Holiday Banner

This banner is made from odd and fun items: old book pages, tulle, old sew patterns and scrap book paper.
Find a fun holiday style font for your letters and decide on your wording then print on your printer. You can then cut them out with a circle cutter. Glue, staple or better yet use the scrapbook square double sided tapes. This has been crinkled then inked to give it a distressed look. Then attach black crate paper folding it to give it a different look. Then attach to your pre-cut page style paper, cut into triangles, using a fun shaped edge. You may want to ink the edges as well to give it that finished look. Using a hole punch, apply a whole to each side at the top corner of each triangle. String onto a small ribbon and tie with simple knots the tulle and patters at each end.

Items to retrieve:
Old book pages
Scrapbook paper
Printed letters
Crate paper
Thin Ribbon
tulle
old patterns
Circle cutter
shaped scissors
stapler or square tapes
Hole Punch
*Glitter Glue
*Sparkled Ribbon

*Spice it up:
Adding the tulle and patterns do the trick but you could add numerous fun lengths of sparkled ribbon, and add glitter to the letters.

IRON GIANT PAPER MACHE COSTUME

Colby decided to make this costume for Avery since IRON GIANT is an older movie and you can not buy hardly anything for it. Avery is still obsessed with the movie.
This costume is made with cardboard the he just glued together with hot glue to make the foundation of the chest plate.
For the hat we first started with a plastic helmet that you can get at any party store. This was a construction helmet we used for another party earlier that year. We cut off the rum and used the rest so it had some strength being that we know our 3 yr old is going to be very hard on it. Colby then added the other aspects that made it Iron Giant.
Then came the paper Mache. It is a mixture of water and flour you can find a recipe online anywhere. Ripping the newspaper into small strips you lay it into the flour mixture then lay it on the foundation piece. until it is covered well. we did it in two layers drying once both where done. It dried over night and he was able to paint it the next day with just some acrylic paint.
You can if you wish put a layer of machei over it that has been blended up to give it a smoother more solid look, although because of time and what it was fore we decided not to. Later we regretted it and wish we had because it would have made it much stronger. I later had to put duct tape around all the edged because of how hard he was on it and the newspaper stared to peel off. Duct tape was very serendipitous for us since our costume was already silver to begin with!!

He just drew the stripes and bolts on with a sharpie marker. But to make it look better I would suggest painting them on and taking the time to tape it off with painters tape for good hard solid lines.

Avery loves his costume, he is sure to point out every little dectail in the movie, notice the bump on the head and the mohawk hair, he'll say. He wears it every day and will as long as it holds up I suspect, for months if not years to come!

Halloween Decor for Kids

A banner I made for my sons room. He loves pirates and skulls but this hangs above his bed so I didn't want anything to scary.
This is simple cutting but looks best if you use a circle cutter or the eyes.

Halloween Decor for walls

An idea for the inside of your home or on the outside like your front door if your door is out of the weather.
These are made of felt I cut into 4 different sizes of bats. they are all the same pattern just scaled down. I then soaked them in starch and dried them. it does give them a gray tint but if they are up high you really don't notice that part. I had to staple blue painters tape to the back so it would stick both to the walls and stay connected to the felt material.

Holiday Mystery Dinner

My mom gave us a "Mystery Dinner" it was very enjoyable. It was for her my dad me and my boys. IT was a dinner table set for Halloween. Then we were given a menu that said to pick 4 courses. it had items like witches fingers mashed up worms, eyeballs. and these items were an actual food that only my mom new what they were. So after selecting your courses she would bring in your 1st course. It may have been something like this:
Witches fingers+= grilled asparagus
mashed slugs= mustard
Grave digger= spoon
Ghost blood= sprite
eyeballs= grapes
liver spots= watermelon


She had each item on a small plate or in a muffin paper liner.
After each course you are suppose to take away everything from the last course but we decided to keep it since we wanted the boys to have mustard and ketchup for their mummy hot dogs and spoons for their jello. It was a great dinner and she made it relatively healthy . You could really do it for any holiday just nae it differently.


