October 24th-30th

Highlights from this week include:

*Our neighbor,

Mr. Royce,

caming over to show us the nearly

6 foot long black snake he caught in his yard

(AWESOME!!!)

*Met with our Lemonhead Homeschool Group

and discussed the origins of Halloween

in America-

then we crafted up some fabric ghosts

like the pioneers may have back in the 1800's

*Heading to the Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch

at Oakes Farm

This is only the second time we have attended

this event,

and it is worth every penny.

We all came home with a pumpkin,

too, which was fortunate,

since we had no "real" pumpkins

for our porch display yet...

*Dancing/running "Annie" scenes

 in 2 inch heeled character shoes,

for the first time,

for almost four hours straight

(Can you say, "Ouch?!?!?")

*Watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"

and then painting pumpkins with all the kiddos

You have not lived until you let

a 16 month old play with paint...

;0)

*Continued learning about the letter H

with the littles,

which included creating different

"Happy Haunted Houses"

I was inspired by the GREAT

Katherine Marie,

who does "Happy Houses" with her kiddos

every year.

We created paper bag houses,

gingerbread houses,

and

Letter H Happy Haunted Houses.

(I HOPE to post about them all later...)

*Dressing up like pirates

for our church's

Trunk or Treat

and giving out pirate tattoos

to all of the kiddos who came

*Set up a graveyard in our front yard

with the leftovers

from my generously creative neighbor's

Halloween stash

*Crafted up some Ghostie Boo Band treat cards

for the kiddos to hand out

to their friends on Halloween

*Completed the "Candy Corn Caper"

with the littles and the help

of my older kiddos

This activity was so fun!

The kiddos came in from playing outside,

only to discover that the

Candy Corn Bandit

had hidden the Halloween treat bags

I was giving them.

So we made some predictions,

followed his clues,

and discovered where

he had hidden the loot in the end!

And for some added fun,

we had

Candy Corn Biscuit Pizza for lunch-

yummmmmm!

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