Week in Review

Are you ready for Halloween? Come over to the Fun section for some great ideas for Halloween and the fall season. Read about Lauri’s adventures in costume making in Gorilla in a Cage. Jeff shares a fun and educational song with us in Silly-Silly-Bo-Billy, Banana-Fanna-Fo-Filly…THE NAME GAME!Laugh as you build early literacy skills! Get ready for Halloween with Three Quick and Easy Ghost Craft Projects and Three Quick and Easy Spider Craft Projects. Amaze your children with a Mind Reading ESP Trick. Check back often for great ideas for this busy season!

Three Quick and Easy Ghost Craft Projects

Halloween ghosts are very easy to make. Here are three to occupy the kids or to brighten someone else’s day. Ghostly feet Take one small person’s foot and press into white washable paint. Press their feet onto black paper so that the heel is at the top of the paper. The round imprint of the heel is the ghost’s head. On top of the paint put googly eyes, or dots of black paint for eyes. The prints of little toes almost look like the ghosts are floating. These make great party invitations or Halloween cards for grandparents. Tissue paper ghosts … Continue reading

Three Quick and Easy Spider Craft Projects

Here are three quick and easy spider crafts for fun and decoration. All three need a minimum of supplies. They don’t take much time to complete, and as a plus they aren’t very messy either! Black Widow Take one chocolate flavored tootsie pop. Leave the wrapper on the candy. Wrap four black pipe cleaners around the stick of the pop to make legs. And there you have a spider. It’s that easy. You can glue on googly eyes to the body of the spider (the tootsie pop) or press on tiny eye stickers, too. Ordinary pipe cleaners work fine, but … Continue reading