Halloween Fun with Nana

I'm still way behind on my posts, so forgive how late I am at getting these on here. Last week our Nana came down to spend a few days and do some fun Halloween projects with the kids. They had so much fun with her here.

Their first project was to make a skeleton out of pvc pipe. Zach felt very important because it was his job to color in the face, so he set to the side coloring it in - a look of concentration on his face. Hailey helped Nana put the skeleton together.


Isn't it fun? We wanted to set it outside, but with all the wind we get here, we would have lost our treasure for sure, so he had to stay inside. The kids just love it and look at it every day.


The next project was making some foam masks we found at the dollar store. Zach is really into pirates right now, so finding a pirate mask was so much fun. Hailey wanted to be a pirate just like her brother, so we convinced her that her mask was a pumpkin pirate. She seemed happy with that and ran around the house for the next few days saying "arrr, pirates!" It was so funny.


After the masks were done and played with for a bit, they moved on to the next project, which was making some spiders. The kids thought these were so neat and loved sticking the pipe cleaners into the foam balls to make the legs. We have a mama and 3 babies since we didn't quite have enough pipe cleaners to make 4 large spiders. The kids pick these up and play with them everyday, against my wishes and I'm always having to straighten out their legs and get them looking like spiders again.


We also found these fun Halloween clings at Walmart, so the kids next moved on to decorating our back sliding glass door with their window clings. I've decided that clings are so much fun! They are fairly cheap and if you keep the backing, you can reuse them year after year.


Lastly, Nana and the kids moved on to decorating some cupcakes. Nana asked what fun halloween colors the kids wanted the frosting and the replies were: pink and blue! Not exactly traditional halloween colors, but they were insistent, so that's what they got. Thank goodness for the halloween themed cupcake holders and toppers we had to remind us they were for halloween!


Don't they look yummy???


After all of those projects, the kids were more than happy. They ran around checking out their projects and playing with their masks. Thanks Nana for such a fun time - we had a blast!