Crafty Critterz: Crazy Spider
Submitted by: God with peanut What you need: Black spray paint Foam ball 8 Black pipe cleaners Scissors 2 Googly eyes Hot glue What you do: 1. Have an adult assist with spray painting the foam ball black. Allow to dry. 2. When its dry put 4 pipe cleaners on each side. 3. Have an adult assist when using the hot glue gun to glue on the googly eyes. Do you have a great idea for a craft, recipe or party game? We’d love to hear them!
Nibbles Sees a Ghost!
By Salley Cat We had a bit of a mystery on our hands today, readers. Nibbles came running into school absolutely freaking out. When she was walking to school this morning she swore she saw a ghost in the trees near her house. She was shaking like a leaf. She said she couldn’t go home after school – she just couldn’t. I knew that there had to be some logical explanation. It is close to Halloween after all so I thought maybe what she thought was a real ghost was actually just somebody’s decorations. But Nibbles insisted that the ghost was flying through the trees! Freaky, huh? After school she was so scared about walking home I said I’d walk with her and we’d figure this thing out. Our walk home was completely uneventful. That is, until we got to the trees by her house. She was still really shaky when all of a sudden, she screamed and pointed. I turned to look at what she was pointing at and there it was. I saw it too! Through the trees a wispy white figure swayed back and forth. Nibbles didn’t have to tell me twice – we were … Read more
Purr-cilla’s Petition
Ms. Cowoline has cancelled our annual Halloween Parade around the school. If you want our Halloween Parade to go on this year, please support our effort to convince Ms. Cowoline to change her mind by signing below. When we have collected names we will pass this petition onto Ms. Cowoline to show her just how important the parade is to us
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
Play the Adventure Park Peek-A-New Challenge between November 1 and 11!
Adventure Park Pet – Webkinz Fox
Play the Adventure Park Peek-A-New Challenge between November 1 and 11!
Adventure Park Pet – Velvety Elephant
Play the Adventure Park Peek-A-New Challenge between November 1 and 11!
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
