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Sage the Squirrel, our visiting flat traveler, posing with the little sweet potato we grew from our potato project. Next year, we will have to start earlier! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! Ever since we watched, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," Sweet Girl has been asking about bobbing for apples. She kept talking about the part where Lucy is bobbing for apples and she comes up with an apple that Snoopy also has in his mouth. "Dog germs!" Sweet Girl thought that was so funny! She asked if we could bob for apples and I thought that was a great idea! I'm glad I decided to set up in the kitchen because things got a bit wet. I put a towel on the floor and placed the bin of water on a little table on top of it. Love Bug helped by literally throwing in the apples! I had to explain that this was not water play. :) I went first to show the girls how to do it. Sweet Girl took a great picture of me getting my apple! (see below) It certainly is not as easy as it looks--especially since there were so few apples in the bin and the apples didn't have stems! Sweet Girl went next and then Love Bug. They had so much fun! After getting their apples, they wanted to try again. Soon, their arms started going into the bin to "help" the apples into their mouths. We really enjoyed ourselves. We were cheering on one another, laughing and we were wet, but it was one of the funniest times the girls and I have had! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! I signed up to do a Fall Festival swap with a family this year. We bought fall goodies for each other's children and sent them off. It was so fun gathering things for her boys and we were surprised to see what her family had sent us. One of the things she sent us was a Ziploc bag filled with foam pieces to make jack-o-lanterns. She said the foam would stick to the tiles and bathtub (and we also found out they stuck to the girls!) when wet. We have never done anything like this before and we were excited to try it out. She even suggested dying some shaving cream orange and letting the girls paint with it to add to the fun. We've done shaving cream in the past and they enjoyed it, but have never dyed it. What resulted was a TON of fun! The girls loved making different faces on the pumpkins, the wall, the bathtub and even their own bellies!! The pieces float so it makes them easy to find in the bathtub--a little harder if you have bubbles! These are very simple and inexpensive to make and I already have ideas to do this for Thanksgiving and Christmas! Foam Jack-o-Lanterns sent to me by: Rebekah Survance Supplies needed: Orange foam sheets, 8 1/2 x 11 (one for each pumpkin); black and yellow foam sheets for the faces What to do:
*Your jack-o-lanterns will stay put on the wall for at least a day if not bothered. They will eventually fall off. Make sure to gather your pieces so they don't go down the drain! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! We aren't into the spooky and gory stuff of Halloween, but I think it's a perfect time to learn about things that are deemed scary around Halloween like skeletons and bats. Your children will probably see decorations of them around and what a better time to learn more about them and that they are in fact not scary at all! This is also a great time to use the illustration of the jack-o-lantern to learn about God's love for us and how to shine God's light! Of course, we read and watched some of our favorites who are celebrating Halloween like Biscuit and Franklin. Below is a list of the books and videos that we've been reading and watching to celebrate the season! BOOKS Bats Bats, A Smart Start Reader (real pictures of all kinds of bats) Christian-based Bowman, Crystal My Happy Pumpkin Higgs, Liz Curtis The Pumpkin Patch Parable General Capucilli, Alyssa Satin Biscuit's Pet & Play Halloween Capucilli, Alyssa Satin Happy Halloween, Biscuit! Donnelly, Liza Dinosaurs' Halloween Dudko, Mary Ann and Margie Larsen Barney's Halloween Party Hill, Eric Spot's Halloween Katz, Karen Where is Baby's Pumpkin (lift-the-flap) Kleinberg, Naomi Elmo's Monster Mash (touch & feel) Pumpkins Capucilli, Alyssa Satin Biscuit's Pet & Play Halloween Titherington, Jeanne Pumpkin, Pumpkin (life cycle) Skeletons Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia Volume 1: Featuring Your Body The Human Body, A First Discovery Book (clear flip pages to see inside body) VIDEOS Dem Bones (YouTube) Five Little Pumpkins (various versions on YouTube) Franklin's Halloween It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Max & Ruby's Halloween Sid's Spooky Halloween: A Science Spectacular **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! Sweet Girl catching leaves as they fall. **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! Tomatoes and carrots from our garden. We grew them from seeds! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! This project is really the collaboration of several projects in one. This area of the wall usually showcases some of the girls' artwork and/or seasonal decorations. We made the jack-o-lanterns last year and did the leaves and pumpkins this year. I know jack-o-lanterns are more of a Halloween thing, but aren't they cute with their smiles? Of course, you could omit the faces and just have plain pumpkins. So get ready to jazz up that boring wall for your Thanksgiving visitors with these easy projects. JACK-O-LANTERNS: These smiley guys are made out of paper plates. I used this project last year to teach about mixing colors. I gave my oldest daughter red paint and yellow paint and let her mix them until we got a shade of orange she liked. Everyone's pumpkin was a slightly different shade of orange. Then, we painted our paper plates. The girls got smaller "pumpkins" or the inside circle of the paper plate. Next, cut out construction paper eyes, nose and mouth (or not). Top off with a green construction paper stem and you are done. THE INSIDE OF A PUMPKIN: We did this one the day we cleaned out our pumpkins, but you could easily use pumpkin seeds bought in the snack aisle at your grocery store. I found these fun foam shapes at the Dollar Store. Of course, there was only one pumpkin so I had to trace one on orange construction paper so that I had two. :) The girls liked using "real glue" to stick and arrange their pumpkin seeds. My preschooler really had fun with this. I sat right beside my toddler while she did this project to ensure no seeds or glue were going in her mouth. She loves to do what big sister does and as long as younger siblings are supervised, I say why not? (Within reason, of course.) The pumpkins need to be dried on a flat surface and can be hung after they are completely dried. LEAF "GLITTER" LEAVES: Saw this idea online somewhere, but can't remember where. First, give your little ones a bucket or bag and take them outside to gather some crunchy, fall leaves. The leaves can be crumbled in a Ziploc bag or taken out and crumbled over a container. I liked the container because then we could just pinch up the "glitter" and sprinkle it over our project. These shapes came in the same pack as the foam pumpkin. We squeezed glue onto the leaves and then sprinkled the leaf "glitter" until all of the glue was covered. **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission.
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