Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

My mom and I carved pumpkins and our little witch got set out this morning! Now we wait until nightfall when all the pumpkins will be glowing!

Witchy goodness!

My pumpkin!

My mom's pumpkin!

Wishing you a safe and Happy Halloween!!

2 Weeks Until Halloween! Crafts and Color Changing Leaves Galore!

In the few free minutes I've had lately I've been crafting away! I created some Halloween Glass Jars and some Witches Potion Ingredients!

I've also been trying to catch some of the beauty of the beautiful trees as their leaves change colors and the rain that was pouring down the first half of the week (It's bright and sunny now!)

Halloween "lanterns"!

The tea light inside is a battery operated one so I don't have to worry about walking away from it.

The "Potion Ingredients"!

(From left- poisinous catipillar, witches sticks, skelliton hands, bat fur and toxic potion)

I've already gathered up a few other ingrediants that I havn't packaged yet such as freeze dried spiders and mummy wrap!

The changing leaves!

The "raindrops on roses".

More Fall Tree Leaves.

Aren't they beautiful?

Hoping your weekend is full of excitement!

Halloween Craft! Frankenstein Piggy Bank!

The church I work at was raising money by having people make piggy banks so I feeling inspired decided to make a Halloween themed one!

I mean how could I possibly resist a trip to Michael's(craft store)?

I havn't been able to do any really fun crafty projects in way too long so I was incredibly excited for this!!

I'm also entering it into Blue Eyed Blessing's Craft Challenge!

I started with and used:

-an empty VOSS water bottle

-a styrofoam circle base

-an empty can of (special edition) Jones Spooookiwi soda

-sparkly felt

-pompoms

-googly eyes

-colored sparkley sticky foam sheets

-glitter hot glue

-Halloween ribbon

The hole to put the money in is in the opening of his shirt/chest and the money can be removed by unscrewing the lid which is attached to the foam base.

I'm excited about how it turned out! What do you think?

Music Class

So I'm currently taking a child development class entitled, "Music, Movement, Children." The ages addressed in the class range from infants through second or third grade. I've learned quite a few silly songs and dances in the last two months.

Two of my favorites being-

[don't forget to turn the blog music off at the bottom of the page first]

and 

[the song starts 30 seconds into the video]

I also recently created a lesson plan using the song "Put a Little Color On You" by Hap Palmer.

A couple of nights ago we did a few projects in class for use in music lessons. One was a "streamer", made of a popsicle stick,crepe paper and tape, one was a "tambourine" made out of 2 paper plates, bells, a hole puncher and string/pipe cleaners and the last one was "shakers" out of plastic easter eggs, rice and beans and tape to keep the egg closed. My favorite was the "shakers". Easy, quick, colorful and cheap. They also make a really nice sound.

By the way if you've never heard of Sarah Weeks' book Crocodile Smile, you should. It's a book with CD with wonderful songs [I can't find ANY on Youtube to share but trust me, they're amazing]. They're all about animals and friendship. The songs were a big part of my first and second grade education. I was able to track down the book a couple years ago and found I remembered all the words! It's amazing what we choose to remember.