The girls helped me decorate for Halloween this year. The twirls had no idea what the figurines were, but by the end of the month they were using these words correctly: Halloween, ghost, pumpkin, scared, mummy, spider, bat, witch, spooked, boo, and yikes. They LOVED watching the Halloween episodes of Paw Patrol, Blaze, Umi Zoomi, Daniel Tiger, Bubble Guppies, Clifford, Curious George, and others. They especially all three loved watching Halloween songs on youtube. I was surprised at how many of the cartoons were gruesome or too scary. So we mostly watched this Halloween DVD from Super Simple Songs. I'm glad to see my love for Halloween already transferring to my girls!
I love all my decorations! I received many as gifts (people know me so well!) and it reminds me of you every time I look at them! The girls especially loved the window clings. By the end of the month I was soooo sick of finding them all over the house! I used orange plastic, translucent file dividers from Target to make little orange covers for our outdoor lights (like I did for Christmas last year).
The girls and I went to Three Cedars Farm and Plymouth Orchard. One was a ward playgroup and one was a YW Laurel class activity. The girls loved seeing the animals and playing outside.
Jake and I took the girls to a pumpkin patch one evening. We carved the big ones for FHE and the girls filled the pumpkins with rocks while I separated the seeds from the yucky mush. So tedious! I'm not sure it was worth it but at least they liked them in the end (probably cause they were covered in cinnamon sugar)!
IHOP had a deal where kids eat free and the girls ordered Halloween face pancakes. They bring out a little bowl with items to decorate the face however you want. They were in heaven!
During nap time Scarlett made a Halloween art project. She drew the pumpkins, cut them out, and glued them all on her own. The only thing I helped her with were the stars. I was so impressed! Then twice during October I used orange bell peppers as jack-o-lanters in our dinners. The stuffed peppers were funny cause the filling spilled out the mouth like they were throwing up! Pumpkin after my own pregnant heart!
2 comments:
That pancake idea is so fun!! We'll have to try that over the holiday. (I think they'll just end up eating the whipped cream....and nothing else.) :-)
What a fun time.
Your decorations are all darling- it was fun to see how much the girls enjoyed and pointed them out to me.
I have to say- I've never watched so many Halloween cartoons in my life. They were pretty cute- all 100 times!
One twirl nap time I was on star cut out duty. Scarlett kept saying more starts Grammy, more stars Grammy and then she didn't even use them. ha ha ha
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