Feast: Halloween 2009

We had SUCH fun today.  The kids are getting old enough to really get "into" Halloween and participate in all their ideas for making the day special.

We made cats yesterday ...

ghosts and scarecrows today ...

designed pumpkins for Dad to carve

dressed-up as Jeff Gordon, Flower Fairy, Jarhead Jerry

and headed out to trick-or-treat

Hope y'all had a wonderful All Hallows Eve ... tonight we get an extra hour of sleep (wooooohoooo) and tomorrow we start the month of the Saints and Holy Souls!

God bless you all ...

Crafts -- easy, seasonal craft for spooky nights

This is a GREAT craft that the kids remember fondly -- the last time we did it was Oct 27, 2007 (in Denver) and it's just as fun 2 years later .... it's an especially good for a don't-feel-quite-well-but-are-getting-bored kinda day .....

Take 9x12 construction paper -- the thicker the better.  Fold in half (so it's 9x6) and with a white colored pencil (crayons don't seem to give the depth of color you want), draw a tail, body, head and ears ....

Cut it out .... keeping outside the white lines ...

Glue the tail piece (save the back for a brace ... explained below), head and ears in place:

and then put in the details using colored pencils as they really do color better:

When you go to stand-up the cats, if your construction paper is a bit wimpy (ours was!), you can use that extra tail piece as a brace on the legs:

Enjoy your Halloween night .....