Halloween Craft Time

 We made cute little glittery glue ghosts and spooky footprint ghosts today. I think they are just adorable!!

Then the kids took a break and rode horsey daddy. :)

Halloween cut and pastes

I cut out pictures and Ella first worked on finding the pictures that rhymed with "bat." She did awesome, it was very impressive! She checked with me on her answers, but didn't need my help at all.

Then she worked on sorting pictures by beginning sounds. We did /w/ and /p/. She sometimes needed me to tell her what the picture was (they were a little confusing), but then did it all by herself! Amazing! She'd pick up a picture and say "w-w-water!" She was really hearing the beginning sounds. My smart little cookie! This is the same activity that I used to do with my first graders when I taught reading.

Great job Ella!

And she even had fun doing this! :)

Paper Plate Ghost

Ella had fun making this today!

As the ghost was drying, she decided to trim her ghost, hence the unevenness. :)

Halloween Prints

Because William got up at the crack of dawn, he was ready for a morning nap by 9am (and he does not take morning naps anymore). This enabled Ella and I to make these cute prints. A spider, a pumpkin, and a ghost. She wanted to glue googly eyes down too of course.

I think I was more impressed with the way these turned out than she was. :)

Footprint Ghost & Witch

William took a nice long nap this afternoon, so Ella and I enjoyed working on crafts together.

First she made a footprint ghost. I traced her foot and cut it out she drew a face and glued on hands. She loved her ghost!

While she was waiting, she worked on coloring this witch by coloring by number.

Then she made a witch with her other footprint.

She glued on a nice green face, eyes and a witch's hat, along with arms, legs and a broom.

She wanted to glue the ghost onto the sheet with the witch. :)

Pretty cute and best of all, Ella had a lot of fun. :)

Candy Corn Math

Everyone in our house loves candy corn! It doesn't help that we're getting free candy corn at cvs. :) So tonight we made some educational use out of the Harvest Mix I picked up at cvs the other day.

First Ella worked on sorting the candy. This was easy.

Then we talked about which there was the most and least of, and guessed how many were in each cup. After that Ella made a bar graph of her candy corn.

And the cute boy for good measure.

After graphing we worked on some simple patterns. ABCABC and ABAB.

Ella had a lot of fun doing these activities, and especially getting to eat a few pieces at the end. ;)

Handprint Spider

The kids made these cute handprint spiders today. William's hand was so tiny I ended up painting all his fingers. So his spider is special and has 10 legs. :) Ella's has the correct amount. I'm so excited that Ella seemed to like getting her hand painted. It doesn't feel like that long ago that she was very anti-paint on her hands!

What fun! I love Fall/Halloween crafts!

Spooky Skeletons!

Ella's still enjoying our halloween themes, and especially loving these two books. We read them many times a day currently!

And she loves to be tickled as we sing this book.

So this morning we made an Ella skeleton!

And then we decorated some Indian Corn with our fingerprints.

In case you were wondering... mine is on the left, Ella's is on the right. ;)

Have I said how much I love Fall? There's so many fun things to make!

Ghosts!!

We made two different ghosts today.

Our glitter ghost. She just loves glitter. We used half the bottle on this! Ella was dumping it everywhere on the black paper!

But they are cute!

And our cotton ball ghost. Ella wasn't so sure about the texture of the cotton..
but enjoyed the glue as usual!


Ella also drew a little spider or two on the side of the ghost.

We went to story time at the library this morning and Ella wore her witch costume and William wore his chicken costume. Both kids ended up wearing their costumes all day...even to William's doctor appointment! They both looked so adorable!

We also went trick or treating tonight at the mall. I'm not sure any of us actually had any fun. It was way too crowded and it really just consisted of standing in a big huge line. Ella though, was at least fascinated by all the interesting people. It was an experience.

This is Ella earlier today being forced to stand so I could take a picture. Yeah...I guess forced pictures don't come out so well! Hopefully I'll get some better pictures Saturday before we head out around the neighborhood.

Craft Day!

Ella and I haven't gotten to do any art projects lately, so when William decided to nap for a shocking two hours, Ella and I took advantage of our alone time.

First we made a pumpkin patch with the letter P. Ella painted grass onto the P with a toothbrush, colored her pumpkins, and glued them on! No pictures of Ella at work because my battery was charging.

She wanted to do more so we used orange paint to make halloween cookie cutter prints. After we were done Ella asked for the googly eyes so she could give the cats, bats, ghosts and pumpkins eyes. What a good idea she had!

Then I added mouths for a finishing touch!

Next we made coffee filter leaves.

These turned out really pretty. Mine is on the right, Ella's on the left. I have hopes to make these into decorative garland next fall. (Ella had enough after one.)

We had so much fun creating together this morning!

Spider S!

Today Ella made a spider for the letter S that we saw over at No Time for Flashcards. She was telling me the sound and understanding that the word spider starts with the /s/ sound. She had the most fun gluing the google eyes down and squeezing the glitter glue all over the paper. Mommy made the letters - Ella glued them. We work well together!

I didn't get pictures of Ella working on her spider, but I thought these pictures were pretty cute.

She was very proud. :)

Where's Ella? :)

Ella's finished spider.

Fun, fun. More halloween themed art crafts to come I'm sure!