More Fall Fun

In between some of the craziness we have managed to do a few more fall activities. A very few.  Here's Anna in her Halloween T-shirt.  She thought this was her multi-holiday outfit: Halloween shirt, 4th of July skirt and Easter (actually spring) socks.  Lovely!

 We decorated some foam pumpkins

If you are very observant you can see me in the background changing John's diaper.

Even Grant got in on the fun.  His pumpkin had a few suspicious teeth marks in it by the end.  Hmmm

 Anna with some of her finished pumpkins

This was not a high intensity craft.

 Our plum jam

My mom made delicious plum jam with the plums off our tree.

It is so good.  I hope we get lots of plums next year to make more.

We played a little dangling donuts game

Matthew had a lot of fun with it.  I like how Grant's hand is sticking into this picture.  I think he wanted to grab the donut for himself.

 Anna had a go at it too.  She found the "using your hands" method to be very successful.

 Mmmm...donuts!!

With some of the leftover face stickers from our foam craft kit we made mandarin orange cup pumpkin faces.

 Anna's had ears...or at least I hope that's what they are.

I wore one of the pumpkin smiles like a mustache and then the kids wanted to do it too.  It didn't quite look like a mustache when Anna did it.  :)  Maybe a weird shaped goatee.

 Hmm

 It just got worse and worse after that.

 See

 

And this picture is for Scott.  We made spider crafts earlier in the month and Anna decided she had to kill her spider by stepping on it.  RIP spider.  This was just after eating some chocolate candy, which is why Anna has chocolate on her face.

 

And here is part of Matthew's Halloween costume (a sneak peek).  He wanted to be a ghost, so in lieu of the sheet with eye holes cut out, I got him some white sweatpants, a white hoodie sweatshirt and a shirt to go underneath.  We used printable iron on transfers (leftover from a pack meeting activity) to make this BOO! and then ironed it on to the shirt.  And I outlined it in glow and the dark puffy paint.  Now Matthew can zip down his hoodie sweatshirt to BOO! people.  That's what ghosts do, right? I don't know.  We'll see how it goes.  :)