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How to Make a Despicable Me Minion Costume

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  I need to figure out how to make a Halloween Despicable Me minion costume for JDaniel. He decided this summer after seeing the first Despicable Me costume on a neighbor's DVD that he wanted to be minion. I started looking online for costume ideas when he announced that this would be his costume to look for minion costume ideas. I found a Continue Reading

Halloween Craft- Button Pumpkin Face

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How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow? out of the library. From the book's cover I really didn't know if it would be about  two boys growing a big pumpkin or something else. I asked JDaniel to predict what the book was going to be about based on the cover. He thought it could be about growing pumpkins too. After we read the book, we did a Halloween craft Continue Reading

Fall Leaf Craft Owl

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The leaves have started cascading down from the trees in our front yard. The yellow, brown and green leaves remind me of the colors of an owl's feathers. Well, maybe not the yellow. JDaniel and I used some of those leaves to create an owl fall leaf craft.  I grabbed a cardboard box from our recycling bin  to use as the base for the owl. It was Continue Reading

Top 11 Halloween Books for Kids

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  This post contains affiliate links. Here are my top 11 Halloween books for kids! We really try to steer away from really scary Halloween books at my house. I like to read to JDaniel before bedtime and scary books make it hard to sleep. This collection is filled with books that feature pumpkins and creatures that are fun. Another focus of this Continue Reading

Easy Halloween Snack- Candy Corn on Crackers

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When I  have looked on Pinterest for fun and easy Halloween snacks, I have some great ones. I have even started a board for them called Halloween Food Ideas. Many are sweet treats (I love them.), but  I decided that I needed to come up with an easy Halloween snack that was a little on the healthier side.JDaniel is a huge fan of cheese. I thought it Continue Reading

Preschool Craft- Cupcake Liner Pumpkin

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  On Saturday we sat down at kitchen table to create this cupcake liner pumpkin and JDaniel announced that it was for preschoolers. It was easy enough for preschoolers to complete, but I think children outside of preschool would like to do this craft too. What supplies did we use to make preschool craft?  Black construction paper, Continue Reading

Spider Letter Swat- Alphabet Activity

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  Recognizing letters and their sounds is so important when you are learning how to read. This spider letter swat was made to give my son practice in letter sounds and share words that begin with those letter sounds. This was made for Halloween, but I think it could be used in a spider learning unit any time of the year. Making the Spider Continue Reading

How to Make Halloween Treat Bags

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Halloween Treat Bags

Sponsored by Global Influence With Products Supplied by Hershey's I have been going to my son's class to share a book and the do an activity with them once a month. I was planning on sharing to book T.Rex Trick or Treats this month. When I was contacted about sharing Hershey's and their Celebrate with Hershey's campaign with you, I thought I Continue Reading

Counting Hands- Math Activity

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  When you are learning to count on or as we called it when I was little adding, it is helpful to have hands on math tool to work with. Counting hands make a math activity fun and are really fun to make. They also look a little Halloween like which is great for this time of year.  Materials: plastic gloves 1 bag of mixed Continue Reading

Corn Maze- Math Activity

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Corn Maze Numbers Math Activity

We will be walking through a full-size corn maze when we go to the pumpkin patch until then we have small corn maze math activity in our backyard. It doesn't have any dead ends or twists to it. It is a simple avenue of corn that we can walk through. Our corn maze is simply construction paper husks of corn placed on stakes. (The stakes have been Continue Reading

Kids Gardening – Planting a Pumpkin’s Seeds in a Pumpkin

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Planting pumpkin seeds in a pumpkin is our latest attempt to grow pumpkins. Last summer we tried several times to grow pumpkins in our backyard. The seeds grew into long vines with beautiful blooms. The blooms were then eaten by big beetles that apparently love pumpkin flowers and live under the shed we planted our pumpkin seeds beside. This fall I Continue Reading

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