Halloween Parade!
Halloween Parade! By Ella McWoof I stopped by Kinzville Academy today to check out the annual Halloween Parade through the school. I remember back when I was at the old Academy, I just loved Halloween. We would start with the youngest classes and then make our way through the school, going into each class and collecting the students to add to our parade. By the time we got back to the front hall, the whole school was part of the parade. It was awesome seeing some of the younger kids dressed up in their costumes – they’d get so excited. So I was really looking forward to checking out some of the costumes this year and they did not disappoint! Ms. Cowoline even let them decorate the school. They did such a good job it’s scary! Cowabelle looks regal in this chic Pharoah costume. And Sparky could be the ‘After’ picture to Cowabelle – he’s all wrapped up in being a Mummy. Ewww! Stoogles is a creepy Zombie! That green, rotting face paint is freaking me out! … Read more
Hot Dog Mummies
What you need: hot dogs, crescent roll dough, adult assistant, stove, cookie sheet, ketchup What you do: 1. Take the crescent roll dough out of the package – try to keep the dough in a rectangle (don’t separate into triangles). 2. Using a knife (or having your adult assistant do this step), cut the dough into strips about 2 cm wide. 3. Wrap your hot dogs with the dough. Overlap the dough and make it look like bandages. 4. Put the hot dogs onto a cookie sheet and bake in the oven at 350 degrees until the dough is golden (about 15 minutes). Serve these ‘mummies’ with ketchup!
Monster toes
What you need: - Cocktail wieners - Flour tortillas - Ketchup - An adult assistant to help you with this recipe What you do: Cut a wedge out of the edge of each cocktail wiener. Cut tortillas into 1” strips. Warm the strips in the oven for a few minutes to soften them. Wrap one strip around each wiener. Have your adult assistant heat the toes in the microwave for about a minute, then add ketchup to the wedge you cut to create a toenail. These treats taste as good as they look disgusting!
Spooky eyeball treats
What you need: - 3 tablespoons butter - 4 cups miniature marshmallows - 6 cups rice crisp cereal – Icing sugar – Water – Green & red food coloring – Chocolate chips – Paintbrush – Wooden skewers What you do: Melt butter and marshmallows in microwave. Pour cereal into large bowl and add marshmallow mixture, stirring with a wooden spoon until well combined. Form into small balls, set on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for one hour. Combine water and icing sugar in a bowl until it is slightly runny. Take rice crisp balls, poke onto a skewer and dip into icing. Sit skewer upside down in a glass until icing is hardened. Repeat twice until balls are covered in icing. With a paintbrush, paint a green circle onto eyeball with green food coloring. Press a chocolate chip into the center of the circle to make your eyeball’s pupil. Paint on veins with red food coloring. These creepy eyeballs may look scary but they taste oh so sweet!
Spooky Snakes
Have a few of these creepy creatures peeking out of the grass on Halloween to give trick or treaters a fright! What you need: - A few sticks that could pass for snakes - Metallic paint - Googly eyes - Glue gun - An adult assistant to help you with this craft What you do: 1. Paint your sticks with metallic paint. Let dry. 2. With the help of your assistant use glue gun to affix googly eyes to your snakes. Hide your little serpents around your porch on Halloween.
Dryer Vent Pumpkins
The cute pumpkins are so easy to make you’ll want to create an entire pumpkin patch! What you need: - 10’ length of white, flexible dryer vent, available at the hardware store, any width - Orange spray paint - Twist ties - Fabric leaves from the craft store - Scissors - Wire cutter - Nail - Hot glue gun - An adult assistant to help you with this craft What you do: 1. Have your adult assistant cut vent into 2’ lengths. 2. Form a circle with the vent, and have your assistant poke a hole with the nail in each end near the top and bottom where you will attach the ends. 3. Use the twist ties to attach the two ends together. 4. Spray paint with orange paint. 5. With the help of your assistant, affix the fabric leaves into the top with hot glue. Use different widths of dryer vent to create a variety of different sized pumpkins.
Crafty Critterz: Webkinz Game
Submitted by: mcf with Coco It is a race to see who finishes first on the Webkinz path with obstacles and Webkinz chance cards along the way! What you need: Images of the animals from Webkinz News White sticker labels Markers Bristol board Scissors Webkinz Figurines Single Dice What you do: 1. Use the images of the animals from Webkinz Newz to create Webkinz stickers. We had precut stickers so they are fairly large which resulted in a fairly large game board but you could use smaller ones to create your path. You could even cut and paste the pictures onto the game board instead of stickers. 2. For fun, you can lay out the Webkinz in order of release date along the path so everyone could see the first plush Webkinz to the last. 3. Draw on the staircases with marker. This is really the best part of the game! You must go up or down the staircase if you land on tile at the start or finish of the staircase. 4. The Webkinz cards also add lots of fun to the game, especially when played on Webkinz Day, why some … Read more
Pumpkin Pouch
Want to make your friends’ Halloween even sweeter? Make this pumpkin pouch! What you need:Orange construction paper, green construction paper, thick orange marker, thin orange marker, craft glue, scissors What you do: 1. Fold your orange construction paper in half. Trace a pumpkin shape on one half. 2. Cut your pumpkin shapes out. 3. Run a bead of glue around the edge of the sides and bottom of the pumpkin. Leave the top open. Press the two pumpkins together and let them dry. 4. When your pumpkin is dry, outline it with the thick orange marker. Leave the middle blank and write “Happy Halloween!” in thin orange marker. 5. Using the green construction paper, cut out a stem. Glue it to the back of your pumpkin. 6. Fill your pumpkin pouch full of treats and give it to a friend!
Bat-o-Lanterns
What you need: - Mini pumpkin - 2 large googly eyes - 2 wooden stir sticks - Black card or bristol board - Black acrylic paint - Paintbrush - Hot glue gun - An adult assistant to help you with this craft What you do: 1. Paint pumpkin black. Allow to dry. 2. With your adult assistant’s help, use glue gun to affix googly eyes. 3. Cut out black card in the shape of two bat wings. 4. Poke one end of stir stick into side of one pumpkin and affix one bat wing to it. 5. Repeat with bat wing on the other side. This craft is so easy you’ll want to create a whole colony of these zany bats!
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