Halloween 2011

I always loved Halloween. It is one of my favorite days...ooh, the possibilities of crafts and food!

However, this year was a pretty quiet one, with R Jr. being sick on and off and me going through some tough times. But inspite of all of that, I challenged myself and carved three pumpkins.

R Jr. was Buzz Lightyear this year. He got to wear his costume the second he got out of bed and had it on till he fell asleep at nite on Halloween.

We made bookmarks for his friends and teachers at preschool

And had fun halloween shaped pancakes for breakfast...

It's raining pumpkins

I ended up getting around 6 pumpkins and 6 gourds....more than what I would usually allow myself...We transformed them into:

A witch and a pirate(kit from Dollar Tree)

Monsters

Ghosts

And finally...the last and biggest one of all...

Paper plate Bat

No halloween is complete without a bat hovering somewhere in your house for the spooky effect. The newest addition to the list of paper plate crafts was this bat R Jr. created. A rather friendly bat it looks like:)

I used all his creations as halloween wall decoration by clipping them to a string and hanging them up on the wall.

Footprint Ghost

Lately, I have been very bad at doing art/craft projects with R Jr. Been super busy at work and when I get back, we usually take R Jr. to the park or end up running errands. Yesterday, I managed to squeeze in this simple craft activity.

I traced the outline of R Jr.'s foot onto a sheet of paper. Cut the outline to copy it to a white foam sheet that creates the ghost's body. Cut out two arms. Punched out pink construction paper for those rosy cheeks:). Ain't that pretty. This will look great if hung as a decoration on your front door.

Halloween Crafts using paper plates

Since I have seen so many posts by other bloggers prepping up for Halloween, I decided to jump on the wagon too. R Jr. and I decided to have fun with paper plates and come up with our favorite Halloween characters. This is the first time that R Jr. is so excited about Halloween(we were traveling last year during Halloween and he doesn't really remember his first one, of course).

The best thing about these is that they are so easy. R Jr. just needed help with the cutting, but the rest is all his work and I like how they turned out, especially Frankenstein.