Halloween Craft : Spaghetti Webs

After playing with colored spaghetti noodles with George...

Henry and I made some spaghetti spider webs with it too!

This time, I let Henry do the coloring.

What other color would he pick, but green?

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Sensory Activity : Spaghetti Potion

We turned The Imagination Tree's bug slime spaghetti [eww!] into a sensory activity, especially for Halloween!

I simply cooked up a package of spaghetti noodles, drained them and rinsed it with cold water to cool it down quickly.

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It's Playtime : Halloween Googly Eyes

We've been having a blast with the googly eyes that we received from CraftProjectIdeas.com.

Googly eyes were used to make our yarn monsters, as well as being added to a spooky sensory gel bag, and to top it off, we made pumpkin mummies with them!

Googly eyes make everything fun and adds a spookiness to it too!

Here's some Halloween ideas for googly eyes found on It's Playtime last week:

[My Creative Family: Googly Eyes Spider Mask]

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40 Pumpkin Activities for Kids

T'is the season for pumpkins!

But what do you do with them [aside from setting them out on your front porch]?

You can always carve them for Halloween.

But what else is there?

I've scrounged the blog world and came up with 40 amazing pumpkin activities, that your preschooler [and even toddlers and babies!] can enjoy doing.

Twelve pumpkin activities.

Eight learning activities with pumpkins.

Fourteen decorating ideas for pumpkins. [Aside from the usual carvings.]

Six activities to do with the insides of pumpkins!

You'll look forward to this season from now on!

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Halloween Craft : Pumpkin Mummies

Pumpkin mummies!

These are a super cute craft for Halloween that the preschoolers can do!

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Toddler Sensory Activity : Slimy Eyes

A perfect sensory activity for Halloween.
As well as perfect for all ages, including babies and toddlers!

I saw these Halloween and fall hair gel sensory suncatchers on It's Playtime a couple weeks ago, from Happy Hooligans. They have lots of ideas that they added to their sensory sun catchers.

What's in the sensory bag?

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It's Playtime! : A Spooky Halloween

Halloween is coming up fast!

Oh so fast....
I need to make Henry's costume yet... and George's... oh man.

What are your kids going to be for Halloween?

Here are some crafty, playful ideas, oh and spooky too, to get you in the mood for Halloween:
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Craft : Yarn Monsters

Monsters made of yarn, just in time for the spooky season.

There's not much to these monsters, but I think they turned out kind of cute.

Henry and I used the same technique we did for our Yarn Circle Garland.

[You can check out the details on how to create the yarn circles there.]

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