Monday, November 24, 2008


Lunch sack turkeys!
We saw something similar at a friend's house the other day that Lindsey loved, so we decided to make them this morning.
All you need is a couple of lunch bags, construction paper, scissors, glue, stapler, and a few pieces of newspaper to stuff the body of the turkey. Rand wasn't interested and only did some half-hearted gluing. Lindsey was all over the stapler.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Playing Catch-Up

There are lots of reasons I haven't updated this blog in a while. We went on our trip. I had a primary program to do. Lindsey's birthday. Halloween. Lovely weather keeping us outside rather than inside. Whatever. With how busy this fall has been, I have really slacked off on putting together many projects for us to do. But it's such a great season for kid crafts. Let's play catch-up of what we have done recently so we can get going on some other new ideas!

(These are in reverse order since I can't seem to move the pictures around for some reason today).

"Painting" with shaving cream.
This kept Lindsey occupied for about an hour yesterday. Good clean fun.
Preparation time: 0 minutes.
Cleanup Time: 2 minutes.
Supplies: Shaving cream, cookie sheet, apron
Handprint turkeys.
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cleanup time: Depends on how messy your kids get
Supplies: Tempura paints, paper, table cloth, a few markers, scissors
I think they make a nice garland above our mirror,
though we could have used some brown paint to round off the fall colors.
And what's up with the red paint looking pink?
Pre-turkeys.

See, I told you this was in backwards order!

The easiest party game ever: Pin the nose on the Jack O' Lantern
Supplies: Poster board, marker, black construction paper for noses