Eco-friendly tip for a longer lasting carved pumpkin

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• soak carved pumpkin in a 50/50 solution of borax and water then dry thoroughly


• Everyday spray a little borax solution in pumpkin and around the carved area

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• Don't throw away the seeds, place them in a bird feeder, or leave them out for the squirrels


• We roast and salt our seeds (yummy)


• Also, Compost your pumpkin after halloween

Reach For The Sky Woody and Jesse

YAY! I completed the kids costumes. Woody and Jesse turned out to be pretty easy to make. A pair of jeans, a couple thrift store finds, and some fabric. I just loosly stitched the faux cow hide to a vest for Woody and a pair of jeans for Jesse. For Jesse’s shirt, I fabri-tacked the cording and the satin ribbon for the sleeves. The kids are so happy with their costumes that mom made.

See my previous post for the holsters.

Halloween Goodie Tubes

These are awesome! I found the tutorial here: the muddy princess

The Town Hall Halloween Ball

They're bob, bob, bobbing for apples

They're sip, sip sippin' on cider

They're pop, pop, poppin' their popcorn

and they're packin' in the  puuunkin pie (say with lots of attitude)

at the town hall Halloween ball

I found some links to unusual pumpkin pie recipes

Recipe: Pumpkin Praline Pie

Recipe: Pumpkin Pie Dip

Gluten-Free Pumpkin Pie

recipe: Pumpkin whoopie pie

recipe:pumpkin pie drop cookies

-Tip- Roasting Pumpkins for Pie

Start by washing the pie pumpkin (a great variety for pies is Baby Pam) and then break off the stem and hack it in half.  Then scoop out the seeds.  Fill a 13×9″ pan with 1/4″ water.  Place pumpkins skin side up and roast at 400 degrees until very tender… This usually takes about 45 minutes to an hour.

Scoop the soft flesh from the skins and puree in a food processor with desired spices.  Use in the same porportions for pie as with a canned recipe.

Taste the difference!

Halloween coloring book page

Free downloadable PDF coloring book page. Illustrated by me. Enjoy!

colorpage_halloween

featured at it's so very cheri

spider craft for kids

Supplies needed:

• egg carton


• scissors


• glue


• big fat black chenille stick for body


• regular size black chenille sticks


• black paint and sponge brush


• red felt


• googly eyes


• something like a poker from your pumpkin carving kit to make holes

1. cut egg carton into individual cups


2. poke 3 holes on each side for legs


3. paint black


4. cut red fabric into a small diamond shape and glue on inside of carton


5. cut regular size chenille sticks into about 4 equal pieces for legs


6. cut big chenille stick into about a 2-3 inch piece to wrap around the egg carton


7. glue big chenille stick down


8. insert legs into holes


9. glue on googly eyes

you're done!

Kit it! and give as a Halloween treat!



 

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Party Perfect Halloween Party

This website has such pretty photography and the parties are really inspirational. I love the Halloween page.   http://www.saraspartyperfect.com/

Scrappy Pumpkin Tee Shirt project

My friend designed this project for her daughter's girl scout troupe. I think it is such a great project.



 



• TAP® Transfer Artist Paper
• Plain tee shirt – white or light color
• Scraps of pretty patterned papers
• Black marker, pencil
• White paper, white card stock
• Glue stick, scissors, Exacto® blade
• All-in-one inkjet printer/copier
• Firm ironing surface and iron

1. Use a black marker to draw a thick outline of a pumpkin with 4 segments on white cardstock


2. Copy the pumpkin on to white paper to make a master copy


3. Use an Exacto blade to trim out the inside of each section of the pumpkin on cardstock to create a stencil


4. Use the stencil to mark and cut out scrap papers to fit inside each section – use a different patterned paper for each section to make it scrappy, and don’t forget the stem!


5. Glue each of your trimmed scraps onto your master copy


6. Load a sheet of TAP into your inkjet printer and copy your scrappy pumpkin on to the TAP, following package instructions


7. Trim your pumpkin out of the TAP sheet and place it image-side-down on to your tee shirt


8. Press the image on to your shirt with your iron, following the TAP package instructions


9. If desired, you can also print out some Halloween words on to TAP to go with your pumpkin – just be sure to reverse the words on your computer before printing them out

This post was originally posted on C&T Publishing's blog:

http://www.ctpubblog.com/2010/10/08/scrappy-pumpkin-tee-shirt/

Halloween Jokes for kids

What did the bird say on Halloween?

Trick or tweet!

 

What do goblins and ghosts drink when they're hot and thirsty on Halloween?

Ghoul-aid

 

What is a Mummie's favorite type of music?

Wrap

 

Where does a ghost go on Saturday night?

Anywhere where he can boo-gie

 

Why didn't the skeleton dance at the party?

He had no body to dance with

 

What tops off a ghost's ice cream sundae?

Whipped scream

 

What do you call a little monsters parents

mummy and deady

 

What do ghosts eat for breakfast?

Boo-Berries

 

What's a ghosts favorite desert?

Boo-berry pie

 

What's a monsters favorite desert?

I-Scream

 

What kind of tie does a ghost wear to a formal party?

A boo-tie.

 

What did tha boy ghost say to the girl ghost?

You are the most booooooooo-tiful thing I have ever seen!

 

Halloween Fun for kids

Happy Halloween!

Free downloadable PDFs of Halloween songs, poems, jokes and a maze.

halloween fun 1

halloween fun 2




 

 

 



 

Clayton Valley Pumpkin Farm

Another great pumpkin patch Clayton Valley Pumpkin Farm. We just went there with my son's pre school and it was a big hit.

Fun for kids

Lots of pumkins

They do a wonderful educational tour which really is age appropriate and just the right amount of information for the kids along with fun things to do like mill corn and milk a pretend cow,

Alpacas, goats, pot bellied pigs

A train ride

A food stand

Down below the pumpkin patch area is a kids play area with a hay maze and HUGE pools of Lima Beans

Kids cowboy holster

My kids are going to be Woody and Jessie from toy story for Halloween this year so I'm making their costumes. I never knew I would have so much fun making a costume. The holster is so cool for a little boy that I made 2 extras for my nephews because I think they'll just have fun playing cowboys.

I did a search and found a blog that gives step by step instructions on how to make the holster. It took me a couple times to get the pattern right but once I did the others were so easy to make that I made 3 in one night.

here's the link to the blog I found that has the step by step instructions for making your own holster.

http://jameehomemaker.blogspot.com/2010/03/cowboy-days-and-gun-holster-tutorial.html

I used some faux leather remnants from a fabric store.  hole punched around the edge and cut thin strips of the same leather for the lace. Basically you have one piece that is cut around the gun with extra at the top to weave the belt through and a second piece that covers the gun. Then just lace them together and you have on rough and tough cowboy holster.