I hope everyone has a safe, fun and healthy Halloween!
The kids could hardly sleep last night…sometimes I think Halloween is more exciting than Christmas (hard to believe!). The best part I think about Halloween for me is the togetherness that we all experienced this past month. It was more of a family affair because everyone was involved in all the activities.
Huge satisfaction this year in making our own costumes rather than buying them. I could tell the girls were so proud of what we had created together. I hope I’ll never have to buy a store bought costume again! Here’s are some photos of our their costumes.
Have a wonderful night!
One day before the big day. You still have time to decorate your pumpkins. In fact, while an adult is carving the pumpkin tonight, have the kids paint their own pumpkins and make it a family affair.
I’m running a last minute special for anyone who hasn’t started getting costumes together or decorated their pumpkins. And if you have, grab this now and save it all for next year. I’ve got a combined money-saving deal on two of my best-selling Halloween-related guides along with a ton of great family-fun bonuses.
It’s only good for a day or so and then the special offer will vanish like a ghost in the night! So check it out now. Just click on the “Last Minute Halloween Special” link below. And have a fantastic Halloween!
Last Minute Halloween Special
Are you having a Halloween party this weekend? This seems to be the weekend for Trunk Or Treat, Halloween Parties and other Fall get-togethers.
At the request of her readers, my friend, Chris Yates, at Kid-Party-Ideas.com put together this awesome Party Planner that you can use for any type of party any time of year… birthday, Halloween, Christmas, etc.
Take a look and use it keep yourself sane during this upcoming party-giving season!
I just stumbled upon this very cool collection of painted pumpkins and thought it might give you some inspiration for painting your own.
Check out Tagyerit. Very fun stuff.
When it comes to Halloween Party Recipes, I love to take the ordinary and think about how to convert it into a unique Halloween treat. It’s relatively simple to turn anything you might serve into a creepy, crawly Halloween specialty.
Rice Cereal Halloween Treats
The regular, run of the mill rice cereal treat can be turned into a sweet and unique Halloween treat by adding a few drops of orange food coloring (or a combination of red and yellow) into the marshmallow/butter mixture as it melts. When you cut the treats into squares, add one candy corn to the top of each square.
Marshmallow Haystacks
Here’s a great variation to the rice cereal treat recipe. Replace the rice cereal with corn flake cereal. Follow the instructions combining the cereal, melted marshmallow and butter mixture. Mold the cereal mixture into the shape of haystacks. Add an orange candy corn pumpkin to the top of each haystack.
Candy Corn Ice Cream Sundae
Into one cup of partially thawed vanilla ice cream, mix in one tablespoon of candy corn (coarsely chopped) and one tablespoon of dry roasted peanuts (coarsely chopped). Scoop into ice cream bowl. Freeze until firm. When ready to serve, drizzle caramel ice cream topping over the ice cream mixture, a dollop of whipped cream and some additional candy corn and peanuts.
Halloween Napoleons
Thaw one sheet of frozen puffed pastry. Divide the puff pastry into three equal sections and bake according to package directions. Crush enough Oreo cookies to make 1-½ cups. Set aside.
Prepare one package of vanilla pudding only add a few drops of orange (or combination of red and yellow) food coloring. Set pudding aside. Whip one small carton of whipping cream until stiff. While whipping, add two teaspoons vanilla and one teaspoon sugar.
To build the napoleon, lay one sheet of baked puff pastry on serving tray. Spread ½ of the pudding mixture on the puff pastry. Sprinkle 1/3 of the crushed cookies on top of the pudding. Spoon dollops of whipped cream on top of the cookies and follow by a second layer of puff pastry. Continue layering pudding, cookies and whipped cream.
Once the third and last layer of puff pastry is set on top, spoon three small dollops of whipped cream (do not spread) and top with some additional crushed Oreos. Slice and serve.
A Fun Halloween Breakfast – Great For A Halloween Sleepover!
Breakfast is many times an overlooked meal when celebrating the holidays. The simple addition of orange food coloring (or a combination of red and yellow) into a glass of milk will give your kids a surprise on Halloween morning.
For some spooktacular Halloween pancakes, melt ¼ cup of chocolate chips in a microwave safe container. When melting chocolate, melt at 30-second intervals and stir each time. Pour or spoon melted chocolate into a heavy-duty plastic zip top bag. Press all the chocolate into one corner of the bag and with a scissor, cut a tiny corner off the edge of the bag. Make pancakes and with the melted chocolate, pipe a jack-o-lantern face on the pancakes.
The kids were off of school today (I have no idea why!) so my daughters invited two friends over to paint pumpkins. There were four girls, ages 5-7. They chose the Pumpkin Painting design that they wanted to paint from the Easy Pumpkin Painting E-guide and I sketched the design on each of their pumpkins.
Then they just went to town and proceeded to paint. I was reminded of my favorite thing about Pumpkin Painting. Just before the attention span of a kid goes ‘snap,’ their pumpkin masterpiece is usually finished. I’ve painted with several groups of varying sizes over the past few years and just when the kids are about finished, that’s when they ask “can we go play.”
It’s the perfect activity that takes just the right amount of time (less than an hour in most cases), doesn’t require long wait time and gives the kids not only time to play with their friends, but always gives the kids a personally designed masterpiece they can be proud of.
Try Pumpkin Painting with a small group and let me know how it goes.