Christmas. Perfect for a read-aloud and sure to solicit many, many giggles.

The book follows this lovely, green lady and her gentleman friend as he attempts to give her a new gift for every day. He starts with a vulture in a dead tree and the gifts get sillier each day ending on the thirteenth day when the lady gives her gentleman friend a gift.

Grab the kids for a fun read-aloud, or even better, sing the book! Pretty soon the kids will be joining along… if they can stop giggling. I know we’ll be reading this book many more times before Halloween.

If you’re looking for other good Halloween reads, check these out:

The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin by Margaret Wise Brown

Which Witch’s Wand Works? by Poly Bernatene

Happy Halloween! (Max and Ruby)

Who’s There on Halloween? by Susan Hagan Nipp and Pamela Conn Beall

Googly-Eye Spider Masks…

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Watch out! The spider’s gonna get you!

Number 13 on our Fall Bucket List was to make spider masks.We’ve already began checking things off our list and recently decided that spider masks would be fun to do for craft time.

And what would make spider masks even more perfect? Why googly eyes, of course!

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Supplies Needed

Paper plates (1 for each spider)
Black construction paper (enough for 8 legs per spider – I used one sheet per set of 8 legs)
Black paint
Large craft sticks
Googly eyes

To prep the craft, I cut the center out of the paper plate. I wanted to flat portion only. I cut the eye holes out as well. I also cut the strips of paper. (I did this part because my girls aren’t all that skilled with scissors yet!)

First, we painted the paper plate and craft stick black.I thinned the paint a bit with water, so it wouldn’t be so thick and goopy on the masks. (You can thin any water-soluble paint with water.)

Then came the hard part; we had to let it dry!

Next, we accordion folded all the paper strips so the legs would be nice and wiggly.This part was difficult for my 4- and 2-year-old, so I had to help a lot. (Yep, you guessed it. I ended up folding all the legs… oh well!)

Finally, it was time to glue!I poured some glue in a saucer and gave the girls cotton swabs to make it a bit easier for them to handle.

They glued the googly eyes all over the mask and then we glued the legs to the back of the paper plate.

As a final step, we glued the painted craft sticks to the bottom of the plates. These are the handles for the girls to hold up to their faces.

Don’t forget the very important step of holding the googly eyes over your actual eyes so Mom can take silly pictures!

Spider masks are a must for Halloween this year! Have you started making Halloween crafts this year?

Pumpkin Painting

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In case you ever wondered where my artsy/crafty side came from, I’d have to say I come by it naturally. My mom loves to come up with wonderful projects for the girls too!

When we were visiting my parents recently, my mom had everything needed for the girls to paint a few pumpkins. We took them outside, geared up for a mess and set the girls to painting.

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The girls decided to paint a couple of masterpieces. They considered their colors, applied it meticulously and painted more carefully than I’ve ever seen them. They did not get a speck of paint on themselves or the newspapers!

In the end, we had a couple of beautiful pumpkins and the girls had a great time creating art with their Granny.