Easy Caramel Popcorn
What’s Halloween without caramel corn? What you need: - ½ cup butter - ½ cup packed brown sugar - 12 large marshmallows - 1 packet plain microwave popcorn - An adult assistant to help you with this recipe What you do: 1. Pop popcorn according to package directions. Leave in bag. 2. In a small saucepan combine butter and sugar. 3. Have your assistant heat butter and sugar over medium heat until butter is melted. Mix well. 4. Have your assistant add marshmallows to pan and stir constantly until they are melted. 5. Remove from heat. 6. Open popcorn package and pour marshmallow mixture over popcorn. Fold bag shut and, holding tightly closed, shake well to coat popcorn. When your popcorn has cooled you can mold it into popcorn balls, or just pour it into a bowl and dig in!
Sneak Peek: The Fabled Goose!
The Fabled Goose is our newest prize-only pet, available exclusively through the Ganz Parent Club. Check out a sneak peek! Read more
Paper Bag Scarecrows
These cute fall creatures are so easy to make. What you need: - Paper bags - Newpaper - Markers - Egg carton - Raffia or ribbon - Twist tie - Glue - Scissors - Buttons - An adult assistant to help you with this craft What you do: 1. Draw a scarecrow face on the bottom 1/3 of your paper bag. Just add dots for the eyes as you will be adding button eyes at the end. 2. Stuff crinkled up newspaper into the bottom 1/3 of your paper bag. 3. Squeeze your bag shut just about the newspaper and close with twist tie. 4. Using scissors, cut the top of the paper bag in strips down to just above the twist tie. Fan out strips to make scarecrow’s hair. 5. Cut up egg carton into individual cups to from ‘hats’. 6. Wrap a piece of ribbon or raffia around the base of a hat and glue hat on top of your scarecrow’s head. 7. Glue button eyes onto your scarecrow’s face. You can hang up these funny scarecrow heads or sit them on a windowsill to watch over the trick or treating fun!
Fall Suncatcher
What you need: - A selection of fall leaves - Two pieces of waxed paper the size of your window - Iron - Ironing board - 2 pieces of brown craft paper the same size as your waxed paper - An adult assistant to help you with the craft What you do: 1. Put one sheet of craft paper on your ironing board. 2. Place one sheet of waxed paper, waxed side up, on top of the craft paper. 3. Arrange your leaves in an attractive pattern. 4. Place the second sheet of waxed paper on top, waxed side down, lining up the edges. 5. Place the second piece of craft paper on top. 6. Have your adult assistant iron the craft paper on a low setting, being sure to heat right to the edge. When you are done, the two pieces of wax paper should stick together, suspending the leaves in place. Tape your artwork onto your window and you can enjoy the beauty of fall all year ‘round.
School Council Minutes – October 25
Recorded by: Stoogles, Vice President Re: Emergency Meeting of School Council continued Called by: Salley Cat, President In attendance: Salley Cat (see above), Stoogles (see above) and Purr-cilla, Treasurer This meeting has been called by Salley Cat to share our ideas to convince Ms. Cowoline that the Annual Halloween Parade through the school should go on this year, even though we lost a lot of learning time putting on the play last month. Salley’s idea: We should secretly pass the word around the school that everyone should just show up on Halloween in their costume and Ms. Cowoline will see that she has to let us hold the parade. PROS: Everyone would get to wear their costumes. CONS: We probably wouldn’t get to have the parade because Ms. Cowoline would be pretty mad and we would get in a lot of trouble for disobeying her. Stoogles’ idea: We should tell Ms. Cowoline that I suffer from a rare condition that requires me to dress up once a year and that I would feel more comfortable if all my friends supported me by dressing up as well. PROS: Well, despite the fact that I think this is an awesome idea, apparently … Read more
Adventure Park Pet – Webkinz Husky
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Adventure Park Pet – Webkinz Fox
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Adventure Park Pet – Velvety Elephant
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School Council Minutes – October 24
Recorded by: Stoogles, Vice President Re: Emergency Meeting of School Council Called by: Salley Cat, President In attendance: Salley Cat (see above), Stoogles, Vice-president and Purr-cilla, Treasurer Salley Cat called an emergency meeting to announce to the members of the school council some very disturbing news. Today Salley went to Ms. Cowoline’s office to ask her about the planned route for this year’s Halloween parade in which all the students dress in their costumes and march through the school. Ms. Cowoline told Salley that she had decided that because we spend so much time last month working on the play we’re behind in our studies, so Ms. Cowoline has decided to do away with the parade this year. Apparently it will take up too much of our valuable learning time. Salley told Ms. Cowoline that she couldn’t do that and when Ms. Cowoline asked why not, Salley apparently responded that – and I quote – “Well, she just couldn’t.” Ms. Cowoline said that “just couldn’t” is not a valid reason to hold the parade and that there is a lot of material that we still need to get through in class. Then Ms. Cowoline said that unless Salley Cat … Read more
Crafty Critterz: Hot Air Balloon
Submitted by: can with Zoey What you need: 1 balloon 1 square Box 4 pipe cleaner Makers Brown construction paper Scissors Tape / Glue What you do: 1. Cut off the top of the square box with your scissors to make the basket of your hot air balloon. 2. Cover the sides of the box with brown construction paper. Glue or tape it on securely. Then with a brown maker draw lines on the paper to make it look more like a basket. 3. Tape a pipe cleaner inside each corner of the box. They will hold up the balloon. 4. Blow up your balloon until it reaches the size that your want. Tie the balloon. 5. Decorate the balloon in any design that you want with the markers. 6. Tape the top end of the pipe cleaners to the sides of the balloon. Be careful the balloon can bust. Now your Webkinz will be ready to float around in their hot air balloon! Do you have a great idea for a craft, recipe or party game? We’d love to hear them!
Coming Soon: Patchy Puppy
Check out the patches on this pup! The Patchy Puppy will be arriving this December. Read more
Witch Hat Cookies
These yummy treats are eerily easy to make! What you need: - Chocolate wafer cookies - Hershey’s Kisses - Tube of green or orange icing What you do: 1. Place a circle of icing in the center of each cookie. 2. Press a Hershey’s Kiss into the icing. 3. If you like, you can use the icing to add a bow to the hat.
Alex Tiger: Not a Fan of Halloween
Uh hi, it’s Alex Tiger. I’m feeling kind of overwhelmed. We’ve been talking an awful lot about Halloween at school and outside of school. In fact, it seems to be about all anyone can talk about right now. It’s just, well, I’m kind of embarrassed to admit this but… well, I don’t really like Halloween. I like the candy part – that’s about the only part that makes it worth it. But I don’t like dressing up and I don’t like it when other people dress up in scary costumes. What’s so fun about being scared? I hate being scared. And when you go out on Halloween night, there are all these creepy looking costumes and you can’t tell who anybody is. And the worst part – even worse than the costumes – is all the frightening decorations. There are skulls and ghosts and bats and creepy crawlies all over the place. And some of those Jack-o-lanterns have terrifying faces. I don’t see why people have to make them look so nasty. I don’t mind some of the funny ones. I just don’t understand what is so great about this holiday. Why would anyone WANT to be scared? Can … Read more
