{"id":1172,"date":"2010-10-21T05:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T05:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2010-10-21T05:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T05:14:55","slug":"more-halloween-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/21\/more-halloween-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"More Halloween Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Are you getting into the Halloween spirit with your kiddos?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s a few more Halloween activities&#8230;.. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><strong> Make a large paper jack-o-lantern and play pin the nose on the pumpkin.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong> Tie a white tissue over a round sucker to make mini-ghosts.\u00a0 Use markers to add a face.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><strong> Go pumpkin bowling, using empty plastic bottles for pins and a small pumpkin for the ball.\u00a0 If you like, make ghosts out of the pins with scraps of white cloth and a tie (like the suckers).<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Make paper plate spider webs:\u00a0 Have kids cut notches all around a paper plate.\u00a0 Cut a length of black yarn and have them thread the yarn back and forth between random notches until the plate is covered with a web.\u00a0 If you want to make it permanent, let the kids paint over the yarn with glue.\u00a0 Once dry, the web will be hard and can be removed from the plate.\u00a0 Cut a spider out of black construction paper to finish it off.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li> <span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><strong>For very little kids, cut out shapes from black paper (triangles, squares, circles &amp; mouth shapes) and cut a large circle from orange paper to make a pumpkin.\u00a0 Let them choose the shapes to use for eyes and a nose and glue them to make a pumpkin face.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong> Mix some washable black tempera paint with some dish soap and let the kids use their\u00a0 hands to stamp bats on the windows.\u00a0 For each bat, use a round sponge to stamp a body and then use one hand print for each wing (fingers going out).\u00a0 Prepare for a mess.\u00a0 The dish soap helps this clean up easily with a wet sponge after Halloween is over.\u00a0 To make it easier clean-up, take the kids outside and stamp the outside of the windows.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><strong> Give the kids a couple of rolls of white toilet paper and let them make mummies of themselves.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Simple Kids also reminded me of this fabulously fun <span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">cutting paper story<\/span> that reveals a fun surprise at the end with <a href=\"simplekids.net\/orange-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Halloween house<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And there&#8217;s always the favorite here at our house &#8212; putting the baby in the pumpkin.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1245\/5101023963_66986c1c57.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">What Halloween fun are you stirring up at your house?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you getting into the Halloween spirit with your kiddos? Here&#8217;s a few more Halloween activities&#8230;.. Make a large paper jack-o-lantern and play pin the nose on the pumpkin. Tie a white tissue over a round sucker to make mini-ghosts.\u00a0 Use markers to add a face. 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