Hallows Eve craft time!

Okay so I had about an hour or so with Aria to be able to do ANYTHING half crafty for Halloween with her so I took it for granted… even though I had worked 12 hours that day….it was a good time.

Now I don’t really like to go out and buy my stuff so I looked around the house for what I could use, fortunately because Halloween is a night thing nothing needs to be perfect or detailed SO simplicity is wonderful. But anyways back to craft ideas, I found some grocery bags that were white and stuffed them with other grocery bags, cut the handle of the bags off and drew little faces on them. I used twist ties to close it up as well as to make little hooks on top of them so I could put them in our tree…so here are some pictures

Aria REALLY liked the ghosts.

Not to mention I took some time to draw on our pumpkins so that when we cut them out on Halloween it would take less time. The first set of pictures is what they look like when I was done drawing them and the next is what they were like after they were gutted.

So the first one was mine, the pumpkin had a natural rot spot that looked like a cat so I worked with it, turned out not too bad. The second one was Aria’s and she chose the type of face, I asked her what she wanted and she said “puppy” so it is the puppy pumpkin. The third is Jessie’s which I originally drew cause he wasn’t there and he modified it to his liking. It was fun, except I would have loved a better pairing knife or exacto-blade (sp) ah well!

We also decided that with me at work for the main chunk of trick or treating, and jessie being the only one at home with Aria, we would not take her trick or treating because Jess had to give out candy. Aria helped give candy out and watched Ernest scared stupid which she really liked!