MYSTERY DINNER- key

Witches Finger- Roasted Asparagus with salt and Parmesan Cheese
Swamp Monster-Salad
Blood Clots- Tomatoes
Ghost Blood- Sprite
Smashed Slug- Mustard
Eye balls- Grapes
Liver Spots- Watermelon
Zombie Teeth - Pine Apple
Snake Skin - Chips
Witches Brew- Root Beer
Pumpkin Head- Pumpkin Cookie
Mummy Fingers- Hotdogs in a Blanket
Blood- Ketchup
Vampire Phangs- Roasted Almonds
Adams Apple- Cider
Zombie Eyeballs- Olives
Grave Digger- Spoon
Villager’s pitchfork- Fork
Slice and Dice- Knife
Snakes Tongue- plastic split tooth pick
Bones- Tooth Picks

1st Course 2nd Course

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MYSTERY DINNER Menu

Witches Finger
Swamp Monster
Blood Clots
Ghost Blood
Smashed Slug
Eye balls
Liver Spots
Zombie Teeth
Snake Skin
Witches Brew
Pumpkin Head
Mummy Fingers
Blood- Ketchup
Vampire Phangs
Adams Apple
Zombie Eyeballs
Grave Digger
Villager’s pitchfork
Slice and Dice
Snakes Tongue
Bones

1st Course 2nd Course

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Put an item in each category on every line. You will be served what you asked for, although you may not know what you actually asked for. At the end of each course your items will be discarded. Choose wisely or you may end up with a wacky meal!!

HALLOWEEN DECOR FANS

These ARE A VERY CUTE LITTLE DECORATION I THOUGH
QUITE SIMPLE TO MAKE TOO.
I have seen thees on the sticks and on a string as well as a banner or garland. I have also seen them decorate a wreath either all the way around or as a small bunch at one side.SO play with it and use them for what ever you want

These were made with scrapbook paper, the large one has a coffee filter and the smaller ones have cupcake liners.

Items to Retrieve:
Scrap book paper
Holiday printed photos cut into circles
Circle cutter
Hot Glue
Skewers
Black Paint
Cup Cake liners
Coffee filters
Tinsel(optional)
Glitter (optional)

-First select some coordinating papers and liners select the size you wish yours to be any where from 8" - 2"
Start to fold the paper like a fan back and forth. The larger circles are made out of three separate fans and hot glued together until you achieve a perfect circle with good crinkle. the smaller ones can get away with 2 fans.
-Once you have glued them together paint and or glue in the wooden skewer with hot glue.
- Attach with glue the coffee filter, cup cake liner or another fanned piece of scrap book paper. You with have 3-4 layers depending on your style. ending with the printed holiday picture.


ADD SOME JAZZ: If you wish to embelish with tinsel or add glitter glue to the picture to add a little pizazz!

These are double sided so they are view all around but that is not necessary if they will not be view that way.

This could be done for any holiday just pick you papers and liners accordingly.
Could be a fun item to use at a party or in a plant r on top a present!
Could also be fun to put a photo of your child or friend as a gift.

ZumbaTomic

ZumbaTomic was an activity that Jack got to got. Cecilia and James held it over a two day period it is Zumba for Kids. They go and learn how to dance then perform an entire dance with all the other kids at the end of the two day workshop. They also got to make t-shirts about why they love zumba and how it makes them feel. Then they ha held a class on healthy eating and regular exercise. Jack had a Blast he got to meet some new kids and of course hang out with his pall Tiago and Tiff.
It was fun to watch and be a part of. I helped CC get it going on the first day and helped the kids with the shirts.
I made her invitations as well. Jack and Avery love to go to Zumba class they like the music and to occasionally dance. Now she has set u a day care for the evening classes so they go there and play all night long while we the parents dance. We also helped het get that together by donating a lot of our toys and helped her pull some things together.